Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the because-ms.-right-pursues-me dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Slate has a story about the guy who registered tired.com in 1997 and put up on the home page "Are you tired? Tell us why." He's collected 32,000 emails from tired people, including an one from a Navy ship at sea that's too good to be fake."
I'm tired of all you foreigners who think you are so special with your own time zones.
I'm tired of all of these divisive things that separate us, instead of bring the world together. I'm tired of the metric system, different languages, and different currencies.
I hope the U.N finally ratifies Resolution 1325E so that the world all has one standardized language, measurement systems, currency and time zone.
I am tired of people who toss in fake links to add credibility to their moronic posts. I'm tired of moderators who don't think I am funny.
Re:why i'm tired
by
fuzzix
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I am about to fall asleep as I have sat up all night refreshing slashdot in an attempt to get a first post in.
I'm really busy
by
isoprophlex
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· Score: 5, Insightful
I'm tired... I believe i might even be in there for sending an email to that address. It really amazes me that people don't have a care in the world to about what they post on the internet, who they send it too, what harm it does, and how many people it might hurt. I've seen too many Live Journal's in my time that are just all about slanderring and nothing more or less than that. I guess it's like the MSN news site says about that site www.tired.com is that people just want to be in the spotlight, or share there story's whatever the case. I'm tired of people that want this to happen to them. There is more to life than living/ wanting to be in the spotlight, isn't there?
Re:I'm really busy
by
Apreche
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Word. I am also anti-Live Journal. Sure its not Live Journal itself that is bad. It is possible to use LJ in a way that is fine. Like a normal blog for instance.
However, the most often use of LJ I see is this. People bitch about how shitty their lives are, or they bitch and blame others about shitty daily happenings in their lives. They also obfuscate names of people and places very poorly so anyone who knows them can figure it out. Lastly they voice the opinions they don't have the balls to voice during the day to real people, because they don't hold water. They seek encouragement and sympathy from people around the world to make them feel better. Because no matter what your problem is, there is someone on the Internet who will tell you how right you are in order to make you feel not alone. And that one person telling you how right you are validates your existence despite your actual complete wrong-ness.
The other side effect of Live Journal that makes it really bad is this. People go around reading the Live Journals of others and form sort of this behind the back society. They never say something to a person in real life anything that was said in LJ. But they keep it in mind. No longer is it necessary to gossip about people like old maids. Just go around reading LJs of everyone you know and you can get the real deal.
I just feel that this whole culture surrounding things like Live Journal is so shallow and meaningless. I feel filthy every time someone links me to LJ and I go look at it. The same filth you feel when you accidentally look at the magazines in the checkout aisle. Just get it off me.
-- The GeekNights podcast is going strong. Listen!
Less bloat gives more trust
by
Underholdning
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· Score: 5, Insightful
"No one bothers to write in anonymously [..] Gripes about husbands, wives, children, and commanding officers come signed with the sender's real name and address. Mike doesn't reply to these messages, and he doesn't publish them, but how do they know he won't? One theory he's encountered in his user-experience work: People trust simply designed sites."
There's a lesson to be learned here. Less bloat, more trust!
Insomnia is a terrible affliction, but oddly enough it doesn't seem to be insomniacs writing into this guy, just people who have enough time to surf the web aimlessly. These people are tired of life, not tired in the needing sleep sense. They don't think they have enough time for themselves, or they just don't want to be where they are. Insomniacs don't type "tired" into their web browser, they just stay up all night trying to go to sleep.
Kudos to slashdot?
by
dm(Hannu)
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· Score: 5, Funny
kudos to whomever on the slashdot staff decided to post this story...
Are you sure it is such a good idea to post this on front page of/.?
32000 messages in 7 years? The will probably get 32000 more in the next 7 hours.
Work-Life Balance
by
SHiFTY1000
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· Score: 5, Insightful
One reason that people are tired is that they are working excessive hours. Todays society risks repeating the same mistakes as the Victorian era; when children as young as ten would work alongside adults for 10 hours a day, 6 days a week.
The eight hour day / 40 hour week was one of the Labour movements' greatest victories, but this has been largely eroded in modern professional occupations. Many people work crazy hours. There is a whole culture that working yourself and your family into the ground is a good thing.
However some enlightened governments have strategies to deal with this- the issue of work/life balance has been big recently- check http://www.dol.govt.nz/worklife/index.asp or http://www.dti.gov.uk/work-lifebalance/what.html
Whatever happened to the 60's notion that technology would have us working less?
