"giant f***ing Q..."

so, i am, in my being, a true insomniac

as i now have some form of a cold/flu combination, i decided to nyquil last night.

nyquil works wonders for my family.  and my friends.  everyone has suggested this to me the last few days as im fighting something icky.

but, in the true nature of stacy-being-backwards, it made me anxious.  i was up for an extra 4 hours and woke up at 5am.

medications often work backwards on me or just not at all.  unfortunately this applies to my sleeping too.  the one thing thats supposed to make me sleep made me anxious.

so back to the drawing board on what is wrong with me.  im thinking of visiting the mental part of my sleep habits and see that if maybe something as simple as "liking night more than day" plays a subliminal part in this.

and as im currently unemployed & looking, a night job may be on the agenda to balance out someone "backwards" like me...  :)

Too doggone tired!!

I had to postpone project: sleep deprivation until next week. With the July 4th holiday & all, i havent had a legitimate way to measure my sleep. Ive also been dogsitting for 5 days.

When i dogsit these dogs, and i do often, they wake me up several times a night to go out. They also have a pretty serious schedule & eat and go out at 5:30 on thr dot! They are very punctual.

Even thru the day, napping isnt possible. Soooo..... Starting next week. But i have found some sites worth noting & i will still start with removing parasites to see what happens.

Im also going to start a sleep log to figure out whst im actually working with here in the first place. Very broken, very light, & very sporadic sleep patterns....

nightmares: day 1

so last night i tried to sleep "early"... 1am.  i woke up a little after 2am.  and couldn't get back to sleep.  i did doze off but woke up again in the 3am something range...  i dreamt a lot.  but didnt really sleep a lot.

i tried to take a nap today which was a lot of the same - waking up, not really sleeping and dreams.  but lately my dreams have been a bit nightmarish and i end up waking up.  but even with normal dreams, i still wake up.

i also looked for pumpkin seeds today and did not find any :(  i will look again tonight.

Parasite Cleanse?

through the years ive gotten lots of advice on how to get my sleeping back on track.  i've also read lots of articles, books etc...

my first "project: sleep deprived" entry is going to be about the most recent cause that i read about - parasites.

i dont know if a parasite can really cause as much sleep trouble as i've had for the last 10 years, but its all experimental and part of this project.  so lets look...

i google'd "parasite sleep"... i got a lot of info.  and for the record, parasites are gross.  and it makes me freaked out that this may be happening inside of me!  :0   and probably you too!!  gross!!

so, starting tomorrow, 7/3/12, ill start trying to rid myself of these parasites.  ill also keep track of my sleep to see if theres a correlation.

you can try herbal remedies or something as simple as pumpkin seeds. i will be careful though what i use.  nothing weird i buy off the internet.  and i dont know the order of cleanses having to do with parasites.  i know that most cleanses start with the colon first and then move on to kidney, etc.  i ASSUME the same applies here but haven't looked that up yet... 

conclusion:  "project sleep deprived" starts tomorrow.  :)