Posted by wolverine on June 02, 2009 at 11:31:08:

In Reply to: Onset and Maintenance insomnia posted by wolverine on June 02, 2009 at 07:09:55:

Motnman, your talk about switches turning on got me thinking (always a dangerous thing).

Maybe maintenance people have easily activated (both ways off/on) sleep switches. That's
why you fall asleep in 5 minutes but when you wake up it feels like "a switch turned on"

Onset insomniacs have hard to activate sleep switches. Once I'm asleep I regularly sleep
through events -- dogs barking, thunderstorms, small earthquakes -- which wake my
wife, a normal sleeper, up. I'm also notoriously groggy (and dishevelled) for the first half
an hour after I wake in the morning.

The comment about SR being much better for onset than maintenance struck me too. I
would have said the opposite. SR sucks for my onset insomnia because it means 0 hours
sleep. It's hard to consolidate a sleep pattern when you don't have any.

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