Most of the nights, I spend my time doing nothing on the Internet, and keep doing that again and again. Like right now, it's 1:50 am, and I'm sleepy, but I'm resisting the urge to sleep by keep surfing the Internet aimlessly, as if sleep means I will stop living, and I need to feel I'm alive. Is this a kind of addiction or something? Does anyone experience something like this?

[ididwhat?]

Originally Posted by Wandering Soul

Most of the nights, I spend my time doing nothing on the Internet, and keep doing that again and again. Like right now, it's 1:50 am, and I'm sleepy, but I'm resisting the urge to sleep by keep surfing the Internet aimlessly, as if sleep means I will stop living, and I need to feel I'm alive. Is this a kind of addiction or something? Does anyone experience something like this?

In a word, yes...

[Prism Bunny]

Originally Posted by Wandering Soul

Most of the nights, I spend my time doing nothing on the Internet, and keep doing that again and again. Like right now, it's 1:50 am, and I'm sleepy, but I'm resisting the urge to sleep by keep surfing the Internet aimlessly, as if sleep means I will stop living, and I need to feel I'm alive. Is this a kind of addiction or something? Does anyone experience something like this?

Yes. I have odd hours, and nothing helps me stay on a schedule. For two days within the last week I was awake for 30 hours and then again for 28 hours. I am in a depressive episode at the moment, but because my severe anxiety disorders, sleeping becomes almost impossible. My attachment to the internet seems ridiculous to some, but it my way to cope with reality. Distraction, distraction, distraction. For hours on end.

[divine1966]

Yes I often feel that I am missing on something if I sleep, almost like yes stop living.

It's not always Internet. Could be anything. I work two jobs and am very tired so i need to sleep. Yet I woke up at 4am all anxious that I need to clean the house ( it's clean already just to make that clear), I was continuously cleaning and organizing and doing stuff instead of what I really needed to do: sleep. Sometimes I'd be watching something or sometimes it's Internet. I feel like sleeping is a waste and I'd rather stay awake and be distracted by Internet, cleaning or Netflix, it used to be constant reading too but lately I don't read much as I am just too tired to concentrate .

At some point I can't resist urge to sleep plus I know I will be a mess if I don't get sleep. But yeah I can relate

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Hi wandering! Yes, i get to where i cannot sleep. Rather than listen to some soft music or read to fall back to sleep, i get on the internet which keeps you awake. It really wrecks havoc with your sleep cycles. I find i got so much on my mind i just want to organize it all and i get on the computer. When my other laptop died i went through slight withdrawls. Then i found that i got so much more done and i realized how much time i actually wasted being on the computer, it was amazing. So next time you can't sleep think of something else you can do for yourself... reading, warm bath, cup of tea, laundry, ironing, sewing, etc. blessings my friend

Originally Posted by omegalamed

Hi wandering! Yes, i get to where i cannot sleep. Rather than listen to some soft music or read to fall back to sleep, i get on the internet which keeps you awake. It really wrecks havoc with your sleep cycles. I find i got so much on my mind i just want to organize it all and i get on the computer. When my other laptop died i went through slight withdrawls. Then i found that i got so much more done and i realized how much time i actually wasted being on the computer, it was amazing. So next time you can't sleep think of something else you can do for yourself... reading, warm bath, cup of tea, laundry, ironing, sewing, etc. blessings my friend

Thanks. Actually this is the problem; I feel like doing nothing. I stated this before; I've lost the motivation to do anything, and I'm in a state of carelessness now. All I can do is just waste my time. But it seems that I'm addicted to it. I even don't want to sleep to do it.

Yes, I'm terrible for procrastination and internet is one of those distractions - it's so easy just to pick up my phone and fiddle with it.

I need more self-discipline.

It's case of forcing myself - and it's a work in progress.

[Mshackelford]

Yes,yes,yes. I feel so restless. I want to sleep, but can't. I am usually up for 3 to 4 days and then I crash. Not the case now, I have been up longer. I am A light sleeper and hear and notice everything. When I am on the internet I feel as tho I am socializing and engaged with the world and what is going on. I don't even need to respond to anything. By the time I do become Sleepy it is time to start the next day for the family, so no time for sleeping. It's like a very scary roller coaster that you want to get off of, but nobody knows how to stop it.

[The Kafkian Owl]

It happens the exact same thing to me, except that instead of surfing the internet I listen to music. I spend hours and hours listening to music at night, even if I am so sleepy I can barely hold myself in the chair. I just refuse to sleep. So I mostly end up going to bed around three o’clock, with is pretty horrible considering I have to get up at seven. So I sleep about five hours every day, I am tired all the time and in a foul mood due to the lack of sleep but I simply cannot bring myself to go to bed.

Originally Posted by The Kafkian Owl

It happens the exact same thing to me, except that instead of surfing the internet I listen to music. I spend hours and hours listening to music at night, even if I am so sleepy I can barely hold myself in the chair. I just refuse to sleep. So I mostly end up going to bed around three o’clock, with is pretty horrible considering I have to get up at seven. So I sleep about five hours every day, I am tired all the time and in a foul mood due to the lack of sleep but I simply cannot bring myself to go to bed.

Why do you do that?

[The Kafkian Owl]

I really don’t know. It is some kind of drive, like I just couldn’t get to bed for some reasons. I have been thinking about it, and I have come up with several possible reasons. For example, some time ago an extremely noisy neighbour moved into the upper floor of my building, back to when I slept normally, and his late night parties kept me awake until the morning. Since then I have developed some kind of anxiety that prevents me from sleeping well, even though he already moved. That’s one reason. It could also be that I don’t want to stop all my activity to go to sleep, as It feels as if I was leaving something undone (even though I am not doing anything). Also, I don’t have too much spare time and sleeping is like closing the day until tomorrow’s night, which is kind of demoralizing. Though these are just lucubrations and they don’t seem too convincing to me. So I don’t know for sure why I do this. As I said, it is just an irrational drive.