What keeps you awake at night?

[Padwolf]

Money mainly. Now I have a job it's a whole other ball game. Will I have enough money to cover christmas, rent, council tax, the internet bill, cat food, cat litter and food for myself and boyfriend? Seriously, it haunts me everyday. I'm careful with money though, I know what it's like to have not a penny to my name and wondering where the fuck tomorrow's dinner is going to come from.

But now, with the job I'm finally clearing up the mess left by being on benefits and dealing with the council. It's hard work to get them off my back, and that keeps me up at night sometimes, but I'm working through it.

 

[FireFlower]

Mushrooms, hallucinations and monsters under my bed, and sometimes thinking about the past, the present and the future.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Not necessarily all in one night, just the usual suspects;
Cosmic vertigo
Missing medication
Anxieties (and a good ole bout of depression to feed off each other)
Nightmares
Needing to pee
Feeling horny
Coffee
Entropy of the universe
Money
Sinking Isolation
Politics
Imagining the process of suicide and seeing whether there'll be regret at the last second
Sudden bouts of productive creativity
Kittens
Winey wine wine
Various instruments/noise production
Plans of domination and casual herasy
Hunger
Toasted sandwiches
The escapist
Meth?

 

[Elfgore]

Well WatchMojo is like the number one cause. I always seem drawn to them at like 2 in the morning and will stay up watching them for a solid hour.

Though that was technically serious, if we want dark edgy serious, work related stuff can keep me up. Especially if I think I made a mistake and it's the night before I go back to work. I've stayed up a few hours because of that.

 

[Barbas]

All the comforts, security, assurances and relationships I know being utterly and violently destroyed in the space of a moment, the literal end of the world; past mistakes, sometimes future ones, other minor and inconsequential things; the things I don't know about, though they're also exciting at other times; the unseen things at the bottom of the deepest oceans, blood all over me and having to kill. I think that might actually be it.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Mania

Sometimes i stay up six hours more than the day before for no percievable reason

Spoiler: Go with the flow

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

I work 10 PM to 5 AM so work keeps me awake most nights
I've always had trouble sleeping. Crushing self-hatred, depression, anxiety, an over-active mind (it. just. won't stop. thinking.), and just plain old being unable to get comfy.
I toss and turn a lot. I'm too hot, I'm too cold, this position makes me lose feeling in my arm, this position makes it too hard to breathe, etc.

Sometimes I get sudden "rage attacks" when I'm trying to sleep. I just get extremely angry and my body starts to pump adrenaline. When that happens I want to get up and fight someone, not sleep. I have no idea why it happens either, it sucks.

 

[Poetic Nova]

My reversed sleeping pattern, the fact that I have to deal with nightmares and depression.
However, the latter is severly reduced in recent months, even if the nightmare thing is actually becoming worse.

 

[Michel Henzel]

The fact that I'm a nightowl and mornings are for sleeping. People that get up all energetic and cheerful in the early morning are batshit crazy if you ask me. And yes, if you are wondering, I have the worst case of grumpiness in the morning. So don't happily good morning me, it's bloody early morning, there is nothing good about it, now please don't talk to me till atleast 11 am and when I've had atleast a whole pot of coffee.

Yeah I'm exaggerating a bit for dramatic effect

 

[Callate]

The growing suspicion that even well-intentioned groups are looking for someone to marginalize, demonize, and/or ignore out of hand. Rather than trying to figure out how we can all get through things together, an awful lot of people seem content just to re-configure who is considered "we", and to try to claw a larger slice of a diminishing pie for those they so identify.

With that, the gloomy feeling that my daughter is going to come of age in a world that's more hateful, violent, intolerant, impatient, and certain that listening is someone else's job. Even as the standard of living I've been incredibly fortunate to enjoy is pulled out of the reach of her and most of her peers. (Looked at the price of college, lately...?)

 

[IOwnTheSpire]

 

[EHKOS]

Men like you and me are somehow higher up in a hierarchy that should not exist as we are equal. Yet they take money that belongs to us without a second of work on their part. Humans are greedy creatures, such evil in this world exists. I feel shame for my race, the wars wage on for money, not for lives or freedom.

Also my pillows aren't very comfortable, but most times, it's existential philosophical dreary that keeps me up. And irritated.

 

[JemothSkarii]

I think it's a mixture of stress and anxiety.

Been trying to work on my draft of my book but I keep procrastinating. Considering I have no job, every day I don't work on it makes me feel worse. Couple that with people having high expectations of it despite never having read my work before... well, it's terrifying. I suppose I'm afraid of having to rewrite the whole thing or that it's going to be terrible as it took a year to write said draft.

To think I want to make a career out of it and follow my childhood dream but I keep putting it off.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

I have to work nights on the weekends, but it's a job with lots of walking around, so I guess the "go on autopilot" keeps me awake.

Whereas what prevents me from sleeping is me thinking about sleep. I don't know why, but it just makes me paranoid that I willingly knock myself unconscious for an unspecified amount of time and I just don't like that >_>

 

[-Dragmire-]

Silence. I have a very hard time sleeping when it's too quiet. I always have a fan on as well as some kind of media playing while I sleep.

 

[gorfias]

-Back pain (Less frequent now that I've lost some weight)

Ditto. Actually, it is more like my butt. Psyatica (sp)

-Contemplating mortality

Ditto

-Allergies/Can't fucking breath

I have a "tickle". I cough. Might actually be related to heart burn. I see my doctor in a bit.

-Erections

It's a thing. Worse, I have a condition that makes me need to use the bathroom a time or two per night. There's something called "preparation dreams". Your brain realizes you need to sleep so it tries to convince you that you are doing something that requires your attention. You're hungry? In your dream you are eating. Only works for so long.

As I have to use the bathroom in reality, in my dream, I cannot go yet because I can't find one (or in one odd dream, the toilets were on a ski lift and I couldn't get comfortable). To distract me further, a naked lady may be in the way telling me I don't want to leave her for the restroom.

 

[sageoftruth]

Video games. Lots and lots of video games. Bonus points if I don't have a clock nearby to tell me how late it is.

 

[Womplord]

Men like you and me are somehow higher up in a hierarchy that should not exist as we are equal. Yet they take money that belongs to us without a second of work on their part. Humans are greedy creatures, such evil in this world exists. I feel shame for my race, the wars wage on for money, not for lives or freedom.

Also my pillows aren't very comfortable, but most times, it's existential philosophical dreary that keeps me up. And irritated.

So... Karl Marx' ghost is keeping you up from beyond the grave?

Anyway, I'm gonna say stress keeps me up. If there's something that I've been working on that I'm stuck on, I can't stop thinking about it.

 

[the December King]

The accumulation of corporate taxes. Specifically, my company's tax woes.

That and severe Apnea caused by being fat, having a ruined face, and allergies.

 

[Rebel_Raven]

F-f-fffffff-ffff-fallout 4, MAN! FALLOUT 4!! NEVER GAME OVER MAN! NEVER GAME OVER!!!

Seriously, though. Stuff to do, things to perfect, idolizations to get, enemies to hunt, and turn chunky style. Usually chunky style. Sometimes ash. Sometimes soup. But mostly chunky style.

I don't get enough sleep, but I'd be awake anyhow, doing something else, I'm sure. I work so very much, and play is necessary.