Why can't I stop thinking?

[maevebran]

I keep trying to go to bed to sleep but then my brain starts thinking. This has happened frequently enough in the last couple months that I don't remember the last time I got eight hours of uninterurpted sleep. (Between thinking, telemarketers and wierd dreams that is.) What am I thinking about you ask? Well sometimes it is fic that won't leave me alone. And sometimes like now it is scenes on the spec script I'm writting.

Comments

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Seriously? That's the best kind of insomnia. Still a pain, but at least you're not sitting up fretting about your bills, right?

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

True. But still not going to sleep two days in row until after 7Am is wrong. I like to go to bed at about 4Am.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Oy. I routinely stay up until past 1 AM on days when I have to get up by 530 AM. The net result being - I generally get between 4-5 hours a night on weeknights.

Now, that said, I'm 31 and I've been like that for almost 20 years. And it mostly comes down to having a hyperactive brain. I know I should sleep but there's something I'm thinking about and I don't.

WIth the consequence being that I tend to have really sluggish stretches, periodically, while I'm awake. At some point I should probably do something about this.

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

I get about eight hours of sleep but I wake up every 2-3 hours either naturally or because I sleep durring the day and telemarketers call. Fortunantely I am a housewife.

I'm 28 and have rarely fallen asleep before midnight since high school no matter the time I have to get up. But this is rediculous.