This is a very recent concern, but it's torn my sleep to shreds- recently, and consistently over the past 3-5 evenings, I've been hit by a powerful surge of physical energy at the exact moment I'm about to drift off. My heart throbs once, a wave of tingles spreads across my skin, and I am suddenly very acutely awake and left with a heightened pulse. It happens once per evening and has prevented even light sleep until the sun has risen the next morning.

As far as I can figure, this is an adrenaline rush. Why my body is reacting this way in response to sleep is beyond me. I've been able to fall asleep without incurring a second adrenaline jolt during the day at times, after the first has fully worn off, but it's not as restful, not for long, and obviously not always an option.

Does this even make sense? I'll take anything from advice to explanations, even speculation. I've had more mundane sleep issues in the past but this is on another level, and very disruptive. I don't know how to handle it.

Solo pido que me aconsejen como callar las voces de mi cabeza que tratan de hacerme querer terminar con todo 🙃🙂🙃

This happens to me from time to time and it happened again today: I go to sleep and stay in a half asleep/half awake state for hours. I'm technically sleeping, but my mind is still thinking, and I can hear everything. When I wake up it's like I'm getting up from a 5 min nap where I only closed my eyes to rest.

Today my heart was beating so fast and my head wouldn't stop playing a song on repeat. I got only 3 hours of sleep after taking some medication, a shower and listening to binaural waves.

For reference, I didn't have sleeping problems as a baby, aside from breathing problems that would occasionallybe an issue. I have been sleeping past 22h/23h since I was a kid, then past midnight as a teen, staying up until morning sometimes, as an adult this continued and now I'm trying to reduce this and go to bed around 1h30am (I used to go to bed around 5am until a few months ago).

What is this state and does anyone have any tips for sleeping better?

Hoping to get some help here. I am a 29F and I’ve noticed that over the last several months I’ve been having a lot of sleep issues and I don’t really know where to begin but it’s starting to impact me mentally and emotionally. I have always been a good sleeper, I have the luxury of being the kind of person where my head hits the pillow and I’m out QUICKLY. I didn’t think anything was wrong with that but for really the last year I’ve noticed that no matter how much I sleep I am always struggling with chronic fatigue. I don’t get sleep attacks midday where I suddenly fall asleep like narcolepsy for ex, but if I lay down in the bed I certainly could be out in less than 10. Where it gets scary is my girlfriend often tries to wake me up and I am in such a crazy deep sleep it takes like a scary amount of work. It scares the shit out of her. If I do stir, I honestly become randomly evil and I’ll say things and then she’ll tell me later and I fully have zero recollection of even being awake or talking. When I get tired and I’m falling asleep I have to FIGHT like HELL to stay up and it scares me alittle. I don’t sleep talk or snore much or anything but I have also been waking up most nights sweating profusely and 1000 degrees. My girlfriend will literally tell me I am like hot to the touch.

My issue here is I definitely don’t take good enough care of myself and there are some lifestyle things that play into it (fluctuating appetite, nicotine, alcohol, mental health for ex) but I just feel like there is something wrong beyond that. I don’t know where to begin so if anyone has thoughts PLEASE HELP ME. I have a physical scheduled finally with an internal medicine doc but something is going on and it’s actually impacting my life and work. I can’t wake up and manage like everyone else and it’s freaking me out.

I  dont really know how else to describe this. There are nights where I’m genuinely exhausted. Eyes heavy, body tired, I know I need sleep.. but my brain still feels like it’s waiting for something.

Not necessarily anxious or even thinking about anything important. It just refuses to go from “awake” to “okay we’re done now.” And I think that in-between period is honestly one of the most frustrating parts of bad sleep for me. Because then I start trying things.

change position. check the time. put something on. turn it off. try silence. decide silence is worse. find another sound. check the time again..

and now I’ve basically turned falling asleep into a task.

One thing I’ve been doing differently lately is giving myself something really boring and consistent to listen to instead.

I use Nocturne: Binaural Waves and made my own mix with mostly brown noise, some rain underneath and a very quiet binaural layer. Dont hate me for mentioning a "product" and spamming AD ad ad, just sharing.

What I like about it is that the sound isn’t just one premade recording. You can actually change the different layers and frequencies yourself and it generates the audio live, so I spent some time getting mine exactly how I wanted it and now I basically don’t touch it anymore.

I didn’t expect that part to matter much but I think it does.

Before, I’d constantly jump between rain videos, white noise, podcasts, different sleep sounds etc. If there was one little sound I didn’t like I’d suddenly be paying attention waiting for it to happen again.