Suicide Notes
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Wonder how many suicide notes the guy has received over the years?
I don't think he would appreciate your description of how you stayed up all night watching pr0n till 5am and you are tired from self-gratifying sexual exhaustion.
I think there is a common list of things which "tires" people:
1. Being stuck in a job - a LOT more people than they care to admit are into jobs they don't really like. Jobs that are no longer challenging. Or exciting. Jobs that are going nowhere. This is the primary reason for being tired, because the entire life, one day at time, is structured around the job - from sleep cycles, to time to be spent with family, take to wake up, etc. And it is very tiring and taxing, when this very job, isn't what one would really want to do.
2. Relationship - the less said, the better. Not every relation is pleasant. And by relationship, I don't just mean a boy/girl relationship. Relationship with the wife. with the kids. people at work. Neighbours. Between two nations. And it's so funny because though we all say "man is a social animal", this is precisely what we aren't taught - how to socialize, or how to maintain in a relationship. Or just be in a relationship. being tolerant. We are not taught that, but of course a whole load of algebra and trignometry, that finds no direct use in most lives.
Just these two are so crucial factors in defining the happiness and well being of each person.
For all weapons of mass destruction there may or may not be in the world, whether the world is safe or not, masses are mostly unhappy and hence "tired". And hence they find or try to find outlets to get of this tiredness. Whatever it may be.
A friend of mine said yesterday that he woke up at 4.30 and couldn't get back to sleep. I simply replied "As a parent, I can only say 'Screw you'."
I have four month old twins.
I bike to work, 12 miles every day.
I have not had to tell anyone to screw themselves.
I do get tired on occation, and I do feel down every now and then... but I doubt telling people to screw themselves would make me feel any better.
Try looking at the good things, concentrating on the bad stuff will only serve to make you bitter.
Besides, given that your friend had a different basis of comparison, his lack of sleep might have been a major issue for him. Stuff like this is always subjective, and trying to compare who has it harder is ofter rather pointless.
There's a moral to that story...
by
tgd
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· Score: 5, Funny
Never, ever, EVER eat a bologna sandwich offered to you on a navy base or ship.
Ever.
Re:Agreed, insomnia is not a joke
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I've suffered with insomnia for the longest time, and it's killing me. I've found that the only way I can get to sleep at a decent hour, if at all, is to tear myself apart with exercise. Last week, I couldn't sleep a wink, so I left the house at dawn and walked ten miles around this relatively tiny county, just so I could get some sleep. If I don't go to the gym, I don't sleep. It's an exercise program for the sleepless.
On my death march earlier this week, I was having mild hallucinations, the nature of which was such that I was hearing things, specifically, music. At one point, a plane flew overhead, and the sound sort of morphed into a saxophone; this could have been a genuine auditory coincidence, but then I started hearing piano chords, specifically, a diminished seventh if my ear training serves me correctly.
My affliction is unique in that I can't so easily cope with the sleeplessness with caffiene, because the diuretic effect of it triggers a long-standing mild case of enuresis, which first, makes it even more difficult to sleep, and second, is obviously extremely embarassing (hence the AC).
I, too, am bound to Tylenol PM, a drug that at least sates my affliction such that I can usually sleep within an hour of taking it, and then I have a half hour window in which I can sleep, because the effect passes all too quickly. If I don't capitalize on it quickly enough, I have to wait another hour.
Since this is summer, and I'm 16, I'm presented with an unusual opportunity to avoid sleeping altogether. I've taken to staying up 24 hours at a time to work on my pet project, a fully equipped arcade cabinet, faithful down even to the coin mech. It's a lovely way to pass the time, though I'm reluctant to saw anything at odd hours, because I wouldn't want to wake my parents, who suffer from their own sleep-related ailments; my mom is an extremely light sleeper, and my dad is jetlagged with such frequency that he often finds himself sleeping in the rear storage of his Tahoe in the airport parking lot.
It's a hard knocks' life.
Re:Er. what's the point ?
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Not always the case...
If you're drained of energy with no explaination, then sure, go see a doctor, but if you know why you're tired in spite of a good 6 to 9 hours of sleep each day, then a doctor may not be the right answer.
Assume you are getting enough sleep, and you are otherwise perfectly healthy. A stressful environment can really sap your strength. Pills and even counseling may make you appear to be more content, but the underlying problem may not be fully addressed- only masked.
