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Night Shift

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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@Teej wrote:

Hi @Faith-and-Hope

how has your day been. Sorry if you've written it on another thread


Hi @Former-Member

I haven't written on another thread today .... spent most of it at the hospital and run-around after the kids .... saw family off at the airport tonight, then WH and S2 are on a plane and off interstate again tomorrow. D1 and D3 are joining them on Monday .... D3 asked tonight why we weren't just camping at the airport for the weekend, and be done with it !! It's school holidays here for us, and with my Dad coming home here on Monday from the hospital, and D2 taking too much to manage for the rest if them, it's just going to be a basic crew at our house next week .... quite peaceful hopefully .... I intend to have a holiday-at-home and keep meals as basic as I can, and probably not do the washing all week either ....

Me time ... around keeping company with Dad, but he should be independent within home limits by then.

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Nightie night, @PeppiPatty.

Hi @Tyler77, are you in Australia or the US at the moment? If you are in Oz, I would say go to your GP and get them to write the script for you. That's what I do when I've run out of meds prescribed to me by psychiatrists, in between sessions with them. Not sure how things work in the US. If it's different there, I'd say, yes, keep bothering them, it's important. Hope this works out for you.

Hi @plasmo, I don't think of dreams as rubbish, even though meanings are rarely clear. At the very least they seem to me like free movies! The striking parts of the dream to me were that you (and many others behind you) were climbing up some infrastructure that seemed in the end to be pointless (society's expectations?), and that there were indiginous figures in the dream (maybe representing something deeper and more real than this pointless ladder?) But my interpretations are just another story I've made up from my own perspective really. Did it mean anything to you?

Hi @Former-Member, @Faith-and-Hope 🙂

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I like to try and interpret dreams Plasmo

But that's a beauty

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Hi @PeppiPatty - although I might have missed you tonight ....

I think you might be referring to my owl "drawing" I did for @Former-Member . She takes her tag name from the Tawny Frogmouth Owl .....

I am working on an iPad, and I have an app that lets me input images and "paint" into or over them virtually using digital imagery, so I adapted an image of an owl tattoo using this app .... so I didn't draw it outright ... just drew into it ...

I am an artist though, and paint paintings in the really-real .... but I can't share them here very much because I can be identified by them, and the forums require a degree of anonymity ....

I can share the odd piece though, and during the holidays I might get to some free-hand work in the painting app .... those ones I can share .... 😊

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Great for you to get some chill time in @Faith-and-Hope and some me time too hopefully. Holidays always bring that much needed relief from routine. Love the comment re camping at the airport. I think it's lovely that you have this time with your dad. I don't know how I'd go mine although I love him would drive me crazy. He can't sit still and won't let himself either. Counting the sleeps for you😊💜

hi @Decadian, @Mazarita. I hope tonight is going ok. 😊💜

Discovered tonight that although I felt OK it was really hard work and exhausting being with my friend. Had absolutely nothing to do with her just my energy levels and difficulty concentrating on real conversation with out edits😜😳 I love her dearly but we are on different planets right now.

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@Former-Member yeah just went to the shops, kind of a messy day

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my other dream i was in malcolm turnbull's house and all the furniture was bizarre, but i kind of liked it.

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Got anything planned for tomorrow @plasmo Hopefully it will be better than today. 😊💜

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Got any jokes for us tonight @plasmo.

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@Former-Member going out to vote, the out with a friend for tea

gotta do both, so can't back out. irks me a bit
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