An answer to my sleeping problems?

I might talk to my doctor about this.

Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome.

It certainly fits with the problems I have getting to sleep. The pattern of late to sleep, late to rise is the one my body slips to most easily. It takes a LOT of effort and a lot of pain and fuss to get my body into a normal rhythm, and if I disturb it just slightly, say, staying up later than ten o'clock, it'll trigger another phase of late-to-sleep late-to-rise sleeping patterns.

And it's SO fucking frustrating, because people say, "Just force yourself to get up" or "Don't go to sleep" (when referring to my daytime naps). But the need to sleep is SO strong that it's usually *painful* to me to stay up. I sometimes develop headaches and muscle and joint pain is not unusual if I devoid myself of proper sleep.

I have to go to sleep early tonight because I have to go to Centrelink tomorrow, and also make some phonecalls (doctor, vet, etc). I'm tired but I just can't *sleep*, no matter how much hot milk, valerian and orgasms I have. Fuck it.

I love Japan.

There's a game show there called "Silent Library". It seems to have spread around a bit, but only the Japanese could have come up with something this wacky. Six people sit in a library. They must be silent (as the name suggests). They all pick a card from a deck of six. One card has the skull and crossbones - if you get it, you get the penalty.

Silent Library with Ernesto Hoost (martial arts dude) I think this one is the funniest.

Silent Library One

Silent Library Three

After watching those, my face actually hurts, I was laughing so hard. :-P