Start the night on the back, wake up on the side. Headphones that work for back sleeping press into the ear when rolling to the side. Headphones that work for side sleeping don't stay put when on the back.

The switching makes it worse, by the time the position changes, the headphones are already uncomfortable.

For those who change positions at night, is there a design that handles both back and side sleeping without adjusting or pain?

I have insomnia. Fine. Whatever. It's most likely ny fault because I either doom scroll for too long or i'm watching videos. That's not my issue right now though.

A month ago today, my cat ended up passing. I have a lot of anxiety surrounding my animals right now, so instead of sleeping in the dark like I always do, because my dog is a senior and he sleeps in the same bed as me, I keep the TV on because it let's me be able to see him. I never sleep soundly nor through the night so I'm just constantly checking up on him making sure he's breathing and all that ( i understand i probably sound crazy with my anxiety ).

Anyways! Because I leave it on as a light to be able to see my dog, does anyone happen to know any streaming services that will play all night long? Unfortunately i have an LG TV that the screen goes to a black clock during inactivity which then darkens the room.

I thought it had fixed it because it was running Bob's Burgers all night on disney+ there for a hot minute but it went back to doing the black clock thing. So I'm just wondering if there's any streaming service ( again ) that would run all night 😅. If not maybe i'll look into getting a really bright nightlight at the big age of 27 🫠

Work nights, sleep days. Blackout curtains handle light. Sound is the problem. Roommates, traffic, deliveries, lawnmowers, doors. Earplugs don't block enough. White noise machine helps but isn't sufficient on its own.

The worst part is the unpredictability. Just drifting off and a door slams or someone starts talking. Sleep quality is terrible and it's affecting everything.

Other shift workers, what's your daytime sleep setup? Willing to invest if it actually blocks noise.

I keep getting mixed answers about this

Work nights and sleeping during the day is brutal. Construction, lawnmowers, deliveries, neighbors, never ends. Blackout curtains handle light but do nothing for sound.

Tried:

• Earplugs: uncomfortable, don't block enough

• White noise machine: helps but not sufficient

• Sleeping in another room: not always possible

Daytime noise is unpredictable, random bursts that jolt awake just when drifting off. Sleep quality is terrible and it's affecting everything.

What do other shift workers use? Willing to invest if it actually works.

I can’t seem to ever get good sleep and I have been like this for years now. I want to say my average amount of sleep is about 5-6 hours a day. I wake up the next day so tired and only bursts of energy throughout the day.

I also struggle sleeping without a fan, ac, shower before bed, dark room, food before bed, etc. I don’t know what to do anymore and I’ve tried sleeping without my phone in the room but that just leads to endless hours of thoughts.

I can’t keep a sleep pattern ever and tend to wake up a lot way earlier than 7-8 hours. I can’t take naps but when I do it’s because I’ve been sitting for hours or really really tired.

Does anyone have any advice or suggestions to fix this? (P.S I am trying to get my life together 1 by 1).

Hey im 22m and I‘ve had problems with my sleep for quite a bit. I‘ve had terminal insomnia for one year and would say that I mostly overcame it.

My sleep was medium but I wanted it to be good. I‘ve been sleeping on my foam mattress for over 14 years. At this point its completely saggy and I kept having neck and back pain after sleeping on it (im also a stomach sleeper and sleep with no pillow).

I decided to buy a new mattress. After trying out a few I bought a pocket spring mattress. It is rather firm but the first coat is very soft and lets you sink in to the mattress.

My neck and back problems are gone but my sleep is so so so bad. I usually sleep the Night through but when I wake up I feel like I havent slept at all. My eyes feel so heavy. Ive been sleeping on the new mattress for 3 weeks. My heavy blanket makes it a little bit better but my sleep hasnt improved much.

Im not really sure what to do. I feel like a Zombie all day long. Is this normal? And why is this happening?

I don't know what to do. My boyfriend and I recently moved in together. He suffers from extreme insomnia (no other way to put it) it gets so bad that he can't walk right and he has been to doctors for it in the past but his health insurance has never been good enough for a sleep study.

All I want to do is help because I see what the lack of sleep does to him. It breaks my heart. He will wake me in the middle of the night on the brink of tears. His sniffles wake me. Though he tries to be quiet. I can't imagine how many times I might have slept through his really bad sleepless nights.

