Natural Sleep Patterns

Hi GreenMoo Hope your family back from work and you aint lonely anymore! The sleep for me depends on so many things dear. First, as I have been almost jobless since I have been at home (since 2008), I give priority to work whenever I have it. So when there is work (professional) I always complete the assignment before anything else (many a times sleep is disturbed). Then, when there are guests (say my family, or cousins from another city), they get priority too. As I had always been a night owl, I dont have much problems with staying awake late nights. But all the above stand no where when I am on those horrible medicines which had me sleeping for around 18 hours last year for days. And even on normal days, I try to get as much of sleep I can (without medicines it never could go beyond 6 hours).

16 hours of sleep in one day! Wow you must have been really tired. it is a fact that when you miss sleep for a few days, you are eventually going to fall in a long sleep. The hours of sleep your body misses area adding up, and in the end you have to sleep the total sum up. Of course it is a lot more healthy if you avoid this by having a regular good night sleep.

I usually sleep whenever I want to. Last night I had a nice relaxing soak in the tub, a bottle of honey brown and listened to good music. I fell asleep instantly after turning off the light. Unfortunately, my neighbors came home at 1:00 am and I guess they were fighting because the door-slamming started. Woke me up. It continued for about ten minutes when I eventually went out to complain. I was so angry that it took me a while to get back to sleep, and when I woke up this morning (cat prompted) I had a tension headache.

I really don't catch up much. I tend to get upset with myself if I sleep too much because I feel like I"m missing out on life. We only get so much time, and we already have to spend a third of it sleeping.. and the older we get the faster time seems to go. Sometimes I'm amazed how fast a day goes by, like there is definitely not enough time in it for what I want to do... But that's a totally different discussion. Speaking of dealing with other's sleep patterns... I'm not really a night owl or an early riser. I guess I'm right in the middle. 11pm is about my usual bedtime. I get up around 7 am because I have to.. but I do like to sleep in a little.. but as I said, if I sleep till 11am I feel like I've wasted too much of the day already. Anyways, Saturday I was invited out with a friend of mine to hang out and have some drinks with a couple of her friends who I'd met at a previous get-together. The trouble is my friend and her friends work the night shift. They typically stay up all night and sleep all day.. and my friend had driven me so I was at her mercy as to when I chose to leave. The last time we had a gathering I'd driven myself and at around midnight I called it a night. But Saturday I didn't get home until around 5am! I still got up today at 9am and had a full day! We brought our kids to the zoo, then to the mall so my daughter could use a gift card she got for her birthday to Build A Bear Workshop.. then hubby and I went to see a movie alone! Great weekend.. I just wish tomorrow weren't Monday.

Well, i know all about not being able to sleep a good nights sleep. When I was working I was lucky to get four hours sleep. And I somehow functioned. I did that for years. I eventually broke down. The body can only take so much. Now I do sleep better, but I do not sleep like I used to when I was young. Sometimes it is broken sleep, sometimes too much sleep. I do need to break out of this erratic pattern and get myself on schedule.

I think I have to say that I used to be a late owl person, and wake up late. However, at my age now (and maybe because of the work load), sometimes I sleep early because I feel I need to sleep, but then I will wide awake at night. Sometimes I sleep early (around 10 pm) until the next morning (around 7 or 8 am)! I don't know if this is a "catch up", but at least in one day, I would sleep 7 or 8 hours for the total.

Most of the time I can follow my own schedule but there are a couple of days each week when I have to be awake and alert at a certain time. My biggest sleep problem is that I often wake up after 3 or 4 hours of sleep and can't get back to sleep. Then I might as well get up and so something productive. That would be fine, but when I do that, I want to sleep in the next day. I don't like to sleep late because it seems like I never get anything done. Anyway, I don't have much trouble getting the time to catch up when it's needed. I don't think I've ever slept 16 hours at a time, though.

I was feeling a little punk this last week. ON sunday I worked and when I got home I had the chills.....so I slept almost from the time I got home on Sunday until I got up on Monday. turns out I have ear infection...but I did get some good sleep in!

My natural pattern is wake up early, and sleep late. I've always known myself to be a 'morning person' so I'm always awake early. Sometimes though, the activities of the previous night (mostly chores, and some ME time) prevent me from really feeling refresh in the mornings. So, I catch do catch up on the weekends. I sleep for 10-12 hours to make up for the 4-5 hours I get on weekdays.

I try to keep to a pattern, whether I am at work or not. If I do sleep in at weekends or when I am on holiday, this can really throw me and I then start to wake up in the middle of the night, or nap in the afternoon. I think it's best to keep to a pattern for optimum sleep. I also find now that I am getting older that I tend to nod off after my evening meal. Usually around the time Corrie comes on the tele, which may or may not be a coincidence. I can't stands that Didderee! lol

Hi GreenMoo, it is normal to catch up some sleep when we have missed them. Me too have this kind of experience especially for my work during month end, and early of the month. Since i am from the finance, my working late would cost my time and sleep. During these period, i would have lack of sleep and as such, 'panda eyes' or dark circles would start appearing below my eyes. Definitely after few days when your body couldn't withhold any longer, you would collapse to sleep for longer period of hours to regain your strength and energy. That is what happens to me too. But we cannot recover few days lack of sleep in just a day. This will take a few days or weeks to recover back our stamina.

i don`t have the opportunity to catch up on my sleep i guess because i have a baby and its really hard for me to have a decent sleep.. approximately my sleep for a day is between to 5-7 hours a day.. its because.. when my baby is sleeping i cant sleep right away because i have so many chores to do at home before i can sleep.. maybe i`ll catch up when my baby is more grown up now..

Yes, sometimes the body calls for something. If you need to sleep whatever you do you will feel sleepy, unfortunately sometimes you want to sleep and you can not sleep. I avoid sleeping in the afternoon because I will have difficulty sleeping at night. But sometimes due to whole day activity i just get tired and take a nap which I planned to be short nap and turned to be long sleep. LOL. Once the sleeping pattern is disrupted it is difficult to gain the rythm back. Yes sleep is important and body really calls for it.

If you don't get your regular amount of sleep one night, your body will want to get some extra hours the next time. It always happens with me. I am also a early riser and I also go to bed early. A slight disturbance one day and I have to catch up the next night. You know sometimes you have to go to a party or something and you just can't go to be early. On these occasions, I do tend to feel tired the next day. So, I make sure that a get some extra hours by going to bed earlier than usual. I am usually fine then.

It's really weird, because when I'm by myself, I can sleep for forever, or at least just lay in bed doing nothing. But when I sleep with someone else, I almost immediately wake up, unless I'm sick. And I do tend to go to bed a lot later whn I'm by myself... maybe I don't invest that much energy into the stuff I do when I'm alone... well, for sure, watching TV, reading and surfing on the net is less energy consuming than doing stuff actively with others...

Yes sometimes when I'm busy, it will be difficult to meet the need for sleep. But I always try to sleep enough due to lack of sleep will interfere with my activity during the day. If I have a lack of sleep, I will definitely in the bad mood and feel floating, also can not concentrate. Usually if I sleep quite late one night, I would sleep more in the next night or it could be a nap on weekends. Although naps on weekends can result can not sleep at night next night _