Number of times I was awakened last night: SEVEN.

[Bouncy Ball]

1. I fell asleep with the TV on. Was having a great dream (can't remember about what) when the loudest infomercial *ever* came on and woke me up. Was pissed off. Turned the TV off. Fell asleep again.

2. Husband starts snoring so loudly it sounds horribly painful. Darth Vader having an asthma attack and choking. Poked at him, he stopped. Fell asleep again.

3. Having another great dream (again, can't remember it, just know I was enjoying it) and heard "Momma! MOMMA! I heard voices in my room!!!" Woke up, stumbled into child's room, turned on light, sat on her bed and listened. No voices. Checked all around to make her happy, put her in bed and gave her the giant stuffed dog she loves to make her feel better. Said "go to sleep, you must have dreamed it." Stumbled back to my bed, fell asleep.

4. See #2. It happened again. Right in my ear this time.

5. See #2. It happened again.

6. At 5:30 am, husband's alarm goes off full-tilt. THAT SUCKER IS LOUD. I had no idea how loud it was. I noticed he's gone already. Stumble over to his alarm clock. He has it turned up as high as it will go and forgot to turn it off. DAMMIT. Go back to sleep.

7. Child gets up at 6 am and decides to let dog out (husband normally does this, but apparently forgot this morning). She doesn't turn off the house alarm, and husband normally doesn't set it to instant when he leaves the house (typically he sets it to delay). Well, it's set to instant and the siren goes off. I wake up with my heart beating like crazy. My eyes can't even focus, I was awakened so suddenly. She runs to turn it off.

GEEZ LOUISE. Nothing better wake my shit up tonight.

[Lavender Brown]

1. You need to have a cup of chamomile tea

and a nice long nap today. :donut: :pals:

[Bouncy Ball]

2. The nap is tempting. but the only time I will have a chance

is VERY late afternoon and if I do that, I have trouble getting to sleep at night.

Le sigh.

Thanks for the donut though! Yum!

Tea sounds good, too. Think I'll do that.

[kick-ass-bob]

3. or a nice fifth of vodka.

either way.
:crazy:

[Lavender Brown]

4. I actually have trouble sleeping if I have alcohol

right before bed. :shrug:

[purr]

5. Same thing happens here..

I have to leave the bathroom light on or my 4 yr old freaks out and starts screaming. My 2 yr old gets up and tries to play w the toilet at night.. the sound of it flushing wakes me up thank god.
Cant shut the door because then theres no bathroom light for my 4 yr old and well.. the screaming starts.

Nightlights dont work.. not bright enough. Cant be the hallway light either.. too dim.

Husband whacks me in the head or my back with his elbow.. then snores like hes dying.

My sphynx sleeps under the covers at night and digs her claws into me trying to cuddle..

Then the pregnancy woes.. going to the bathroom at odd hours of the night.

ARG! I swear.. the only time I had a good night sleep is when I was in the hospital for a night.

[Bouncy Ball]

11. Geez, ok that is WAY worse than me.

I forgot to mention my cat tries to sleep on my HEAD, but she's usually easily dealt with.

Good luck to you, you need sleep!

[Arkana]

6. Snifter of whiskey will do it

My 85-year-old grandmother does that before bed each night.

[uppityperson]

7. My husband wakes me up moaning for help

He gets to that stage where you're not awake and not asleep, almost aware but you can't move, then panicks and tries to wake up by moaning and yelling and wakes me up to wake him up and I'm tired of it. Did a sleep apnea check and nose reaming a few yrs ago which helped for a while. Now is doing it again. At least I have him, but it gets tiring. My child is almost 17, leading to a different type of nightime worries, am glad to be past the young child wakeup stuff.

Coffee, the legal drug.

[Bouncy Ball]

9. Ug, I don't know if I could handle someone moaning for help all night!

You poor thing!

[LynneSin]

8. Might want to have your husband's snoring checked out...

...especially if he sounds like he's choking when he's snoring (Darth Vader having an asthma attack and choking). If he's choking it could be a sign of Sleep Apnea which isn't a good thing to have. They can easily correct it and both of you could have a decent night sleep.

As for the TV - Sleep Timer works like a charm. Of course I am not suppose to be watching TV in bed

[Bouncy Ball]

10. I don't know what he did with the TV we had in the bedroom that

had a sleep timer on it!

As for his snoring, I have encouraged, asked, begged, ordered, everything I can think of to get him to go have a sleep study done and he hasn't done it yet. Only so much I can do. :shrug:

He DID stop smoking two months ago and he has lost about ten pounds, and that has helped, as this snoring horribly stuff used to happen every single night and now it's so rare it wakes me up! LOL!

Why aren't you supposed to be watching TV in bed?

[LynneSin]

12. Because it stimulates your brain

At least that is what my doc told me when I had my initial consultation at the Sleep Center.

I had to perform sleep hygiene on my bed room to keep the room, calm, peaceful and sleep oriented.

So now I have an extra TV that I will probably end up selling.

I'm also not suppose to eat or drink after 6pm and cut back on late night computer use (at least 2 hours before I go to bed).

Pretty much I get the impression that when I get home from work I'm to sit in the dark until I fall asleep.

I have sleeping issues