What type of insomniac are you?

I've tried every thing to get a whole nights sleep to no avail. I slept for England till the day I was 50, now haven't slept for more than2 hours in a row for the last 6 years. That is during normal night time hours - I have discovered that if I'm able to fall asleep about 5 or6am I can get 4 hours in a row and get up at 10am. So that's ok on days when I don't have to go to work. I've gone through the menopause now but the sleep problem still remains, anyone got any good news about when it returns to something like normal?

I wake with with a jump from a vaguely unpleasant dream around 4.00am, or just drift awake at that time and then cant get back to see, my mind does not yammer, I do not worry about problems real or imaginary. My mind just drifts from one topic to another, something I have read in the paper, heard on the radio or on Gransnet, none of it of importance.

When this happens I retire to another bedroom taking a small portable radio with me and turn it on very low so that it provides a background murmur. If that doesn't work I read a book I have read before until I am fighting to keep my eyes open, the radio will also be murmuring on. 99 times in a 100 that works. On the 100 occasion I just get up, go downstairs and start my day.

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