Insomniacs not so anonymous!

I long for a good nights sleep, wake about three every night, feel so ill. I have run out of alphabet games to play, this leaves the mind free to dwell on unpleasant thoughts

My DH tells me he never sleeps but how he manages to snore so loudly and have such serious twitchy legs and never hear me if I speak to him truly puzzles me. I just wish that I could 'not sleep' in the way that he does it, there is clearly a knack to it!

Huff huff I just can't sleep. I tried but think I'm worried about my daughter who I found out today that she's lost her job. She didn't tell me I think she's knows we've got enough going on with my son's family. The thing is we've had decades of problems with her and I just can't face another one of her downward spirals. I promised myself I wouldn't get worked up about it,but it hasn't worked. It just popped into my tired brain. My husband is snoring so that's not helping. Then My maudlin side started to think about my MiL who died earlier this year. We put mourning on a back burner because of my DiL illness but I can see and hear her tonight as clear as a bell and the realisation that I'll never see her again is painful. That thought led me on to thinking that I hope that my last few years aren't as miserable as her's were. So now I'm thinking perhaps it's not a good idea to live too long, better to die earlier and leave good memories. Now wonder I can't sleep. Anyone else's brain plays this kind of rubbish self indulgent pity mulling over and over or is it just me? Nope don't answer that I have enough to keep me awake. I hope it's not going to be a long night. How on earth do all these thoughts fit into one small brain Well at least I don't have to go to work tomorrow, thankful for retirement. .

Woke on and off all night, then "slept in" until 7.45am. I have so much to do today and my head is so fuzzy and as you say Cornergran, it's not fair. If my friend tells me once more that she falls asleep as soon as her head hits the pillow and she sleeps all night, I will scream.

We're all 'eligible' nankate, 5am is very early. I didn't sleep until gone 2am, awake before 7. It's not enough really but I will cope, I do know that for me lack of sleep slows me cognitively more than physically and I am more emotional over little things. Sometimes I just want to stamp both feet and say, well shout 'it's not fair'.

I’m not sure if I am eligible for this thread as I usually have no problem going to sleep, however getting up twice in the night to go to the loo doesn’t help.

My problem is I am waking earlier and earlier. 5.00am this morning when it used to be 6.30. This early waking has a knock on effect all day, but I am speaking to the converted and to some of you my sleep pattern may sound quite good.

So pleased I have my IPad to hand as I have been known to stick my earphones in and watch some tv series. I am off now to virtual Shanghai to watch the tennis. ?

My OH just gone off to work, this is late for him, I won't get back to sleep but will read for a bit.
Good luck with you're meeting Jane, I only live 20 minutes from Mum's care home so don't have all that driving. Have a safe journey.

Good morning all. I’ve been awake since 4.30.

I wonder why some people can sleep and some can’t? I have an irritating friend who tells me I probably don’t need any more. If that’s the case, why do I feel so awful if I don’t sleep?

Morning! My alarm is set for 5.15 so I wake at 3.30! Why is that? I have to go to Shropshire then get to Wolverhampton for a 10am meeting. All about Mum who is still hanging in there. You are so good Nana3 - I don't go nearly often enough.

Woke for a wee and my husbands alarm goes off at five so now waiting for that but my day off today so once he's out I'll catch another couple of hours

Been awake since 2.30, so tired, months of this .

Awake again. Listened to a sleep hypnosis video on YouTube, but well.. not for me. Not tonight.

"Oh what a night", as the song goes. I have been awake most of the night itching all over. I suspect it's my medication.
I was feeling sorry for myself, until I read your post Nana. Having been in the same position as yo, there there are no words to express the sadness which overwhelms you.
Please take care of yourself.

Thank you corner I appreciate that very much.
Sorry to hear about your back Nelliemoser lots of Grans on here have back and knee problems.

I have this problem quite often, my back gets painful at night and I need to move. I was away on holiday last week and could not do my trick of sitting in the recliner chair to ease it.
It's really miserable being awake in the small hours . That's when the worries etc start going around in your head.

Well, I did go back to,sleep, nana as hopefully you did. Can understand there will be much going on in your head, even if in the background. It's hard when we expect to lose a parent. Going every other day seems sensible, will be thinking of you and your Mum.

I usually wake up after 4 hours these days, I will hopefully sleep again after a cuppa and reading for a bit. My Mum is on end of life care and I see her every day but I'm planning to change it to every other day as she doesn't know me now and it's too distressing. This is probably playing on my mind. Thanks for asking.
Sleep well.

Afraid so, nana3, I'll be fine, it will be Wednesday when it hits. Starting to feel heavy eyed now so about to have another go at sleeping. Very over rated is sleep . What's keeping you awake? You anticipating a difficult day? Or just one of those nights?

There was a message to say it was full and closing or something like that corner, are you driving today? That would be so hard after little sleep.

Of course, mawb, just checked. Good job you are the voice of reason. .

I’m fairly certain it was because it had reached its maximum of 1000 posts - nothing sinister.

Woke at 2am, still awake so retreating into the iPad. That will teach me to say yesterday evening how well I was sleeping . Busy day ahead with lots of driving so I'm trying to convince myself it doesn't matter that I'm not asleep, I'm resting. So, back to iPlayer I think. I also wonder why the other thread was closed. What did we do?

I was bloody annoyed last night when, having gone to bed and gone straight to sleep, I was woken at around four by two Twitter alerts on my husband's phone! Who they hell tweets at that time of the morning? Did he hear them? Did he heck and the phone was right by his ear!?

Oh dear, I think that you lot need to come to my house for lessons, I slept for nearly 9 hours last night and possibly would have slept for longer if Tara my cat did not decide that it was time to move and started screeching.

Why has the old one closed?

I wasn’t too bad last night, after a truly awful night before that. I still woke at 5 but I’d had a reasonable amount of sleep before that.