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Night Shift

MazaritaSenior Contributor

Night Shift

Since I am awake at 4am I thought I'd start this thread for those of us who have trouble sleeping and might find it helpful to have a place to go to chat. Whatever gets you through the night is alright.

To get the ball rolling, I'll just say that I enjoyed being part of the Topic Tuesday discussion tonight. I wish it was possible for these events to be weekly rather than monthly. Either way, thanks SANE and all the people I've met on here over recent months.

Edited June 2016 and February 2017: Night Shift is now open 24 hours a day. To join in, just click through to the last page of the thread at the top right of this post to get to the latest message.

Edited April 2017 and June 2017: For the sake of better communications between members here, I am adding that this thread is meant to be a caring, kind and gentle place of sharing. Humour is welcome, as long as its not unkindly directed towards other members. Hope your time in this chat thread is rewarding.

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MazaritaSenior Contributor

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@plasmo,

Good that you get out there and walk wherever it is. Might be worth thinking about some more nature walks too. I find them more interesting than wandering around streets.

I'm yawning, so I'm taking off now to try for an earlier night. Might be back later after a few hours sleep again, but will be trying to stay in bed until morning if I can. Hope you have a good one overnight.

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plasmoSenior Contributor

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ok night @Mazarita

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SnuchuSenior Contributor

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Hey guys, sorry about my prolonged disappearance... @Former-Member, thanks for checking in with me. 🙂

I was depressed but I realized the reason I was depressed was because I forgot to take my meds... Jeez! Slap on my hand. 😛

I was also kind of busy the past few days, hanging out with my friend and stuff like that.

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AppleblossomSenior Contributor

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Glad it was mostly good @Snuchu

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SnuchuSenior Contributor

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I haven't had the time to read back the thread (nor the attention span...)

But... How are you, @Appleblossom?

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AppleblossomSenior Contributor

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Good thanks I feel asleep early evening, been up since 12, but getting ready to go back to bed. Thats right its your day time. Did you have a good time with your friend ..

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SnuchuSenior Contributor

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Yeah, I hope you get some good sleep soon.

I did have a good time with my friend, she's gonna come back tonight after 5pm. Woo!

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MazaritaSenior Contributor

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@Appleblossom, I got a '404 page not found' on that link you posted about animals and sleep. Sounds like it could be interesting.

@Snuchu, good to see you. 🙂

Tonight I realised that at least part of why I'm waking after a few hours and then staying awake from the middle of the night, is that I'm having a lot of intense and troubling dreams. After waking from them, it's too disturbing to go back to bed straight away or to sleep for some time afterwards. Coming here is the best way to disperse the feelings from them.

Anyone around tonight?

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SnuchuSenior Contributor

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@Mazarita, I'm sorry that you're having disturbing dreams... I remember a time when I was being forced awake thinking I was still in jail or had one of those awakening dreams where you wake up in a dream then wake up again then wake up again all in a dream then you get confused when you actually did wake up. 😕

I want to quit my antipsychotic. It's blocking out my high from weed and I'm definitely not ready... It's making me all over the map.

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