NESS

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Not Enough Sleep Syndrome.

I don’t know if such a thing exists, but I have it. I don’t get nearly enough sleep, especially during the week. Most nights I don’t get to bed until after midnight. Sometimes as late as 1:30 a.m. For those of you that don’t know, I start work at eight in the morning. Six or seven hours of sleep a night just doesn’t cut it.

I try to get to bed earlier, I really do. But I can never make the move from this chair to my pillow…only 4 feet away. I’ve always been productive late at night, especially when I was in college. It seems so much easier to get things done when everyone else is sleeping. The world is quiet and I can think clearly. Once in awhile I’ll be laying in bed already and will come up with such a good idea, that I have to get up and write it down. So then the whole sleep cycle has to start over again.

Maybe my body is getting used to the lack of sleep, but I somehow doubt it. I’m tired all day long, but can’t force myself to take a simple nap after I get home from work. NESS is kicking my ass! If anyone knows a cure, please let me know.

7 thoughts on “NESS”

  1. I have NESS too. The cure is Nyquil or Tylonol PM, until you grow immune to it, like I have. I am my most productive at night as well, and it’s a struggle to get up every morning. In fact, I would rather take a nap in the middle of the day just to catch up on sleep. I go to bed on M-W after midnight and then I get up at 6:30-6:45 every morning. Every Thursday, it catches up with me and I am usually in bed by 8:00 p.m. Then on Friday morning, I am so excited that my week is over I get all of my energy back! (Or maybe it’s because it’s the only morning I wake up with a full night’s rest!) I don’t know about you, but I am not a naturally productive person. Every once in awhile, I get a spurt of productiveness (is that a word?) and I need to ride that spurt as long as it lasts. If that happens from 9 p.m. until 5 a.m., so be it. Well, it’s now 10 p.m., so I better get to work. :mrgreen:

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  3. I know exactly waht you mean, really. I love staying up all night because I get so much done as compared to what I could do during the day. My creativity is higher, my drive is higher, and I just enjoy the quiet. Nobody naggin’ you to do things…

    It’s just wonderful at night. Too bad it cuts into sleep. 😀

    (And no, I don’t have a cure. Sorry.) 😦

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  5. i dont think i have this because i am in bed at about 1130 or 1200 ever night…but i have always needed to get a lot of sleep….sometimes it is hard to get up in the morning, but i think that is just from too much sleep…i would try what linds said about nyquil because it does help you fall asleep or even better just slam a couple of shots of hard stuff and just pass out!;-)

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  6. I have to agree, I can never get enough sleep to wake up energized in the morning! And I’m a morning person! I really think the only cure is to find a job where you work later in the day…..

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