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Celebrities With Sleep Problems

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While celebrities often seem immune to many of the health problems that plague us here in normal-town -- do they ever not look fabulous in a bikini? And when has someone ever walked the red carpet with a cold? -- there are several famous faces who have opened up about an important health issue that can lead to a host of serious complications: They can't sleep!
According to the National Sleep Foundation, 60 percent of Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 experience a sleep problem every night or almost every night, and 43 percent say they rarely or never get a good night's sleep on weeknights.



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ONTD do you have trouble sleeping? What helps you fall asleep?

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sayanythinglove 7th-Mar-2012 04:45 am (UTC)
Explosions in the Sky is like Ambien for your ears. I put all their songs on shuffle and I'm passed out for good.
roxas39 7th-Mar-2012 06:35 am (UTC)
Same<3
gracemym 7th-Mar-2012 04:45 am (UTC)
i listen to fix you by coldplay or watch twilight and i fall sleep whitin seconds, it's like magic
chihaya19 calming-ish music?7th-Mar-2012 04:45 am (UTC)



britty_stitches Re: calming-ish music?7th-Mar-2012 04:49 am (UTC)
OMG Im seeing this John Park guy everywhere right now. Is he a new artist?
chihaya19 Re: calming-ish music?7th-Mar-2012 04:51 am (UTC)
idk he was on american idol but i saw him recommended on some tumblr and i was bored.
hedgerowbustle 7th-Mar-2012 04:46 am (UTC)
It takes me hours to fall asleep. Last night I went to bed at midnight, didn't fall asleep until after 3!

Of course, during the daytime I doze off easily. Typical.
maeh 7th-Mar-2012 04:46 am (UTC)
It's 5:40AM here and I haven't slept yet. My sleep pattern is fucked up, I'm RARELY well-rested (no matter how long do I sleep), I sleep very light (and NEED to be perfectly comfortable to even attempt to sleep) and have an overactive imagination. My thoughts keep me up even when I'm exhausted, plus I dream intensively all night - up to a few different scenarios one night. The longer I sleep, the worse the dreams turn out - even if they start funny/sexy, when I'll be trying to sleep for a few solid hours it starts to get disturbing fast.

tl;dr I'm a fucking zombie, barely bearable sometimes.
vickyblueeyez 7th-Mar-2012 04:47 am (UTC)
5:46 where I am. Where you at? Italy here.
maeh 7th-Mar-2012 04:52 am (UTC)
Poland.

Ciao, just came back from a semester in Cagliari three weeks ago.
maeh 7th-Mar-2012 04:50 am (UTC)
What helps me is being very drunk or it being that time of the month (so, so tired then). Or just waiting till I crash out of exhaustion during the next days, but I have to hit the bed the moment I feel I'm crashing or it'll pass.

Insomnia sucks when you have low blood pressure and are sleepy/tired most of the time anyway.
sastra_fuss 7th-Mar-2012 04:46 am (UTC)
i don't have a problem getting to sleep, but wake up several times. sometimes i'll jolt awake and sit up for no reason. maybe my body thinks it's time to wake up at 3am
sugary_placenta 7th-Mar-2012 04:53 am (UTC)
i'll wake up randomly for no reason, too. i wonder why that happens.
vickyblueeyez 7th-Mar-2012 04:46 am (UTC)
I also can't go the sleep angry which seems to happen a lot. Either whatever needs to be resolved or I dwell on it all night. I've tried cutting off the internet an hour before bed so that I won't get worked up over anything but I always stay on until bed.
adb7 7th-Mar-2012 04:46 am (UTC)
I thought my sleep problems would kill me but it all changed a year ago. I'm not sure what happened, less stress in life I guess. I used to stay up for days or at least until I felt that sick, shaky feeling from not sleeping.
rampant_geekery 7th-Mar-2012 04:46 am (UTC)
I usually just masturbate and that helps. :P
snowweisz 7th-Mar-2012 04:48 am (UTC)
I feel conflicted about this. Because I know for sure it'd help me sleep, but I absolutely hate it when I fall asleep before I'm done.
gee 7th-Mar-2012 04:51 am (UTC)
It makes me tired for like 5 minutes then I go back to normal awake mode :(
hershelwalker 7th-Mar-2012 04:56 am (UTC)
yep
roxas39 7th-Mar-2012 06:37 am (UTC)
lol same
stormer1_1 7th-Mar-2012 04:46 am (UTC)
I sleep too much lately. I think it's the depression.
sadisticsidhe 7th-Mar-2012 04:47 am (UTC)
I don't have trouble sleeping most of the time, but I have trouble with my sleep schedule. I am a night owl which worked well during undergrad and grad school but working is fucking me over because I'm not used to going to bed this early.

