I get sleepy

[Nuzzolese]

I have a hard time staying awake during movies that I watch at home, at night, when I've had something to eat and I'm curled up on the couch in a blanket in the dark. To me, being full, warm, and in the dark is like an express train to Dreamland. It doesn't matter how much I want to watch the movie. And if I were doing something active instead, like playing video games or baking cookies, I wouldn't even feel tired.

This is causing problems in my life, though. And some people can't understand why I'm falling asleep, why it's so hard for me to stay awake. They assume it's because I'm just bored with the movie or something, or that I'm a big selfish jerk who doesn't care about other people, and about doing things together. Ohhhh, the derision I get! "SOMEbody SLEPT through it!" they'll sneer. As if the movie was a curious little toddler wandering over the edge of a cliff and I'm criminal to have ignored it. It wasn't my fault, I swear! I was drugged by snacks and blankets and extinquished lights and I had to get up early, okay!?

Now, turning the lights on is completely out. I've tried not being warm but then I'm just destracted by the cold and I get sleepy anyway. I could avoid eating anything, but snacking is really part of the whole experience, apparently, and declining food is second only to sleeping in home video mutinous traitorship.

[Rock]

Maybe it's your couch and only your couch? I cannot watch any television on my couch because it has the tylenol PM effect on me. I can be hungry or stuffed, it can be day or night, sleepy or wide awake, interested or not interested in what is on the bewb tewb. I am out within 20 minutes, guaranteed.

Are you sitting down with legs stretched out or lying down whilst watching said movies?

[paul jones]

just watch the movie in parts as if it were 3 or 4 half hour parts.Half an hour a day

[Nuzzolese]

It doesn't really matter how I'm positioned. I could be on the floor, even. I've tried all kinds of things. It helps if I can move around and talk during it, but that disturbs things. And it doesn't help that much.

The only solution we've worked out is that someone will periodically kick me, which is really annoying so then I get crabby not only because I'm sleepy but because somebody keeps kicking me. Then I'm the bitch and I ruin every night. And I do. I get real bitchy. I say "fuck" a lot. Sometimes the kick starts coming at my head just as it's bobbing downward and I land it right on the incoming kick and then it hurts and I get extra mad.

I've been told that I only NEED five or six hours of sleep. To want more is greedy and excessive. And if I really tried, and really cared, and was a decent person, then I'd stay awake, dammit!!

[Nuzzolese]

Maybe it's your couch and only your couch? I cannot watch any television on my couch because it has the tylenol PM effect on me. I can be hungry or stuffed, it can be day or night, sleepy or wide awake, interested or not interested in what is on the bewb tewb. I am out within 20 minutes, guaranteed.


Isn't this what we want in a couch, though? Maybe not so strong an effect, but everyone wants a couch you can sleep comfortably on. Some nights, you're going to have to sleep on the couch.

[Rock]

Isn't this what we want in a couch, though? Maybe not so strong an effect, but everyone wants a couch you can sleep comfortably on. Some nights, you're going to have to sleep on the couch.

Believe me, I'm not complaining about my couch. There actually was a time recently where I didn't use my bed for about 3 weeks because i would sleep on it. Jennifer Convertibles...I thank thee and your oh so sweet couch and love seat made with me in mind to sleep on.

[Laserface]

i get that too. television always has a soporific effect on me.
though i don't judged for it, so it's cool.

[sab0tage]

I get a hard time for it too - it just can't be prevented though

[Nuzzolese]

There ought to be a support group for people who conk out in front of the TV. Because the rest of the world just doesn't understand us, and they have no sympathy.

It's gotten worse for me, because now I start to fall asleep in movie theaters, too. This is really disturbing because there's a huge screen, surround sound, and I paid to get in so obviously it's something I really wanted to see. And I don't pay for movies unless it's going to be worth it on a big screen, so these are action movies usually. I started catching myself with my eyes closed toward the ends of Transformers, Terminator, and Harry Potter and the half blood prince. Luckily, no one caught me. I would have gotten so much shit for that.

[Adam]

switch it back on them - say you have a problem, you're narcoleptic and that you're embarrassed about it and you think bringing it up all the time is a pretty douchey thing to do - insensitive arseholses. Then you have a trouble free life of taking a nap in most situations. But it does mean having to lie for the rest of your life, but I would for an easy life

interrupting my nap just cus I find my friends boring - I'd explode !

[b i o n i c]

maybe you have sleep apnea? my dad was the king of the nodding head in front of the tv till he got that treated

[Nuzzolese]

My breathing is fine. Sleep Apnea is when you stop breathing while you're asleep.

[hpdrifter]

I need 8-9 hours of sleep a night or I'm a zombie. I'd be falling asleep in front of the frickin' TV too.

[mickill]

My dad has sleep apnea. He sleeps with some kind of breathing apparatus.

You could try chugging a couple of Red Bulls before you watch your movies.

[hpdrifter]

Man, I'm kinda falling asleep right now.

[Nuzzolese]

I'll carry you up to bed later.

I wake up at around 6:20 or 6:45 depending on how tired I feel. But most of the time, we don't even start the movies until after 11 PM. I think that's unreasonable, do you?

[Helvete]

I go through stages where I think I have a sleeping disorder. I'd get a good 8 hours sleep of a night, and then be extremely tired by around 5pm and really want to sleep. But then by the time it comes to around midnight I can't sleep and end up staying awake until 4-5am.

Although for the last 2 weeks I've been getting up at 5am for work and being completely exhausted by 10pm. Had to sacrifice going out tonight because of this, should be good for tomorrow though!