When I was a kid my grandfather Kay would eat a sensible meat and potatoes dinner at exactly 5 pm and go to bed right after Walter Cronkite went off, at 7. That always amazed me, because during the summer months the sun would be out for another two hours or more. People were outside mowing lawns and passing baseballs around and he’d get up from his corner chair and announce, “I’m turning in.”
Get the sleep study. Get the machine; they're SUPER quiet. It's not a full-face mask either - just something that covers my nose holes. I sleep peacefully for as long as my bladder will let me (4 - 6 hours because I drink too much at night) and then go right back to sleep after a trip to the bathroom. My sleep study said I was 'waking' 46 times an hour. If I fall asleep in a chair in the living room it's very BAD sleep: I wake up shaky and my heart feels like it's in fibrillation. NOT GOOD. Took me about a month to get used to it; now I don't think I could live/sleep without it.
I couldn’t sleep for a year or two. I finally decided it was because whatever part of my body I’m laying on (side, back, stomach) starts to get hot up against the mattress. I for a SleepEight mattress pod that keeps my bed cool and I’m back to sleeping like a hung over 25 year old. It’s fantastic!
I'm with Mark and Toney - get the sleep study. Not to be an alarmist, it could be sleep apnea, which COULD kill ya. And couldn't everything? But maybe something to look into. Also, Junior Samples in a gas leak ... THAT is evocative. I grew up with grandparents who watched Hee Haw religiously every Saturday night. "HEY GRANDPAW, WHAT'S FER SUPPER?" "Wellll, we's a-having fried cornbread, a mess o peas..."
Yeah I have that. I used to be able to sleep 12 hours straight when I was a teenager. Howard Stern used to call it “retard sleep”. Man I could use some of that.
I listen to the most boring podcasts I can find, usually some BBC radio gardening show, in hopes it’ll send me back to sleep. Melatonin and magnesium def help.
I’m now 81 1/2. I don’t often go to bed before 11:30-12 m. I get up between 8&9. During the night I may get up to use the restroom once, but it doesn’t happen every night. I do, however, wake up 2-3 times. Sometimes I go right back to sleep and other times I watch the clock for hours. On those days, I have to nap. I think I ought to be asleep by 10pm, but it never happens. I’d never be able to sleep at 7:30 pm. That’s unbelievable.
Get the sleep study. Get the machine; they're SUPER quiet. It's not a full-face mask either - just something that covers my nose holes. I sleep peacefully for as long as my bladder will let me (4 - 6 hours because I drink too much at night) and then go right back to sleep after a trip to the bathroom. My sleep study said I was 'waking' 46 times an hour. If I fall asleep in a chair in the living room it's very BAD sleep: I wake up shaky and my heart feels like it's in fibrillation. NOT GOOD. Took me about a month to get used to it; now I don't think I could live/sleep without it.
I couldn’t sleep for a year or two. I finally decided it was because whatever part of my body I’m laying on (side, back, stomach) starts to get hot up against the mattress. I for a SleepEight mattress pod that keeps my bed cool and I’m back to sleeping like a hung over 25 year old. It’s fantastic!
I'm with Mark and Toney - get the sleep study. Not to be an alarmist, it could be sleep apnea, which COULD kill ya. And couldn't everything? But maybe something to look into. Also, Junior Samples in a gas leak ... THAT is evocative. I grew up with grandparents who watched Hee Haw religiously every Saturday night. "HEY GRANDPAW, WHAT'S FER SUPPER?" "Wellll, we's a-having fried cornbread, a mess o peas..."
Yeah I have that. I used to be able to sleep 12 hours straight when I was a teenager. Howard Stern used to call it “retard sleep”. Man I could use some of that.
I listen to the most boring podcasts I can find, usually some BBC radio gardening show, in hopes it’ll send me back to sleep. Melatonin and magnesium def help.
I’m now 81 1/2. I don’t often go to bed before 11:30-12 m. I get up between 8&9. During the night I may get up to use the restroom once, but it doesn’t happen every night. I do, however, wake up 2-3 times. Sometimes I go right back to sleep and other times I watch the clock for hours. On those days, I have to nap. I think I ought to be asleep by 10pm, but it never happens. I’d never be able to sleep at 7:30 pm. That’s unbelievable.