I can be weird about where I sleep. Like I need to have some sort of white noise (preferably a fan) and absolute darkness but I've also fallen asleep standing up on a Tokyo bus and once during a final exam so... I guess it depends how tired I am?
hershelwalker 7th-Mar-2012 04:47 am (UTC)
this is really tl;dr but so freaky/interesting. our english teacher read this to us in 8th grade, lol.

http://www.tengaged.com/blog/Beautiful/189125/russian-sleep-experiment-o
britty_stitches 7th-Mar-2012 04:52 am (UTC)
I was legit considering posting this in the creepy post hours ago...now Im really creeped out that you posted it. lol.
hershelwalker 7th-Mar-2012 04:54 am (UTC)
I was actually thinking about it too. oooooo
kapuki234 7th-Mar-2012 05:48 am (UTC)
omg why?
deja_vu822 7th-Mar-2012 06:20 am (UTC)
is this real? the first time i read it was on tumblr so i just assumed it was particularly good creepypasta
ragged_edges 7th-Mar-2012 04:48 am (UTC)
My sleep schedule used to be so messed up. Here are my tips fellow insomniacs:

Now I'm on a consistent schedule though and it REALLY helps. I go to bed at 11:30p and wake up at 6:30a (the latest I sleep is 8:30a).
I don't drink caffeine (or alcohol) after 7p.
I fall asleep watching Netflix and my computer is set to go into hibernate after 45 minutes (which I'm already asleep by).
callingstars 7th-Mar-2012 04:48 am (UTC)
I need the TV on to fall asleep as well. That and a sleep mask, because my room has no curtains and it's bright as shit in the morning.
squirrelsarerad any reccuring dreams?7th-Mar-2012 04:48 am (UTC)
my favorite one was that I was at my grandparents place, and I was being chased around the house by a flying eggbeater that was on fire. I ran down the street with this scary eggbeater chasing me, and I always ended up in this preschool where Barney was teaching aerobics.

It was fucking awful, but I had that one a lot when I was younger lmao.
bob_always_wins Re: any reccuring dreams?7th-Mar-2012 04:49 am (UTC)
I used to have one where I was chased through Blockbuster by zombies. Always scared the shit out of me.
raised_eyebrows Re: any reccuring dreams?7th-Mar-2012 04:51 am (UTC)
I was in a shopping center running as fast as I could but moving really slowly. I kept looking behind me to see whatever it was that was chasing me, but I never did get to see what it was in the dream.

One day, I decided that the next time I had that dream, I would stop running. When I did that in the dream, everything sped up to a normal pace. That was the last time I had the dream.
mhfromnh Re: any reccuring dreams?7th-Mar-2012 04:53 am (UTC)
waves. always waves. and they're always big waves, the kind that you get at high tide that make it hard as hell to get out of the water.
myfavcaridee Re: any reccuring dreams?7th-Mar-2012 05:58 am (UTC)
Me too! And I always had to save my family and friends and even people I didn't like from these giant tsunamis. Once I got them on top of a hotel and out of danger, there would be a tsunami on top of a tsunami. It was terrifying.
dentellerouge Re: any reccuring dreams?7th-Mar-2012 04:53 am (UTC)
being lost or trying to find someone/something. which i know is because of my anxiety

it's creepy how accurate dreams decode your thoughts or subconscious
bush_tetra Re: any reccuring dreams?7th-Mar-2012 04:54 am (UTC)
I always have these dreams where I go back to high school to take a class that I need to get a diploma. Or another dream where I'm in college and completely forget that I had signed up for some class months ago, so I show up to the class in the middle of the semester.

I actually Googled this and scenarios like these are a lot more common than I thought.

Edited at 2012-03-07 05:00 am (UTC)
sadisticsidhe Re: any reccuring dreams?7th-Mar-2012 04:58 am (UTC)
I used to have one when I was really little (like 3) so it's definitely stuck with me.

There was a giant monster that ate my family, or was about to and it lived in the living room in our house in San Diego. And it said if I fought it would free my family/bring them back but I would run into the kitchen and sob into newspaper. But i distinctly remember waking up and crying in my pillow.


idek.
brucelynn Re: any reccuring dreams?7th-Mar-2012 04:58 am (UTC)
I keep having dreams about my old crush :/ sometimes they are make out dreams sometimes they are just weird.
hershelwalker Re: any reccuring dreams?7th-Mar-2012 05:00 am (UTC)
my nightmares are almost always about a home invasion, only slightly varied each time. my front door is usually unlocked and I have to run to lock it before they come in but I have trouble getting it locked and fumble, etc.
squirrelsarerad Re: any reccuring dreams?7th-Mar-2012 05:05 am (UTC)
Less specifically, I have a lot of frustration dreams. The most common one is where Im running to get to something, and the harder I run, the slower I go. Those suck.
merenwen17 Re: any reccuring dreams?7th-Mar-2012 05:18 am (UTC)
I always have reoccurring dreams of jurrassic park dinosaurs chasing me.

:(
devourlove Re: any reccuring dreams?7th-Mar-2012 05:42 am (UTC)
OH, I love when dreams continue! It's like a story.

Except for this one time when it was my sister and I driving near a cornfield and then our car broke down. Then we got out and I looked into the cornfield and saw michael myers, so we got in the car and tried to make it work before he saw us, then I woke up.

Then went back to sleep, and he came to our house and kicked our door down :| And then broke into the wine cellar that we don't have. It was...a mess.
angelrose493 Re: any reccuring dreams?7th-Mar-2012 05:47 am (UTC)
I once had a three-day dream of the flawless man in my icon (Michael Myers), every night it would just be a continuation of the story and finally on the third night, I took his mask off and it was my brother. lol
st00pidness Re: any reccuring dreams?7th-Mar-2012 06:14 am (UTC)
having the first day of any school year again
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