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Antagony · 06-06-2003, 02:15 AM

Suffer from occassional or chronic insomnia?

Ever feel that sleep is a silly waste of time?

Would you like a way to vent your frustrations about your inability to sleep?

Do you have a late-night job with computer and no one to talk to?

Need a companion to share conversation with until you go back to your mundane daily grind?

Do you have a strange body clock that hinders your ability to interact with others?

The Insomniac Club is the place for you. We will group together and attempt to entertain each other in those twilight hours.

We'll start here. For now, let's just post in this thread, and maybe add something to your sig. But I'd like to take it a bit further. We can make efforts to be on IRC at certain times. Perhaps have an insomniac buddy list via AIM or ICQ or something so we can find other night-dwellers to chat with.

Post ideas here.

If I get enough response, perhaps I'll build us a little website.

Piggybacked this idea from another message board. That insomniac organization died out. We'll have a better one anyway.

Double D · 06-06-2003, 11:02 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Antagony
Suffer from occassional or chronic insomnia?
YES
Ever feel that sleep is a silly waste of time?
SOMETIMES
Would you like a way to vent your frustrations about your inability to sleep?
SURE
Do you have a late-night job with computer and no one to talk to?
SORT OF
Need a companion to share conversation with until you go back to your mundane daily grind?
DEFINATELY
Do you have a strange body clock that hinders your ability to interact with others?
ABSOLUTELY

Post ideas here..

I just woke up. Can I get back to you on the generating *ideas* part?

icy_ca · 06-06-2003, 12:21 PM

Used to be an amateur Insomniac until my son came along a year ago...!

Antagony · 06-06-2003, 03:17 PM

Surely there are more stirrings of interest than this . . .

Anyway, my initial ideas for the website -- Profile areas, where we can easily find ways to contact each other in the wee hours. These would include links to our various TFP journals, perhaps. We could have a community posting of links to sites and media for us to go over in our sleeplessness.

I don't know, whatever else you guys can think up.

Minx · 06-06-2003, 03:59 PM

I'll come back and see you....oh say at about 3 am mst

juanvaldes · 06-06-2003, 04:37 PM

unitl a few weeks ago it was rare we would goto bed around 2am then I would finally fall asleep between 4-7am.

Last summer I would goto bed after the sun rose and sleep last into the afternoon.

I'm pretty good now, would die if I had to do my class with no sleep.

WhoaitsZ · 06-06-2003, 05:06 PM

i've been an insomniac for year.

however I currently have no way to get to my pc when in bed.

damn the luck.

onesnowyowl · 06-06-2003, 05:21 PM

I have the hardest time going to sleep at night, but during the day I can just roll over and go to sleep whenever I want, so I'm starting to think sleeping at night is a waste of time. I've tried not taking naps, but if I do, I still don't sleep at night and I just get grumpy. Fortunately for the most part my schedule allows me to sleep when I want

TFP is my insomniac club...what else do I do when I'm not sleeping! LOL

Sign me up.

Feel free to msg me on AIM if I'm awake at odd hours...onesnowyowl (go figure!)

HockeyGuy · 06-06-2003, 07:07 PM

Sorry this club won't work for me.. i sleep 24/7.. i'm the opposite.. if ever any of you want to enter my dreams though.. .uhhh. nevermind

madsenj37 · 06-06-2003, 07:43 PM

I am not exactly an insomniac ... I have a hard time going to sleep, but once I am asleep, forget about it. I dont always get enough sleep though.

MSD · 06-06-2003, 08:24 PM

I'm in. Up 'till 2 or 3 every night, sometimes 6 or 7 in the morning.

rainincarnate · 06-06-2003, 08:48 PM

I drink alot of caffeine alcohol drinks at the weekend -- hence im on here alot late at nite. Dunno if thats insomnia or...er .....something lese - but i cant sleep

spectre · 06-06-2003, 10:18 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Antagony
Suffer from occassional or chronic insomnia?

Yes.

Quote:

Originally posted by Antagony
Ever feel that sleep is a silly waste of time?

Yes.

Quote:

Originally posted by Antagony
Would you like a way to vent your frustrations about your inability to sleep?

