I find now that I am solo, I wake up in the early morning hours thinking about surveying. I toss and turn thinking. I have started just getting up and doing the normal bathroom routine without looking at a clock. Most days by the time I get to the coffee pot where the first clock I run into is, it is within an hour of my wife's weekday 5 am alarm. A couple of 3 am's mixed in there... this is a daily thing weekend or not. I do not go back to bed, I end up with skull pains if I do that. Might fall out by 8:30 that evening though.
foggyidea, post: 426468, member: 155 wrote: I wake up at various times, too. I prefer when it's closer to the 1:30-2 am than the 430 range. I usually get up, read a bit, then go back to sleep. I have heard that it's best to get up and not remain in bed tossing and turning, in order to get back to sleep.
Normal routine is to target being in bed by 10:00 to 10:30, but frequently midnight. Alarm is set for 7:00 a.m. Rarely hop out earlier than that. Sometimes will work for an hour or two in the middle of the night and then go back to bed. Rolling out prior to 6:00 a.m. is very rare and normally involves needing to be somewhere a hundred miles or more distant at a specific time and I don't want to squander $150 on a motel room.
Oh yeah, I admit that back in the past and much earlier in my career to waking SWMBO in the middle of the night spewing survey lingo such as "no your other left" and then waking the next morn more tired than when I went to bed from working in my sleep and maybe having a few new knots she served me with when she elbowed me and reminded me to go back to sleep.
"we live and we learn"
Wow. Never realized it was a "surveyor thing". Growing up, Dad was always up way before daylight. I remember asking him what time he got up. His reply was always "I got up before breakfast". i remember thinking that was crazy. Until I turned 45 or so. Now, I can't get to sleep until at least midnight and I'm up for the day by 4:30 am. Even Saturdays and Sundays. During the week, I'm usually on the road by 5:30 am on my hour commute to the office. Most days I don't get home until 6:15 pm.
If you cannot sleep... it's the Good Lord's way of telling you to pray for Nate.... 🙂
Nate
Nate The Surveyor, post: 426675, member: 291 wrote: If you cannot sleep... it's the Good Lord's way of telling you to pray for Nate.... 🙂
Nate
Right...any time I can't sleep I'm wondering WWND...;)
Nate The Surveyor, post: 426675, member: 291 wrote: If you cannot sleep... it's the Good Lord's way of telling you to pray for Nate.... 🙂
Nate
If Nate can't sleep it's the Good Lord's way of telling him to be fruitful and multiply. 😉
What can I say.... Y'all is too kind!
Was at a little party for a lady turning 90 and another woman attending was already 91 or 92. We were giving the older lady a rough time about having nearly a dozen kids. She started out by asking how many there could remember when she and her husband lived at a certain farmhouse a stone's throw from the main line of the railroad. Several of us responded affirmatively. She told us that the danged train came through once or more each night, waking them up. Getting back to sleep was sometimes difficult, so they found ways to amuse themselves in the meantime. Nuff said.
Holy Cow, post: 426692, member: 50 wrote: Was at a little party for a lady turning 90 and another woman attending was already 91 or 92. We were giving the older lady a rough time about having nearly a dozen kids. She started out by asking how many there could remember when she and her husband lived at a certain farmhouse a stone's throw from the main line of the railroad. Several of us responded affirmatively. She told us that the danged train came through once or more each night, waking them up. Getting back to sleep was sometimes difficult, so they found ways to amuse themselves in the meantime. Nuff said.
OK....time to perpetuate another OLD joke...
Husband climbed in bed and amorously scooted up real close to his sleeping wife. She protested by telling him, "Hey, I've got to get up early in the morning."
"That's ok, " he replied, "If I'm not finished by then I'll just stop and let you up". 😉
Yoga has been very good to me this past year.
Breathing deep into the belly and putting all that oxygen into the system.
Brad Ott, post: 426780, member: 197 wrote: Yoga has been very good to me this past year.
Breathing deep into the belly and putting all that oxygen into the system.
Yup the more O2 you can absorb the better.
For y'all that have trouble getting to sleep this may be worth trying: the 478 method.
😎
Maybe not as appealing to some of you folks living in hotter climates but for me 30 minutes in the sauna before bed and I sleep like a baby.
Slept until 6:15 this morning. Of course not sleeping all week may have had something to do with it.
Nice and cool this morning.....probably should be working.
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10-5, like clockwork.
Except when my semi-homeless brother in law is invited to stay and commences going in and out the front door all night. Then it's like 10-2:30. At least that's today...
flyin solo, post: 428182, member: 8089 wrote: my semi-homeless brother in law
Been there. Done that. Many years ago. Still don't like the guy. Never will.
I can generally get about 4-5 hours in of good sleep. Dreams, REM sleep. But I wake up through the night. I have low blood sometimes too, so I get restless legs and I have to sleep sitting up or I feel like I'm suffocating. The suffocating is, even when I'm awake and laying flat. Don't know why, but when I lay down I don't get enough oxygen. I just had a refill of blood so it's nice to be able to sleep lying flat and my restless legs are gone too. Who woulda thunk blood was so important to have. 🙂
I also have what I believe is something like 'night terrors' or something like that. It's worse when I'm not at home sleeping. My last visit to the hospital I woke up with my leg kicking the crap out of the little rolling table. I was having a dream that I was in a fight, and winning, with somebody. Kinda weird. I'm not in 'terror', I'm really ticked off in my sleep because somebody is trying to kill me. Another time I was in the hospital, I put up a pretty good fight against the bed rails. The nurses must have heard me because when I woke up, there were three of them in there asking if I was alright. They called it a 'psychotic episode' if I remember correctly. I guess it stems from spending too much time in a war zone. Needless to say, I don't sleep in the same bed as my wife. I'm a nice guy when I'm awake. Just don't cross me in my dreams. 😉
Sounds like you have developed a sleep pattern that includes getting up at 3:00
My dog has developed that type of sleep pattern and wakes me up every morning at 3:00 by staring at me - just stands there staring (and maybe smiling). Wakes me up every time! It's OK though because I follow suit and go back to bed within 10 minutes.
John Giles, post: 428261, member: 57 wrote: . I'm a nice guy when I'm awake. Just don't cross me in my dreams. 😉
John, if it was a night terror you would not remember it in the morning.
I'm a one man army some nights- always on the right side of things. I wouldn't think about it too much.
Someone/something is after you or someone else and you are either doing really good - taking out people left and right, or you can't run (keep falling down or tripping) or your gun is jammed...you can't find the right caliber ammo..ect. ect.
Luckily in real life most of us are not usually faced with having to do the things we do in our dreams (even if it is in self defense or aiding others).
We are also lucky that our brains are programmed to forget much of what goes on at night.
