I'm like you. Never have a problem going to sleep. But, when I was working, I'd wake up in the middle of the night (1 - 2:00a.m.) and could not stop thinking about work related things. Back then, there were many days that I got by on 3 or 4 hours of sleep. I was tired all the time. Since retiring, I sleep like a baby, although I am up early this morning. Woke up at 6:30, realized I wasn't going to go back to sleep and got up at 7:00. I have a lot to do today including painting the hallway - I guess my brain decided I should get an early start!

We're going on vacation in about 10 days and I'm also starting to think about that by making mental lists. Time to start making a real list rather than let my head try to keep track of it all.

If I open my eyes and the sun has come up, I rarely go back to sleep. So summer waking time is a good hour earlier than winter waking time. But I feel rested, so it's okay.

Haircuts, awwk! My hair is too long, it's driving me crazy. I like shoulder length but mine ends up all poofy, like Roseann-roseanna-danna, if its not done right. Good thing about hair is it's not permanent!

Yep, I wake up at the same time (early) everyday, too, regardless of when I went to bed. But I think that’s generally a good thing, no? There are days when I wish I could sleep in, though, so that I could get my eight to nine hours. My sister’s really good at that—sleeping in—but I just can’t do it. Same goes for napping: I just can’t do it! I guess I need to accept the fact that I’m the “early to bed, early to rise” type who can’t stay up past 10 pm. :/

What really irritates me, though, is when I have to get up early for something important, like for a 6:30 am flight, medical procedure, etc., and I either wake up before my alarm goes off or I don’t sleep at all. That really ticks me off!

Edited to add that on those rare occasions when I do happen to go back to sleep after I’ve woken up at a reasonable time (6:30 or so), it’s not a “good sleep” that I get. Nope, those are the times when I’ll have really bizarre dreams or sleep until noon or—and this is the worst—get a headache. Ughhhhh

This all sounds so familiar but I found some ways around most of my problem but not all of my problem.

For work I wake up around 6 a.m. weather I fall asleep at 10:30 pm or 1 a.m.

Very often it is much to closer to 1 a.m. I have a hyperactive bladder that rears its bladder head the minute I plan to go to sleep.

I just listened to a Google talk all about how bad it is all the way around to not get it around 7 or 8 hours of sleep.

How you look is affected as well. Getting 8 hours of sleep is truly is a beauty sleep that you miss out on.

He says our hearts are involved that up all sorts of other illnesses like Alzheimer's and stuff like that are somehow connected to sleep.

Oh woe is me I can't seem to do anything about that my hyperactive bladder and getting more sleep as I have to go to work. I don't have a problem actually falling asleep once I get to bed.

In general I don't tend to mull over things. My mantra is I will plan and take care of that in the morning. Most of the time I will end up taking care of whatever it is that is plaguing me. That has helped the worrying part of me to trust the planning and execution part of me and it helps me to silence my mind and go to sleep.

I tell myself if I'm inundated with bad or negative memories or even just lots of ruminating that these are memories of memories and they are in the past and they don't belong in the present with me right now.

Unless I'm writing my memoirs. Which nobody would want to read :-).

Of course I try to use my memories in constructive ways to remind myself not to do that again.

You can tell I'm by myself too much! Because I have so much time to think weird thoughts. :-)

Matthew Walker on sleep and why it's so good for you.

https://youtu.be/c1yGw_hfEfk

There are things that your doctor can give for hyperactive bladder but it will depend on your urinating pattern, I took a belladonna tablet for a while for the condition but was also advised to raise and tilt my hips and try to lengthen the period of time between the feeling and the absolutely must. I think it was more the raising and tilting than the medication. My theory is my bladder was resting in such a way that it could not expand. I still have the feeling occasionally but it is not as intense.

Back to sleep someone suggested that if you tell yourself that you must get up in 5 minutes for some people it will send them right back to sleep. Not being able to sleep did allow me to sleep on the plane from takeoff to landing during my trip to Hawaii earlier this year.

I don't have trouble sleeping either. I have trouble staying awake.

We were supposed to close on the sale of this place on Thursday, and on the new place on Friday, but due to a problem, hoping for Monday but it will probably be Tuesday...I hope not later.

There is an easement that was never on our deed. It goes back to the late 1800s. The house that it went to, fell down many years ago. Probably by the 1920s it was already gone.

The surveyor told me about it about 3 weeks ago, on the first day he came out. Why he didn't go ahead and write it in, I don't know. So the hold up is him having to do it. He has to describe it, we have to sign off on it, then it goes to the underwriter, and if they approve, then we can close. I thought we would be moving horses by now. We did load up this concrete water trough...loaded and ready to go.

99/100 if I do wake up during the night, it's just once and it's to use the bathroom. I don't have a hyperactive bladder. I have an "I drank too much water before I went to bed" bladder. ;) There's only been a couple times in the last year, where I've woken up during the night with too much on the brain. We hired a new store manager and lost some employees and the work load was just too much so the brain kept going. But things are leveling out at work for now, so sleep comes easy most nights. I slept nine hours last night and can't even remember my dream. ;) I feel so much better this morning.

Unless I'm writing my memoirs. Which nobody would want to read :-).

I’ll read them, yeonassky. ;)

The past few days (not including yesterday thank goodness!), I was woken multiple times early in the morning to whining dog sounds, clicking of dog nails on Pergo and wafting dog poop smells coming through my bedroom vent. The vent in the kitchen and my room are connected and I can hear and smell everything in the kitchen. One of my dogs (still don't know which one) has had an upset stomach and all I've done is clean up poo. I worked yesterday and dreaded going home to a mess, but thankfully it seems to have passed now. Woke up a half hour before the alarm went off this morning to doggy nail clicking in the kitchen...afraid they were at it again so I got up to let them out.

Thank you Sammy! but I don't even want to read them :-). They'd be just about regular life; family friends food and some fun. I'm very happy to live it but not so sure it needs boasting about.

I'd have to have done something spectacular. Some kind of daring deeds rescues or superstardom.

Maybe when I'm 93 and have my rock and roll band.and sing and dance for my supper. haha. I'd love that.

Kath very good to hear at your dogs' bout of poop-itis is over. We went through that here a couple of months ago. We had a heck of a time figuring out which one did it. A high probiotic yogurt seemed to help. We put down newspaper in the kitchen add locked them in with their dog beds and water so no clicking clacking nails. I still woke up every time they whined.

Years ago I read that if you are ruminating over something just before going to bed or after being in bed to write down your thoughts. It allows your brain to "let go" and not be concerned about it so you can sleep. I've tried it for the occasional time that has happened and it does work. Hope this helps you'all too.