When you're sleepy, but don't yet want to go to bed...?

Well i am an insomniac. i rarely sleep, i am lucky if i get 3 hours of sleep at a time, but when i need sleep i know it is important to get it. A trick my dr taught me was to bring a notebook with me to bed. After i lay down and get comfy I make a list of things pouring through my head of stuff i still needed to do. With the list I feel like i am getting organized and make a promise to knock as much off this list as i can the next day. unless its a health issue, or something that absolutely cannot wait until i wake up, i put the list away and go to bed. if i still cant sleep i put on a channel that has something boring on it (something that does not peak my interests) and pass out from boredom. LOL. I hope this technique may help one of you. Heck, it also gives you a to do list for the next day LOL (or if you are lucky a Honey Do list hahahah)

Yes this has also happened to me. Most of the time when I feel sleepy and I have this urge to go to bed, but I suddenly remember that I still have some things to do. I try to finish it first but when I'm finished with it, I don't feel sleepy anymore. This annoys me at times coz I wan to rest but ca'nt seem to fall asleep

yes hon, it happens to me all the time, I fight sleep sometimes because I want to get so much accomplished on the internet, but when it gets to the point that I have a headache I know that I have no choice, I have to go to bed.

Yes!This happens to me too some years back.Now I have learned to manage my time and I will not mess up things anymore.Actually sitting infront of the computer or a tv causes this,because they are visual in nature.So,it is always good to stop watching tv or computer before 2 hours to bed.That will solve such problems.Cheers!

when i am sleepy and don;t want to sleep , i just see tv and see net also. i will be busy in this mylot mostly in night and sleeps late night only daily. if i gets sleep also, i won;t sleep in night. i will be just giving answers here and with this late night sleep ,i will get sleep in morning and sleeps in morning for 2,3 hours .as i am housewife now, i can have time in sleeping in morning.

It happen to me a lot of time. Sometime I need to complete my work and didn't realize, I already way past 2 am and should be sleeping in bed by that time. I no longer feel sleepy and forcing myself to sleep so I can go to work tomorrow (should I say tomorrow? it's already another day) I can't say I have learn my lesson since I am still doing that sometime.

I usually try to go to bed anyway...

thats the story of my life lol.. im always doing that and then screwing myself over the next day

Well Bethany first of all nice pic and second of all no u will never learn ur lesson u would become like that as u go older you would become an adict and u cant stop watching tv or stop being on the comp u wont like to sleep and u would wanan be without sleeping at times its better if u ask me to geturself some seddatives or sleeing pills to make urself to go to bed if not ur gonna get ur health in trouble and ur gonna be sleeping in the morning till 2 or 3 and ur gonna get ur brain fried try to get to bed and if u cant go to sleep take a sleep pill and may be u would go to bed that way and nto have to sit in front of the comp or tv for long hours Cheers !

haha... well, I think I can say that it happens to me too...^_^ there are times i think PCs can give you energy when you are already tired.. hahahha... well, I guess that's just fine so long as you're healthy

Yes It has happened with me many times. I used to watch TV when I am tired after studies but if I continue to watch it for certain limit then I will never feel sleepy. I think it is because while sleeping there is a particular period in the night when we feel sleepy after that period you will not feel sleepy. I have experienced this thing many times. Now also if I will watch a movie when I am sleeping then I will not feel sleepy for some time.

This happens to me all the time i will usual lye in bed and see if I can fall asleep but never do.then I will get up and go on the computer yea and then i am on the computer for hrs and end up not going to sleep at all.Iam usual tired that whole day.

it happens to me all the time. if i know i have to get up for work really early in the morning, and there is a good movie, i ALWAYS want to watch the rest of the movie. and of course it doesnt get over until 330 a.m., so im completely exhausted when i have to wake up at 7!

It happens to me almost every time whenever i keep on mylotting lol. whenever im online on my laptop i realize that its almost the time for the sun to rise and i haven't taken any naps. and i end up sleeping around at 5am or 6am in the morning.

Don't have that problem on the computer as I have limited time anyway, but TV is dangerous for me and I push myself to stay awake sometimes, problem is I'm getting older now so I actually fall asleep and my wife wakes me at 5am in the morning to come to bed.....whoops!

for me it is usually jumping into bed and just watching tv for awhile. i do not have much down time or relaxation so that does it for me. i look forward to watching some of the shows i record on my DVR during the day so i like to catch up on things. reading would put me to sleep and i doubt i would absorb much of what i was reading at that point in the day anyway.

Oh that happens to me a lot of times too!! Usually if I don't want to go to bed yet I just end up mylotting. Time flies and I would find myself sleeping late late at nights. Sometimes I just a read book or try to cross-stitch for a while until I feel like I wanted to sleep already. The other day I just bought a puzzle about a thousand pieces and I plan to work on it every night before going to bed. Maybe just solve a few pieces every night so I will go to bed smiling hehe. Ciao!

Most of the time that I'm sleepy, I still want to postpone it. I disturb the urge to retire by reading novels or watch TV. I do this often that's why sometimes I wake up late in the morning. it really affects how I work the following morning too. Now my sleeping pattern is disturbed.

perhaps more and more person will meeting this problem in our daily life, before sleeping, i have a habits,like reading a few lines books or watching TV, wheather the progrem is good on or nor, probably less than an hour i will sleep soundly.

I experience it once. and i never repeated it again. My eyebags are getting bigger and bigger because of lack of sleep. and my mother kept on scolding me about that. So I've learned my lesson too. I just use the computer at broad daylight.XD