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To Sleep or Not to Sleep
Posted by Hunter on Saturday, February 6, 2016 11:31 PM

Hello everyone,

I have to admit that I truely like what I do for a living but the huge draw back.....when I'm at the station I never get to sleep much due to late night calls (mostly medical calls or traffic accidents) I try everytime I come back to go back to sleep but I'm to jacked up and awake. I was wondering if any of you have trouble sleeping after you've been woken.

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Posted by fermis on Sunday, February 7, 2016 12:39 AM

YES...I do not sleep well while I'm awake!

 

Seriously though, I'm pickin up what you're putin down...and yes, I'd have a hard time getting any sleep too, in that line of work. I was seriously considering joining the local F/D, but decided not to for that very reason. It doesn't much matter how tired I am, it takes me at least 2 hours of total relaxing/down time before I fall asleep.

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Sunday, February 7, 2016 12:39 AM

Hmmm....To Sleep or Not to Sleep....The Big SleepWhistling

 

It happens to me.

I usually go watch broadcast tv........no video on DVD.

.......an hour of normal tv programming content is generally boring enough to put me back to sleep.

Has to be an hour; less tv time doesn't helpHmm

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Posted by DURR on Sunday, February 7, 2016 4:24 AM

i dont have to much prob

i get 3 to 3 1/2 hrs of sleep a day

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Posted by templar1099 on Sunday, February 7, 2016 5:04 AM

Yea,once I awake there's no going back. NEVER could sleep while the sun was up.

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Posted by Hunter on Sunday, February 7, 2016 5:27 AM

Sprue-ce Goose

Hmmm....To Sleep or Not to Sleep....The Big SleepWhistling

 

It happens to me.

I usually go watch broadcast tv........no video on DVD.

.......an hour of normal tv programming content is generally boring enough to put me back to sleep.

Has to be an hour; less tv time doesn't helpHmm

 

Sprue-ce,

You are completely right with your comments. Standard tv has become a tidal wave of lame reality shows and longer commercial brakes to bore you into sleep.

Hunter 

      

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Posted by mustang1989 on Sunday, February 7, 2016 5:28 AM

Being an ex field rat with the military, first with Aviation with active duty and in later years with Field Artillery in the National Guard I don't have a problem sleeping anywhere or any time. If I can go to sleep with rotors in the background or 155mm howitzers pluggin' away 100 feet from me I can sleep through anything that the normal world throws at me. I hit the pillow and I'm gone in less than a minute.  It's reaching the point where I have the opportunity to get sleep at this point. lol

                   

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Posted by Hunter on Sunday, February 7, 2016 5:36 AM

fermis

YES...I do not sleep well while I'm awake!

 

Seriously though, I'm pickin up what you're putin down...and yes, I'd have a hard time getting any sleep too, in that line of work. I was seriously considering joining the local F/D, but decided not to for that very reason. It doesn't much matter how tired I am, it takes me at least 2 hours of total relaxing/down time before I fall asleep.

 

Fermis,

I am laughing with your opening comment. I am like you...I need 2 to 3 hours of cool down time and then once I get in bed it takes me another 30 minutes before I go night night.

 

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Posted by Hunter on Sunday, February 7, 2016 5:47 AM

mustang1989

Being an ex field rat with the military, first with Aviation with active duty and in later years with Field Artillery in the National Guard I don't have a problem sleeping anywhere or any time. If I can go to sleep with rotors in the background or 155mm howitzers pluggin' away 100 feet from me I can sleep through anything that the normal world throws at me. I hit the pillow and I'm gone in less than a minute.  It's reaching the point where I have the opportunity to get sleep at this point. lol

 

Mustang,

I have two "stationmates" that can do the same thing. These two slept through being shrink wrapped to their bed, fire crackers set off under their bed and countless water ballooning's. There are time's we get bored and carried away. Big Smile This place at time's is a field of land mines with all the practical jokes in play.

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Posted by mustang1989 on Sunday, February 7, 2016 7:11 AM

Hunter
 
mustang1989

Being an ex field rat with the military, first with Aviation with active duty and in later years with Field Artillery in the National Guard I don't have a problem sleeping anywhere or any time. If I can go to sleep with rotors in the background or 155mm howitzers pluggin' away 100 feet from me I can sleep through anything that the normal world throws at me. I hit the pillow and I'm gone in less than a minute.  It's reaching the point where I have the opportunity to get sleep at this point. lol

 

 

 

Mustang,

I have two "stationmates" that can do the same thing. These two slept through being shrink wrapped to their bed, fire crackers set off under their bed and countless water ballooning's. There are time's we get bored and carried away. Big Smile This place at time's is a field of land mines with all the practical jokes in play.

 

LOL! There's a reason they are that way! lol. When I finally do lay down I literally "turn off". Being ex-military , practical jokes were almost a way of life.