I've already vented about this in my journal.

Quote:

Originally posted by Antagony
Do you have a late-night job with computer and no one to talk to?

Nope to the late night job, but I'm usually up late and online.

Quote:

Originally posted by Antagony
Need a companion to share conversation with until you go back to your mundane daily grind?

Yes.

Quote:

Originally posted by Antagony
Do you have a strange body clock that hinders your ability to interact with others?

Somewhat, I'm usually up early and in bed late.

QuasiMojo · 06-06-2003, 10:35 PM

I'm game.

that is if I'm not sleeping fitfully. enveloped in the sweet arms of feathered slumber, drrooling uncontrollably as I surrender to that nocturnal inebriation called sleep.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
zz.

GHRAHZ!!!!!!!!

freakin' apnea.

lets do it.

Antagony · 06-06-2003, 10:46 PM

Oh yeah, I haven't shared my insomnia story --

I'm a chronic insomniac. I've had it as long as I can remember. Even when I was 7 or 8 I remember not being able to sleep. I would get up, and tip-toe through the hall with a pillow. Then I would duck low behind the couch, and lay down in view of the TV that my parents were watching.

I did that countless times, but was only caught on a few occassions. I tried to tell them that I couldn't sleep and I got bored, but my parents didn't really listen.

QuasiMojo · 06-06-2003, 10:58 PM

I wonder what the cause(s) of your insommnia could be Antagony.

For myself, when I can't sleep it is generally because I've hit the sack with a question or a prob on my mind that I haven't reconciled....so there I am-spinning.
eyes close. psyche goes.
By the way have you ever heard of "Sleep Paralysis"?

Antagony · 06-06-2003, 11:21 PM

There's really a plethora of possibilities of what could be the root of my insomnia. Could be physiological (like a chemical inbalance), or psychological (like chronic depression), or a number of things. I don't worry about it too much, I just consider a part of me.

I hadn't heard of "sleep paralysis" until you mentioned it, but I looked it up and did a bit of reading on it. Very interesting.

Why do you ask about sleep paralysis? Do you experience it?

XenuHubbard · 06-06-2003, 11:33 PM

I'm definetely in. I hate those days when sleep has been impossible, and I walk around in a daze.

If anyone hears of a Fight Club in Taiwan, its probably me.

phredgreen · 06-06-2003, 11:37 PM

okay... i just got my official VIP card to the insomnia club...

it's called a job that dosen't start til noon.

i've always had tendencies to stay up disgustingly late. strange birds, we be.

Antagony · 06-06-2003, 11:55 PM

Yessss . . . the ranks of our army are growing.

But still no suggestions for our organization?

vermin · 06-07-2003, 12:56 AM

I'm in (note the time).

I typed a bunch of stuff here, then re-thought about it. The rambling I cut and pasted to my journal if you're interested (I strayed WAY off topic).

QuasiMojo · 06-07-2003, 01:14 AM

Quote:

Why do you ask about sleep paralysis? Do you experience it?

Yes I have. And at times I still do. Strangest goddamn thing.
frickin' subject could stand it's own thread.
Imagine...you're sleeping- then all of a sudden your closed eyes open...but they are not open.
And you know it.
your field of vision is filled with daylight lucid images. streaming impossible images. You know you are in your bed. lying down but your brain feels like it has been plugged into some live wire- electrified and throbbing and you fight with all your might to open your eyes. And when you do, it is only for a moment and you slip back into this...electrified sub-consciesness. All night this goes on.
fighting for sleep.

usually this sleep/dream/hyperreal state had occured during periods of great stress and I think it was my minds way of escaping.
Ohhh I could go on and on....sorry I don't wanna hijack this great thread. but I would be curious if anyone else has experienced this.

Double D · 06-07-2003, 01:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Antagony
Yessss . . . the ranks of our army are growing.

But still no suggestions for our organization?

Hey Antagony,

Okay, this isn't a suggestion per se, but are our troops gonna consider time zones? I'm in Central....and I'm not sleeping right now.