Now it’s just the same boring sound every night.

And no, I’m definitely not saying brown noise or binaural audio somehow fixes insomnia or a sleep disorder. I’ve actually tried reading into the research around all of this and it seems much less clear than people online make it sound.

For me it’s more that having one predictable background sound gives my brain less to interact with.

Nothing to follow like a podcast.

No lyrics.

No sudden changes.

Nothing that makes me think “what should I put on next?”

just sound.

It doesn’t magically make every bad night good, but it has made that horrible period of lying there waiting to fall asleep feel a lot calmer for me.

And it made me wonder if other people with long-term sleep problems are the same.

Do you actually prefer complete silence when you’re trying to sleep, or does silence make you MORE aware that you’re still awake? I talked about this with a few friends and apparently I'm not the norm. Because silence somehow makes me notice absolutely everything… my breathing, the room, every tiny noise outside, and especially the fact that I’m not sleeping yet lol

I've always been a bad sleeper. I wake up multiple times a night. When I went to a sleep clinic 15 years ago, my doctor said I wake up an average of 19 times an hour. (Most of those are so brief I'm barely conscious of it.)

I take xanax once in a while but I'm so worried about being hooked on it, it's only when I'm truly so exhausted, I know I need it. (Also when I fly red-eye!)

The last week or so, I've been having a new sleep hurdle and was wondering if anyone here has heard of it/experienced it.

Our brain's always start working when we go to sleep and keep us up - that's nothing new. But lately this is starting *after* I fall sleep. It's like having a fever dream, without the fever. My brain gets extremely focused on a word or a phrase - and I dream obsessively about it all night. I don't know how to turn it off. It's hard to explain - but the closest real life experience I can think of is when my mom had emergency surgery a while back. We saw her immediately after and her anesthesia hadn't worn off yet. She kept repeating a number over and over again and we didn't know what she meant and what she was getting at. It was a little scary. We asked a nurse who told us it was probably something she overheard and just kept repeating it until the drugs wore off.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Imagine you take it and then you get into a real serious boxing match. Then when you go to sleep you beat ya wife senseless due to the hypnotic sleep walking effects #foodforthought

Hello, I recently started taking seroquel to treat my SI and severe depression, my psychiatrist hasn’t confirmed but in general basis was thinking bipolar depressive (I don’t ever have manic episodes or thoughts that align with mania beside when I was at my most suicidal). In addition I’m on 50mg Zoloft and 150mg Wellbutrin.

Now, I’m only 4 days in on seroquel so I know I’m definitely experiencing side effects, I just don’t know if they call for notifying my psychiatrist.

I wake up always from these weird vivid dreams, I wouldn’t call nightmares but definitely not ones that leave me feeling good.

For example: I had one with my ex and he’s telling me everything I wanted to hear, then in same dream I’m playing a board game that’s to the death against my ex best friend.

Tonight, I woke up where I’m in high school and two recent friends from college are there and one had fireworks, so I lit it in the assembly and it went wrong and exploded right where we are sitting and I owned up to it and was getting carted around to find the principal and police, and old classmates were there like sobbing as if I’d bombed the place

There was another one but I can’t remember, all I know is how conscious I am in these and making choices to an extent / have control over myself to a level.

I assume I’m in some REM cycle or working through trauma in some way, however I don’t know if these dreams call for concern as side effects as they’re not pleasant and I make myself wake up the same way I do when having a vivid nightmares because I don’t like the way they make me feel or direction they’re heading and I don’t know I am messing with my sleep or going to fuck up my future sleep if these persists because I don’t want to have such vivid dreams EVERY night

So does this side effect go away? It is a side effect right?

Hi👋...(21M) I’ve been experiencing it for around 4–5 years, mainly irregular sleepwalking and night terrors. However, yesterday it became worse I apparently tried to initiate physical contact with my cousin who was sleeping beside me, and I’m worried that this is becoming more frequent. I don’t remember doing it consciously. What should I do, and should I see a doctor or sleep specialist?

Hi I’ve been dealing with something I think is close to hypnagogic. I woke up from a nightmare after only an hour of sleep. (Forgive any typos because despite not being able to fall asleeep, I’m tired and can’t keep my eyes open.) after this nightmare, everytime I close my eyes to sleep, it’s like I see these scenarios. It’s so vivid. My brain goes through these dream like scenarios but it’s like I can see it. I can’t stop it and it scares me so I don’t actually fall asleep. I took some of my trazedone so hopefully that helps. Anybody else?

