How well did you sleep last night?

[Parts]

Not well

[renaeden]

Good, didn't want to get up.

["couldbecousin"]

  Toward morning, I slept very deeply and had some of the most vivid dreams I've had in awhile,
  in full color, populated by celebrities and beautiful imagery.  I'm doing low-carb at the moment.
   I wonder if those vivid dreams were the sugar leaving my body.  Buh-bye, sugar, and thank you!   

[odeon]

OK-ish.

[Phoenix]

You have a fever? Shit, Hyke. That is no good at all. 

I came into this thread simply to say that I finally established reasonable sleeping patterns after a lifetime of terrible sleeping pattern, in the last 12 months or so. Makes the world of difference.

  How did you reprogram yourself after so many years? 

It was very difficult. My fear of going to bed and going to sleep was completely rational and reasonable....when I was a child. It was registering that the problem was and the anxieties were habit and not grounded in existing fears. Then it was going to bed at 10:00pm rain, hail or shine. Embarrassed to say it took me months to break the habit because I would be in bed awake and bored stupid until 2am.  Then a few nights dropping off earlier. Eventually, I was able to drift off. Over the years I tried numerous things but it was not until I came to understand what was really going on for me to do anything about it.

  Congratulations on a hard-won victory that was a long time coming.

Thanks. I am not as grumpy now too.

So happy for you. That is a huge accomplishment and it makes everything else in your life more manageable when you've gotten a good nights sleep. My sleep is crap. It's chronic.

[odeon]

Not well.

["couldbecousin"]

  Eventually the leg muscles relaxed and I slept fine.  Off to work I go!

[DirtDawg]

Actually, better than in several nights just past.

[renaeden]

Good but for Liam not being able to decide whether to sleep under the covers or on top of the covers.

["couldbecousin"]

  Toward morning, I slept deeply and had some more vivid dreams.  Jesse Pinkman was in this one.


   It was all very innocent.  He was going to take my luggage to the train station,
     and another female character in the dream gave him a motherly hug. 

[Lestat]

I didn't. Was busy working some glass, and building an oxypropane torch (a blowtorch, hacked to an oxygen feed, powered by normal butane/propane mix torch canisters, but glass tubes connected to the air intake, and to a bottle containing potassium permanganate, plus a second hose, through which a tube goes, connected to a hose length, into which a 150ml glass syringe is fed, containing hydrogen peroxide.

Works by lighting the torch, then feeding in peroxide, which decomposes to water vapor and oxygen plus potassium-manganese salts. The O2 is then fed into the air intake of the torch, making it easy as piss to just inject peroxide when the torch is lit, and have a jet of oxy-propane flame come out. Burns normally with the fuel canisters I use at 1600'C, this modification not sure, but it will cut through borosilicate glass or turn it into a blob.

[Queen Victoria]

What is this sleep? I was up all night making detailed lists of things to do around the house.  One master list, then room by room task by task.

[Lestat]

I didn't get any sleep until this afternoon. Spent all night hacking a blowtorch into an oxy-fuel torch to mould borosilicate glass (melts or softens significantly higher than ordinary soda-lime glass) and preparing a catalyst. Looks like I've got another sleepless night coming too. Busy, busy and more busy.

[renaeden]

Good, apart from letting the cat outside at 4am, then waiting until she decided to come back in. Got up properly at 7am.

[Phoenix]

What is this sleep? I was up all night making detailed lists of things to do around the house.  One master list, then room by room task by task.

Is your anxiety high? I've noticed I get that detailed and stay up late doing exactly that when I'm anxious. It makes me feel like I'm controlling something when so many things feel out of control.