Sleep is for the dead

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Over the last 16 something years I have not slept what people consider to be regular hours.

I tend to get 2-4 hours a night and if I get more then that I am extremely lucky. It doesn't matter what time I go to bed it still equates out to about that many number of hours. I will generally run off that many hours of sleep for months on end until my body goes into over load and eventually will shut down on itself causing me to sleep for 5-6 hours.

When that happens I wake up feeling like crap because I have over slept and my body is not use to being idle for that long.

I blame my lack of sleeping on 2 different things;
1: habit. I have done it for so long that it is hard to change.
2: my mind. it is constantly racing, there have been nights where my mind will keep me up for hours on end or all night. I just can't get it to shut down properly for proper rest.

Even when I do sleep it is an uneasy sleep and I am easily awoken. Then again if you do wake me up instead of letting me wake myself up watch out because if it isn't for sex I am a cranky son of a bitch. Then again I am cranky in the mornings until I get my first cigarette out of the way.

[Lily]

2: my mind. it is constantly racing, there have been nights where my mind will keep me up for hours on end or all night. I just can't get it to shut down properly for proper rest.

thats my issue, it drives me mad, i tried sleeping tablets when i had a really bad week once, and that did pig all bar relax my body, but my mind was still racing. Help you fall asleep naturally my arse, by the end of the week I was ready for having a nervous breakdown

Also. Knew I'd sleep like shite last night. Grr. Well, thats not completely true, seeing as I nodded of pretty quick but i woke up at 4am. Grr