The Sleep Questionnaire

[ungenderless]

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[RogueLurker]

1. How many hours' sleep do you get on average each night?

Barring insomnia, six to seven hours a night ...

2. What's your ideal bed time?
11 PM for me ... 10 PM for my partner ... so lights are out at 10 PM. It normally takes about an hour to fall asleep unless I'm particularly exhausted so it kind of works out in the end.

3. What's your ideal waking up time?
Weekday - It has become 6:30 AM. Later would be nice.

4. Would you consider yourself to have sleeping problems?
Yeah, I go through bouts of insomnia and it can take over an hour for me to fall asleep ...

5. Do you sleep with the window open or closed?
Closed ... due to allergies

6. How do you wind down for the night?
I'll watch a bit of TV, mess about on the internet, read, listen to music while lying in bed ... it depends.

7. What things have the potential to keep you awake at night, or disrupt your sleep?
Snoring. I've become pretty used to it and find it hard to fall asleep without it, but if I'm particularly restless or going through a bout of insomnia it is the most annoying thing ...


8. What do you do if you can't sleep?
Brood about not sleeping ...

Get up and read or check Lit.

9. What position do you sleep in?
Start on my back, end up on my stomach.

10. Do you rely on anything to give you a restful night's sleep? (not necessarily any substances - it can be aromatherapy oils, certain types of music etc.)

Not really .... I will listen to music, but nothing specific.

 

[Trombonus]

1. How many hours' sleep do you get on average each night? [6-8]
2. What's your ideal bed time? [I guess 11:00PM, but usually I stay up until nothing's on TV.
3. What's your ideal waking up time?10:00AM or later. Never EVER happens]
4. Would you consider yourself to have sleeping problems? [No]
5. Do you sleep with the window open or closed? [Open during the summer]
6. How do you wind down for the night? [I usually put on a movie or TV series DVD and lie down. Once the light goes off I almost always fall asleep within minutes, but not always. Last night for instance. ]
7. What things have the potential to keep you awake at night, or disrupt your sleep? [noise, light, and strong smells]
8. What do you do if you can't sleep? [turn on the TV again and watch something, or maybe play some video games. Depends on whether I'm sleepy or not.]
9. What position do you sleep in? [I usually curl up in a ball on my side, but I can sleep in any position really.
10. Do you rely on anything to give you a restful night's sleep? [only the TV and the dark.]

 

[Guest]

1 to 3 hours a night on a good night. I'm a severe insomniac.

Ideal bedtime? What's that? I turn off the light and stare at the ceiling until my eyes finally close.

I'm up at 5 a.m. every morning to take my dogs out.

Sleeping problems? Definitely

Open all year long, I can't sleep in a stuffy room.

Winding down means staring at the ceiling and making up stories in my head.

Everything keeps me awake, but pain is the biggie.

I write when I know for sure I'm not sleeping.

I can only sleep on my side. Otherwise the nerve damage in my back acts up.

Nothing I take can help. Painkillers I take everynight.

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

Most poeple seem to have described onset insomnia, the inability to fall asleep easily. There is maintenance insomnia- inability to stay asleep for the duration of the night and termination insomnia- early awakening.

Zade, it sounds like you just need an adequate way to wind down...

1. How many hours' sleep do you get on average each night?

about 5

2. What's your ideal bed time?

hmmmm beteen 11 and 1

3. What's your ideal waking up time?

10-10:30 because of lck of sleep, but if ive gone to bed around 11 then a 6am wake is no problem for me.

4. Would you consider yourself to have sleeping problems?

i can have trouble staying asleep all night- maintenance insomnia which affects nightly sleep cycles.

5. Do you sleep with the window open or closed?

Closed in winter, little window open in summer

6. How do you wind down for the night?

I dont...i just continue doing what i normally do...usually online or studying...

7. What things have the potential to keep you awake at night, or disrupt your sleep?

I sleep like a log when i do get to sleep on nights im not being a maintenance insomniac. But, i found sharing a bed with my ex caused a fitful sleep- usually coz she moved around a lot.

8. What do you do if you can't sleep?

Read a book, surf the net

9. What position do you sleep in?

Left fetal, end up on my back, lately on my front which is uncomfy.

10. Do you rely on anything to give you a restful night's sleep? (not necessarily any substances - it can be aromatherapy oils, certain types of music etc.)

An hour read of a good book can help, so can a nice chat on the phone with a friend.

 

[JamesSD]

1. How many hours' sleep do you get on average each night? 7 or so during the week, 10 or so on weekends, so I average 8 per night.
2. What's your ideal bed time?
1 am
3. What's your ideal waking up time?
10 am. I'm a night person.
4. Would you consider yourself to have sleeping problems?
No, although I do have trouble getting out of bed in the morning.
5. Do you sleep with the window open or closed?
Open in the summer, cracked open in the winter
6. How do you wind down for the night?
Uhhhh... sex?
7. What things have the potential to keep you awake at night, or disrupt your sleep?
Noise, light, many things
8. What do you do if you can't sleep?
Toss and turn, or watch DVDs, or use my laptop in bed.
9. What position do you sleep in?
On my side
10. Do you rely on anything to give you a restful night's sleep? (not necessarily any substances - it can be aromatherapy oils, certain types of music etc.)
Not usually, although I do take Melatonin when I have to be up early the next day and have to go to bed earlier than usual

 

[SlickTony]

1. How many hours' sleep do you get on average each night?

5 1/2 to 6 on weekdays if I'm lucky.