Let's say you're struggling at work in an unexpectedly deadend job. At the time, you thought it was a promotion, but instead it was just a latteral move with slightly better pay that made moving any further up the ladder of success impossible. If you make any waves, they'll probably realize they can do nicely without you.
You make enough money to afford your family's present standard of living and there is no way for you to find another job at your current level of income. Your employer is unsympathetic and expects you to do your job to their satisfaction or be replaced by two lower payed employees. To them, you are not indespensable.
Your wife is having second thoughts because married life just isn't what she was expecting, and she refuses to have any discussions about it. She's itching for any excuse, and she's probably a bit smarter than you, and a hell of a lot more vendictive. She also has access to all your possessions including your bank account.
Your kids are doing fine, but you have no time for them because you are already putting in so many hours at the office. These days, they barely know you, but at least you get to see them most every day.
If you let your job fail, you lose your income, your wife will definitely leave you, and you'll probably end up losing your home, most of your posessions, what little access you have to your kids, and of course, any money in your next job will be going to child and spousal support, thus making your existence a living hell.
If you try to get your wife to help you, she'll just call you a wimp, chastise you, threaten to leave you, take the kids, and she'll find some way to have her attourney legally harass you until your employer fires you...
Hmmm... No way out unless you want to skip town and change your identity... But they'd probably find you anyway. It's a tough spot.
You come home each night, you eat well, you find time to excercise, and you get more than enough sleep. You're otherwise healthy, but you're tired. The good doctor isn't going to make it all better. In fact, getting you dependent upon some kind of medication may just screw your life up even more.
Re:Agreed, insomnia is not a joke
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peterwilm
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· Score: 5, Informative
Just to make really sure: Have you tried
*totally* abstaining form caffeine (including coffee, tea, soft drinks)?
totally abstaining from alcohol
totally abstaining from sleeping aids(!)
doing some light to medium cardio activity in the morning or early afternoon (but not in the evening)
refraining from taking naps during the day (only one sleep interval -- at night)
getting up at 7 a.m. (or even earlier), no matter what
Have you followed the above hints together and religiously for at least four weeks?
Many insomniacs are "cured" with the above mentioned measurements.
Additionally, has a psychiatric doctor checked you whether you suffer from clinical depression? Really severe insomnia often is a symptom of clinical depression.
Even Mike Kuniavsky is tired
by
TardisX
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· Score: 5, Funny
In seven years he hasn't yet gotten around to putting the closing on the web page.
--
Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer
Re:Agreed, insomnia is not a joke
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Is it posible your just a night person in a day-walkers world?
I have come to belive that there is a small portion of the population that is geneticly predisposed to be the "night watchman". Perhaps its not as much now as when your tribe didn't want to get eaten in their sleep.
Re:I have a sleep disorder
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Xiver
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I used to have obstructive sleep apnea. No matter how much sleep I had I still woke up tired. I was pretty overweight and sleeping next to me was like sleeping next to a chainsaw. In 2000 my oldest daughter was born and since I was already suffering from severe sleep apnea the first two weeks with her at home almost drove me over the edge. I was falling asleep at work, while driving, and even while talking a few times. I started to develop narcolepsy and even had a couple of hallucinations. When I finally went to the doctor and had a sleep study done they said that I was waking up 72 times an hour! I was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. The doctor tried a few different pressures and types of breathing machines and determined that I would be best suited with a bypap(sp?) machine. The bypap is has a different pressure for inhalation than it does for exhalation.
At first the bypap(sp?) machine seemed like a huge pain in the butt. I had to wear that stupid mask at night and listen to the machine, but my snoring had stopped, which my wife assured me was reason enough to use the machine. For the first two weeks I really didn't feel any different I was tired all of the time and missing out on my young daughters early antics. Then one morning I woke up and realized that I wasn't tired anymore. It was unbelievable. I used the bypap machine for 6 months before the inside of my nose became so raw that sleeping with it became almost impossible. I often had nightmares that someone was going to take the bypap away and my life would go back to what it was before.
In the 6 months that I was on the bypap I lost 30 lbs and was enjoying life in a way I had not been able to since I was a teenager. Since sleeping with the bypap machine was beginning to become unbearable I decided to see a doctor about having some kind of surgery, so I would not have to sleep with a machine for the rest of my life. They scheduled me for surgery and a short time later I had widened sinus passages, no adenoids, no tonsils, and much less of a palette in the back of my throat. The two weeks after the surgery really sucked, I couldn't even drink water for 4 days. I was constantly coughing up blood and required an IV and home health to administer the much desired pain medication. After two weeks I was feeling much better and had lost another 20 pounds. It didn't take long to lose 10 more and become a bit more active. I've bounced around a bit since then, but I've never gained more than 20 pounds of the weight back and since I've started exercising it looks like I might drop another 10 - 15 pounds.
