Got so fed up of going for water, I've given up and keep a bottle by my bed. Not just good for middle of the night drinking, but also excellent for morning-afters, when opening my eyes to find the bathroom is a bad idea (particularly when I was too drunk to close the curtains the night before...)
In a one-off, the night I read half of Day of the Triffids, it took me aaaages to fall asleep, then (for whatever reason) I woke up in the middle of the night, and was just too damn terrified to reach out and turn on the light. Cue hours of staring at the clock, avoiding the dark room behind me and not being able to go to sleep just in case the triffids came in. Considering I'm on the first floor, this was probably a little unreasonable (and there's the little problem of the inexistance of triffids, but at that point that was a minor issue).
Also, a more regular occurance - the damn neighbourhood cats fighting outside, particularly when I have my window open. Sounds like someone screaming, which pretty much has me from deep sleep to kick-ass mode in three seconds... Try coming down from that adrenaline rush when you want to sleep.
In a one-off, the night I read half of Day of the Triffids, it took me aaaages to fall asleep, then (for whatever reason) I woke up in the middle of the night, and was just too damn terrified to reach out and turn on the light. Cue hours of staring at the clock, avoiding the dark room behind me and not being able to go to sleep just in case the triffids came in. Considering I'm on the first floor, this was probably a little unreasonable (and there's the little problem of the inexistance of triffids, but at that point that was a minor issue).
Also, a more regular occurance - the damn neighbourhood cats fighting outside, particularly when I have my window open. Sounds like someone screaming, which pretty much has me from deep sleep to kick-ass mode in three seconds... Try coming down from that adrenaline rush when you want to sleep.