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Post by nemo on Oct 24, 2012 0:17:36 GMT
I don't mean insomnia or sleep disorders or getting to sleep, I mean actually physically getting yourself into the frikkin bed in the first place.
I do.
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Post by jimmymaximum on Oct 24, 2012 9:46:59 GMT
YES!
I was thinking only yesterday, 'I wish someone would come and pick me off this chair and put me to bed'. And my bed's about 3 metres away from said chair! It's hardly difficult is it?!
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Post by spok on Oct 24, 2012 13:48:52 GMT
Very very much so. I don't think it would be as nearly as hard to get myself out of bed at any time I choose if I could just get myself into bed at a reasonable time the night before. I generally hate going to bed at night and hate getting up in the morning.
I just don't find the idea of going to bed to be all that motivating as the internet/video games/ whatever else I find stimulating. Bed just can't compete.
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Post by nemo on Oct 24, 2012 14:01:32 GMT
YES! I was thinking only yesterday, 'I wish someone would come and pick me off this chair and put me to bed'. And my bed's about 3 metres away from said chair! It's hardly difficult is it?! Ditto. All I have to do is stand, turn about 100 degrees clockwise, take one step forward and fall forwards and I would be in (or at least on) my bed. Easy, surely?
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Post by nemo on Oct 24, 2012 14:11:59 GMT
Very very much so. I don't think it would be as nearly as hard to get myself out of bed at any time I choose if I could just get myself into bed at a reasonable time the night before. I had this realisation myself recently. It's weird being cognisant of this and the consequences of doing so and not doing anything about it. I struggle getting to bed. I LOOOOOOOOVE sleep so much. I hate waking up again. Too true. Currently XCOM & Borderlands 2 are the main reasons for sleep deprivation.
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Post by magpielady on Oct 24, 2012 15:18:39 GMT
Absolutely. Every attempt to "fix" my sleep cycle ends with it slipping later and later because it's so hard to get to bed. Just one more quest, or someone is wrong on the internet, or ooo, article! Sometimes I just don't want to. I'd set an alarm but I'd only go "in a minute" and lose an hour. Not very useful.
And then in the morning I am sooooo happy to be in bed, sleepy sleepy bed, that I don't want to get up. Why can't it be the other way around? I've taken to checking the internet on my phone in the morning to see if it'll wake me up a bit.
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Post by nemo on Oct 24, 2012 15:49:07 GMT
I find I crash after a few months of the sleep nonsense i.e have to take a day off work and sleep all day, after which I vow to "fix the sleep cycle" as you call it. Then the whole pattern starts again.
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Post by andy12345 on Oct 25, 2012 15:36:28 GMT
Quote I was thinking only yesterday, 'I wish someone would come and pick me off this chair and put me to bed'. And my bed's about 3 metres away from said chair! It's hardly difficult is it?! Omg, you all sound so similar. I didn't realise it was so difficult for everyone. You need a bed incentive lol
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Post by nemo on Oct 25, 2012 23:38:38 GMT
A 'bed incentive'? Like a bar of chocolate on the pillow?
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Post by andy12345guest on Oct 25, 2012 23:41:45 GMT
yes. erm. a bar of chocolate. maybe like the kinder bueno hmmm
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Post by 16stonepig on Oct 26, 2012 9:15:49 GMT
Goddamned ***ing Borderlands 2! It's ADHD heroin.
"Just one more mission, honest, I just want to see what's in that box. Ooh, now they've promised me a new gun if I just run that errand for them. I wonder if it will be exciting... Oh, it's 3am. Well, just one more mission, then I really should go to bed..."
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Post by nemo on Oct 26, 2012 11:17:55 GMT
Ha ha! I know that feeling ...