                   

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Posted by goldhammer on Sunday, February 7, 2016 9:59 AM

Used to get 6-8 hours a night.....since the wife passed, I get usually get 4.  Never over 5 since Sept. of 2014.  I can go to bed at 8PM or midnight, makes no difference.  And I used to be one of the mil spec sleeper guys too, but not anymore.

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Sunday, February 7, 2016 12:24 PM

Hunter

 

 
Sprue-ce Goose

Hmmm....To Sleep or Not to Sleep....The Big SleepWhistling

 

It happens to me.

I usually go watch broadcast tv........no video on DVD.

.......an hour of normal tv programming content is generally boring enough to put me back to sleep.

Has to be an hour; less tv time doesn't helpHmm

  Sprue-ce,

You are completely right with your comments. Standard tv has become a tidal wave of lame reality shows and longer commercial brakes.

 

I actually had to turn on the tv after waking up last night and being unable to go back to sleep........Embarrassed...after watching for a while..........my next memory was waking up in my chair. I went back to bed and slept the rest of the night.Big Smile
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Posted by fermis on Sunday, February 7, 2016 12:34 PM

Hunter

 

 
fermis

YES...I do not sleep well while I'm awake!

 

Seriously though, I'm pickin up what you're putin down...and yes, I'd have a hard time getting any sleep too, in that line of work. I was seriously considering joining the local F/D, but decided not to for that very reason. It doesn't much matter how tired I am, it takes me at least 2 hours of total relaxing/down time before I fall asleep.

 

 

 

Fermis,

I am laughing with your opening comment. I am like you...I need 2 to 3 hours of cool down time and then once I get in bed it takes me another 30 minutes before I go night night.

 

 

Stick out tongue

Very rarely do I sleep in bed...it doesn't work well for me(too much pain in the morning). I've been sleeping on the couch for about 7 years now. I have always had trouble falling asleep...couch and tv helps. If I go lay in bed, I'm awake for at least two hours...then I start thinking about what I could have done with those two hours, tehn I'm mad about it and can't sleep, cuz I'm too mad...then I'm mad that I'm mad....and that makes me mad...so I can't sleep!Angry

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Posted by Hunter on Sunday, February 7, 2016 12:44 PM

fermis

 

 
Hunter

 

 
fermis

YES...I do not sleep well while I'm awake!

 

Seriously though, I'm pickin up what you're putin down...and yes, I'd have a hard time getting any sleep too, in that line of work. I was seriously considering joining the local F/D, but decided not to for that very reason. It doesn't much matter how tired I am, it takes me at least 2 hours of total relaxing/down time before I fall asleep.

 

 

 

Fermis,

I am laughing with your opening comment. I am like you...I need 2 to 3 hours of cool down time and then once I get in bed it takes me another 30 minutes before I go night night.

 

 

 

 

Stick out tongue

Very rarely do I sleep in bed...it doesn't work well for me(too much pain in the morning). I've been sleeping on the couch for about 7 years now. I have always had trouble falling asleep...couch and tv helps. If I go lay in bed, I'm awake for at least two hours...then I start thinking about what I could have done with those two hours, tehn I'm mad about it and can't sleep, cuz I'm too mad...then I'm mad that I'm mad....and that makes me mad...so I can't sleep!Angry

 

Fermis - I laughed the entire time I read this because I know exactly what you are saying. My lower back gets stuff when I sleep in our bed sometimes. Plus we have a deep couch and it is very comfy and very easy to fall asleep on. Loved your reply Big Smile

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Posted by spiralcity on Sunday, February 7, 2016 1:01 PM

Once I fall asleep, if something wakes me, I have a huge problem falling back to sleep. My wife always comes to bed at 10:30 or so, many times I'm wiped out by 9:00 during the work week so Im sleeping before her. So many times she wakes me getting into bed, and I can't tell you how frustrating that is. It usually takes me an hour or better before I fall back to sleep.

 

 

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Posted by Toshi on Sunday, February 7, 2016 3:11 PM

Sleep for me is extremely difficult.  The pain I have from the injury allows me to have a couple of hours of sleep here or a couple of hours of sleep there.  I'm normally up by 4:00am.  That's my usual daily schedule.  This is actually a great system as in the beginning of my injury, I slept maybe a total of 2-3 hours.  What do I do when everybody is sleeping?  I make models of course.  LOL!

Toshi

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Posted by DESooner on Sunday, February 7, 2016 5:23 PM

Wow...we need to forward this thread to a sleep specialist...they would make a killing off most of us. I worked shift work for 15+ yrs in the military, and I'm convinced shift workers suffer long term sleep issues. I can't sleep more than 2-3 hours per night now, but it used to be worse when I was waking every 25-30 minutes due to BPH, or an enlargening blatter. Got that under control with meds but some other problems I have are severe sleep apnea (mask helps some) and congestive heart failure...I can't sleep in a bed because of back pain, so I switch between a couch and my recliner...my recliner is very comfortable, and I have my tube amplifier set up near it with Sennheiser headphones, and I can sometimes zone out for a whole 3 hours, 4 hours every great once in a while. It's funny now, but 4 hours of sleep feels like 10 hours when I was a teenager.

