The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Let's discuss how having a family, a full time job and a music habit can lead to something having to give...


I've been burning the candle at both ends. Thing is, I'm starting to get used to it...

PROS: More time to do other things.
CONS: drifting off at work.

PROS: Drifting off at work
CONS: I'm getting used to it.

When I DO try to sleep, my brain won't shut down. It keeps trying to talk to me. fuckin shut up bitch.

I've been taking 3 hour sleep "shifts". Yesterday, I slept 3 hours that night, then had a 1.5 hour nap in the afternoon... and I feel pretty good today. Granted, I have more muscular-skeletal pain... and my cold won't go away... wife is gettin choked at me struggling with Nur Ein, kids miss me...work is suffering... my music is getting sloppier....


BUT! I'm getting used to it.


I really need a nap.

I've been running on 4 to 5 hours a night for, Hell, the last year or so. Once every month or something I'll get a full night under me. It's pretty rare.

I HATE taking naps, but every now and then I grab an hour during the day when I can. Only on weekends of course; the boss doesn't like me sleeping at work.

Leaf wrote:When I DO try to sleep, my brain won't shut down. It keeps trying to talk to me. fuckin shut up bitch.

i'm pretty much the same way. it can take me up to two hours to fall asleep because i can't shut my brain off.

i also cannot stop moving my legs sometimes. i'm one of those people whose leg is constantly bouncing up and down. even when i'm lying in bed i can't stop the bouncin and it keeps me awake.

I slept for about 14 hours today.

Not continuously. I woke up at 10 to get an egg sandwich, and then I went back to sleep.

Ah, college.

The amazing thing is, you have probably written an album in less time than that.

Does weed induced coma count as sleep?

Man, I thought Feldspar and Fodroy was the same dude.


So that was a bit weird.

Hey, you never know. I've never seen the two of us in the same room.

I have. And the footage cost me a lot. But it was worth every penny.

we are as one in the seventh dimension (the dimension of rock). when i wrote feldspar's theme song a couple years ago, i was actually writing about me, but really i was writing about him.

we probably are the same people in several other dimensions too.

the theory of multiple histories makes it all possible.

thanks, feynman... thanks a lot

jimtyrrell wrote: I HATE taking naps, but every now and then I grab an hour during the day when I can.

I can't stand naps out of the mere fact that I hate waking/getting up. I don't like to do it in the morning let alone twice a day. I'm all groggy and I just waste time. I sleep so poorly in general that even when I do take a nap I find it hard to get to sleep and to stay asleep. Naps are a big waste of time for me..and then the whole time I'm trying to nap...I'm going through a guilt trip thinking about the time I'm wasting and what I could be doing instead..so it's not even in the least bit comforting.

I have major sleep issues.

<b>Fodroy</b> I sort of have a similar issue with that too. I don't 'bounce' my right leg...I sort of 'roll it'. HOWEVER, I find that if I stretch that leg while I'm in bed, I mean...really stretch it by stressing the muscles..holding it... for a good 10 to 20 seconds... that 'satisfies' it until I can fall asleep.

I love naps. Naps are what make life worth living.

fodroy wrote:

Leaf wrote:When I DO try to sleep, my brain won't shut down. It keeps trying to talk to me. fuckin shut up bitch.

i'm pretty much the same way. it can take me up to two hours to fall asleep because i can't shut my brain off.

I am in that camp too. Especially bad when you are working on four or five things, and they all just endlessly spin around in your mind. I have found that working until physical exhaustion can counter act this.

My girlfriend turns on the tv, and it sends her to sleep. I have no idea how that works, as if I am in bed and the TV is on, I feel compelled to watch it, not fall asleep.

hoblit: i might try that stretching thing. i usually have to force myself to lie on my back with the covers pulled over my head and tucked under the back of my head. i don't know why this helps. maybe carbon dioxide under the covers. heh. and i have the same feelings about naps. i feel like i've wasted time. and when i wake up from naps i feel sick for some reason.

sausage boy: i can't stand the tv thing. my ex-girlfriend did that and it drove me nuts. i just had to wait for her to fall asleep and then turn it off. i don't know how people can sleep with media playing in the background.

i wish i could turn my roommate's snoring off.

a weird thing i've noticed. sleeping too much makes you tired.
over spring break this year i went home and slept in 'til 2:30 p.m. every day and did absolutely nothing after getting up. by the end of the week i was exhausted and i even felt a little sick.

fodroy wrote:hoblit: i might try that stretching thing. when i wake up from naps i feel sick for some reason.

sausage boy: i can't stand the tv thing. my ex-girlfriend did that and it drove me nuts.

Yeah, just really stretch it...no need for getting out of bed...or hands or anything...just flex it ...flex and stretch the knee which in turn stretches the whole leg...hold it...hold it...then release. AND YEAH...after I feel a little sick after waking up from naps too..just a little...and it just makes me want to go back to sleep again.

TV..if TV is on..I watch it... my ex did the exact same thing..got to the point where I'd just let her go to bed before me..she'd watch tv in the room and I'd come in there later and turn it off and go to bed.

I've got a predilection to stay up really late and get up late... recently my wife sent me an article about these people who sleep normal numbers of hours, but go to bed early and get up early. Turns out these are "disorders" called Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome and Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome. My situation seems to fit this as a borderline case.
...It's not really insomnia, I just stay up late doing stuff and don't get tired. I have actually gone and officially shifted my work schedule later because of it. I don't know whether it's related or not, but I also get unaccountably tired sometime between 3-5PM. Maybe I need a siesta.
Here is an interesting site dealing with DSPS.
-bill

fodroy wrote:i can't stand the tv thing. my ex-girlfriend did that and it drove me nuts.

Your girlfriend was a drag-king?

I so funny.

j$

zing! yeah, i don't have a good comeback.

your mom? 8)