I was very careful with Ambien because I knew it was easy to build up a resistance to it.  I never took it twice in a row, even at conferences and events where I needed sleep for multiple days.  In fact I usually never took it more than once per month.  Well it stopped working anyhow.  Completely.  I took it last night because I haven't been ( Read more... )

1:30 Bedtime.  Decided I'd try to go to sleep 45 minutes early.  Not too much of a switch so it shouldn't throw me off.  It's not even a full hour ( Read more... )

Yesterday I might have achieved [HOURS DOING MATH] = 2[HOURS OF SLEEP THE NIGHT BEFORE] which is impressive (but less if you consider how little I slept.)  Today was also a pretty efficient day.  I think I've done more math on this sabbatical than I have in certain summers entirely, and I didn't even take a 1 day break to relax on the weekend after ( Read more... )

So yesterday was the 1st official weekday of sabbatical, and I got a tremendous amount done so I feel I set a good precedent.  Then when night came I couldn't stop thinking about stuff and couldn't sleep until 5.  Maybe part of my mind gets upset when I'm getting too close to my goals, so I start ruminating more.  I don't know.

Wouldn't be so bad if ( Read more... )

Not sure what's worse about being an insomniac:  Not being able to sleep, or having to hear about all the scientific studies that say my life is ruined because I don't get enough sleep.  Okay scientists, I know that I need to sleep to think properly, remember information, lose weight, not get sick, drive safely, and a million other things.  I'm ( Read more... )

So I woke up 3 hours early today, which is fine as I'm pretty much functional on 5 hours of sleep.  The problem is, I spent those 3 hours trying to get back to sleep: getting up for a little then lying down for another half hour, doing this over and over ( Read more... )