{"id":633,"date":"2007-05-15T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T06:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/wordpress\/autisticme\/?p=633"},"modified":"2023-11-26T16:35:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T22:35:09","slug":"struggling-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/2007\/05\/15\/struggling-to-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling to Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I don&#8217;t sleep well at night<\/strong>. I end up sitting in front of the TV, reading, or writing until I&#8217;m too exhausted to keep my eyes open&#8230; but I never seem to just go to bed and sleep like I think other people must do. My wife goes to bed and is asleep within minutes of 10:00.<\/p>\n<p>It is 1:37 at the moment, and I&#8217;m writing this, surfing the Web, playing chess, anything to get tired and fall asleep. I&#8217;ve even taken Tylenol PM on more than one occasion merely to sleep for more than a few hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>During the day, I can sleep<\/strong>. I shut down and sleep to hide from light, noise, and stress. I burrow under my covers, hide my eyes from any light, and sleep. Why can&#8217;t I do that at night?<\/p>\n<p>Being tired all the time is miserable. It makes it difficult to concentrate. I feel like I&#8217;m moving in slow motion, and certainly thinking in slow motion!<\/p>\n<p>Could being sleepy all the time be why I never get the things done I want to finish? Or is there no connection to my productivity and sleep? Maybe there are a dozen other reasons for poor productivity. I&#8217;ll have to write about those, since I have so many reasons each day for not finishing tasks. But usually, I end up needing a nap more than I need to deal with those other reasons for not being productive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t sleep well at night. I end up sitting in front of the TV, reading, or writing until I&#8217;m too exhausted to keep my eyes open&#8230; but I never seem to just go to bed and sleep like I think other people must do. My wife goes to bed&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/2007\/05\/15\/struggling-to-sleep\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Struggling to Sleep<\/span> <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[171,296,381,645,678],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-writing","tag-concentration","tag-focus","tag-insomnia","tag-sleep","tag-stress","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/12\/Podcast-HD-1920x1080-comp-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfivLC-ad","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3943,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/3943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}