Anyone with insomnia bemused at how people are reacting to having to go to work after watching the England match?

We English people like any excuse to moan so of course we will jump at the opportunity to moan about something different.

In which case they should be able to cope better, as it’s a one off for them (after presumably a decent night’s sleep beforehand, and the anticipation of one after), whereas for us it’s night after night after night, creating a bigger sleep deficit every single night.

Insomnia or not, any normal adult can cope with losing sleep occasionally. The hysteria was ridiculous

What kind of boring life can people have if they religiously go to bed from 10pm to 7am every single night of their life

I used to be one of those who could sleep anywhere. I'd be asleep on a plane before it even took off.

Sleep and I are no longer good friends since my wife died last year. On a positive note though, there are only three sleeps until Christmas.

It drives me mad when anyone says "you obviously don't need so much sleep"

Yes I do! I just don't get it!

It did make me laugh, all these grown ups / middle aged people like me, acting like staying up late one night is going to require a day off work. Pretty sure 20 years ago we were all doing that on a regular basis and it was just called having a social life 🤣

The thing is though, some of us need lots of sleep to function, but we still don’t get it. A combination of insomnia and a disabled child means I get 4-5 hours sleep a night, every night. I need 8 hours of sleep a night to function adequately. I don’t get it. Which means I live my life in a fog. My sister in law always says to me ‘I don’t know how you do it, I wouldn’t be able to cope’. What does she think my options are? Just lie down and refuse to do my job/care for my kids? Drop down dead?

Chronic INsomnia here. COmplete nhs Sleepstation course with personalised online sleep coach. Highly recommended they give you advice and techniques tailored to your situation.
Tried long walks, swimming are best to tire oneself out.
Tried temazepam and Zopiclone. Now find Mirtazapine is best for good sleep Gps more willingly to prescribe it for sleep as it is non addictive. No groggy handover feeling next day and you can drive and operate machinery! :)

It depends what people are used to.
I work 13 hour nursing night shifts, and on my first night on, I’ve obviously been up all day prior to working a demanding shift.
My colleagues are the same.
But you do get some people who have very little energy reserve.

This did cross my mind as well as I'm usually awake for a few hours at the time the match was on. However, judging by the state of some of my fellow tube passengers, I think their pain might have been more about alcohol consumption than lack of sleep

A glimpse in the life (or sleep) of a perimenopausal woman

You did well to stay calm!

I’m not normally a race to the bottom type, but…. I REALLY struggled to bite my lip when a dad I chat to on the school run explained to me this morning that “sleep deprivation is actually really hard.”

I was literally pushing a pram with my baby in it. I’ve told him many times of broken nights and 4.20am starts. I just said, yes, I know.

Thankfully baby’s dad knows better than to pull this shit.

Had ashawanga, magnesium and melatonin as per and still up at 3am.

That’s because, for some of us, 3am is apparently our time to get up. I feel your pain. I’ve given up fighting it and now get so much more done than most of my friends!

Yes I was surprised at how many people said they were struggling to stay up till 1am that would be an early night for me

Do you feel better now?

Sleep deprivation is a form of torture. It has been used, throughout history, as a form of torture because it is so bad for the human brain.

But nice try to make people who are already feel very low, despite some of us finding a little comfort talking to others on this thread, feel even worse. I hope you’ve given yourself a pat on the back and told yourself what a clever little person you are. Bless.

My husband keeps saying how tired he is and what about me - I've told him it's more or less business as normal being awake for a good proportion of the night!

I guess people who have spent years chained to radiators, having their fingernails pulled out and water dropped on their heads for 48 hours straight scoff in disbelief at insomniacs bemoaning their lot.

My toddler woke up in the middle of the night and my husband was up with him, so he thought might as well watch the match. He was fine going to work after

Different people need different amounts of sleep. My dc are adults:

My oldest can go for several days with only a 4 hours a night, then sleep 12 hours at the weekend and be fine. She'll happily sleep 4-8am.
My middle one can burn the candle at both ends for weeks on end with no ill effects.
My youngest needs to have a decent night each night and is the only one who thrives on early bed early rise.
This has their pattern of sleep since babyhood - obviously more back then but the pattern was there.

I used to be able to do what my eldest did. Then I had glandular fever in my 20s and since then I struggle on less than 7 hours and I also struggle to catch up - I can't do the long deep catchup sleeps that used to sustain me if I'd had a few bad nights.

I was thinking this. People choose to have interrupted sleep to watch a game and then moaned that they are tired today.

I am a grumpy insomniac. You don’t get used to it.

I'll take the 'sharp as a needle' option! I too, live in hope.

I did have to bite my lip today. I overheard someone who arrived to work at 10.30am saying they'd only had 6 hours sleep and that was the reason they needed to leave at 3.00pm...

I am now wondering if non-insomniacs are just somniacs.

Depends on your job surely too? And start time?