Anyone else can’t sleep so get up and clean?

[TheOpalFox]

I can’t sleep so I got up and I’m cleaning lol I must be mad but I can’t stand just laying there awake not sleeping lol and I don’t sleep in the day but I’m always exhausted !!! So cleaning at half 12 :/

Try to stay in bed so your body is rested and do something relaxing like reading a book. Nite, nite x

I don't usually clean but yes if I really can't sleep I get up and do something even if just write in my diary or make a list for tomorrow. Then do some yoga and back to bed. I find it better than lying awake getting anxious.
Hope you get back to bed and to sleep soon

You're a better person than me OP. I can't sleep and have got up to have something to eat, have a hot chocolate and play on my phone. Didn't even think of doing something useful (though I did out the robot hoover on, does that count?).

I don’t clean when I’m awake in the middle of the day! Not a chance at night!
Can’t you just enjoy the comfort and rest of being in a cosy, warm bed?

I once woke up at 4am and couldnt get back to sleep. So i baked a cake.

No, cleaning would be the very last thing I would do if I couldn't sleep. I might read, but nothing more strenuous than that - and like a pp I don't clean during the middle of the day (much).

Yes I went through a phase where I couldn’t sleep (although waking up early rather than not being able to get to sleep at night) and I used to get up and do the ironing.

yes I do the same when anxious OP. I barely sleep.

Neighbours? Don't they mind?

My mum used to do this most nights she would just be cleaning things that clearly were not dirty, I'd rather lie and stare at the ceiling all night than get up and clean !

I often can't sleep, but clean .....! Definitely not!!

I used to threaten myself with doing the ironing if I didn't go to sleep! But I got wise to myself & knew it was an empty threat & so it doesn't work now!!

@TheOpalFox nope!! Nothing so useful!

Yesterday I woke up at 4. Got annoyed by 5 so got up and repotted some tomato plants.

3am ironing usually puts me straight back to sleep.

Is this a one off or a regular thing? If regular you need to get yourself into a god bedtime routine, no phone an hour before bed, have a warm bath or a warm milky drink, watch an episode of a show you find relaxing or read a book or do some colouring in or some relaxing . If you can't sleep when you're in bed then either do a meditation where you tense then relax each part of your body in turn. Or, something I recently learnt about which works really well, the cognitive shuffle.

Yeah definitely

I definitely get up and clean and not... go hunting for snacks and scroll on tiktok 🙈

I get up and do a Duo Lingo lesson, or an online jigsaw, usually ready to go back to bed after about an hour

I do this on a regular basis too, I used to clean late at night and love it then go to bed late but now I go to bed and end up getting up and doing more than I intend, x

If I can't sleep I put the TV on, guaranteed I'll go to sleep then.

i lie awake and think of the long list of things that I could be doing

Yes, I frequently do the same, I must have the cleanest bathroom on my street! I fall asleep very easily but, after an hour or two I wake up. I try everything to get back to sleep, warm bath, read a book, watch TV, don’t watch TV, anything! 3-4 hours later I’m still awake so I getup and clean! Eventually I can go back to bed and will fall asleep, usually about half an hour before it’s time to get up!

I will get up and do the ironing if I can’t sleep!! Then when it’s finished I go back to bed and usually fall straight asleep to sleep!! ( watching the tv while doing the ironing)

I was happy for a while when I had no neighbour near my kitchen because it meant I could do some peaceful late night laundry. Someone else has moved in since alas, so no more late night spins for me.

Me too!!!

Hell no! Apart from anything else, I'd wake everyone up by cleaning. If I were awake and really knew I wasn't going to get back to sleep I'd read or knit.