I love sleeping too.... but when the insomnia hits (like last night) being tired and not being able to sleep is... The. Worst.
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I totally agree, {{{{{cosmic mouse}}}}}. Audiobooks make it a bit easier but you can bet on it that the instant you found a comfortable position in bed, the darned battery of the player is empty.
Not exactly a dream but there is a very unpleasant 90° curve near a very steep dip and every time I drive there I keep envisioning me driving straight ahead into the abyss. It's highly irritating!
I love sleeping too.... but when the insomnia hits (like last night) being tired and not being able to sleep is... The. Worst.
I’m sorry to hear that, insomnia is a menace. I know your pain.
I am wired at all times. I probably sleep a total of 4 hours a night, then I try to take a short nap during the day if I can. But I have to take my medicine for any of that sleep to happen.
Wow. That’s terrifying. I hate driving.
Yikes, that reminds me of this one spot on the Pacific Coast Highway outside of LA. Every time I drove by that spot I would have this vision of myself careening down off what was basically a cliff into the ocean.
Man, I don't think I could make it on 4 hrs a night... I've had insomnia problems since I was a kid, but the only time I ever took anything for it was just a few years ago (Ambien) and that was almost worse than not sleeping. Now I just suffer and every 3-4 nights or so I collapse and sleep straight through the night.
Whenever I want to coax myself into falling asleep, I always imagine I'm somewhere that I have a hard time staying awake. Brilliantly successful logic, that. The annual work seminar is by FAR the most effective choice. I almost always doze off during some part of that bore.
I'll do you one better. I am highly prone to serialized dreaming, picking things up damn near right where it left off from some previous REM session, & moving the plot along
I don't know wtf I'm basing it on, but I define that as different from recurring dreams, which I take as simply being a repeat of the same dream. The difference, (At least to me) is that a recurring/repeating dream is just a preoccupation with something. A serialized dream is a thing I'm actively working through. Some of them have been so detailed I could probably adapt them to novelization.
Exploring a castle with a newly met female acquaintance, was one of the most memorable. By the time we got to the bowels of the endless thing (After some several days of dreaming) it began to morph into a subterranean "Lost World" type situation. I literally dreamt a damn quest, over multiple nights
I have dreams every once in awhile where I'm driving up a very steep road up a mountain and it gets so steep I start rolling backwards. I have a different one where I've been skipping a class in school and I show up to take the final exam and I can't even find the right classroom.
You've said that watching a sad movie makes you sleepy. Would doing that right before bed help? I sympathize. I've been having trouble getting to sleep the last few weeks where always before I'd drift off as soon as my head hit the pillow. I just can't turn my brain off.
I vote for sleep. I'm malfunctioning.
with me it's always the decision for sleep. I often drop into bed around 7 pm and am fast asleep 15 mins later.
I used to, too. But after 25 years of having to drive at least 250 miles per day at work I have grown rather fond of it. Still, I wouldn't mind having a mule for the sampling tours in the mountains =)
It's quite reassuring that you too have these visions. It seems to be a normal function of the human brain. Maybe it's an internal warning of danger that performs its job a touch too eagerly
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My problem with local cyclists: they say they want to "Share the road". They want to own the road and have every motorist cater to their every whim, including when they blatantly run stop signs that have cars stopped on all four sides.
They want to ride in groups several wide, completely blocking lanes so that motor vehicles cannot pass.
I used to be a cyclist. I used to be a cyclist when cyclists respected that cars and trucks were a lot bigger than them and could easily kill them without so much as a scratch on their paint finishes.
Same with kids.
When we played in the middle of the street as a kid, we always had someone watching the end of the block so that when a car approached they'd yell, "CAR!" and everyone would scramble to the sides of the street. Half the time I'm driving down my street now there is a kid either walking down the middle of the street or riding their bike erratically, weaving on both sides, and they refuse to move out of the way. I had a kid recently come toward me on one of those mini dirtbikes (motorized and NOT street-legal) and whip a "u"-y 30 feet in front of my car, blocking me the rest of the way to my driveway.
Grrr...
GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
They want to ride in groups several wide, completely blocking lanes so that motor vehicles cannot pass.
I used to be a cyclist. I used to be a cyclist when cyclists respected that cars and trucks were a lot bigger than them and could easily kill them without so much as a scratch on their paint finishes.
Same with kids.
When we played in the middle of the street as a kid, we always had someone watching the end of the block so that when a car approached they'd yell, "CAR!" and everyone would scramble to the sides of the street. Half the time I'm driving down my street now there is a kid either walking down the middle of the street or riding their bike erratically, weaving on both sides, and they refuse to move out of the way. I had a kid recently come toward me on one of those mini dirtbikes (motorized and NOT street-legal) and whip a "u"-y 30 feet in front of my car, blocking me the rest of the way to my driveway.
Grrr...
GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
Yes, I think it is a normal function of sorts, unless it consumes a person. It means our imaginations are healthy.It's quite reassuring that you too have these visions. It seems to be a normal function of the human brain. Maybe it's an internal warning of danger that performs its job a touch too eagerly
Seriously though, I have had a few recurring visions over the years, one of which was me driving on a busy road and the driver in front of me slamming on the brakes suddenly, but the car I am driving has brakes that fail when I hit them, resulting in me having to swerve off the road into a ditch to avoid a collision. After about 8 years of that vision it actually happened to me (and I was driving a 350 Chevy van at the time). Now that it's happened... no more vision. So maybe we are just soothsayers and don't know it.
eks! I hope not! I'd hate flying 100 yards through the air in that curve. After all, there is only one me and I want it to remain on this planet for as long as possible
I wish it would help. I’ve tried everything. I’m just a very amped up person. I can’t have ANY caffeine.
The only thing that makes me tired is my medication, which I hate taking and am super inconsistent with.
I wish this worked for me... if I lie still and fake it my brain just keeps going a mile a minute. And then I realize that two hours have gone by and I've been pondering the last movie I saw, what my work day might be like tomorrow, the meal I had when I went out to dinner with some friends, etc. Just can't keep the damn organ quiet long enough to fall asleep!
Sorry, all, but I seem to have the opposite problem of late. I will go to bed but hoping to run through some thoughts. Momentarily I find I'm half-dreaming in weird and out-of-left-field ways. I can sometimes catch myself and shock myself conscious again, but most times I end up waking up, not even realizing that I'd slept.
That seems like the best way to sleep... don't know it's happening and then wham! you wake up refreshed. Almost like a Borg regeneration chamber.
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