I could not sleep last night. I went to bed at a reasonable time, tossed and turned, got up, went back to bed at midnight. Woke up shortly after 1. Tried to will myself to lay quietly. Woke up at about 3. Wondered if a steaming hot shower would help. Except that I was too tired to get up and take one. I was awake at 6. Back to bed. Got up at 8.
Tim was also awake a great deal of the night. This is his second night of 'wide awake-itis'. He believes that covid has disrupted his sleep patterns.
I don't know what is disrupting mine. It certainly can't have anything to do with the six dark chocolate expresso beans I had earlier in the afternoon.
The view outside my office window. That tree was so brilliantly lit. I left the room to grab my phone but the light had begun to fade in just that short time. Still, it's a hint of what I saw for a brief and glorious moment.
At times you have to be very quick to capture a certain light, a rainbow...in fact many weather related moments.
ReplyDeleteI walked from one room to the next, grabbed my phone and returned. In that short time, I'd missed most of it. It was pretty though.
DeleteI always have trouble sleeping during a full moon, but those espresso beans are the more likely cause!
ReplyDeleteIt was a very stupid thing to do. I have had a container of them for a month or so. They just sit in the middle of the table, with the salt and pepper shaker, with the sugar bowl and the butter dish. Sometimes, mid day, I'll grab 2 or 3 for a pick me up. However, this was later in the afternoon, and I wasn't thinking sensibly. Someone from book club said, "You probably won't sleep until next Thursday.
DeleteI have found I cannot eat chocolate in the afternoon. It is as bad as coffee for me. That means if I am out and someone serves chocolate cream pie, or hot fudge sauce on something or a plate of brownies, I have to refuse. Woe is me! i
DeleteOh Ana! What a heart breaking story!!!! My heart breaks for you. All joking aside. I'm not quite that sensitive to caffeine, but wrapping dark chocolate around an espresso bean is a definite no-go.
DeleteAhhh... fall colors... Sigh... I remember them well.
ReplyDeleteI suffer from insomnia as well. I do take melatonin now but my doctor advised me not to become reliant on them so I try to be careful to use them on alternating nights or just when I think I'm going to have problems.
I realized when I lived in Hawaii that I was a person who enjoyed having four distinct seasons.
DeleteI read that if you take melatonin, your body ceases to make it's own. I do take two Alleve PMs on most nights. My knee is really giving me problems. I need to do something about that.
It really irks me when I have nights like that- now that I can finally sleep a little later, since the kids are grown and out of the house! I usually refuse to get out of bed though! As for chocolate- for some reason it makes me really sleepy!!?😅That tree is so beautiful-it’s a beautiful season! Enjoy 😊 Xo, Rigmor
ReplyDeleteI am afraid of disturbing Tim, so after a while, I generally get up and read for a while.
DeleteI "accidentally" drank TWO glass of iced tea at a dinner the other night and I think it took me three days to sleep through the night. But it was so refreshing in the moment.
ReplyDeleteUgh. We used to go out for supper sometimes. My go to drink is an unsweetened iced tea with double lemon. After a couple of them, at bedtime, I'd remember why I don't drink iced tea in the evening.
DeleteFor me, it's always a problem sleeping on the nights leading up to a full moon. Happens all the time every damn month. When I find myself wandering around in the middle of the night and I finally figure it out, I just take a melatonin or some benadryl to knock myself out. Have to admit that full hunter moon was quite lovely last night.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I need to start keeping informal data on that. I have never seen a correlation.
DeleteI've actually had two decent nights after one extra horrid night. Generally speaking, I find that if I quit caffeine by mid afternoon, I have a chance.
ReplyDeleteTim and I have argued about this very thing. He drinks caffeine all day. I have a cup of coffee in the morning, maybe an iced tea in the afternoon. He drinks colas all the time. When he's very tired, he will switch it out to uncaffeinated sodas, but I really think that there is a lot of sugar in these drinks that can also work to keep you awake.
DeleteI had a disturbed night's sleep too and did wonder if it was related to the full moon. I am not quite sure why it would have such an effect on us. I must read up further.
ReplyDeleteYou are the second person to bring it up. Now I'm curious.
DeleteFull moon. Although yes, your sensitivity to caffeine and chocolate could be the culprit.
ReplyDeleteYeah. I slept like a rock last night. I also avoided being ambushed by chocolate covered espresso beans. Coincidence? Hmmmmmmmm....
DeleteI don't have many complaints... yet, about getting old but by far the worst one is the occasional bouts of "wide awake-itis." Usually after an episode of that, I take OTC drugs to induce sleep the following night, which coincidentally was what I did last night. I went to bed early and got a full 8 hours of sleep but woke up early enough in the morning that I lounged in bed another three hours and probably slept again half that time. Always feel a lot better after one of those.
ReplyDeleteI made up for the sleep I didn't get last night.
DeleteThere are certain full moons that mess with my sleep ... not all of them do that, so my guess would be the moon!
ReplyDeleteI have never noticed a correlation, but that doesn't mean that there isn't one...it just means in 67 years, I've never noticed one. I'm a fairly oblivious character sometimes.
DeleteOh, bummer. I hate not being able to sleep. Fortunately caffeine usually doesn't bother me!
ReplyDeleteYou are a lucky person, alright!
DeleteThe moon has always messed with my sleep. That view from your window is glorious. We're still a good month away from peak color. I don't expect it to be good this year since we're in a pretty good (bad?) drought.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that so many people share this. It really is going to be something that I track. I sleep pretty well, but Tim really struggles some nights.
DeleteI'm gonna go with the chocolate covered coffee beans:) I always love the trees this time of year.
ReplyDeleteI think that this is my take on it too.
Delete6 dark chocolate espresso beans is likely equivalent to a double shot espresso. It's a wonder it didn't put you on the ceiling......:)
ReplyDeleteSomeone commented that I probably wouldn't sleep until next Thursday. But I slept pretty good last night. It was way stupid that I never even gave it a thought.
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