h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I seem to be waking up an some unearthly time in the morning these days. Yesterday is was 2.30am. Today is was 3.30am. I'm not sure what is going on here. I want more Zs!

Could be about stuff to do. I'm beginning to do things a bit at a time. I'm conscious I've not done anything about the storm damage yet and the things to do I have are only getting done slowly. It's better than not getting done at all.

Oh well, back to bed for a bit. Maybe I'll meditate really early today. Might help.

Sounds like anxiety to me!





Best thing to do is make a list of all the stuff you *need* to do, then work through it, bit by bit. Talk yourself into the notion that you are doing all that you can, one day at a time, and your body will eventually accept that it's okay to be asleep.

Thanks, Lentilla!

I thought it was likely to be anxiety. Funnily enough it's been happening ever since the clocks went back. I first of all though it was that my body clock hadn't adjusted, then the wakeful times went a bit earlier, like 2.30am or 3.30am, (my alarm normally goes off at 5.20am and I'm usually awake a little before that for meditation practices before getting ready for work).

You're right about the 'stuff to do' - at times it seems I'm in overwhelm mode, so nothing gets done. Someone told me that if too many people try to go through the a door at the same time, no-one gets through! I have recently been doing a little at a time, on the premise that it's better to do a little regularly. That does feel better.

Wow... I usually go to bed around 4:30 in the morning! You're an early riser.

Speaking of getting up at weird times - I've been suffering from hay fever this past week, and every morning at 6:30 I'll wake up with a coughing fit. I get up, take some Nyquil, and go back to bed. But it's getting irritating. And why 6:30 every morning? And why does Nyquil have to taste so nasty?

So you don't develop a taste for it and so toddlers won't drink it.

You're right, of course. It's supposed to taste medicinal... but does it have to make me gag?

That sound reasonable, TR.

I went to my homeopath yesterday, and he says he thinks that it's adrenalin and he's given me some remedies. This morning I slept until about 5am, which is about my normal getting up time, so I'm well happy.

Yay! Sleep well.

I took some hydrocodone the other night that we had left over from a strep infection. It was so, um, yucky, it took a whole bottle of water to make the taste almost go away.

Nice to hear you've settled down, ZSF.

I had a deep and hard sleep last night and was well into a movie that was getting pretty interesting when I was wokened by the unit on the cellophone.

I saw "The Green Mile" for the first time last night and it was absolutely mesmerizing, which is unusual for a movie based on a Stephen King novel.

Funnily enough, I've been getting very few memorable dreams! Except the one when I saw the footprints on the ceiling and then was told they were mine and I'd done it on my last visit to the house!

I'm glad you've got some solid sleep, Don't you feel better when you do?

Not heard of the Green Mile. What's it about?

A miracle-worker on death row in Louisiana in the mid-thirties.