Sleep

[fosteri]

I watched it and then would you know it - I fell asleep 30 mins from the end - DOH!! ::) ::)

[fosteri]

[aquilegia]

Tim -  ;D I thought you'd like that!

Moggle - I definitely get SAD. I just want to hybernate all winter. I'm ok when it's sunny on days when I can actually be outside. I keep pondering about those light boxes. Maybe I'll have to ponder it a bit more seriously!

[NattyEm]

Is there an opposite to SAD?

I am usually grumpy as sin through the summer, the hotter it gets the grumpier I get.

On the other hand I love winter, especially those cold crisp mornings.

[Mrs Ava]

Not a bad nights sleep, but you know, I woke suddenly at 1.41am after having a rotten bad dream!  I do have bad dreams at least twice a week and daughter number one has had 'night terrors' as they call them, since birth.  Troubled minds the women in this house!  Alarm went off at 7am and up and fresh and ready to go!  Spent the cold morning on the allotment digging and am going to do some decorating now.  By 9pm I shall be ready for a nap on the sofa, especially if Ava opens that rather nice looking bottle of red.  ;D

[Svea]

... I definitely get SAD. I just want to hybernate all winter. I'm ok when it's sunny on days when I can actually be outside. I keep pondering about those light boxes.

i am affected by lack of light, too, but find that i can work without the light boxes. i think it is very important to go out at lunchtime (if you are working in an office like me) to catch some rays, and fresh air for half an hour. also, excercise, be it on the allotment or taking the dog for a jog, even when it's dark outside, helps enormously. combatting SAD from all sides. :)  anything to get your endorphin levels up - even chocolate and sex will do ;)

as to sleep generally, you can figure out what your sleep cycles are (mine is at 1 1/2 hours) - a sleep cycle takes you from light sleep through to REM sleep and back to light sleep. my nightly sleep of 7 1/2 hours means i get 5 sleep cycles. if i sleep an hour less, say, when i have gone to bed late and still the alarm goes off unrelentingly, then i feel very tired because i have been woken up in the middle of my 'deep' sleep. so no wonder.
simply sleeping longer doesn't make me more awake; i need to wake up and get up to suit the sleep cycles; if i fall asleep again (like on the weekend having a lie-in) i can be so much more tired than if i had gotten up earlier. (does this still make sense?)

similarly, having an afternoon nap, i can either only allow half an hour so i wake before i enter deep sleep, or allow 1 1/2 hours to have really restful sleep. if i get woken after an hour - boy i am grumpy!

svea