Sleeping is better than being awake

[TimeToBiteTheDust]

I know I shouldn't be alive anymore. I know it's better to dead. Today I realized that after waking up. I didn't like waking up.

 

[Walilamdzi]

Yep I feel the same.

 

[faust]

I don't like falling asleep because then I will have to wake up and I can never predict how I will feel when I do. It is a lottery and sometimes waking up is much worse for me than the whole existence. A kind of a reset with no predictable outcomes.

 

[TheEndIsIrrefutable]

Sleep has always been my most sacred respite from the world, but now I haven't even been able to sleep properly for the last 6 years. It really makes me long for the Eternal Sleep.

 

[GoBack]

Sleep has been always been my most sacred respite from the world, but now I haven't even been able to sleep properly for the last 6 years. It really makes me long for the Eternal Sleep.

Same here, 7, 8 years. Sleep was sacred to me too.

 

[Painless_end]

Sleep has been always been my most sacred respite from the world, but now I haven't even been able to sleep properly for the last 6 years. It really makes me long for the Eternal Sleep.

Same

 

[FluffyDove]

Sleep used to be my escape but now my depression manifests in scary dreams so I cant rest. Or i see my little boys face in my dreams and wake up to reach for him and he's not there. That is an unbearable start to my days.

 

[SerialFailer]

I don't like falling asleep because then I will have to wake up and I can never predict how I will feel when I do. It is a lottery and sometimes waking up is much worse for me than the whole existence. A kind of a reset with no predictable outcomes.

I often said to myself it's like you die every time, the tomorrow you isn't quite the same person as today.
Usually worse, actually.

 

[Epsilon0]

I've had more mornings like this than I can count.

First there's always that initial moment of consciousness when I open my eyes and my mind is still blank for a fraction of a second. Sweet relief!

And then it hits me - the pain, the fatigue, the nausea and the vertigo and there's a silent scream exploding inside me.

I take a deep breath, I turn off the alarm and get up to go to work. I swear, on most days the only thought that gives me strength to "rise and shine" is that cup of Darjeeling tea with a slice of lemon I know is faithfully waiting for me in the kitchen.

 

[TimeToBiteTheDust]

Wish I died while sleeping. I don't fear Freddy Krueger anymore

 

[Epsilon0]

Wish I died while sleeping. I don't fear Freddy Krueger anymore

Your post made me think of that song Don't fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Club.

 

[faust]

I often said to myself it's like you die every time, the tomorrow you isn't quite the same person as today.
Usually worse, actually.

I used to have night manias when I was full of ideas and was doing lots of interesting things. I didn't want to go to bed because I knew all my aspirations, desires, thoughts would be nullified when I wake up. And that was happening long enough. I could feel that it is not me who wakes up, my true personality was dying when I was going to bed.

 

[Epsilon0]

I used to have night manias when I was full of ideas and was doing lots of interesting things. I didn't want to go to bed because I knew all my aspirations, desires, thoughts would be nullified when I wake up. And that was happening long enough. I could feel that it is not me who wakes up, my true personality was dying when I was going to bed.

What's the longest you went without sleep?

 

[faust]

What's the longest you went without sleep?

I did not count but around 3 days, if almost with no sleep (1-2 hours), then weeks. How about you?

 

[Epsilon0]

I did not count but around 3 days, if almost with no sleep (1-2 hours), then weeks. How about you?

Two nights in a row no sleep at all and on the third day I fell asleep sitting in a chair, with my head on the table. But little sleep (a couple of hours here and there) for months on end. Worst period of my life. Insomnia is merciless.

 

[Jumper Geo]

I wish there was a facility where you could sleep for a year that would suit me wake up for a few weeks get drunk and then opt for another year.

 

[faust]

@Epsilon0 Yes, I sometimes had microbursts of sleep when I was not realizing I was sleeping, just like narcolepsy, once had extremely powerful hallucinations too
@Jumper Geo There is such a thing called crionics. After your death, your body is frozen till the better times when you can be revived. That's an interesting idea but who knows how the world will look like if they manage to revive you.

 

[Csmith8827]

That's when you know it's time...

 

[Epsilon0]

@Epsilon0 Yes, I sometimes had microbursts of sleep when I was not realizing I was sleeping, just like narcolepsy, once had extremely powerful hallucinations too
@Jumper Geo There is such a thing called crionics. After your death, your body is frozen till the better times when you can be revived. That's an interesting idea but who knows how the world will look like if they manage to revive you.

It's like that movie Forever Young with Mel Gibson. Nice soundtrack.

 

[Seagirl]

I know I shouldn't be alive anymore. I know it's better to dead. Today I realized that after waking up. I didn't like waking up.

Sleep when asleep is perfect. Its like death, we are not living this horrible life. However, its the terrible dreams for me. I go to bed sonetimes & say where am i going tonight, pls make it peaceful.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

Longest I've been without sleep is one week. That was hidious.
I spent six months with less than one or two hours a night.
Before that I was three years with around four or five hours a night.
I'm better now,by listening to my body,but I'm also living with the mental and physical aftermath of chronic sleep deprivation. I've no doubt it has had a profound and lasting effect on me.
Sleep is indeed sacred. Whatever else assails you, try getting barely any sleep for months on end and you will see everything from an entirely different perspective.

 

[faust]

It's like that movie Forever Young with Mel Gibson. Nice soundtrack.

Have you watched the movie "In Time"?

 

[Good4Nothing]

I start every day in a foul mood, because every morning I wake up and I'm still alive.
It really pisses me off. Why can't I just die in my sleep?
The will to live is gone, but this stupid body keeps hanging on.

 

[Jumper Geo]

@Epsilon0 Yes, I sometimes had microbursts of sleep when I was not realizing I was sleeping, just like narcolepsy, once had extremely powerful hallucinations too
@Jumper Geo There is such a thing called crionics. After your death, your body is frozen till the better times when you can be revived. That's an interesting idea but who knows how the world will look like if they manage to revive you.

Yes that's when you die I just want to sleep a year at a time, I have no intention of dying and then being brought back to life in the future, lol.

 

[Epsilon0]

Have you watched the movie "In Time"?

No. Is it any good?

 

[faust]

Yes that's when you die I just want to sleep a year at a time, I have no intention of dying and then being brought back to life in the future, lol.

In this case only a state of coma can help. If a few days, then barbiturates can help. People who are abusing barbiturates, can sleep a few days

No. Is it any good?

Yes, I liked it, a very nice and unusual concept. You can even draw parallels with our world.

 

[Jumper Geo]

Have you watched the movie "In Time"?

This is the future but at least to ctb you just let the clock run down or forever young.

 

[Deleted member 17949]

Being awake is overrated, I'm never happy when I'm awake

 

[kaz]

I think that for the living there is nothing better than sleeping

 

[Tintypographer]

Do I ever agree with that!!! Nothing is worse than deep dreaming about whatever is better or different than real life then waking up. There is zero in this world that I want to face and sleep is such a fantastic dreamy place to be.

I write and make up things a lot and I imagine what the world would be like if there was a substance you could take that would induce pure sleep for a few hours then slowly shut down all the activity until the last vestiges of consciousness slipping away was sleep and a fading dream. It was a single pill and it was easy and acceptable and peaceful.