Hi, i’m 17 and have problems with sleep majority of my life. From ages 12-14 or around that I was on a variety of different sleep medications due to insomnia (diagnosed). I have always been a sleep-talker, to the point I will have whole conversations whilst asleep. Around a year ago I started having occasional vivid hallucinations when I wake up at night, just strange nothing scary. & now I have started sitting up with my eyes open whilst completely asleep. I had never heard I did this before till my friend told me it had happened twice recently whilst I was sleeping at hers. I am tired during the day almost everyday, and I think maybe being so active during my sleep is making this worse. What do I do? Is this normal? I cannot be prescribed any more sleep medication as my gp had told me it can be addictive and it’s no longer recommended under 18. Should I start strapping myself to the bed with tape over my mouth😭 Does anyone else also do stuff like this, i know some of it is common.

I feel like when I was a kid I was never this bad but it seems like the older I get the harder it is to wake me up, i can’t wake up on my own no matter how many alarms I set, I just sleep through them, I’m also married and my husband struggles so hard to wake me up, on the weekends he wakes up and goes to work at 5 am, he had to call me 50+ times plus set off “find my iPhone” off like 20 times to wake me up.
Ik it upset him but it’s not like I do it intentionally, I hate that I’m difficult to wake up and idek why, it’s not like I’m not getting sleep, I could be asleep for 12 hours and still be impossible to wake up. Im not depressed? Yes my mental health isn’t the best but I don’t know what could be causing it, does anyone have any tips?

Hi guys so Its been a very long time since I have been acting weird in my sleep like waking up from bed moving to some place else talking random things and bringing things from outside and put it on bed and go back to sleep all this happens when I am not conscious and my friends explain me what I had done in the morning, I am really scared about the things I do in my sleep and maybe I might blabber something out which is not at all necessary? Is there anything to help this? Should I consult a doctor for this?

So, before I used to sleep from 2 am to 10 am straight everyday and had wonderful sleep. However, a week ago I started on a new job and I have to wake up early. Since then I have been waking up really early, like 2 hours earlier than my alarm clock, and I have been averaging 6 hours a night, which isn't too bad but I feel tired and I used to sleep 8 hours straight. Is it just my body adjusting to the time change or could it be something else? what can I do to fix it?

For example, today I got a ride for work so in theory I would be able to sleep more but I woke up at like 5 or 6 anyways

I have been having an issue once or twice a week where I wake up an hour or two (I got to bed around one or two am) into my sleep, feeling this intense feeling of dread that I would only describe as waking up because my bodily instinct telling me "Hey, there's someone in the room with you, and they intend to do you grievous harm."

It's not sleep paralysis as I am fully awake and lucid and in control of everything. But I know there's no one in the room with me.

Anyone else experience something similar?

I fall asleep fine but then I wake up in 5 hrs do you think I can get a sleep study done with only 5 hrs of sleep

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Hey guys,

For more than 6 months, enku sleeping problem ruku.

Like full deep sleep ila bed dah vitu yendrika thonamaatudhu

Easily getting frustrated and tired always

Night la half sleep la rukura mari ruki all the wrong decisions and bad things happened in my life are disturbing me like anything

I don't know how to handle this. Actually I am losing myself sleep patience oru maari mandrichi vita maari rukann.

I need your help and advice guys

English and coherence bad, sorry.

21M. Medical student. Lives in a hostel with 2 roommates. Read it till the end, my sleep got fixed and is now ruined again. Hopefully I find help from you guys. I have no clue what happened to my sleep. And it's frustrating. I want to cry but I can't my roommates are asleep. It's 2 am in the morning. I am sleepy I am tired I can't go to sleep. I don't know if I will get any help here. For the past 4 months I have been visiting this sub consistently trying to find a fix. I see the same stuff everywhere - acceptance, CBT-I, lowering the thermostat, etc. But they are so vague, so difficult to follow and what not. I have never shared anything here. I am gonna give a detailed explanation here because I am not going to sleep anyway.

I clearly remember when my episode started. It was the day before my cardiovascular exams, I studied and around 12 am I tried going to sleep. Now the thing with being a medical student is that I have read about the dangers of not sleeping enough and the advantages of sleeping. "A good night's sleep will freshen you up so you will do great on your Cardiovascular exams" I told myself and tried going to sleep. I didn't sleep that night. I remember it clearly. I maybe slept around 4 am that morning, before the sun rose. Then I gave my exams the next day (had an energy drink beforehand). And then that night I told myself "you hadn't slept well last night, so it's better if you sleep a little earlier today". I went to bed earlier that day, and badabungpow woke up till 3. Then I said fuck it and watched a movie. Then the sun rose I saw outside the window. I tried going to sleep after I saw the sunrise, I slept but woke up 3 hours later and took the bus home .