Halx · 06-07-2003, 01:44 AM

be in bed i should
an electrician coming at 7:30am he is
still fully clothed I am

QuasiMojo · 06-07-2003, 01:54 AM

How, Hi are you?

Up I am
against the wall.
Eastern born.

beyond belief.

Antagony · 06-07-2003, 02:20 AM

Double D:

Time zones are very much a consideration of mine. We have many international folk on the TFP as I have discovered through the IRC channel. I'll be saying "Good afternoon" when other TFPers are saying "I'm going to bed!"

And for reference, I too am in the Central time zone.

Dorkums642 · 06-07-2003, 03:13 AM

I work all night

It's great. I've always hated going to bed early PM. I always felt like I was sleeping life away. Now, I sleep when everyone I know is at work and things work out real well. I wake up around noon and can get all my errands done that I wouldn't be able to do with a day shift. I also don't sleep nearly as much when I work all night and I don't even notice.

I'll join the club! I'm not always able to be at a computer at regular times at night so I can't suggest a group activity but this thread is great entertainment for now.

That sleep paralysis idea is pretty believable. I think that's what I get when I'm sick. I have crazy fucked up dreams that I am almost completely conscious of but not aware or able to do anything about. I've had that as long as I remember. Also, when I expose myself to something really new (video game or a job) that I put a lot of time into, then I'll have crazy sleeping but awake dreams about whatever it is.

anyway, it's nice to see I'm not entirely alone at night

onesnowyowl · 06-07-2003, 03:20 AM

Pacific time here...and I'm still up...yay...

06-06-2003, 02:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
Antagony Psychopathic Akimbo Action Pirate Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: ...between Christ and Belial.	Join the Insomniac Club Suffer from occassional or chronic insomnia? Ever feel that sleep is a silly waste of time? Would you like a way to vent your frustrations about your inability to sleep? Do you have a late-night job with computer and no one to talk to? Need a companion to share conversation with until you go back to your mundane daily grind? Do you have a strange body clock that hinders your ability to interact with others? The Insomniac Club is the place for you. We will group together and attempt to entertain each other in those twilight hours. We'll start here. For now, let's just post in this thread, and maybe add something to your sig. But I'd like to take it a bit further. We can make efforts to be on IRC at certain times. Perhaps have an insomniac buddy list via AIM or ICQ or something so we can find other night-dwellers to chat with. Post ideas here. If I get enough response, perhaps I'll build us a little website. Piggybacked this idea from another message board. That insomniac organization died out. We'll have a better one anyway. __________________ On the outside I'm jazz, but my soul is rock and roll. Sleep is a waste of time. Join the Insomniac Club. "GYOH GWAH-DAH GREH BLAAA! SROH WIH DIH FLIH RYOHH!!" - The Locust

06-06-2003, 12:21 PM	#3 (permalink)
icy_ca Insane Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Steel Town, Ontario	Used to be an amateur Insomniac until my son came along a year ago...! __________________ After all is said and done, more is said than done.

06-06-2003, 03:17 PM	#4 (permalink)
Antagony Psychopathic Akimbo Action Pirate Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: ...between Christ and Belial.	Surely there are more stirrings of interest than this . . . Anyway, my initial ideas for the website -- Profile areas, where we can easily find ways to contact each other in the wee hours. These would include links to our various TFP journals, perhaps. We could have a community posting of links to sites and media for us to go over in our sleeplessness. I don't know, whatever else you guys can think up. __________________ On the outside I'm jazz, but my soul is rock and roll. Sleep is a waste of time. Join the Insomniac Club. "GYOH GWAH-DAH GREH BLAAA! SROH WIH DIH FLIH RYOHH!!" - The Locust

06-06-2003, 03:59 PM	#5 (permalink)
Minx Junkie Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Up yonder	I'll come back and see you....oh say at about 3 am mst __________________ You've been a naughty boy....go to my room!

