Comments on: 2343: No Sleep https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2016/06/19/2343-no-sleep/ Memoirs of a nobody Sun, 06 Apr 2025 21:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Chris Caskie https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2016/06/19/2343-no-sleep/#comment-662 Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:21:44 +0000 https://angryjedi.wordpress.com/?p=15580#comment-662 My wife struggles with insomnia linked to her anxiety, and pretty much everything you're describing to here sounds exactly like things that she has told me before. For the first 5 years or so of our marriage, she'd come to bed about an hour or so before I was ready to get up to go to work. It was awful.
She finally sleeps semi-regularly now, with the occasional "bad night" in there . . . but the good ones outweigh the bad these days. What finally set her straight was two things: 1) regular rigorous exercise, 2) routine. We workout, hard, nearly every day, and go to bed at the same time every night. It took months but it finally tricked her biological clock into functioning again.

I definitely agree with Fring too. No-screen time is VERY important. We don't realize how zap-fried out brains are living off screens from day to day. There is no TV in our bedroom, and my cell phone is always strategically placed out of reach of the bed.

Of course, I don't presume to prescribe these things to you as solutions – I know that everyone is different, but it's just some examples of things that have worked in my house.

]]> By: judsgamereviews https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2016/06/19/2343-no-sleep/#comment-659 Mon, 20 Jun 2016 06:30:03 +0000 https://angryjedi.wordpress.com/?p=15580#comment-659 I couldn't agree more Pete – 'Oh for an OFF switch!" And the stupidity of it is that often the things that decide that they just have to play through your mind are often things from a long time ago that you've successfully dealt with, categorised, filed, locked the filing cabinet and installed the guard-crocodile in the basement of your mind. How did they get out again?? And why? Often they don't even bother you any more, yet there they are having a little replay session all of their own in the middle of the bloody night.
You know, the twisted memory paragraph made me instantly think of how well it could fit into one of your stories. Give the characters all names. Describe them in great detail so we can see their stereotypes and their particular expressions. Then describe your protagonist, giving him a growing sense of control as the 'meeting' progresses, followed by the biggest explosion you can create. Then rewrite it like a 'Ground Hogs Day' series, but each day give him a little more control and them a little less confidence and arrogance. See how many times you have to write the scene before they are on a par. Then shift it in your protagonist's direction. See how you feel as you do this, then see if the stupid 'night-time scenarios continue and/or change. And let me know. 😀

]]> By: Fring https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2016/06/19/2343-no-sleep/#comment-657 Mon, 20 Jun 2016 06:15:53 +0000 https://angryjedi.wordpress.com/?p=15580#comment-657 Have you tried hashing a period of time before you go to bed where you avoid brightly lit screens? I only ask because there's been a lot of reports about people sleeping much worse since we all have mobiles. The brightly lit screens inhibit sleepy responses apparently. When I've struggled to sleep it has always helped to have an hour before bed with no computer. Reading a book in bed in a fairly dimly lit bedroom always helps me to nod off. The book helps focus away from unhelpful thoughts while being a quiet, calm thing to help the brain shut down.

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