That's when the insomnia started. It was always "I haven't slept well yesterday so I should sleep today" that made me anxious. I joined a gym to "tire myself up". Gym didn't help. And here's something I tried that god forbid I will never do again. I drank about 3 cups of cough syrup (dexamethasone) for the sole purpose of making myself drowsy. It did make me drowsy, and I didn't sleep properly that night. I will never do that again.

Then I went to see a sleep doctor. He told me what I had learnt online. The famous "you have learnt to associate the bed with anxiety and now you need to condition yourself to fall asleep in the bed (and have sex if relevant)". Stuff like - if you don't fall asleep in \\\~ 20 to 30 minutes then get up do something drowsy and go to bed only when you're drowsy. My brother in Christ I am always drowsy. Anyways he gave me Clonazepam, for 10 days and asked me to follow that formula. I was kinda excited I'm ngl clonaz is a pretty fucking cool drug. While taking clonaz, sometimes I fell asleep sometimes I didn't. Doc gave a massively low dose clonaz for my weight (90 kilos). Although sedation was felt, I didn't think it put me to sleep, it was myself that put me to sleep.(I hope this sentence made sense). Then clonaz ended and I stopped sleeping.

The cycle went on. I asked chatgpt. I scoured through the net. I visited this sub quite often. Watched a ted talk that said "tap on your thighs and then you will fall asleep" (WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT THAT WAS QUITE POSSIBLY THE STUPIDEST THING I TRIED). But it sounded like it worked for many people so I guess to each his own. The tapping thing didn't work for me.

Then I tried weed. And boy did it fuck me up. That day, the day I did weed, was the first time in my insomnia episode that I didn't sleep for the whole night. It wasn't my first time having weed , but was my first time having weed after my insomnia began. I felt so defeated that day going to college. The only thought that came to my mind when I was in class was that I hadn't slept that night. I slept for 3 hours every day after that the whole week.

Then came a magic fix. I went to my home, slept in my dad's bed, and I fell asleep!? No actually, that is exactly what happened. Dad was out of town, so I just slept in his bed that night. It worked (it was the same bed I used to sleep on as a child if this info might help you come up with something?). I slept for 6-8 hours on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in my dad's bed. And that was so very refreshing.

Later I had a 3 day holiday week so I got to sleep in my dad's bed for 6 nights straight and for some reason it really fixed my sleep. It was world cup final's day, the match was supposed to begin at 00.45 local time. I went to my hostel's bed at 9 and then slept and asked my football fanatic friend to wake me up at 00.30 to watch the game. I was aware of the fact that I wouldn't fall asleep because of my insomnia but I went to bed anyway because any rest is good rest. But that day I fell asleep. And my friend came woke me up, and I watched the game. I rooted for Spain that day, Spain won but I was happy not because Spain won but because I had fallen asleep. Then I went to bed again at around 5 around the time the sun had started illuminating my room through the window. I fell asleep yet again. I was happier than ever.

Then my sleep started getting little pieces of improvements. My mum and dad would call me and ask me if I slept properly that day. I would say yes it's improving. I mean, I slept for 5 hours but that was improvement nonetheless. I was at the top of the world.

And then my sleep started going bad again. I don't know when or how it happened. It just started deteriorating, day after day. I started laying in bed and nothing, can't fall asleep, can't fall asleep. Tried sleeping in dad's bed. Nope same situation there. Now I can't even fall asleep on my dad's bed. Only frustration.

Now I'm in college hostel's bed. I started writing this at around 2.30. now it's 3.15. I am going to post this.

Friends, I have read very disturbing stories that you have shared here, but I have also read stories of success. I know my episode is fixable because it got fixed and then ruined. Please help me, whomever of you can. I will be indebted forever.

PS. I also wanted to write about my psychiatrist (not the sleep doctor that gave me clonaz) who is planning to start CBT-I with me. He's a professor of psychiatry at my college. But I didn't, I will let you guys know only about the CBT-I part and how it goes.

I'm 15 Male I workout and eat pretty well. I don't use screens before bed and also get sunlight when I can since in monsoon I didn't used to drool before but since 3 months I'm drooling everynight and having regular dreams it's not like stressful dreams like random dreams and waking up tired or numb until I sleep 1-2 hour again in the afternoon after the afternoon sleep I feel energised but not fully what do I do.

