Sleep how is yours?

Getting too little sleep creates a "sleep debt," which is much like being overdrawn at a bank. Eventually, your body will demand that the debt be repaid. We don't seem to adapt to getting less sleep than we need; while we may get used to a sleep-depriving schedule, our judgment, reaction time, and other functions are still impaired.


People tend to sleep more lightly and for shorter time spans as they get older, although they generally need about the same amount of sleep as they needed in early adulthood.

About half of all people over 65 have frequent sleeping problems, such as insomnia, and deep sleep stages in many elderly people often become very short or stop completely. This change may be a normal part of aging, or it may result from medical problems that are common in elderly people and from the medications and other treatments for those problems.

About 8 hours a night...no problems.

Except when I dream about the horror that is women drivers.

not good!!!
by 10pm I am exhausted but can never seem to relax enough to fall asleep. I admit I am stressed all the time and can never relax anyway.
I usually finally fall asleep around 1am and then get up around 8am. This has been going on since last summer of 2003, almost a year now. So I can imagine how much sleep I have actually lost in a year...
my mother suggests tylenolPM....any other suggestions?