going to bed for the night consistently

I’ve been trying to sleep properly too, but I stay up too late on saturdays.

all the sleep hygiene advice consistently preaches that you should not change your schedule from weekdays to weekends, but Oura actually gives you some leeaway, only asking that you not deviate from your weekday schedule by more than an hour on weekends.

Hey there! Looks like everybody has been getting good sleep. I have some bad news to report though. The past two nights have been really rough. For the second time in a row I've woken up at 2:30am wide awake. (I went to bed around 11pm). So that's about three hours straight sleep and then I'm wide awake. I have no idea what it means, but I know it's not good.

Last night I went to my living room and put on The Mummy and fell in and out of sleep till about 10am. That's no good at all. Tonight I just decided to stay up on the computer. I have to be up for church in a few hours, so I don't know how I am going to be.

Sigh.

Sigh. I also woke up too early this morning and then decided that I should try to sleep more. I put on a familiar audiobook and started dreaming content related to the story, so I know I must have been dreaming even though I recall listening. It is as if I did both which was really unusual. Ultimately got up after 8am and Oura registered 7 hrs 16 mins of total sleep with a lot of REM, confirming my subjective experience. I hope this will be enough for a long day without a nap today - I need it.

Talk later! I hope your time in church goes well.

It sounds like you're admonishing yourself, @LadyShadow, but please don't -- it could worsen the situation!

I wake up wide awake two or three times almost every night. Today, I was especially wide awake at 5am. I suppose I could've gotten up then to feed the ravenous cats; if we were in Daylight Savings TIme, the time would've been 6am, and it would've been a good time to get up anyway.

But I guess my favorite thing in the world to do is to lie in bed, so I alternated between box breathing and breath counting meditation and fell back to sleep before I knew it. I woke up again at about 7:15, which was as late as I can go.

The "audio book dreaming" sounds like it might have been a hypnogogic effect. I wonder how the Oura ring can distinguish among the sleep cycles and if it can pick out hypnagogia.

Anyway I hope you get through the day with ample energy and wakefulness!

So my update is simply that I've been getting to bed / sleep before 10:30pm every night since my previous update, and the CPAP machine reports at least 8 hours of use every day. But as I wrote to LadyShadow, I've been waking up frequently.

One night's waking was particularly memorable. I was dreaming that I was walking a long distance in some city while carrying a heavy object as one would carry a full basket of laundry. As I walked, I kept telling myself that I should've parked closer. But then I reasoned that I could do this -- it's good exercise. I was getting out of breath when I woke up. That, BTW, is a classic type of sleep apnea dream -- I really was out of breath because I wasn't breathing!

Well I sure messed up last night. Usually I go to bed around midnight but last night while I was watching lost in space I picked up my new Readers digest and before I knew it it was 3 am! So very very late for bed. I did my usual reading in bed to keep the routine going, got up only an hour later than normal. I’m hoping tonight I can sleep on time as I need to get to the library by 10am to get tech help.

On a separate issue though I know I’m dreaming I’m not remembering them. That makes me sad as I love my dreams. I have a brief recollection of games from last night. I wonder about writing down dreams first thing in the morning again to help the remembering. Even scary dreams are fascinating to me. I miss being able to recall them. I’m wondering if that’s part of the process of aging?

I need to look up box breathing. It sounds ingriguing.

I had a good day. I went to a long performance and yes, there were a couple of times during the performance when my eyes closed without me wanting to close them, but overall I was awake and able to enjoy the show. And, 4 train rides total round trip, with a friend, and I was not sleepy at all, even though being on a train can make one sleepy. So it was good. This is the second day in a row without naps!!

I will definitely look up hypnagogia!

I did not know anything about sleep apnea dreams before.

My sleep psychologist told me that dreams need to be recorded immediately when you wake up from the dream. Otherwise they quickly fade in your memory. I am just too lazy to do it. I still recall some especially memorable dreams but not as nearly as many as I would like.

Next time I see her, I will ask why dreams fade away from memory so quickly. Maybe she knows.

10:30 PM good night

still have a sort throat which probably will make me wake up more frequently during the night

My sickness came back with a vengeance. I cannot talk. I did not use the CPAP in early morning because I was congested. I took it off. Then later I took a long nap while wearing the CPAP. I believe anemia has weakened my immunity. Now I am getting ready to go to bed again Tomorrow will be another day.

I have been up since 7am. I did not need a nap! I even went to the gym in the evening for low intensity exercise which was all I was capable of doing since I still have a cold. It has been over 10 days with this cold. I wore a mask at the gym.

Tomorrow I need to get up at 7 again.

I made my bed this morning and now am looking forward to opening the straightened out covers.

I need to pour distilled water, take nighttime beds, and go to bed. It will probably be 10:50pm when I do.

was diagnosed with bronchitis and prescribed Benzonatate today. Benzonatate helps.

Last night I could not use the BiPAP due to difficulties breathing. Today I hope I will be able to.

Otherwise had an OK day.

Good night!

10:45 PM

I've been "easing" my way in to Daylight Savings Time. Usually, I do okay waking up on time after the Time Change, but after a few days I slip back into Standard Time.

That's what happened this morning, after waking 5:30am and 6am on Monday and Tuesday.

This year I took the Time Change Week as my mandatory week off.

BTW, I don't use an alarm.

Hope things keep getting better.

Not using an alarm is best. I know that.

Had a good day even though last night my sleep was interrupted by cough and I only had 5 hrs 40 mins of net sleep which typically is way too little for me. But it was not too little today. I am just a little concerned with being too excited. Do not want this to devolve into hypomania.

One more night off the BiPAP due to bronchitis. Tomorrow night I hope to feel better and be back on the "sleeping machine".

11:15PM good night!

11:26 PM I am still not in bed. I realized what had started happening: a mood reaction to the cough medicine. I have just read that it can even cause hallucinations. To nip it in the bud, I took Lybalvi for sleep. Lybalvi is Zyprexa+.

I do not want to go to bed, but I must.

11:40 PM. Finally Lybalvi has started to work. I am tired enough to go to bed. Let us see what this night brings.

12:24 AM good night

had a good day after I took a nap. Needed a nap because of poor sleep last night. Went to yoga, wore my weighted vest, worked, planned future work. Spent some time on this forum . Cooked a really good meal, ate and packed leftovers for 2 more meals. Wrote an important letter.

Feeling better but breathing is still difficult. I still won't use the BiPAP tonight.

Wrote to the DME company asking when I can come do another data download. My sleep psychologist appointment is late next week and I need to obtain a download in advance of it.

Just wondering how you're doing @LadyShadow; we haven't heard from you in a week.

Any progress on remembering your dreams, @Nammu?