06-06-2003, 05:21 PM	#8 (permalink)
onesnowyowl feeling evil Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Corvallis, Oregon	I have the hardest time going to sleep at night, but during the day I can just roll over and go to sleep whenever I want, so I'm starting to think sleeping at night is a waste of time. I've tried not taking naps, but if I do, I still don't sleep at night and I just get grumpy. Fortunately for the most part my schedule allows me to sleep when I want TFP is my insomniac club...what else do I do when I'm not sleeping! LOL Sign me up. Feel free to msg me on AIM if I'm awake at odd hours...onesnowyowl (go figure!) __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

06-06-2003, 04:37 PM	#6 (permalink)
juanvaldes Banned Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: shittown, CA	unitl a few weeks ago it was rare we would goto bed around 2am then I would finally fall asleep between 4-7am. Last summer I would goto bed after the sun rose and sleep last into the afternoon. I'm pretty good now, would die if I had to do my class with no sleep.

06-06-2003, 05:06 PM	#7 (permalink)
WhoaitsZ Banned Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: right behind you...	i've been an insomniac for year. however I currently have no way to get to my pc when in bed. damn the luck.

06-06-2003, 07:07 PM	#9 (permalink)
HockeyGuy Psycho Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: London, England	Sorry this club won't work for me.. i sleep 24/7.. i'm the opposite.. if ever any of you want to enter my dreams though.. .uhhh. nevermind

06-06-2003, 07:43 PM	#10 (permalink)
madsenj37 Still searching... Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: NorCal For Life	I am not exactly an insomniac ... I have a hard time going to sleep, but once I am asleep, forget about it. I dont always get enough sleep though. __________________ "Only two things are certain: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe." -- Albert Einstein

06-06-2003, 08:24 PM	#11 (permalink)
MSD Super Moderator Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: CT	I'm in. Up 'till 2 or 3 every night, sometimes 6 or 7 in the morning.

06-06-2003, 08:48 PM	#12 (permalink)
rainincarnate Rookie Join Date: May 2003	I drink alot of caffeine alcohol drinks at the weekend -- hence im on here alot late at nite. Dunno if thats insomnia or...er .....something lese - but i cant sleep

06-06-2003, 10:35 PM	#14 (permalink)
QuasiMojo King Knave Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Lancaster	I'm game. that is if I'm not sleeping fitfully. enveloped in the sweet arms of feathered slumber, drrooling uncontrollably as I surrender to that nocturnal inebriation called sleep. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. zz. GHRAHZ!!!!!!!! freakin' apnea. lets do it. __________________ AzAbOv ZoBeLoE

06-06-2003, 10:46 PM	#15 (permalink)
Antagony Psychopathic Akimbo Action Pirate Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: ...between Christ and Belial.	Oh yeah, I haven't shared my insomnia story -- I'm a chronic insomniac. I've had it as long as I can remember. Even when I was 7 or 8 I remember not being able to sleep. I would get up, and tip-toe through the hall with a pillow. Then I would duck low behind the couch, and lay down in view of the TV that my parents were watching. I did that countless times, but was only caught on a few occassions. I tried to tell them that I couldn't sleep and I got bored, but my parents didn't really listen. __________________ On the outside I'm jazz, but my soul is rock and roll. Sleep is a waste of time. Join the Insomniac Club. "GYOH GWAH-DAH GREH BLAAA! SROH WIH DIH FLIH RYOHH!!" - The Locust

06-06-2003, 10:58 PM	#16 (permalink)
QuasiMojo King Knave Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Lancaster	I wonder what the cause(s) of your insommnia could be Antagony. For myself, when I can't sleep it is generally because I've hit the sack with a question or a prob on my mind that I haven't reconciled....so there I am-spinning. eyes close. psyche goes. By the way have you ever heard of "Sleep Paralysis"? __________________ AzAbOv ZoBeLoE

06-06-2003, 11:21 PM	#17 (permalink)
Antagony Psychopathic Akimbo Action Pirate Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: ...between Christ and Belial.	There's really a plethora of possibilities of what could be the root of my insomnia. Could be physiological (like a chemical inbalance), or psychological (like chronic depression), or a number of things. I don't worry about it too much, I just consider a part of me. I hadn't heard of "sleep paralysis" until you mentioned it, but I looked it up and did a bit of reading on it. Very interesting. Why do you ask about sleep paralysis? Do you experience it? __________________ On the outside I'm jazz, but my soul is rock and roll. Sleep is a waste of time. Join the Insomniac Club. "GYOH GWAH-DAH GREH BLAAA! SROH WIH DIH FLIH RYOHH!!" - The Locust

