You could have that disease-- don't know what its called but has been well documented.

Found a link for it.
http://helpguide.org/life/narc...auses_treatments.htm

narcolepsy

No its all good - this is at night after a long day. I suddenly come all over tired and have to sleep.I have always been the same - strange.

Depends, my sleep pattern's all over the shop now mainly cos of meds so sometimes I just fall asleep like I've been hypnotised and others I'll be awake for hours on end. I've always been a night owl though.

I know what you mean - when I was going through all sorts of personal crap it wasn't unusual for me to be up till 4 in the morning and then going to work at  0730.
However I have since gone back to my normal sleep patterns - I do stay up later but when I go to bed I am asleep in seconds.

hours!! I'll go to bed about 1....4am I'm still awake.

I used to be like you, Isadora, but these days I have more in commen with Karma. My sleep pattern is completely screwed, and it really depends on the night as to how easy it is for me to fall asleep. I also have trouble staying asleep, which is more frustrating tbh.

Thats the worse - you fall into a dead sleep and then wake up in what you hope is hours but in reality is 30 minutes.

Fully clothed, in front of tut'telly, minutes.


Washed and bedclothed, in bed chamber, fkin hours.

Yep, that's it. And then can't get back to sleep for hours. I end up listening to really dull radio plays on iPlayer to try to numb myself.

read an interesting book about cheese

and the more you try to get back to sleep, the less likely it is to happen

I can take anything from 5 minutes to 3 hours to get to sleep.  I  blame this on years of shift work.

Shift work plays havoc with sleep 

Maybe that's part of it for me. I did night shift for years and now it's very rare for me to sleep before 4am. People don't understand why I don't do mornings and think I'm lazy, but they couldn't still function in the early hours whereas I can.

TBH, if I can't sleep, I'm usually angry about something.
Will reading about cheese give me angry dreams?

Depends if you're angry about cheese.

I did nights for years but the trouble is I am not a night person... I would get to 4 am and literally be dropping with tiredness.

No it will give you cheesy dreams

I have all sorts of trouble getting asleep, even when I'm really tired. I never seem to be 'done' with the day somehow. It's incredibly frustrating.

I seem to function a lot better at night E-mails, work, studying...all seems to be easier to focus on than in daylight. Maybe it's cos everyone else is in bed I dunno. Even when I had an office base for work I'd still do most of my work from home after office hours and usually past 11pm. I'm sure someone's probably done some kind of research on stuff like this, but I think the truth is I'm surviving on a New York time zone and should be living there

I am getting very sleepy as we speak - just to warn you all....
If I suddenly disappear its cos my head is in my lappy

Yep, same for me. I'd post on American forums instead if I could work out what the feck they're talking about.

I would love to be able to go to bed and be asleep before midnight and think 'tomorrow is a new day'. But cos I'm more than often not awake when a new day begins that philosophy never registers with me and I just think 'here we feckin go again - what new hell will await me when I wake?'

Now that's a rare talent.

Remember - their fannies are not our fannies

I know - its both a blessing and a curse

Completely OT, but this reminded me of Dorothy Parker. Every time the phone rang, she'd say "What fresh hell is this?"

Thank god!

and on that note I am off as I have just started to fall asleep

Nighty night 

Mine isn't personal stuff anymore, it's the medical. I'm ok with it now though, as long as I can get done what needs to be done I'm ok. I have never been a morning person, despite years of getting up at stupid o clock to commute across town to get to work or to drive halfway round the country for a 10am meeting. Even when I'd have appointments I'd make them between 11 and 3 so I could wake up late and get home before rush hour, and then do my work late at night. I could never, ever go back to a structured daily 9-5 office based job. I'd need to have some kind of break in the week to get out of the office somehow.

I could never get angry about cheese! 

I am so using that next time my phone rings and it's a private number

So would I. Maybe pondering why my 'new day' starts at a different time to everyone else's would be boring enough to send me off to sleep at 'the right time' 

Hasn't worked for me

On a good night about an hour,usually more, wish I didn't wake up at 5am every day though!

I found it very hard to sleep and would be awake most of the night that has gone on for some years being on my own has played a big part,about six months ago I started falling asleep at my laptop and wakening up hours later usually with a crick in  my neck  I do have to have a nap in the day, for some reason touch wood I have been sleeping much better and going to bed at the latest 12 oclock I think I am catching up on lost time

If i get thinking of something that makes me mad or something that i need to do (i.e inspiration strikes at 1am ) then i can be up all night. But usually on an average night no more than 10 -15 mins.

Same here Gyps..if I have something on my mind, I'll be cat napping all night, but most of the time once my eyes start to go ...then no time at all.
My dreams sometimes wake me up though