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Posted by fox on Sunday, February 7, 2016 6:40 PM

I guess I'm like DESooner in that I worked 20 years of shift work (2 days-2 middles-3 lates) and now, I sleep when and if I can. Also have sleep aphnea and have to wear a mask at night.  Being an old fogey now, I have those trips to the bathroom at all hours too.  When I wake up, for any reason, I just walk down the hall to the workbench and get some work done until the eyes start to get heavy.

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Posted by OldGoat on Sunday, February 7, 2016 9:57 PM

I never realized how little sleep I was getting until I retired. When working an active investigation things would begin to happen and before you knew it you were awake and working for days. 

I couldn't nap at all back then either. I'd go lights out and once awakened I'd be worse off. Coffee, cigarettes and fast food were the fuel that kept me going.

If nothing happened, a rarity, I'd be able to go back to sleep with no problem after being awakened.

 

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Posted by the doog on Monday, February 8, 2016 3:43 AM

This can be a real,serious problem. Sleep is your body's natural healer and Doctor. Without it, your immune system is greatly compromised. You'll get sick more often. Your metabolism slows and doesn't burn calories efficiently, resulting in weight gain and all the attendant medical problems that that brings. Depression is another risk. Lack of sex drive. It's no joke. 

And you can't "catch up" on sleep either. You either get it or you don't. I would seriously check into some kind of sleep therapy or even prescription sleep aids. Another thing you can do it totally black-out the room that you sleep in. Since your body's sleep-readiness is largely influenced by light (your so-called "Circadian rhythm") the light from a computer screen or even mere daylight can put your body in "awake mode" even if you're dead-tired. When I lived in New York, I literally sealed my bedroom windows with both tin foil and black gardening plastic sheet, like a tomb. It must have looked like a vampire lived there, lol. But man, did I sleep well after coming home from overseas and having sleep cycle all screwed up.

Now, the guys all joke about me being able to sleep anywhere, any time. They have photos of me sleeping upright in airports, in the bus seats, sitting up, in dressing rooms on the couches, laying down in locker rooms on the wooden benches. Anywhere I can grab a nap, I use it like therapy. :)

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Monday, February 8, 2016 9:00 AM

I have no trouble falling asleep anywhere - be it a comfy couch sitting up with dog on my lap keeping me warm, in the car while the missus is shopping, on the glider out on the patio, or on the floor.

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Posted by crown r n7 on Monday, February 8, 2016 9:10 AM

I agree with Doog 

 

 

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Posted by modelcrazy on Monday, February 8, 2016 11:52 AM
The new meds I'm taking for my Pulmonary Fibrosis is totally messing with my sleep. After taking them (3 capsules 3X a day) I fell sleepy, tired, slight upset stomach and just generally crappy for around 30 min, after that I'm fine. At night though, it gives me insomnia, so I have to take Ambien to sleep so I can be useful at work, and keep my job.

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Posted by Hunter on Monday, February 8, 2016 1:37 PM

the doog

This can be a real,serious problem. Sleep is your body's natural healer and Doctor. Without it, your immune system is greatly compromised. You'll get sick more often. Your metabolism slows and doesn't burn calories efficiently, resulting in weight gain and all the attendant medical problems that that brings. Depression is another risk. Lack of sex drive. It's no joke. 

And you can't "catch up" on sleep either. You either get it or you don't. I would seriously check into some kind of sleep therapy or even prescription sleep aids. Another thing you can do it totally black-out the room that you sleep in. Since your body's sleep-readiness is largely influenced by light (your so-called "Circadian rhythm") the light from a computer screen or even mere daylight can put your body in "awake mode" even if you're dead-tired. When I lived in New York, I literally sealed my bedroom windows with both tin foil and black gardening plastic sheet, like a tomb. It must have looked like a vampire lived there, lol. But man, did I sleep well after coming home from overseas and having sleep cycle all screwed up.

Now, the guys all joke about me being able to sleep anywhere, any time. They have photos of me sleeping upright in airports, in the bus seats, sitting up, in dressing rooms on the couches, laying down in locker rooms on the wooden benches. Anywhere I can grab a nap, I use it like therapy. :)

 

Hello Karl - 

As a firefighter / paramedic I could not agree with you more. I would love to get "normal" sleep. It's hard when you get woken up in the middle of the night and spend 1 to 3 hours at a call then come back and spend 1 to 2 hours cleaning up and preping for the next call. And trying to grab a nap in the middle of the day is totally out of the question. Between it being bright from daylight and all the noise it is pretty much pointless. That's why we have a rotation schedule so we can get somewhat normal sleep when we get off. I know with your crazy traveling schedule and all the different time zones your internal clock has to be out of wack. 

Plus, even with the 3 to 4 days I get off in a row.....by the time I get "regular" I go right back to the grind of off and on sleep. The price we pay for living the good life! (laughing) Big Smile Have a safe tour and God speed.

Hunter

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