I've been up all night, but only as I am doing a night shift at work which is not going too badly, labour ward not too hectic all night, thank goodness!

ps about coffee, I drink LOADS of espresso, it does NOTHING to keep me awake, in fact, after a night shift I get home and I drink 2 double espresso to help me 'sleep better'

Glad you're having a quiet night.....

That's mad about coffee!! I don't think I've ever heard of anyone else with that capability! I'll just have to go and buy a large bottle of diet coke to keep me awake when I get to work. I'm finding it hard enough to concentrate there as it is..I want to be teaching and practicing, not in the office!

It's horrible isn't it DC., I have suffered so badly from insonia for several years now. I have to admit that this last week I have had 2 fairly good nights.

Monday I managed to sleep at least 5 hours in a run, basicially unheard of for me for years now, and last night I didn't do too bad, I dropped off bt 11pm and didn't hear hubbie come in. Woke around 2 am but managed to get to sleep and although only catnapped an hour at a time, slept until the morning.

It makes all the difference to how you feel when you wake up if you do actually get sleep. I can't believe that for 2 years now that I have been living on a couple of hours sleep a night, and then that has been if I was lucky.

I think last night I slept better as I had a really good day with my daughter and really enjoyed our walk and I wasn't going to let anyone take away that feeling from me, therefore went to bed feeling more relaxed.

That must be awful ET!!! I wouldn't be able to function at all on that amount of sleep. Anything less than 6 hour's sleep a night and I start feeling tired during the day!!!
I don't know anything about sleeping tablets but wouldn't that help?

I think you would be 30 now. (I suspect you wish that were the case! )

*Yawn* My brain seems to have got used to five hours sleep a night...

Mine too, Lucky, mine too!

I can't sleep I'm shattered, but in pain following an operation on my foot yesterday afternoon and the anaesthetic block has now worn off. Don't really know what to do - I'm all painkillered up!

Hope you feel better soon.....

Thanks for your get well wishes . Eventually got to sleep at 4am, only to wake at 6.30am, so very tired and still in pain . Going to take it easy today.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Appassionata.

It's not even half past twelve yet, but I think I may be lurking here for quite some time...I feel too hyped to sleep, and I have no idea why! Anybody else still up?

I am up at 5:30 but don't feel tired... too much on my mind I think...argh!

Oh, now I thoroughly know the feeling of that one!! Odd turn of events today has led to a thoroughly whirring mind tonight!!

I find that if I think too much, I'm likely to do myself an injury!

Just watch for the steam coming out of your ears.....

Bed for me Night!

Can't sleep .... too much stress.... got a scout camp tomorrow... and too much to do.... tents not up that should be etc...
and have youngest leaving primary school (a week early) tomorrow. She has County Orchestra music tour leaving on Sunday..... and we are not ready! and I am away all weekend!


Oh dear.......

can't sleep and now bored....at least i have nothing to get up for (in a positive way)

I have the moether of all toothaches keeping me awake and I have to be in work in 4 hours

just had an early breakfast...

How can you eat at that time?!

Everything alright, I hope?



Oh I am o sorry to hear that, there is nothing worse than toothache, hope that you manage to get to the dentist and get it sorted.

It's 4am here and I cant sleep. I can't quite believe what I did tonight...On suggestion from the lead flautist, I applied for the Local Regimental Band, which is a paid job and IF I get it will be another step towards getting rid of the office job. I say IF because I have only been playing the flute for 4 months....but I'm hoping they will look past that (and they do play alot of similar music to the other band I'm in so I know with a bit of practice I can do it) and take me for my violin orchestral experience...

And then like an idiot I offered that if there is an instrument that they are missing, I'll have a go at learning it! What was I thinking? Knowing my luck it would be a bassoon or heaven help me a french horn!!!

Excited and terrified all rolled into one!! Now I@ve got that off my chest will sleep please come and take me away?

How nice it is to wake up and find that your exam pieces are not playing in your head!

Not really insomnia, although I don't know.

Computer was due to scan for viruses etc at 2 am, so I sort of stayed connected to save leaving the computer on all night for the autoscan.

So I furnished myself with Saturday's Guardian Prize Crossword and tuned in to Radio 3's Through the Night with a programme of music by Mozart. I have stayed up to hear the piece being played right now, Mozart's Prelude and Fugue in C, K.394; played on a fortepiano.

I have an AB volume of Miscellaneous Mozart, much of it Baroque in nature, what with Preludes & Fugues, Fantasias and a couple of Suites. I bought Busoni's take on Mozart's Jig Fugue some time ago too - a bit of a handful, as usual.

As the applause dies away, it's back to the crossword ....

Gosh! Here I am again!

I suggested to Fran*Piano, a couple of hours ago, a whole list of books that might induce drowsiness, but since they were all of my own choosing, interesting me sufficiently for me to buy them in the first place, I can't turn to any of them myself for that purpose.

My plans to go into school and practise for several hours have been scuppered. OK, I could still go in, but surely effective practice would be at a minimum, in view of the tiredness that is bound to catch up with me mid-session. I shall stay at home and practise later, making best use of the hour and a half that I would otherwise have spent walking there and back (I almost wrote 'to and fro' but that produced an image of me pacing backwards and forwards, getting nowhere!).

In the words of #### Dastardly, "Drat, drat and double drat!"

EDIT: How annoying is that?! Who ever heard of Richard Dastardly?


I've just realised that it was Christmas Carols wot done it - kept me awake. For some reason my mind sang through the three carols that I would like to be performed at this year's Carol Concert. Aaarghh! Not the right time, nor the right place! ....... Surely there are some shepherds hanging about with sheep that I can count?!

Is it too early still to join this club tonight?? I'm shattered, but want to stay up to listen to Alice Cooper's radio show-that is, if I can find the blessed thing!

For once, I'm forcing myself off to bed at a reasonable hour. Funny, seeing as I don't have work tomorrow for a change!

6 hours' practice tomorrow, then I'm going swimming

I can't sleep!!!!
This is cause I have to be up for work early, just typical!
Anyone else still up?
PSL

Yes but I'm just going, so can't stay to chat, I'm afraid.

Hope you feel sleepy soon, PSL

Thanks Skylark, Hope you sleep well!

This thread went cold some time ago....so in the long hours of a sleepless night, is anyone else around?