My life has never been better, I'm not tired, I don't fall asleep, and my wife doesn't have to elbow me at night as much anymore. If the cpap didn't help you sleep you should give it another shot. I say it will be at least two weeks before your body and mind recover from sleep depravation. I'm sure you also know the consequences of ignoring sleep apnea, which include increased risk of heart attack, increased risk of stroke, and narcolepsy.
I thought pretty much as you did that the sleep cycles that I had were just normal for me, but believe me you don't know what you are missing with a regular sleeping pattern. I was an all night gamer and worker. The only time I could stay awake was when I was really focused on something like programming or video games. Now I can still game all night and sleep late if my wife lets me...err I mean if I want too, but I also have the benefit of being able to live an alter, happy, and somewhat normal life.
-- 10: PRINT "Everything old is new again."
20: GOTO 10
Slashdot Mirror
because this story posted at 5:08 AM, EST, and I am responding at 5:10 AM
;-)
enough said
kudos to whomever on the slashdot staff decided to post this story at the right time for it, at least on the East Coast
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I am about to fall asleep as I have sat up all night refreshing slashdot in an attempt to get a first post in.
I'm tired... I believe i might even be in there for sending an email to that address. It really amazes me that people don't have a care in the world to about what they post on the internet, who they send it too, what harm it does, and how many people it might hurt. I've seen too many Live Journal's in my time that are just all about slanderring and nothing more or less than that. I guess it's like the MSN news site says about that site www.tired.com is that people just want to be in the spotlight, or share there story's whatever the case. I'm tired of people that want this to happen to them. There is more to life than living/ wanting to be in the spotlight, isn't there?
"No one bothers to write in anonymously [..] Gripes about husbands, wives, children, and commanding officers come signed with the sender's real name and address. Mike doesn't reply to these messages, and he doesn't publish them, but how do they know he won't? One theory he's encountered in his user-experience work: People trust simply designed sites."
There's a lesson to be learned here. Less bloat, more trust!
Underholdning.info
Insomnia is a terrible affliction, but oddly enough it doesn't seem to be insomniacs writing into this guy, just people who have enough time to surf the web aimlessly. These people are tired of life, not tired in the needing sleep sense. They don't think they have enough time for themselves, or they just don't want to be where they are. Insomniacs don't type "tired" into their web browser, they just stay up all night trying to go to sleep.
Are you sure it is such a good idea to post this on front page of /.?
32000 messages in 7 years? The will probably get 32000 more in the next 7 hours.
One reason that people are tired is that they are working excessive hours. Todays society risks repeating the same mistakes as the Victorian era; when children as young as ten would work alongside adults for 10 hours a day, 6 days a week.
The eight hour day / 40 hour week was one of the Labour movements' greatest victories, but this has been largely eroded in modern professional occupations. Many people work crazy hours. There is a whole culture that working yourself and your family into the ground is a good thing.
However some enlightened governments have strategies to deal with this- the issue of work/life balance has been big recently- check http://www.dol.govt.nz/worklife/index.asp or
http://www.dti.gov.uk/work-lifebalance/what.html
Whatever happened to the 60's notion that technology would have us working less?
Wonder how many suicide notes the guy has received over the years?
Their site may survive, but I wonder what will happen to their mailbox...
I don't think he would appreciate your description of how you stayed up all night watching pr0n till 5am and you are tired from self-gratifying sexual exhaustion.
I think there is a common list of things which "tires" people:
1. Being stuck in a job - a LOT more people than they care to admit are into jobs they don't really like. Jobs that are no longer challenging. Or exciting. Jobs that are going nowhere. This is the primary reason for being tired, because the entire life, one day at time, is structured around the job - from sleep cycles, to time to be spent with family, take to wake up, etc. And it is very tiring and taxing, when this very job, isn't what one would really want to do.
2. Relationship - the less said, the better. Not every relation is pleasant. And by relationship, I don't just mean a boy/girl relationship. Relationship with the wife. with the kids. people at work. Neighbours. Between two nations. And it's so funny because though we all say "man is a social animal", this is precisely what we aren't taught - how to socialize, or how to maintain in a relationship. Or just be in a relationship. being tolerant. We are not taught that, but of course a whole load of algebra and trignometry, that finds no direct use in most lives.
