You can't sleep...

[Andalusa]

The clock is ticking closer and closer to 1am, I have to work tomorrow, my alarm set for 6am. If I went to sleep now I could get 5 hours of sleep. As it is, I'm laying in bed being kept awake by my neigbour's dog barking. The dog has been barking non stop for nearly an hour now. I've knocked on my neigbour's door and kindly requested that they make their beloved animal shut up. I was blessed with almost 5 minutes of silence before it started barking again. So here I am, wide awake, extremely pissed off with no chance of sleep anytime soon.

So my question is this, Escapist: What keeps you awake at night?

1am? whoopedidoo. It's currently 5am over here and I'm still awake. For basically no reason.

Normally I wouldn't mind, but I'm currently part way through a 10 hour shift and suffering because one person can't control their animal.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

My own sleeping patterns. For several months, I was on a schedule that didn't require me to be anywhere before 2 in the afternoon, and even then only 4 days a week. Cue me going to bed when the sun came up on a regular basis, and, upon going home for the Summer, clashing with my parents on the time I get up, because they can't stand the idea of their son sleeping in til noon even when he has nothing better to do :/

 

[nbamaniac]

reading this post keeps mah eyes movin.. O_O

 

[Bernzz]

I'm awake because depression has once again tucked in bed with me and stolen all the fucking blankets. I've burned all my bridges and have nothing to fall back on, and am bitterly contemplating what I know I don't actually have the guts to do. And that's why I'm awake. okay?
I don't even know why I'm posting. This isn't helping.

And being unnecessarily pissed off at the hypothetical person reading the post certainly won't help you either.

You can't sleep...

No, you can't sleep. If I'm awake, I must not be tired and thus will stay up. When I want to sleep, I sleep. I'll never understand why insomnia happens.

A friend of mine has it. She explains it as being tired, often incredibly tired and exhausted, and laying there for hours, sometimes even 4-5 hours and just not falling asleep. I don't understand why it happens, but from the sounds of it it fucking sucks.

 

[Lawnmooer]

What keeps me awake at night?

Well... Thats what I went to the doctors to find out (After ~4 weeks with <2 hours sleep a night)

It's apparently a combination of going onto the computer too much (Which is releasing adrenaline into my system), caffeine and thinking about the wrong things when trying to get to sleep (I have to "Work to get to sleep" and thinking about certain things (TV, computer games, a girl I like) keeps my brain active enough so that I cannot fall asleep)

Also apparently wanting to get to sleep stops me sleeping...

*Sigh* 3 more weeks and I will have to go back and see what my depression test results mean...

 

[FalloutJack]

-A GREAT JUICY MELON!-

I see. Yeah, I'll bet it sucks. Hell, remember Fight Club?

 

[Artina89]

I am usually awake because my mind won't shut up. It is constantly buzzing and I am thinking about various things, I am even thinking about various things that have happened today, and I haven't even done anything of any importance today, just enjoying a rare day off. If you don't want to take sleeping pills, you could always try excercising. That might wear you out enough to get a couple of hours of sleep.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

My insomnia. No idea why, but I think it's getting a little worse all the time. I get to sleep eventually, but I can spend up to a couple of hours just waiting.

Also, when the next day is results day.

 

[JamesBr]

Working overnights has totally screwed by biological clock. I frequently don't go to bed before 4am even on days that I'm not working. And that if I go to bed at all. As a result of the my sleep "schedule", I get frequent insomnia.