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Post by Sean Hayden » Fri Sep 14, 2018 4:30 pm

Do we have any sufferers here? The disorders seem so bizarre to me. I've seen sleep walking, it's strange but it appears legitimate. But have you heard of sleep eating? Why should eating be a part of sleep walking to the point that it's what the person does every time they sleep walk?

What about sleep crime? (not a separate disorder -yet :hehe: ) Is it really believable that a person can sleep walk, drive, commit murder and then sleep drive to the police station? I couldn't find the police station awake without looking it up.

What about sleep paralysis? This is when you wake up but your body is still paralyzed as it is during REM sleep.

Or what about restless leg syndrome? How freaking strange! There are many others. I'm often sleep deprived but that's normal for most people these days. Beyond that I don't suffer from any sleep disorders. What about you? Are you familiar with any of these strange conditions?

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Re: Sleep Disorders

Post by Svartalf » Fri Sep 14, 2018 4:53 pm

I tend to have trouble falling to sleep... and to wake up in the middle of the night (say, 3-4 AM) and have trouble falling to sleep again...
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Re: Sleep Disorders

Post by Sean Hayden » Fri Sep 14, 2018 5:06 pm

Insomnia ? I used to think I had that. But I'm just a night owl. I don't have trouble sleeping and rarely wake up in the middle of the night. Of course it's hard to wake up in the middle of the night when you're still awake. :hehe:

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Re: Sleep Disorders

Post by Svartalf » Fri Sep 14, 2018 5:13 pm

well, I was a complete night owl for a time, could not sleep at night, fell asleep abut 7-8 AM and slept till noon, but I'm no longer that way.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Sep 14, 2018 5:16 pm

I have sleep-onset and sleep-maintenance insomnia. It can be a bit of drag sometimes, but over time I've come to accept it and stopped trying to manage it with alcohol and drugs. Some things just is what they is.
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Post by laklak » Fri Sep 14, 2018 5:27 pm

Restless leg - my Grandad called it "the walking leg". He had it, Dad had it, I have it. It's horrible, though I haven't had a major episode for years (knock wood). I remember literally running up and down the stairs 50 times or more in a night to get it to fucking STOP. I sleepwalked when I was a kid, but not since then.
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Re: Sleep Disorders

Post by Jason » Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:05 pm

And just what the hell is wrong with alcohol and drugs?

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Post by Rum » Fri Sep 14, 2018 8:34 pm

When I was working (before I retired) I had many a deadline or presentation or report - or some unpleasantness to deal with the following day.

For at least five years - maybe more, before I retired, I would often wake at 3.30 or 4.00 and be unable to go back to sleep. My mind would race and ponder the issue of the following day, or a dozen others my job sometimes entailed. I would often feel exhausted as a result and even less able to deal with whatever it was the next day.

I thought I had some sort of sleep disorder and somehow never really connected the job with the sleep issue.

Since I retired - some years now - I have not had one single episode of this - a thing that used to happen two or three times a week at its worst.

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Post by laklak » Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:57 pm

Proof positive that work is terrible for you. I have a bit of trouble falling asleep sometimes, but once I'm out I'm out like Elton John.
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Post by Rum » Fri Sep 14, 2018 10:38 pm

laklak wrote:
Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:57 pm
Proof positive that work is terrible for you. I have a bit of trouble falling asleep sometimes, but once I'm out I'm out like Elton John.
I have to agree. Work is a truly terrible thing. It should be banned.

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Re: Sleep Disorders

Post by Sean Hayden » Fri Sep 14, 2018 10:50 pm

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Re: Sleep Disorders

Post by JimC » Fri Sep 14, 2018 11:29 pm

Svartalf wrote:
Fri Sep 14, 2018 4:53 pm
I tend to have trouble falling to sleep... and to wake up in the middle of the night (say, 3-4 AM) and have trouble falling to sleep again...
I'm a bit like that. Probably less trouble getting to sleep in the first place, but I certainly wake very early, and often can't get back to sleep. Mostly, I get up before 6 these days...
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Re: Sleep Disorders

Post by Tero » Sat Sep 15, 2018 2:03 am

I sleep about 6-7 hours. If I do physical activity I need a nap about 3PM. In work life it was just more coffee to the end.
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Re: Sleep Disorders

Post by Sean Hayden » Sat Sep 15, 2018 2:24 am

Supposedly the older we get the less sleep we need. Everything is backwards.

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Re: Sleep Disorders

Post by laklak » Sat Sep 15, 2018 2:48 am

God did that on purpose, so you have more time in the middle of the dark, cold night to contemplate the futility of your existence without the warm love of His Holy Grace. You're Hellbound, atheist sinner.
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