Just these two are so crucial factors in defining the happiness and well being of each person.
For all weapons of mass destruction there may or may not be in the world, whether the world is safe or not, masses are mostly unhappy and hence "tired". And hence they find or try to find outlets to get of this tiredness. Whatever it may be.
Whoaa.. I've surprised myself I think!
http://efil.blogspot.com/
"Yes hello Spam King, I have 50,000 email addresses im willing to sell you."
I have a 6 month old daughter.
A friend of mine said yesterday that he woke up at 4.30 and couldn't get back to sleep. I simply replied "As a parent, I can only say 'Screw you'."
I have four month old twins.
I bike to work, 12 miles every day.
I have not had to tell anyone to screw themselves.
I do get tired on occation, and I do feel down every now and then... but I doubt telling people to screw themselves would make me feel any better.
Try looking at the good things, concentrating on the bad stuff will only serve to make you bitter.
Besides, given that your friend had a different basis of comparison, his lack of sleep might have been a major issue for him. Stuff like this is always subjective, and trying to compare who has it harder is ofter rather pointless.
.: Max Romantschuk
Never, ever, EVER eat a bologna sandwich offered to you on a navy base or ship.
Ever.
I've suffered with insomnia for the longest time, and it's killing me. I've found that the only way I can get to sleep at a decent hour, if at all, is to tear myself apart with exercise. Last week, I couldn't sleep a wink, so I left the house at dawn and walked ten miles around this relatively tiny county, just so I could get some sleep. If I don't go to the gym, I don't sleep. It's an exercise program for the sleepless.
On my death march earlier this week, I was having mild hallucinations, the nature of which was such that I was hearing things, specifically, music. At one point, a plane flew overhead, and the sound sort of morphed into a saxophone; this could have been a genuine auditory coincidence, but then I started hearing piano chords, specifically, a diminished seventh if my ear training serves me correctly.
My affliction is unique in that I can't so easily cope with the sleeplessness with caffiene, because the diuretic effect of it triggers a long-standing mild case of enuresis, which first, makes it even more difficult to sleep, and second, is obviously extremely embarassing (hence the AC).
I, too, am bound to Tylenol PM, a drug that at least sates my affliction such that I can usually sleep within an hour of taking it, and then I have a half hour window in which I can sleep, because the effect passes all too quickly. If I don't capitalize on it quickly enough, I have to wait another hour.
Since this is summer, and I'm 16, I'm presented with an unusual opportunity to avoid sleeping altogether. I've taken to staying up 24 hours at a time to work on my pet project, a fully equipped arcade cabinet, faithful down even to the coin mech. It's a lovely way to pass the time, though I'm reluctant to saw anything at odd hours, because I wouldn't want to wake my parents, who suffer from their own sleep-related ailments; my mom is an extremely light sleeper, and my dad is jetlagged with such frequency that he often finds himself sleeping in the rear storage of his Tahoe in the airport parking lot.
It's a hard knocks' life.
If you're drained of energy with no explaination, then sure, go see a doctor, but if you know why you're tired in spite of a good 6 to 9 hours of sleep each day, then a doctor may not be the right answer.
Assume you are getting enough sleep, and you are otherwise perfectly healthy. A stressful environment can really sap your strength. Pills and even counseling may make you appear to be more content, but the underlying problem may not be fully addressed- only masked.
Let's say you're struggling at work in an unexpectedly deadend job. At the time, you thought it was a promotion, but instead it was just a latteral move with slightly better pay that made moving any further up the ladder of success impossible. If you make any waves, they'll probably realize they can do nicely without you.
You make enough money to afford your family's present standard of living and there is no way for you to find another job at your current level of income. Your employer is unsympathetic and expects you to do your job to their satisfaction or be replaced by two lower payed employees. To them, you are not indespensable.
Your wife is having second thoughts because married life just isn't what she was expecting, and she refuses to have any discussions about it. She's itching for any excuse, and she's probably a bit smarter than you, and a hell of a lot more vendictive. She also has access to all your possessions including your bank account.
Your kids are doing fine, but you have no time for them because you are already putting in so many hours at the office. These days, they barely know you, but at least you get to see them most every day.
