What makes it easier or harder for you to sleep?
Harder: Usually having a nice long lie-in the previous morning, and not getting enough fresh air and exercise. Possibly staring too long at TV and computer screens.
Easier: The converse - getting up early on the previous morning, getting lots of fresh air and exercise, not using computers or watching TV much.
What kind of sleeping pills have you taken? How well did they work?
Never took any. I've heard they don't give the quality of sleep that's necessary, and I'm wary of pharmaceutical potions. I've got some melatonin tablets somewhere but I've not tried them yet. They seem to be fairly safe. I've been known to use CBD, and in large amounts it seems to help me sleep, but it's too expensive to use very often.
How long is the longest you have gone without sleep?
Just over 48 hours if I remember right. Bloody airlines screwed up the flights, and didn't give me the help I needed to get me to a free hotel overnight, so I sat about in the airport and there's nowhere to lie down. And even when the flights run properly, it's a long way I have to travel. And I can't sleep on a plane.
What kind of things did sleep deprivation make you do?
I was getting visual and auditory hallucinations by the end of it. Not really psychosis, but definitely illusions. I kept seeing things out of the corner of my eye and my perception told me they were people, but they were just objects, and I was hearing music in engine and fan noise.
When you pulled an all nighter, what were you doing?
See above. Beyond that I very rarely fail to get at least a few hours of sleep per night.
When you could not sleep all night long, why not?
See "What makes it easier or harder for you to sleep?" above. Plus sometimes I think it's because I've been thinking too hard for too long just before bedtime, or I'm excited about something, or worried about something that I can't see a solution for.
Yesterday, 11:17 pm