2. What's your ideal bed time?

10:00.

3. What's your ideal waking up time?

8:00.

4. Would you consider yourself to have sleeping problems?

No.

5. Do you sleep with the window open or closed?

Open, if possible.

6. How do you wind down for the night?

I get on the computer and play games, or read.

7. What things have the potential to keep you awake at night, or disrupt your sleep?

My bladder.

8. What do you do if you can't sleep?

Have sex, either with my husband or myself. I block out stories. Or count backwards from1000.

9. What position do you sleep in?

On my side; less frequently on my back. When I was a slender young lass, I slept on my tummy. But that was before there was so much of it.

10. Do you rely on anything to give you a restful night's sleep? (not necessarily any substances - it can be aromatherapy oils, certain types of music etc.)

See 8.

 

[feeeriek]

1. How many hours' sleep do you get on average each night?
7ish I tend to wake up periodically during the night

2. What's your ideal bed time?
between 11 and midnight

3. What's your ideal waking up time?
ideal would be when I awake rested... real wise 6:30ish weekdays
when I wake weekends

4. Would you consider yourself to have sleeping problems?
I have not thought about it

5. Do you sleep with the window open or closed?
closed my bedroom is like a cave without the bat guano

6. How do you wind down for the night?
Stare blankly at the computer screen

7. What things have the potential to keep you awake at night, or disrupt your sleep?
Stress... worry..***** in general

8. What do you do if you can't sleep?
literally tell myself to breath in and out in other words i will say to myself
in my head breath in breath out breath in breath out and do what i say
as i say it

9. What position do you sleep in?
I start out on my left side semi-fetal... I majorly toss though... have been known to mummify myself with the sheet whilst sleeping

10. Do you rely on anything to give you a restful night's sleep? (not necessarily any substances - it can be aromatherapy oils, certain types of music etc.)
the fan it acts as a white noise machine and certain tv channels tv timer set to go off after a bit

 

[LaughingBandit]

FYI: Tylenol = Panadol (well, similar enough)

~LB

 

[R. Richard]

I am apalled that no one even mentioned counting sheep. I mean, traditions are traditions.

 

[Elsie Grey]

1. How many hours' sleep do you get on average each night?

6-7

2. What's your ideal bed time?

10:30 but nearly never happens!

3. What's your ideal waking up time?

about 45 mins before I need to be up and doing, I take a long time to come round in the mornings

4. Would you consider yourself to have sleeping problems?

Not currently, I haven't had insomnia since I started a sport...

5. Do you sleep with the window open or closed?

Closed in winter, open in summer

6. How do you wind down for the night?

Have a bath, check my email and read a book

7. What things have the potential to keep you awake at night, or disrupt your sleep?

Anything that went wrong during the day and anything that worries me. Also bad memories

8. What do you do if you can't sleep?

Read my book, have comedy radio shows on, tidy my room!

9. What position do you sleep in?

On my side (and I can't face people in bed!)

10. Do you rely on anything to give you a restful night's sleep? (not necessarily any substances - it can be aromatherapy oils, certain types of music etc.)

A hot water bottle!

Elsie

xxx

 

[Misty_Morning]

just a little bump.....

I'll answer your questionairre later......

 

[Just-Legal]

I've had raging insomnia for the last fortnight, and need as many ideas as I can get, folks

1. How many hours' sleep do you get on average each night?
2. What's your ideal bed time?
3. What's your ideal waking up time?
4. Would you consider yourself to have sleeping problems?
5. Do you sleep with the window open or closed?
6. How do you wind down for the night?
7. What things have the potential to keep you awake at night, or disrupt your sleep?
8. What do you do if you can't sleep?
9. What position do you sleep in?
10. Do you rely on anything to give you a restful night's sleep? (not necessarily any substances - it can be aromatherapy oils, certain types of music etc.)

1) None to 14 hours. It cycles in periods of a week to ten days. One period is very little to no sleep, then slowly changes into fourteen hours. Its HORRID.
2) Eleven. Never happens though.
3) About nine-tenish
4) I have diagnosed sleeping problems but the medication doesn't work >.<
5) Depends on the weather. Unless its freezing its usually open a crack.
6) Sex. No, seriously. Mark is a wonderful sleep aid
7) I can sleep on a bus but I can't sleep in my room sometimes. Go figure. If I'm in one of my "no-sleep" cycles the slightest thing will keep me awake.
8) Play Warcraft. Read. Drink tea.
9) I move around a lot, so no real particular position.
10) If all else fails its a glass of wine >.< bad I know.

 

[AlecBond]

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[scheherazade_79]

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who responded and came up with suggestions You guys are absolutely fantastic.

I've had two decent nights' sleep, but I've been exhausted on both occasions, so I'm not getting my hopes up.

Fingers crossed, anyway