If you let your job fail, you lose your income, your wife will definitely leave you, and you'll probably end up losing your home, most of your posessions, what little access you have to your kids, and of course, any money in your next job will be going to child and spousal support, thus making your existence a living hell.
If you try to get your wife to help you, she'll just call you a wimp, chastise you, threaten to leave you, take the kids, and she'll find some way to have her attourney legally harass you until your employer fires you...
Hmmm... No way out unless you want to skip town and change your identity... But they'd probably find you anyway. It's a tough spot.
You come home each night, you eat well, you find time to excercise, and you get more than enough sleep. You're otherwise healthy, but you're tired. The good doctor isn't going to make it all better. In fact, getting you dependent upon some kind of medication may just screw your life up even more.
- *totally* abstaining form caffeine (including coffee, tea, soft drinks)?
- totally abstaining from alcohol
- totally abstaining from sleeping aids(!)
- doing some light to medium cardio activity in the morning or early afternoon (but not in the evening)
- refraining from taking naps during the day (only one sleep interval -- at night)
- getting up at 7 a.m. (or even earlier), no matter what
Have you followed the above hints together and religiously for at least four weeks?Many insomniacs are "cured" with the above mentioned measurements.
Additionally, has a psychiatric doctor checked you whether you suffer from clinical depression? Really severe insomnia often is a symptom of clinical depression.
In seven years he hasn't yet gotten around to putting the closing on the web page.
Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer
Is it posible your just a night person in a day-walkers world?
I have come to belive that there is a small portion of the population that is geneticly predisposed to be the "night watchman". Perhaps its not as much now as when your tribe didn't want to get eaten in their sleep.
I used to have obstructive sleep apnea. No matter how much sleep I had I still woke up tired. I was pretty overweight and sleeping next to me was like sleeping next to a chainsaw. In 2000 my oldest daughter was born and since I was already suffering from severe sleep apnea the first two weeks with her at home almost drove me over the edge. I was falling asleep at work, while driving, and even while talking a few times. I started to develop narcolepsy and even had a couple of hallucinations. When I finally went to the doctor and had a sleep study done they said that I was waking up 72 times an hour! I was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. The doctor tried a few different pressures and types of breathing machines and determined that I would be best suited with a bypap(sp?) machine. The bypap is has a different pressure for inhalation than it does for exhalation.
At first the bypap(sp?) machine seemed like a huge pain in the butt. I had to wear that stupid mask at night and listen to the machine, but my snoring had stopped, which my wife assured me was reason enough to use the machine. For the first two weeks I really didn't feel any different I was tired all of the time and missing out on my young daughters early antics. Then one morning I woke up and realized that I wasn't tired anymore. It was unbelievable. I used the bypap machine for 6 months before the inside of my nose became so raw that sleeping with it became almost impossible. I often had nightmares that someone was going to take the bypap away and my life would go back to what it was before.
In the 6 months that I was on the bypap I lost 30 lbs and was enjoying life in a way I had not been able to since I was a teenager. Since sleeping with the bypap machine was beginning to become unbearable I decided to see a doctor about having some kind of surgery, so I would not have to sleep with a machine for the rest of my life. They scheduled me for surgery and a short time later I had widened sinus passages, no adenoids, no tonsils, and much less of a palette in the back of my throat. The two weeks after the surgery really sucked, I couldn't even drink water for 4 days. I was constantly coughing up blood and required an IV and home health to administer the much desired pain medication. After two weeks I was feeling much better and had lost another 20 pounds. It didn't take long to lose 10 more and become a bit more active. I've bounced around a bit since then, but I've never gained more than 20 pounds of the weight back and since I've started exercising it looks like I might drop another 10 - 15 pounds.
My life has never been better, I'm not tired, I don't fall asleep, and my wife doesn't have to elbow me at night as much anymore. If the cpap didn't help you sleep you should give it another shot. I say it will be at least two weeks before your body and mind recover from sleep depravation. I'm sure you also know the consequences of ignoring sleep apnea, which include increased risk of heart attack, increased risk of stroke, and narcolepsy.
I thought pretty much as you did that the sleep cycles that I had were just normal for me, but believe me you don't know what you are missing with a regular sleeping pattern. I was an all night gamer and worker. The only time I could stay awake was when I was really focused on something like programming or video games. Now I can still game all night and sleep late if my wife lets me...err I mean if I want too, but I also have the benefit of being able to live an alter, happy, and somewhat normal life.
10: PRINT "Everything old is new again."
20: GOTO 10