What keeps you awake at night?

my grandmother because she wants us to work on her other house she owes she don't care if i have worked five non stop hours.

Sigh... Sleep is one thing I would dearly love to have enough of. I'm an insomniac and I just can't sleep (properly, for the lack of the right word) no matter how hard I try. I've done everything you can possibly think of. From drinking milk to exercise to sleeping pills. I don't know if I have an overactive brain or what... not to mention my already sleepless nights are at times compounded by noisy neighbors, the weather etc. Can I sigh once more?

The things that keep me awake at night are stressful situations that hae been UNRESOLED, and noisy neighbours from above, or when here is some kind of show in he building behind me. They tend to have loud concerts on Satuday night. Annoying as heck!! People ned to quit with the loud music after 11 PM.

I just have trouble sleeping most of the time I can't sleep. I sometimes have a few problems with neighbors, but not so much lately as we used to. Tho for New Years they were setting off fireworks (illegally I might add) until after 3 a.m.

Mylotting. Beacause all my best friends live in wonky time zones!

When I am here at my parents home MYLOT will keep me up. While at Norris I will be watching the television. For instance yesterday was an holiday our Independence Celebration and I watch DVD shows until my eyes start rebelling.

well sometimes i cant help it..i mean stay awake atleast a hour ait happens when im excited of something or looking forward for a new day so or sometimes thinking of everything that happened to me/us during the past years and sleep with a smile or a tears in my eyes..

I used to have insomnia since I was in my early teen years, and then now I have it again. Normally, what keeps me awake at night are my school works and the things I need to do on the internet. But recently, I just can't stop thinking about my boyfriend. That's what's keeping me awake these days.

If I can lay my head on a pillow, nothing can keep me awake apart from the kids! I've always wondered how it can be that I can sleep through parties and all sorts, yet one of the kids stirring can have me functional in moments. Actually, I did have a period a few months ago when I had difficulty sleeping. I could go to sleep no problem, but had real problems dropping back off again after the littlest woke me in the early hours. It was a period where I had lots going on in my life, but there was nothing that I could do personally to move things along as everything was in the hands of others. I guess that makes it a little like your wakefulness. I find being powerless to effect change the most stressful situation to be in.

Good morning Pike,well there isnt too much that keeps me from my slumbers,but I do have restless sleep..a sleep where I can wake and feel that I have done a twelve hour shift down Hickleton main colliery when the pit ponys werent on duty.But the restless sleep will generally come if im overtired,or thinking too much..I hear you say ..thinking too much?..lol..yes usually if one of the kids has a problem!

I'm certainly a worrier, and having a 21yo son at home doesn't help. If he was living elsewhere, I wouldn't know what time he got home, etc., and would have a bit of peace and quiet! One of my daughters is a bit of a daredevil and thrillseeker, but she lives away from home and now knows to tell me of her exploits when they are over, NOT before she does them! When I go to bed I listen to a radio, which is plugged into my earhole all night. I love the talkback and the quizzes - and the later the hour, the nuttier the callers get! It's tres amusing and VERY entertaining. I've never been a big sleeper, so the radio at least stops me worrying about my offspring!

its a problem with me too, if i have any kind of tension or worries i really cant sleep at night n all the worries keep moving in my mind. it usually happened with me when i studing n my results r going to be out next day, the previous night i was not at all getting sleep. and agaain it was happening with me when i got married n after a few days i had problems with other family members of my husbands family mostly caused due to my sister-in-law n again i had so many tensions i was not sleeping properly at night n also i had fallen sick . in this way when i m worried about something or have any tension i dont get sleep n just keep thinking about all things happening all night.

hrm, excitement, nervousness, paranoi over the DUMBEST things, grinding my teeth to hard, spacing out, but since my mind would be active during the spaceout, it would just be, AWAKE, and the unbearable heat....but that's summer in Calgary for yah!

Now a days i cont sleep well,and very difficult to sleep early in night, unwanted memories coming again and again my mind not satble to sleep.

My littls son....he still hasn't moved to his room and though he has his own bed besides ours...he loves to pat my cheek as he sleeps and that keeps me awake all night!

I worry a lot. If I hear some bad news, if someone says that I am bad, if someone wants me to go somewhere I do not like (like a senior citizen;s home because he had a stroke and I do not want to go because I would have to spend twenty years after he is gone and cannot afford to buy a small house) or if someone on myLot calls me horrible names, then I will not sleep. I will run over my mind whether I should stay here, or how am I going to get my husband to get better, or I sometimes worry at why I did not get pregnant and what horrible thing I did. Now if all these thoughts happen at the same time, I will not get much sleep.

Hi p1, What keeps me up are the dogs barking, It scared me because I have a couple of cats outside, the rest of are inside. I'm scared that the cat will jump the gate and go on the street. So when I hear the dogs barking I'll get up and see what the dog are barking at. Ever since 3 dogs kill my cat I have not being able to sleep. It it's quite I can. If I heard cats fighting I'll run outside to see if there my cats. My family thinks I'm crazy, they make fun of me. As to how fast I get up. If there is a shooting, I can sleep through that. Other than that, i'm fine.

Moneyproblems and problems with my kids. Those are the two things that could keep me awake at night. So I hope I won't have to much sleepless nights in my future Have a nice day

Hello pikefish, there are times when a herd of stampeding buffalo would not wake me, but often a cooling-motor from a fridge, or the sound of expanding or contracting pipes can wake me, if my sleeping routine is not good. This has been a problem in recent weeks as the humidity was making it difficult to sleep. This left me overtired, which made it even more difficult to sleep and I found myself in a vicious circle, where I was only getting to sleep three hours before I was about to wake up, as I virtully conked out from exhaustion. When I could not sleep I got up and did some work on the computer which only made it worse the next day. However, I am getting back to a good cycle of getting up early, getting out more and reducing my late-night computer activities, so my sleep has definitely improved. Regards Umart

One should understand what is the root cause.Could this be the environment,unfinish job,no solution to your daily problem,money problem,old age or something which is keeping you awake.Next you should discuss this with someone,friends,family just like in here and list down all the possible solutions.Then proceed on how to prevent this from happening and possible long term solution.If all fails,I recommend practising "Gigong" which would likely give you a better control over your mind.