Insomnia

[Torplexed]

Hmmm. I have the opposite problem. I can fall asleep in front of a blaring television with a show on I wanna watch with all the lights on.

Damn annoying to snap awake at 2:00 am just to have to go back to bed.

Don't have an answer. You need to clear your busy mind somehow. My mind is fulla fuzzy cobwebs. That helps. :p

[Foxtrot]

1. A boring lecture can help you to sleep.
2. A senseless female nagging can definately help you to sleep

[Letum]

Originally Posted by Foxtrot

1. A boring lecture can help you to sleep.

:rotfl:
A lecture usualy keeps me up for hours thinking about it.

At least my insomnia isn't fatal.

[Torplexed]

Get one of those inflight magazines. Duller than dishwater. They'll put you out like a light. (I saw it work in Red Dwarf).

Or we could hire Al Gore to come over to your place and do a Powerpoint presentation...zzzzzzz.

[Letum]

:rotfl::rotfl:

I think perhaps you under estimate how dull I am.
Or at least how easy I am to engage and entertain.

For me counting sheep is entertainment and food for thought.

From the wiki link I have come across this article.
I think it fits me rather well. Left to my own devices and without duties to perform
I settle into a regular sleep pattern, sleeping between 7am and about 4pm.

I suppose that the closest thing to being naturally "nocturnal".

[Skybird]

Only when lack of sleep causes deficits in your daytime activity and gives you mental handicaps, it is considered to be insomnia, Letum, and maybe is worth to have a look at. I usually shut down the lights at 0230 or 0330, and raise a 0830. It is not insomnia, but a shifted sleep cycle. That can have psychological causes, too, but it must not be like that.

If you can arrange your life accordingly, I see no reason why you should think of it as a problem, practically or physically. The real disease is living to artificial rathms dictated by your clock. Eating when you are not hungry, but it is that and that time. Not being able to have a nap in the early afternoon, which normally most people's organism and physiology would demand, from a ceertain age on at the latest, and espcially if having had a noontime lunch.

Cats and dogs are much brighter than humans, concerning their living styles.

around 15% of the wetsern population is known to be so-called "owls", and another 15% are "larks". scientists doing research on sleep say that these people have "normally chnaged" day-and-night rythms, which cannot be chnaged and are not a question of habits, but predisposition.

P.S. Maybe you simply do not have enough work and exercise to become tired in the evening!

[Letum]

I would very much love to live to the dictates of my clock.
My employer less so.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Letum

I would very much love to live to the dictates of my clock.
My employer less so.

As I indicated, mothern life rythms are often unhealthy.