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Title: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: bringbackwigs on November 26, 2007, 09:08:59 PM
OK, this sucks. I love reading. Nothing is better than sitting down with a book, a glass of wine, and some music in the background. But lately, I can't read ten pages without falling asleep. Anyone else ever had this problem? It's really making me mad.


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: Opmod on November 26, 2007, 09:10:50 PM
Try skipping the wine? Maybe a nice Latte' instead?


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: bringbackwigs on November 26, 2007, 09:12:51 PM
Try skipping the wine? Maybe a nice Latte' instead?

I've tried that. See, usually I have no lights on, with a book light. I love to read, watch movies, listen/write music in the dark. So I tried reading in the light, no wine, no music. Nothing helps. Even when I'm really into a book, I fall asleep.


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: Biker Dude on November 26, 2007, 09:14:38 PM
Can't help much.  Wish I had the same problem.  Most of the time I can't go to sleep when I need to...


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: Perrin on November 27, 2007, 08:43:36 AM
You might not be getting enough sleep to start out, so your body tends to take any chance it gets to catch up.  How many hours of sleep do you get a night?


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: bringbackwigs on November 27, 2007, 08:57:43 AM
You might not be getting enough sleep to start out, so your body tends to take any chance it gets to catch up.  How many hours of sleep do you get a night?

0-4. But I've always been that way. Maybe it's catching up.


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: Perrin on November 27, 2007, 09:00:59 AM
In college I could do the 0-4 hours, but now, if I don't have at least 6 I am struggling.  So it does catch up and harshly.


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: bringbackwigs on November 27, 2007, 11:11:45 AM
Bummer.


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: Perrin on November 27, 2007, 01:38:36 PM
Totally


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: Opmod on December 04, 2007, 06:09:28 AM
I don't get my requisite 10 hours a dayt and I am a complete ass.


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: bringbackwigs on December 04, 2007, 06:42:34 AM
10 hours??


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: PinkTickingClocks on December 04, 2007, 09:33:48 AM
OK, this sucks. I love reading. Nothing is better than sitting down with a book, a glass of wine, and some music in the background. But lately, I can't read ten pages without falling asleep. Anyone else ever had this problem? It's really making me mad.

Perhaps you should get your eyes checked.  As you age the lenses of your eyes may grow weak, and cause you to strain your eyes as you read.  THUS, causing fatigue!



Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: Perrin on December 04, 2007, 10:38:19 AM
I don't get my requisite 10 hours a dayt and I am a complete ass.

So you get, what, 1-2 hours a night, 4 on a good day.  ;D

I kid I kid  :angel:


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: bringbackwigs on December 04, 2007, 11:18:29 AM
OK, this sucks. I love reading. Nothing is better than sitting down with a book, a glass of wine, and some music in the background. But lately, I can't read ten pages without falling asleep. Anyone else ever had this problem? It's really making me mad.

Perhaps you should get your eyes checked.  As you age the lenses of your eyes may grow weak, and cause you to strain your eyes as you read.  THUS, causing fatigue!



Maybe just get some reading glasses.


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: Totino on December 04, 2007, 07:07:11 PM
I don't get my requisite 10 hours a dayt and I am a complete ass.
Same here


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: bringbackwigs on December 04, 2007, 08:19:04 PM
I don't get my requisite 10 hours a dayt and I am a complete ass.
Same here

So I guess you haven't had 10 hours in a while?  ;D


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: Totino on December 04, 2007, 08:52:54 PM
I don't get my requisite 10 hours a dayt and I am a complete ass.
Same here

So I guess you haven't had 10 hours in a while?  ;D
Did you really have to repeat the same joke in the same thread?


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: bringbackwigs on December 04, 2007, 08:54:52 PM
Haha, didn't see that. Awesome!


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: Maxmillian on December 25, 2007, 11:03:42 AM
OK, this sucks. I love reading. Nothing is better than sitting down with a book, a glass of wine, and some music in the background. But lately, I can't read ten pages without falling asleep. Anyone else ever had this problem? It's really making me mad.

Maybe you need a more exciting book. I recommend "First Blood" by David Morrell, upon which "Rambo: First Blood" was based. Or maybe "Death Wish" by Brian Garfield (he also wrote "Death Sentence", "Tripwire", and "Fleshburn"), all of which I recommend. I just wish Charles Bronson was still alive so we could make movies of the remaining Brian Garfield novels.


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: Godot on December 26, 2007, 07:22:05 AM
I have to second the suggestion on reading glasses. My eyesight changed over the past 2-3 years and I now need glasses (or take my contacts out).

That, and spend less time reading online.


Title: Re: Reading is making me tired.
Post by: bringbackwigs on December 26, 2007, 06:26:50 PM
I have to second the suggestion on reading glasses. My eyesight changed over the past 2-3 years and I now need glasses (or take my contacts out).

That, and spend less time reading online.

I think the online thing is what's doing it. I spend all day reading/writing online, so I guess I'm getting more used to that.