06-06-2003, 11:33 PM	#18 (permalink)
XenuHubbard Cute and Cuddly Join Date: May 2003 Location: Teegeeack.	I'm definetely in. I hate those days when sleep has been impossible, and I walk around in a daze. If anyone hears of a Fight Club in Taiwan, its probably me. __________________ The above was written by a true prophet. Trust me. "What doesn't kill you, makes you bitter and paranoid". - SB2000

06-06-2003, 11:37 PM	#19 (permalink)
phredgreen who? Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: the phoenix metro	okay... i just got my official VIP card to the insomnia club... it's called a job that dosen't start til noon. i've always had tendencies to stay up disgustingly late. strange birds, we be. __________________ My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. - Thomas Paine

06-06-2003, 11:55 PM	#20 (permalink)
Antagony Psychopathic Akimbo Action Pirate Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: ...between Christ and Belial.	Yessss . . . the ranks of our army are growing. But still no suggestions for our organization? __________________ On the outside I'm jazz, but my soul is rock and roll. Sleep is a waste of time. Join the Insomniac Club. "GYOH GWAH-DAH GREH BLAAA! SROH WIH DIH FLIH RYOHH!!" - The Locust Last edited by Antagony; 06-07-2003 at 12:03 AM.

06-07-2003, 12:56 AM	#21 (permalink)
vermin Indifferent to anti-matter Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Tucson, AZ	I'm in (note the time). I typed a bunch of stuff here, then re-thought about it. The rambling I cut and pasted to my journal if you're interested (I strayed WAY off topic). __________________ If puns were sausages, this would be the wurst.

06-07-2003, 01:44 AM	#24 (permalink)
Halx Please touch this. Owner/Admin Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Manhattan	be in bed i should an electrician coming at 7:30am he is still fully clothed I am __________________ - Hal(x) "But suppose everybody on our side felt that way." "Then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way. Wouldn't I?" [Read Me]

06-07-2003, 01:54 AM	#25 (permalink)
QuasiMojo King Knave Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Lancaster	How, Hi are you? Up I am against the wall. Eastern born. beyond belief. __________________ AzAbOv ZoBeLoE

06-07-2003, 02:20 AM	#26 (permalink)
Antagony Psychopathic Akimbo Action Pirate Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: ...between Christ and Belial.	Double D: Time zones are very much a consideration of mine. We have many international folk on the TFP as I have discovered through the IRC channel. I'll be saying "Good afternoon" when other TFPers are saying "I'm going to bed!" And for reference, I too am in the Central time zone. __________________ On the outside I'm jazz, but my soul is rock and roll. Sleep is a waste of time. Join the Insomniac Club. "GYOH GWAH-DAH GREH BLAAA! SROH WIH DIH FLIH RYOHH!!" - The Locust

06-07-2003, 03:13 AM	#27 (permalink)
Dorkums642 Junkie Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Twilight Alehouse	I work all night It's great. I've always hated going to bed early PM. I always felt like I was sleeping life away. Now, I sleep when everyone I know is at work and things work out real well. I wake up around noon and can get all my errands done that I wouldn't be able to do with a day shift. I also don't sleep nearly as much when I work all night and I don't even notice. I'll join the club! I'm not always able to be at a computer at regular times at night so I can't suggest a group activity but this thread is great entertainment for now. That sleep paralysis idea is pretty believable. I think that's what I get when I'm sick. I have crazy fucked up dreams that I am almost completely conscious of but not aware or able to do anything about. I've had that as long as I remember. Also, when I expose myself to something really new (video game or a job) that I put a lot of time into, then I'll have crazy sleeping but awake dreams about whatever it is. anyway, it's nice to see I'm not entirely alone at night __________________ I've never come across this in real life, but then I went to a small liberal arts college so that probably didn't help.

06-07-2003, 03:20 AM	#28 (permalink)
onesnowyowl feeling evil Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Corvallis, Oregon	Pacific time here...and I'm still up...yay... __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau