Sleep Patterns
Long time readers will know that insomnia and I are old friends, but my sleep these days has taken on a rather different kind of structure. I'm not having trouble getting to sleep - in fact, so knackered do I feel most of the time that nodding on the sofa isn't unheard of, but after a few hours sleep initially my nights tend to fall into a pattern of waking, laying thinking about whatever is uppermost in my mind (usually work), and trying to go back to sleep, usually achieving no more than a light doze before more waking and thinking. Which means that usually by the time the alarm is due to go off at 6am I've been awake for ages and it never actually gets a chance to wake me.
Slightly less than a month from now, we're heading off on slightly over two weeks off, and in an ideal world we'll spend enough of it doing bugger all that I can finally feel like I'm caught up on my rest.
July 4th, 2006 - 03:44
That’s my insomnia pattern, too. Zonked out, then up entirely too early.
And, gee, I have a few weeks off in my future, too. I’m quite looking forward to it.