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[Brisky]

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Okay, one PM is a little on the late side, but if you've spendt all night doing stuff, then I'm not blaming you!

[HellEye]

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Not all night, but I went to sleep around 3 am. I'd go an hour earlier if I knew I'll have to get up "soon"

[Brisky]

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I'd have gone to sleep 2200.

But again, My arsehole brother insisted on arriving home with thunderfeet at 0030...

[Cheza]

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Oh yes, learning how to lasagna really changed my life for the better.
Not only is it delicious, one batch is also usually enough to feed me for almost a whole week.


It's also not all that hard to make, surprisingly enough. (Or at least it isn't the way I usually make it.)
The hardest part is making the cheese sauce, but even that feels like it's more of a test of patience than it is of skill.


Went to sleep at a pretty "normal" hour yesterday, which was nice.
But naturally, I just HAD TO wake up at 3am and my brain decided to be all "No more sleep for you! :D"
Despite drinking as much coffee as I have today, I'm starting to feel like a nap would be in order.
Problem is that I'd need to figure out a woofproof way to make sure I wake up at a fairly reasonable hour... >->

[Brisky]

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How about not drinking coffee?

I don't want to sound like wuss, but that stuff is rather bad for your sleep.

I've seen what it does to people...

[HellEye]

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Good thing I don't like coffee

[Cheza]

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I don't think coffee has anything to do with my sleep issues this time around.
I just seem to be in one of those worse periods again where I just can't seem to sleep during the night for various stupid reasons.

[HellEye]

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Well... If you don't need to be up in the normal hours it shouldn't be anything too bad.

[Cheza]

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Even when you "don't need to be anywhere" it's kinda hard to keep the ball rolling when being nocturnal. Especially without night-open shops and while living in an apartment where you have to be quiet at night, since I doubt my neighbors would like it if I randomly decided to start cleaning at 2am or something xP

[Brisky]

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Any idea what might be keeping you from sleep?

[HellEye]

148,969

Hmm fair point there

[Cheza]

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Not sure what the cause is, but the "symptoms" are sudden fear of darkness (and being bothered by the silence), strong feelings of dread/impending doom, semi-lucid nightmares, and this really annoying feeling that something is just waiting for me to turn my back on it.

[HellEye]

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Ouch... That sounds a bit complicated. Maybe you should see a doctor about it?

[Brisky]

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Ugh, the standerdart response of "See a doctor".

No offense, Helleye, But it's just a response I've seen soo redicoulously often it's starting to tire me...

Cheza, how long have you been in this apartement?

And, can you tell me something about it? Like, how big it is, how are your neighbours, is it cluttered with random stuff obstructing your view, especially at the place where your bed is?

[EDIT] @Helleye: Like, Really, no offense, I know you're just trying to help as well!

[Cheza]

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Seeing as they'd most likely just recommend I go see a therapist or something, I doubt a doctor would be able to help much.
Or that I should start taking melatonin before going to bed.
Still appreciating all suggestions tho.


Been living here for almost 5 years now, it's fairly big for being a small apartment, neighbors are ok if a bit noisy during the day (the upstairs ones especially as it often sounds like they're herding elephants around up there or something, and they also have a baby that's prone to long bouts of loud crying/screaming at any time of the day, but that's ok, because that's just what babies do), keeping the place nice and de-cluttered, my bed is purposefully placed so that I can see "everything" from where I sleep as I'm always a teensy bit paranoid when going to sleep due to something that happened when I was a kid.


That said, usually when I'm having these weird episodes and I start to feel like the issues are getting way out of hand, all the problems seem to go away if I for example go stay at my mom's place for a while, and then they stay away when I get back to my own place (until another episode like this decides to strike).
Thing is just that I feel like I'm "too old" to be running back home to mommy every time I think there are monsters under my bed, so if I could find a solution for this that wouldn't require other people, it'd be great >->'