I have a question....... Can you actually call it Insomnia if you just sleep during a different part of the day instead of not at all?
I don't think so.
Paulius wrote his last post about me hating it when he has a bout of insomnia when I'm off work.
And what he said was the complete truth....(Except about me making those Chewbacca sounds, that is). But I don't think he can actually call it "Insomnia" when he goes to bed and sleeps like a stone as soon as I get up.
Either he has a bad case of "getting his days and nights mixed up" or he's acquiring an aversion to us sleeping together.
I mean, just look at it from my point of view- .......I call him from work to chat when I have my break at 3:30AM and he's going full blast..... playing on the computer, watching a movie, drawing another comic-book character, eating, doing laundry..........his normal stuff, whatever that is. Then I come home at 6:30AM and he's sound asleep in bed.
Then, on my nights off work, I try and keep the same schedule(somewhat anyway) so MY sleep doesn't get screwed up. So we go to bed, and a couple hours later I turn over in bed to snuggle up to my darling husband and he's not there....he's back in the living room- wide awake- doing whatever it is he usually does when I'm at work!!!! So, I hear he can't sleep and so I go back to bed alone-which I DETEST!!!! I'm not really mad at THAT point, I mean after all- everyone- including me- has bouts of sleeplessness occasionally. But then after sleeping 6 or 7 hours I get up so I can spend some time with him on my days off and after an hour of ME being up with him, he declares he's exhausted because he got NO sleep last night-(when I was sleeping during our normal sleep time)- and then he goes off to bed and somehow manages to sleep for 12 or 14 hours before he wakes back up, and by THAT time I"M exhausted from being mad about having to spend all that time alone (when I get upset I CLEAN house) and then I'm the one who has to choose between going and sleeping or staying awake and spending time with my now well-rested hubby.
So yeah- at that point I'm a little grouchy. But can ya blame me?
Anyway.............That's MY side of the story.
2 comments:
Yes, it can be called insomnia when you 'sleep at a different time', because that 'time' changes randomly.
I normally go to bed at around 6am...if I get into bed around that time and I'm still wide awake at 10 in the afternoon...that's insomnia, even if it does mean I fall asleep in the late afternoon.
Also, I really don't appreciate being made to feel like I'm deliberately doing something wrong when this happens. Do you think I get into bed and think "Hey! I know! I'll toss and turn for the next six hours for no good reason, because then I can get out of bed, feel like shit all day long then go to bed at a REALLY weird time that will fuck up my body-clock for at least the next three days!"
Believe it or not, getting into bed and staring at the inside of your eyelids for 6 hours straight in complete silence and darkness isn't that much fun.
That's why it's called a sleep disorder...not a sleep happy fun time.
Okay sweetie, this was wrote tongue in cheek- nothing to get all excited about....Like i said- we ALL have bouts of sleeplessness sometimes.
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