Young Writers Society

As the name suggests, write here how many hours you have slept and perhaps also what rating you would give for sleep. Maybe also tell a bit about your sleeping habits.

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Hahaha I’m in this picture and I don’t like it xDD

As the targeted endorsement suggests xP I in fact have a strained relationship with sleep and voted myself a 2. I dream almost nightly, and almost every single one is stressful. T/W for a mention of blood and guns, though I don’t get overly gory.

Last night my dream was that I was trying to go sampling with a friend and we had to go to the storage room in the gym to get our waders and such and there was a basketball game going on and a kid brought a gun in and shot one or his classmates who was on the court. Mass chaos ensued. I can’t remember the details of what happened next but my friend and I somehow ended up being the ones who had to mop up the mess once the crime scene was cleared. By the time all this was over, it was nearly dark and very cold and very windy and we decided to just hold off on sampling until the day after. But then her boss threatened legal repercussions (somehow?) if we didn’t go catch the exact fish that he wanted, tonight. So I woke up about the time that we were looking for a site that we wouldn’t get hurt at working in the dark.

This was after laying in bed legitimately 4 hours trying to fall asleep because I was exhausted and attempting to right my messed up sleep cycle. But no. I just stayed awake despite my best efforts to sleep and then had a stressful dream. So, welcome to my life, I suppose xP we don’t like sleep up in these parts

This thread was specially made for you and @HarryHardy. But my sleep schedule isn´t healthy too. Sleeping only 5 to 6 hours is probably in a long term run bad for the body in general.

I actually quite enjoy your dream. I like these kinds of dreams that are some chaos and action because I just feel so alive after waking up and full of energy.

The problem with falling asleep is probably simple: Your bed should only be used to sleep. Nothing more. If you are on your mobile before sleeping, your brain has that condition of associating bed = mobile and not bed = sleep.

Yeah fair lol

And nice haha I cannot say that I relate. I wake up utterly exhausted because the dreams make me even more stressed than I am baseline and so I don’t rest even though I’m asleep.

Maybe I just need that kind of action and adrenaline. Some dreams are just boring. Like last night I had one. I posted it in another thread.

I dreamed of some weirdly old video game with awful graphics. Harry Potter was the main character but the whole level looked like some dungeon. The music wasn´t great until I found out where I could change the music. The options were also bad designed but I can remember, that the soundtrack was actually good. Except for the two last songs. They sounded too similar.

I feel so tired after these dreams.

Oh, interesting haha it’s been a long long time since I’ve had a dream like that — at least one that I remember. Most of mine are chocked full of cortisol haha

Am I the only person who gets meaningless dreams when I'm really excited?

How so?

Explain yourself.

Why is there no option for 10 hours? There should be one and that should be rated "exceedingly bad" because I normally sleep for 10 hours a day

Incredible! Last night I fell asleep with my lights on and then when I woke up at like 6 just twisted around and buried under the blanket and turned off the light rather than my normal bedtime routine then I woke up at 11 naturally. Then got sleepy at 11:30. And just woke up again at 12:30… so I generally get sleep in. It’s just a wildly maladaptive strategy lolol

It's always funny that I can fall asleep anywhere if I just close my eyes. That can have its advantages but also its disadvantages (on the train). But that's why I try to make myself a little tired with sports, because sleep is just something like your battery that gets empty. That's probably why I sleep so little because my body is not empty enough.

Mm yeah that makes sense. I was like that when I was in undergrad and was regularly only sleeping 4 hours per night haha if I stopped moving I passed out. But these days I'm more scared of sleeping than I am being tired haha can't have nightmares if you don't go to sleep

Haha, true. But isn´t the real nightmare being awake? Dreams are the only place to be happy and have the feeling back that you had the last time in mother´s womb? Oh, now we are going into Sigmund Freud territory. Maybe I should rename this thread to Psychoanalytic Dream Interpretation Thread.

hahaha