I can't get no sleep

Argh!!!!

As you can tell, it's quarter past three in the morning and I'm wide awake. I have a really important meeting in 6 hours and so far have only been able to sleep for about one hour!!!

I'm actually working away and am in a very nice hotel in Sheffield, I've had a couple of Guiness but still to no avail. I feel really tired but just lie there awake.

I seem to have developed insomnia and nothing I seem to do, is curing it. Help, do any of the rest of you have this problem and if so, how do you get to sleep and stay asleep?

 

I feel for you, mate. I quite often find my body clock out of synch with the real world but sometimes that's the nature of the job. Personally I usually find if it hard to sleep if I've not done any exercise for a few days.

Oh one of my team has full on insomnia which is both a curse and a blessing..... especially when he just logs on from home at 2am and gets on with work! lol

 

That's horrible, i never really sleep properly when away.

Best thing I find is have a couple of pints & a very late night. Otherwise I end up waking up about 5 times.

Hope you eventually got some sleep & the meeting went ok ??

 

i had sleep problems for years , I can go weeks with limited sleep but is will catch up with you in the end , having a lie-in on a Sunday is little use when you don’t have a reasonable sleep pattern

from what you say ,you have things on your mind . well that’s what disturbs my sleep also so i went to the doctors ,& his advise was to sleep with a pen & paper ?,sounds daft i know ,but what you do is write down the things on your mind & add to the list as you lay awake trying to get off to sleep , then before you know it, it’s time to wake up try it ,it works most of the time ( for me anyway )

 

That also helps to do during the day.

Went on a 'Getting Thing Done' training course last year. Yes - big groan - just as I did - another time management course.

But some of the things they taught - have been very useful & have actually worked & made a huge difference.

One of them, was always carry pen & paper, whatever you remember, write it down immediately. If it's something you need to do / buy / new project. That will pull the thought from your mind & you'll then forget it - without the guilt feeling that you've forgotten about something.

 

I have the same thing happen from time to time.
I find that if I close my eyes (obviously) & concentrate solely on the sound of my breathing, within a few minutes I'm off to beesh!

 

i know this is a bit off topic but im the exact opposite,i sleep very well a bit 2 well actually,when i wake up my brain is 100% dead i just cant function,if it wasnt for my missus i would be sacked from every job for being late she has 2 kik and scream at me in the mornings and it is terrible to be lyk this i hate it but my mother is the same she has insomnia doesnt get off 2 sleep til about 4am every day ive tried going to bed early and late gettin up early and late n nothing works and according 2 the doc im perfectly fine,maybe im just a lazy cunt i aint got a clue hahaha

 

Sorry to bring the tone down a tadge but OnlyOneWayHome, have you tried banging one out

 

You call that a 'tadge'?? PMSL!!!

 

:toss:

 

I was going to suggest paying for the porn channel - that usually puts me in fits of laughter before I fall asleep.

Good luck with the meeting BTW.

 

Burping the worm - helping blokes get to sleep since time began...

 

B*llsh*t!! - I'm not buying that for a second.....You speak with forked-tongue Ed!