Can't sleep without the Smiths
I suffer with insomnia. When I say insomnia, I’m not one of these deluded people who think that only sleeping for five hours a night warrants the term ‘insomnia sufferer.’ I literally sleep one hour a night maximum. It’s fucking horrible, and after a while it’s hard to distinguish what is real and what is not real. For instance, I started writing stuff down as a bit of an insomnia diary, and had to stop because what I was reading the following day was so fucked up. ‘Can’t have a kidney transplant in England because I’m half Welsh,’ ‘Everytime I look in the mirror I see Aphex Twin,’ ‘someone must have put speed in my horlicks because I’m buzzing my fucking tits off.’

Just a few examples. Also, I’m not sure if anyone experiences something similar, but the for at least 8 hours of my day I have the Flintstones theme tune spinning round my head! It drives me fucking nuts.

Anyway, About two months ago I found a remedy. The Smiths track ‘Asleep.’ I whack this on, and granted it don’t guarantee me a great sleep, but it at least gets me to nod off.

I stayed at my sisters last week, and forgot said track. I literally sat down stairs for the two nights i was there, with the Flinstones tune going round my head. My sister gets up occasionally in the night, and everytime she did, I was just sitting on the sofa probably looking like a serial killer. She now thinks I’m weird.

So I guess I can’t sleep without The Smiths.
(Sir_Digby_Chicken_Caeser [email protected], Sat 20 Dec 2008, 15:51, 3 replies)

This may not help...
...but that sounds very similar to what I went through 10 years ago. What really helped me was completely changing my attitude to my disasterous sleeping habits - in the end it boiled down to no longer saying "shit, only one hour's sleep last night", but "Great, I managed one hour last night!" and then trying not to stress about it.

Slowly, very slowly, one became two, and now I'm up to six or seven, and the world is a better place (and those hallucinations at the corner of my eyes are hugely reduced.)

You are right, though, it's fucking horrible. Good luck...
(Mousy Tongue ...Generally bemused by life..., Sat 20 Dec 2008, 23:44, closed)

i feel for you....
but on the plus side, i would love to have read that diary, sounds fucking hilarious!
(pdawg, Sun 21 Dec 2008, 13:54, closed)

^this
on both counts
(MrChimp previously Monsieur, Sun 21 Dec 2008, 23:53, closed)