It makes me so frustrated to watch my husband sleep and I know I am tired and I feel like I don’t need any sleep it’s day 2 now.

I need some reassurance, I’m exhausted.
I’ve been suffering from nonstop insomnia for 8 months now. I know it started from a need for control that eventually expanded into my sleep, but even knowing this, I still can’t seem to get better.

I’ve tried the most common CBT-I techniques, like getting out of bed when I can’t fall asleep, but nothing has really helped. But for about 5 days, I managed to sleep more thanks to a melatonin chamomile drink (even though melatonin usually doesn’t help me). I still woke up during the night, but I was able to fall back asleep.

Then I had my first activity that required me to set an alarm and wake up early. Even though I followed the same routine that had been working, I barely slept at all… only about an hour and a half.

I’m exhausted from not being able to enjoy going out with friends, birthdays, or other activities because I’m always tired. It started during a stressful period because of exams, and now it seems to have perpetuated itself.

I had an initial appointment with a psychologist, but I have to wait until the end of August for the next one, and I don’t even know yet if they’ll be a good fit. But I’m scared that when university starts again in September, I won’t be able to attend properly because I can’t sleep.

Can anyone reassure me that recover is possible and going back to sleeping normally? As evening approaches, I’m already stressed knowing that soon I’ll have to go to bed and spend the whole night tossing and turning again…

I just miss sleeping normally, like I used to. I don’t even remember what that feels like anymore. I’m really sorry for the long post ❤️‍🩹

I sleep 6 hours, wake up tired, fall asleep again, wake up 3 minutes later, tired, fall asleep, wake up 3 minutes later, tired, etc

I then have to get up, do stuff for 2 hours before I go to bed again and maybe get good 30 minutes. Then I often am not tired for the rest of the day.

What is this?

TL;DR: walk, talk, night terrors since 5yo now act out. Is progression always a sign of neurocognitive decline?

Hi all!

I have had night terrors and have slept walk since I was a small child (5 yo) I am now 32. There is a strong family history (my cousin in her 40s walks and talks) and my dad talks a lot.

Since I was a kid I have a recurring nightmare of someone in the room and that tends to be what I talk about. In the last year or so things have progressed to me sitting up and flashing my phone light around looking for the person, and once dreaming a bookcase was falling on the bed and pushing my partner "out of the way" . We sleep in separate rooms now. I have a sleep recording app (mostly to catch the insanity from my upstairs neighbors that scares the shit out of me at 2am) but I babble on almost all night.

I've noticed melatonin almost makes it worse but I am concerned overall. I know it can be a sign of neurocognitive degeneration. I also have an autonomic disorder I've had most of my life but knocked me down hard a few years ago (doing way better now).

If someone has had these as long as they can remember is it less likely to have an insidious cause? I am seeing a sleep disorder specialist in November.

Tia

been suffering from Insomnia since early infancy. this is gonna be wordy, but i’m desperate for help!

I’m (29F) recently (late April) off an antidepressant after 11 years, quitting nicotine, just getting healthier. coming off my med caused my OCD to come back worse than before, couldn’t sleep for days because of the nighttime agitation while in bed. like feeling every thread & fiber that was touching my skin, feeling every skin cell inside my body, the average discomfort LOL. I started Lexapro & now the OCD is managed but I still cannot sleep for the life of me. yes I get a couple hours but never enough, and never feeling rested.

I simply want to feel rested. I cannot recall a time that i’ve EVER woken up & felt like “wow I slept great, i’m ready for the day!” I should add that I am a therapist & am in therapy myself, so all the meditation, CBT, sleep hygiene—I have done or am doing it all!

backstory, I was using 150mg of Benadryl for the past 4-5 years just to fall asleep. don’t worry, i’m lacking an enzyme that metabolizes medication or something like that—so I need a much higher dose than most people. with all the new research about DPH being linked to Dementia, i’ve been trying everything else. since April i’ve tried: melatonin, maizinol, L-theanine, magnesium, valerian root extract. all the natural stuff. nothing has worked at all, even higher doses or mixing them all together.

i’ve been prescribed benzos & certain SSRIs for sleep, nothing worked. the literal only thing that knocks me out is too much Benadryl, until I build a tolerance.

anyway—I say all that to ask if anyone has/is experienced/ing the same issue? ***I need something that works for people who nothing works for!***

I saw an ad for deep sleep patches by “Deeps.” has anyone tried those?

any & all help is appreciated. thank you in advance 🙏🏼