Postby Andrew Ian Murphy » Wed Sep 23, 2009 1:15 pm
I have two things to say on this topic...
I had surgery for a gunshot wound in May of 2003, and ever since then my sleep has been crap. I used to sleep like a baby...with a few exceptions, there was one time that was my own and it was my sleep. After I got out of the hospital I had a lot of medical issues that made sleep difficult, and I was never really fully asleep anyway. Once I began to heal I still had major sleep issues. I used to sleep a solid 8 hours without break, and if I did get up or something, I could go back to sleep very fast. Part of our wake and sleep cycles involve sugar in the blood, and when we wake we may be unfortunate to get some kind of natural stimulation that makes returning to sleep extremly difficult even if we are tired. So we may wake and it may take one or two hours to burn off these sugar shots before we are able to return to sleep again.
Anyway, that's the way it is for me, and it's a problem.
Try coffee during the day, that used to help for me.
The other thing I wanted to mention was about the moon cycle...this may sound dumb, throughout my twenties I was never able to fall asleep on a full moon night. Seriously.
lol but the dreams are rly scary like one...