I find it harder to sleep in hotel rooms these days

[Someguywhodoesntlikeyou]

Just the insomnia acting up but maybe it’s because I’m getting older (50 last September) I find it harder to sleep in hotel rooms on business.

Use to be I could take a shower, pour a scotch and watch Sportscenter and conk out. Now I just scroll on my phone because I just get restless with my thoughts and can’t sleep well into the next day.

A lot of the times it’s because I miss my wife and kids. I already got one out of the house and graduated college. Two more now in high school and my oldest daughter will be off to college in five months to Michigan. I feel like I’m missing the last bits of fatherhood on these nights I guess.

I don’t know. Maybe I’m just crazy and turning into an old man with the world moving too fast. Probably should drink more Scotch.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

Just the insomnia acting up but maybe it’s because I’m getting older (50 last September) I find it harder to sleep in hotel rooms on business.

Use to be I could take a shower, pour a scotch and watch Sportscenter and conk out. Now I just scroll on my phone because I just get restless with my thoughts and can’t sleep well into the next day.

A lot of the times it’s because I miss my wife and kids. I already got one out of the house and graduated college. Two more now in high school and my oldest daughter will be off to college in five months to Michigan. I feel like I’m missing the last bits of fatherhood on these nights I guess.

I don’t know. Maybe I’m just crazy and turning into an old man with the world moving too fast. Probably should drink more Scotch.

I suffer from poor to no sleep in hotels. One exception is if I can open a window and get fresh air. Fairfield Inn had windows that opened. There is something about a room with no fresh air in forever that I can't stand.

 

[cole854]

Business trips, same issues as the OP. Also, a reoccurring fear of someone trying to enter my room at night.

Vacations, whether it be at a beach house or the Wynn in LV, I sleep like Rip Van Winkle.

 

[BC_Wader]

I think it's just natural when we get older to have those feelings. I think when folks hit their 50's they start to realize that a lot of the sacrifices from earlier years don't mean as much as they used to. I think we feel the clock ticking in some ways and it becomes somewhat of a race to reconnect with much simpler times. I'm at that place right now. I'll be 54 in a few days and, at least on my end, I'm trying to keep it as young inside as I can. I try to not get caught up in the rat race of life. And that race has gotten much faster. I feel like a relic stuck in simpler times and a slower pace but it's getting harder by the year to live like that. Just gotta keep moving on my way as best I can and try to keep the way the world is today as distant as I possibly can.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

You can’t sleep because you’re thinking about all the things that happened in that bed before you got there

 

[jcrow10]

Maybe smoke a joint or two and enjoy the solitude while you ponder the meaning of life.

 

[SWFLwildcat06]

Yea smoke/ingest some indica instead of the scotch, or both. Nity nite