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Post by wanderer on Oct 26, 2012 21:42:29 GMT
For me its more a case of not wanting to go to bed due to not feeling tired or simply forgetting time, rather than just not wanting to move in that direction. Even when I take a sleeping tablet it might be 90 minutes later before I remember I took it and finally head to bed Was annoying forgetting time, realising its 3:30am and knowing I had to get up and ready for work in 3 or so hours time. Sometimes would decide im just not tired enough so would just stay awake and go to work without sleep. Quite a few times though I would have this intention but fall asleep 20 minutes before I needed to get up, then actually sleep well until midday only to wake up and realise I had missed work and had to find some excuse to tell mad as hell boss. Tried telling them the truth the first time and it didn't go down well at all lol
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Post by nemo on Oct 27, 2012 1:11:36 GMT
Hmmm, 2am again. I need to get up early tomorrow. FAIL
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Post by magpielady on Oct 27, 2012 3:42:07 GMT
I'd be up all hours with or without something engrossing me, I've managed to wind up distracted and late when I've nothing better to do than refresh Facebook, but side-quest city (aka Skyrim) doesn't help! I'll just go straight to this quest object- ooo what's that over there? Oh my GOD is that the time?!?!
I'm very glad I don't work, if I did I would be up a creek without a paddle.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2012 11:25:56 GMT
Hi, I have had to impose a strict midnight on work nights bed curfew. There is no curfew on nights before days off, so I make up for it then! ;D
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Post by nemo on Nov 9, 2012 1:34:22 GMT
I've tried to do that too but it never seems to work ...
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Post by magpielady on Nov 9, 2012 3:40:35 GMT
I've found a curfew can be fairly effective for me, so long as I start preparing for it a couple of hours ahead. Because that's how long it will take me to finish up X, and get distracted by Y, and totter off and daydream on my way to bed. I still slip reasonably quickly, but in the short term it can help me. I wonder if I set a couple of alarms every night that would do it, or if I would just start having meltdowns after a week.
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Post by nemo on Nov 9, 2012 8:54:19 GMT
I know that feeling. I tried to set curfews knowing that it'll take at least an hour to actually get settled but I find I get distracted or obsessed by something and before you know it ... 2 am.
Maybe I should stop looking at the internet before going to bed ...
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Post by Kathymel on Nov 10, 2012 22:02:10 GMT
I absolutely have that issue! I always put off going to bed. I bargain with myself about how many hours I realistically need which reduces the later it gets. I quite often wake up still on the sofa in the early hours of the morning and decide to not bother. I just pick my laptop up off the floor and carry on.
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Post by nemo on Nov 11, 2012 1:22:29 GMT
I bargain with myself about how many hours I realistically need which reduces the later it gets A spot on observation. I do this very thing most nights. I'm starting to think there's more of a procrastination thing than a distraction going on with my 'getting to bed' shenanigans
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Post by computermandan on Apr 24, 2013 17:34:22 GMT
I cant believe how many people go through the same routine as me - every night I have devil on one shoulder "stay up" and angel on the other "go to bed" - and thinking "just one more hour... that gives me 3.5 hours sleep... unless I dont actually fall asleep??" the night's ive spent refreshing facebook or "sharing" youtube clips going on random Google adventures... or simply cycling through the TV channels in the hope something vaguely interesting arrives. became a baseball fanatic for a week then switched it for basketball, then decided i work best when no-ones around... then crashed and went through a period of depression where I got told... "you really need to sleep more" when it was established that I probably hadn't slept in my own bed for a good six months, without any real reason or explanation for it. One other thing... I ALWAYS remember that I forgot to fill the dishwasher when I actually force myself to go to bed... then when I go to fill it, I remember that I also forgot to empty it too... Then setting multiple alarms to wake up, actually getting into bed, then remembering you forgot to brush your teeth, then brushing them... Then lying there thinking to myself... i'm sure there's something else I've forgotten? ? ? ?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2013 17:47:09 GMT
I suppose it's about extracting the most from the day? Which then ruins the next day.
Someone suggested to me once to make bed a kind of haven. Nice cotton sheets, the comfiest pillow you can find and a book to read to wind the mind down. Turn it into a kind of treat for the end of the day, instead of somewhere you grudgingly retire to. Sorta works for me.
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Post by supine on Apr 26, 2013 9:53:53 GMT
Giving up computer games when you have ADHD must be like giving up crack - since a recent move I have not unpacked my xbox - it's a struggle but I'm getting used to it. Unfortunately GTA V is out soon
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