Thread: Cat naps

The last few weeks I've been waking up at 5 am, irrespective of the time I switch off my lights . . . and it is affecting my work and mood.

I have tried the odd cat nap, five minutes or so, but I just wake up feeling grumpy.

Any suggestions?

Any external obvious disturbances happening at that time? It's an odd hour to wake.

Often such a sleep pattern can be due to anxiety and/or depression. Anything unusually stressful happening in your life at the moment?

Originally Posted by panama hat

but I just wake up feeling grumpy.

Any suggestions?

yeah, leave the f*cking dwarf alone...

^

sleeping with angry midgets has that effect

Originally Posted by panama hat

but I just wake up feeling grumpy.

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

Anything unusually stressful happening in your life at the moment?

Originally Posted by panama hat

Any suggestions?

The slow change in hormones in the body corresponds to the advancing maturity in years. Often, this results in those of advancing years requiring less sleep and becoming ever more forgetfull, untill the eventuality is reached where one becomes really senile and you neither know nor care whether or not you slept. Another eventuality is to become absolutely barking mad, where once again sleep, or lack of, is no longer a problem, and the ever increasing waking hours are spent trying to remember what it was you have forgotten. The clinically barking mad have no need for sleep, preffering to chase butterflies or passing cars whilst howling and piddling themselves.
So, no need at all to worry. It's only natural. Hope this helps.

I sleep for about 15 minutes (2 or 3 times a day) and I wake up feeling wonderful and extremely hungry, just like I did about 15 minutes ago. During night I rarely sleep more than 4 hours straight.

I have heard that some geniuses nap for about 15~30 minutes a day 4 times a day and that's all they need (Einstein for example). Power sleeping is what I think they term this sleeping pattern.

Everyone is different but when I gave up smoking I certainly slept better and for longer hours.

If your having problems sleeping become a Thai and you will be able to sleep anywhere at anytime without any problems!

Valium or be 25 again

The sleep experts recommend heavy drapes to block out the morning light and fool your brain into thinking its not dawn. Air Conditioning may help. Or set one alarm for 0200 hrs and get up for a piss if its a full Blader waking you up.

0500 hrs aint a bad tme to wake up anyway so long as you have had enough sleep. Its a good time to get some mental work done when your brain is fresh and clear, and its quiet. Maybe try getting into the habit of going to bed at 2100 hrs ?
But since this is something new for you there must be something new causing it.
Once you figure out the cause you can attack the problem at its roots.

Do you have any beer before sleeping. I always find I sleep terribly if I have a couple before I go to bed. I sleep great if I have a skinful, but after I wake up, I feel as if I've had no sleep at all.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I sleep great if I have a skinful, but after I wake up, I feel as if I've had no sleep at all.

Enough alcohol will make you pass out, but being comatose is not sleep and there is no rest in being shit faced.
I had trouble staying asleep when I was a drunk, always happens when you run low on alkie, then I got sober and had nice restful sleep.
but I woke up early all my life, unless I was on rotation and then you never really get rested because you bio clock never gets set.
Now I wake up between 0430 and 0500 and get up and do what ever it is I have planned for the day and then I go to bed at about 2200, read a few pages of a novel and go to sleep.
I do take 3 mg of melotonin at night, have done that for years, they say it helps, maybe your pituitary gland ain't making enough melotonin.

Originally Posted by panama hat

The last few weeks I've been waking up at 5 am, irrespective of the time I switch off my lights

same here mate, except its been bloody years, usually i just get up and take the dog for a walk/run for an hour, a beaut time of day to gather the thoughts and ready for the day...i quizzed the doc just recently on my odd sleep paterns [4-5hours] and he was,nt too concerned, i still seem to function ok, and a little 15min power nap about lunch time helps..good luck with it mate

04.27

on the dot, every morning.

Unless drunk.

Weird.

Same same for years.

PH, take two 25 mg of Atarax and you will get 8 to 9 hours straight. There is no hangover feeling and the sleep is deep and restful.

Hydroxyzine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Even though it is an effective sedative, hypnotic, and tranquilizer, it shares almost none of the abuse, dependence, addiction, and toxicity potential of other drugs used for the same range of therapeutic reasons

5.00am, ffs time to get out of bed and do something useful or enjoyable, best time of the day imo.

Btw they aint called cat naps. Its nana naps ur thinking of, byproduct of getting old, get used to it!

Some folks have recommened drugs.

That's fine, and it works for some people, but I"ve always avoided drugs.

Doesn't your body get used to them over time, and then the effectiveness is reduced?

Sometimes i'd love to have a nap during the day but if i do it knackeres any ideas of a decent nights sleep!

Tell me about it mate!

I had one today and here I am 1.45am ready to take on the world eating a bowl of grapes and every other fooker is asleep, including the dog.

Originally Posted by panama hat

The last few weeks I've been waking up at 5 am, irrespective of the time I switch off my lights . . . and it is affecting my work and mood.

I have tried the odd cat nap, five minutes or so, but I just wake up feeling grumpy.

Any suggestions?

Smoke fewer cigars and pull you hat down over your eyes

Originally Posted by jizzybloke

Sometimes i'd love to have a nap during the day but if i do it knackeres any ideas of a decent nights sleep!

You are so right there. Sometimes feel as I could really do with a 15 min nap, but if I do so know I will still be awake at 3am that night.

well i tried a 2mil valium last night..yawn at 11 in bed about 12..and bing 4.45...wide a bloody awake! fuck it i,m sticking to beer!

Seriously this time....

Couple of years ago, my sleep habits changed abruptly. Used to be a late sleeper, then, suddenly, I started waking up at 6am every morning, on the dot, whatever time I had been to bed at. Now, I just accept it, and have changed my routine accordingly, and turn in a few hours earlier every night. Means that "late nights" are pretty much a thing of the past, as I start nodding off by 10pm, but fuck it, I am starting to get to old to enjoy drinking all night anyway.

I seriously suggest you don't start messing with any drugs, they can have long term effects. Try to "go with the flow" for a while, and just accomadate what your body is teling you.

Plus side for me is I am always in work by 7.30 or so, and can get a good couple of hours solid work done before the rabble turn up.

Originally Posted by Milkman

Some folks have recommened drugs. That's fine, and it works for some people, but I"ve always avoided drugs. Doesn't your body get used to them over time, and then the effectiveness is reduced?

Melotonin,,not a drug at all but a natural occuring part of your system that sometimes goes lacking thru age or some other thing.
It is the chemical that makes you want to go to sleep and stay asleep during darkness, it is man made or it is taken from cows. I prefer man nade stuff since the advent of Mad Cow disease as less chance of contamination.

beer tastes so much better than valium

Originally Posted by nedwalk

beer tastes so much better than valium

Actually they both work so much better when taken together. Dont know if it would help you sleep better though.