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[-] jared@mander.xyz 140 points 6 days ago

I wish i could just turn off on command.

[-] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 95 points 6 days ago

I seriously don't get it. My wife can do it every night. She just lays down and goes to sleep. Like what? I need at least three hours of wrestling my worst thoughts before I can sleep

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 33 points 6 days ago

Every damn night ... Toss turn toss turn toss turn... Finally sleep, a gnat on the other side of town farts and I'm up... Go to the bathroom, rinse repeat... 1 1/2 hr before I have to be up and fucking gigantic loud as hell disel trucks start their parade...

I just want to sleeeeepppp

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

I'm very similar. Earplugs have been a game changer for me. Might be worth a whirl for you.

[-] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 days ago

I am basically your wife. When I lie down to sleep, I am unconscious within five minutes. Typically. My issue comes from staying asleep. I will wake up anywhere from 3 to 15 times a night and I fucking hate it.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago

You need a baby and a toddler! You'll wake up the same number of times but at least you'll have company and something to do.

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[-] Luccus@feddit.org 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I learned a while ago that constant thoughts of death and despair before sleep may indicate an anxiety disorder. However, since online diagnoses from strangers are almost always bullshit, I'd like to recommend a weighted blanket. I know it sounds stupid, but the weighted blanket fucks are right. You probably want one.

[-] tetrachromacy@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Can confirm. Bought weighted blanket, and it helps me sleep to the point where I have a hard time without it. So every night I'm sleeping away from home I need to carry a 20lb weighted blanket with me. Not great but the sleep is great so you gotta take the good with the bad I guess.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago

Maybe you should just hire a person to lie on you when you travel? Hotel concierge could probably find one.

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[-] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 81 points 6 days ago

This Dad needs a CPAP so he can get a real 8 hours. Not needing naps during the day is life-changing.

[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 50 points 6 days ago

I feel like one 20 min nap mid-day would do wonders for everyone.

[-] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 days ago

I wouldn't mind having a CPAP that doesn't taste like burnt plastic anymore.

[-] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

Take it apart and wash everything. They are really pretty simple devices. I literally just finished replacing the motor on my ResMed S9. It has 8 allen head screws in total, and they were all the same size. I used an allen wrench that came with my 3D printer, it's not marked but measures 2 mm across. It took me less than 10 minutes to get it apart. This guy has a pretty nice breakdown.

Everything except for the main board, SD card, and motor can be washed with dish soap in your sink.

I've taken apart a couple others and they were pretty simple too, so I willing to bet that you can find a tear down video on pretty much all of them out there.

Make sure to wash the water tank really well and wipe it's inside down. Mini cpaps coat there water tanks with a bittering agent that stinks when you run out of water. So just be sure and never to let it run out of water, or turn off your water function.

[-] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 days ago

Did that last week. Follow the teardown guide and cleaned it ALL with isopropal alcohol. Issue remains. I can't not use the water thing unfortunately because I wake up with lips cracked to the point of bleeding.

I'm just gonna die.

[-] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

That sucks.
Is your cpap a unit like the resmed where the water tank can be removed and not used? The reason I ask is because I am curious if you can hook it up without the water tank and let it run for longer than 10 minutes without you wearing it and then check to see if you still smell the burnt plastic? That would at least let you narrow it down to whether it's a water tank issue or something in the head unit.

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[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 44 points 5 days ago

I wish I could partake in nap culture, but I always wake up feeling like I've been ripped from the goddamn afterlife. Always worse than before. My wife and I just spent two grueling sleepless nights in the postpartum ward, and after returning home today she encouraged me to have a 1-hour nap. I obliged and woke up so fucking brain-sick out of sorts that I could barely interact with my surroundings for the first 30 minutes.

[-] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 days ago

After 20 minutes. It's better to go all the way to 90 minutes.

Because you'll have started to enter deep sleep after 20. You probably woke up in the middle of a deep sleep cycle and that's why you felt dead.

[-] jimi_henrik@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

One hour seems too long for a nap. Have you tried shorter ones, e. g. 20 minutes? AFAIK napping for only a few minutes doesn't affect you much, too long of a nap causes issues you described.

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[-] craigers@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

I think this is mild narcolepsy lol

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 5 days ago

You're winning at life when you really stopped giving a fuck and just do whatever ^^

[-] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 days ago

What the fuck is going on with his leg?

