Does anyone else here have a really weird sleeping pattern?

I tend to go to bed around about 4am in the morning, and most of the time I'm awake for 6am. Unless I'm at work and then its around 1am bed and up at 4am.

I find going to bed early just irritates me as I lay there feeling not tired.

My line of work also calls for some weird hours working, so I quite often find myself being awake for 48 hours or so at a time, if not longer. I dont really seem to feel the effect, I just sleep well afterwards. For example I was in London working a few weeks back, and was awake from the Friday I arrived to the Sunday when I left. I slept a little on the train going there and coming back (Not so much on the coming back.. Bloody fat man moaning all the way).

It gets a bit irritating when I'm tired at work, but as soon as I get home I'm not.

Anyone else suffer from sleep oddities?

Joel

Im in here with you mate. It would probably help if i had some structure to my life, i.e. a job! Its the nights that do it. Get to bed at about 4am, then sometimes i wake up early (8am) and feel crap for the rest of the day and dont go to sleep till 4am again... and things just get screwed up.

Ive found when i have a normal sleep pattern my body dosent let me have more than 7hrs sleep max whatever the circumstances.

The sleep you are getting dosent sound healthy though. Especially if you are pumping iron still ;)

Especially if you are pumping iron still ;)

Yeh, not as much tho, dont have the time :(

Joel

Your sleeping patterns are not healthy man.

If you are sleeping 2-3 hours a night, you probably aren't entering REM sleep for long enough, and thus not dreaming.
Not dreaming can effect cognitive abilities over a long period of time (At least, that's what my Psychology lecturer told me a couple of years back)

I used to sleep for between 3-5 hours a night - and although I felt fine (reason for feeling fine was stimulants such as Red Bull/Coffee), it severely messed me up after 6 months or so.

If you are happy though mate, and geuninely don't find yourself falling asleep at random times like a narcoleptic (sp?), then fair play to you.

Just out of curiousity Joel, do you drink a lot of caffeine?

A fair amount I guess, not to extremes tho, and mainly when I'm at work.

Joel

A fair amount I guess, not to extremes tho, and mainly when I'm at work.

Joel

I used to drink SHED LOADS (around 2-3 cans of red bull, and 9 or 10 coffees per day!) when I started feeling sleep deprived. I had to cut it down to 0 caffeine intake per day - which gave me migraines for 2 days!

It may well be your diet mate. I am not intending to pry, but diet/caffeine have serious effects on your sleeping patterns!

I went through a phase of Insomnia after losing my Grandad on New Years Eve. I found taking sleeping tablets for a week or so restored my normal sleep patterns (8-10 hours per night).

Although if your normal sleep patterns are 3-4hrs per night it may not work the same. Probably you should go to see your GP as this amount of sleep on a regular basis isn't a all healthy :)

when i get up i dose of again, dark mornings, if i dont get enough sleep i feel crap.

Ive found when im felling depressed or anixious about something sleeping is a nightmare... I split with my ex in my final year of uni and also had loads of work to be handed in but i just couldnt seem to be inspired and come up with anything decent. So i was behind on work and adjusting to singledom. Bad combination for sleep!

I feel the more sleep I get the more tired I am :huh:

I feel the more sleep I get the more tired I am :huh:
Yeah, the human bodyclock works in weird ways...

I have found i need 8 hours a night... Any more and I'm AS tired as when I've only had 6 hours.

I go to bed, set my alarm for 8 1/2 hours after that point. Normally takes 20-30 mins for me to fall asleep!

i work nights 3 times a week and i am off the other 4, i go to bed about 8am get up at about 12 dinner time,and that is with taking a strong sleeping tablet then dont sleep again till 8am next morning ,then when i am off i dont sleep at all i have been doing this for 8 years now and still cant get into a sleeping pattern

I did shift work for 16 years and my sleeping pattern has never recovered

If sleeping ever becomes an international sport sign me up for Britain. I can sleep for ever but normally 4 or 5am until about 12 or 1pm when I don't have to get up and 1 or 2am til 7am when I do. but If I didnt have anything to get up for at all (no child ) I would sleep for ever.

My sleeping pattern has been shot to hell for years, I get 4 hours minumum and about 6 hours max of an average night. However, when I've done a long run of shifts then my body just shuts down and i'll sleep for abour 12 to 14 hours at a stretch.

This morning I woke up at 4.30am and had watched Kill Bill 2, done the washing up and sorted through the house paperwork before our lass was up for work! I then slept from 12 til 2. I'm going to have an early one tonight so if you see me on here past 9.30 tell me to go to bed! :thumbsup:

Heh, Early nights dont happen here, I just lay there like a plonker.

Joel

I've suffered with insomnia for years, I suppose shift work doesn't help but I average between 4-6 hrs sleep at a time and a lot of that time it is just rest with my eyes shut.... sometimes though my body just goes into shutdown and I could sleep for a day.... sometimes I suffer from sleep paralysis where I wake up being fully aware of everything around me but unable to move.... someone could be trying to slit my throat and I wouldn't be able to scream.... it seems to last forever and I get groggy after that. Hate that it's scary.

I've also had a pretty ****** up sleeping pattern :rolleyes:

Can sometimes go weeks on end without sleeping more than two or three hours a night and don't feel tired. But other times I'll sleep constantly. Even from being little I've never been able to go to bed before 2am.

It's worse when your unemployed!! I was out of work for around six months last year; I'd find myself going out and not getting to bed until 7am then sleeping till late afternoon / early evening :loopy: Used to drive me mad!

I sympathize with you all. I have trouble getting to sleep every night. I think I must live a 27 hour day (sleep for nine hours ,awake for eighteen). I get about the right amount of sleep in relation to my awake hours, but end up going to bed later and later and getting up later and later each day, until I get fed up with it and just skip sleep one night. Then the process begins again. It sucks. I just wish I could get to sleep at a normal time. I expect to be up until ridiculous oclock tonight as I didn't wake up until half three this afternoon.

Does anyone else here have a really weird sleeping pattern?

I tend to go to bed around about 4am in the morning, and most of the time I'm awake for 6am. Unless I'm at work and then its around 1am bed and up at 4am.

I find going to bed early just irritates me as I lay there feeling not tired.


Anyone else suffer from sleep oddities?

Joel

Yes! My sleep pattern is well and truly buggered!

I was awake all last night then accidentally fell asleep at around 3pm today and woke up at 10pm.

I usually wake a few hours after sunrise so during the winter im up around 7 but recntly i've been waking aroung 10/11 o sclock