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 48 points 6 days ago

Is that a sock, or does that dude's leg look really nasty?

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

I hope that’s a sock. I noticed the same thing

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[-] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

don't worry about that, a couple critters been gnawin at it but it's healin up real nice

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[-] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 5 days ago

As someone with narcolepsy, this very much sounds like narcolepsy. I also have a cpap so I use an alarm for my naps and keep them to 45 minutes.

[-] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 16 points 5 days ago

I've done this many times. My bf hates seeing me sleeping on the dirty floor, but if I get in bed, I'll be too comfortable and sleep for much longer than I want.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 26 points 6 days ago

I had a nursing friend of mine do this when she went to bed at night. We used to stay at her place often years ago. She'd reserve us a room in her house, nice place, great bed, very, very comfortable. Then she'd go to her bedroom, get ready for bed, night gown, wash up .... then go to the living room, lie down on the floor in the most uncomfortable posture and go to sleep for an hour or two, change positions, do it again and again. The living room had more open space for her to sprawl around in all kinds of positions.

She had damaged her spine and had a herniated disk which caused her terrible problems .... it was neither serious enough to be treated with surgery nor healthy enough for her to feel comfortable any more. She had tried water beds, posturepedic beds, memory foams, pillows, hanging platforms, various drugs and nothing worked .... except for lying on a flat hard floor for a few hours.

The first few time I saw her when I got up in the night to go to the bathroom, I saw here like this and thought something terrible had happened.

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago

I've been doing this for ages. I finally just started setting an alarm on my smartwatch and ran through a bunch of time trials to see what works.

I can nap somewhere comfy as long as I follow these rules:

If I just can't keep my eyes open or I have a food coma, 15m

If I know I'm sleep deprived, and all I have is lunchtime 45m

If I have a little more time to spare and i'm just dragging, 90m

I've tried 5m increments on either side of those numbers and found I could just wake up at 15,45 and 90 with no problem. At 30m or 60m, I appear to cancel the alarm but fall back asleep.

But I need to pass out right away. If it's going to take me 10m to get to sleep, I need to adjust for that.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

My Biology teacher told us multiple times that you should sleep in time divisble by 90 minutes and nothing else. Need a nap, don't bother if you don't have 90 minutes. Going to sleep regularly, and have to get up at 7? Well if you go to bed at 10 you should set your alarm for 7. Go to bed at 1030, set your alarm for 530.

I can't remember if it was related to some biological thing she tried to teach us or was just an old wives tale she stood by, but I have followed it ever since. I always feel groggy if I awake at one of the off hours.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

The idea is you want that full rem cycle. You're mildly paralyzed during it and waking out out of sync is a bad time

Average person's REM cycle varies. Time to sleep varies.

I just did a couple of months worth of nap testing and found when I could and couldn't get up. And unless the nap was so short that I was still in the state I was in when I passed out, I counted it a success.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago

interesting pattern observation. iirc, they roughly align with early sleep phase durations. Which would explain the difficulty waking up when you're off the usual times, as you're deeper asleep

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Narcolepsy?

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 days ago

I think his foot is falling off. Or it already did and has been crudely stitched back onto his leg.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm hoping against hope it's a patterned sock.

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[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 19 points 6 days ago

No worries, I have relatives with alcoholism too

[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 5 days ago

based.

I'm very envious i didn't think of this myself.

[-] HorikBrun@kbin.earth 16 points 6 days ago

I kind of used to do this, but it was largely due to chronic deprivation. Working 2 full time jobs and apl that

[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago

What's going on with the skin on his ankle, man? That looks burned.

[-] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 13 points 6 days ago

inemuri
I think he's breaking some etiquette rules, but good for him.

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[-] snooggums@piefed.world 11 points 6 days ago
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[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 11 points 6 days ago

I do the same thing. Napping on the ground counterintuitively helps when I have a stiff back. I wake up and the tension is gone. At family gatherings I prefer the couch though.

[-] PolarPirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

Can't let the sleep win

[-] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago
[-] aeternum 19 points 5 days ago

my admittedly uneducated understanding of narcolepsy is that it's involuntary. This sounds like OOP's dad is voluntarily laying down to nap.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

You lie yourself, and lay other things. OOP's dad is voluntarily lying down to nap.

[-] aeternum 7 points 5 days ago

i always get confused about lay/lie. Thanks.

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