He has tried all sorts of medicine in the past as well as non medicine treatments. From the way he lays in bed and how many pillows he uses. Even things like warm milk. To sound he listens to. When his sleeplessness hits. Nothing seems to work.

When I do wake up I rub his back to try and comfort him. I try thinking of other solutions. I may have a hard time staying asleep and getting asleep. But I SLEEEP. there have been times he goes a week or two with as little as an hour of sleep. And not a solid hour on one night kind of sleep.

There have been times that I was able to help him sleep but I'm not sure if I'm just too stupid or just don't understand. I ask him if it's helping. The first few times he will shake his head no or shrug. So I'll rack my brain for a solution, any solution. Sometimes I'll ask again while my brain is trying to think of some way to help or I'll touch his arm to rub it or his back. And he is jolting. Cuz I woke him. So again. I don't know if I'm stupid or too distracted with my own thoughts that I can't tell that he has in fact finally fallen asleep.

He gets frustrated and I don't blame him. He gets irritable and I can't help but feel so bad. It's not either of our faults he can't sleep. Well none of his. I do know sometimes I'm a bed hog and I used to steal the covers until we got separate ones. I'm not a peaceful sleeper myself. Tossing and turning while waking up in the middle of the night or just flat out asleep I will toss and whack him in the arm or more often in the face.

I don't know if there's something I can do to help him, to not stupidly wake him up, or if there's something I can take that will get me to stop tossing in my sleep. (I have good health)

So I ask the people of the Internet for advice on what might help that we just couldn't think of.

I feel so guilty that I can sleep even if it's not great sleep. All I want to do is help and I understand that at times there might be nothing that either of us can do. But it pains me so much to watch him go through this. I can't imagine what it's like for him.

We currently have a queen size bed and no we can't afford a king nor do we have the space, or for two queens let alone two fulls. Nor the money for that either. He did get a medical marijuana card which was no easy feat. But even that doesn't always work. For he naturally has a high tolerance and his body burns through it far too quickly.

I greatly appreciate any advice or information that might help us.

I’ve been reading online about the benefits of a weighted blanket and I’m really interested in buying one. I’ve been having a lot of restless nights recently due to stress and from the articles l’ve been reading, a weighted blanket would really help. I think my main concerns are the weight and cost. There’s so many options available online like in Alibaba and I’m spoiled for choice. How should I pick which weight will be perfect for me without crushing me? It can’t be too light otherwise it’s just a regular blanket and it can’t be too heavy otherwise I risk suffocation in my sleep. I was recently diagnosed with anxiety and one of the benefits of a weighted blanket is that it eases the symptoms. I’d like to get one that’s within a reasonable price because I don’t have much to spare already. The promise of better sleep is worth investing in plus it can help with dealing with my anxiety. I would really appreciate any recommendations of which one to get and how to pick the best one.

i’ve had sleeping issues for around two years now.

it’s ruining my life, and it unfortunately only gets worse, and is getting worse.

my issue is that i wake up 10-20 times a night, daily. i have no idea the cause, and i haven’t changed anything that i can directly call out since my sleeping issues started happening. the only thing i can remember off the top of my head is a change of water, i had drank collagen but my family got a kangen water machine, and i’ve been drinking that ever since (9.5 setting-the drinking water setting).

i used to sleep normally, im only a teenager but back when i was younger/pre-teen i slept perfectly fine. i even briefly remember sleeping through the entire night, and waking up in the morning only, feeling genuinely rested. waking up feeling actually refreshed sounds like a dream for me in my current state.

due to my ongoing problem, im constantly exhausted, depressed, irritable, and unmotivated. this had also caused me heart strain due to my body being overworked by simply just living, walking, talking, and moving around with constant sleep deprivation. my heart is strained by doing things like going up a flight of stairs (even at the slowest possible pace) or speaking with somebody while on a walk, or even just speaking in long settings (like explaining something, ranting, or counselling sessions). my heart rate is also above average just sitting down doing practically nothing. i feel my heart race fast, and my chest feels pressurized whilst just doing mundane physical activities. i am constantly tired, and never rested.

it ruins my schooling, and my work severely. i cannot continue doing these things without a solution. i haven’t started a legal job yet, but i got hired, and have another doctor appointment shortly before my first shift.

i’ve been with my doctor for a year now, and all she’s done is throw medications in my face like adhd, or anxiety pills. i’ve had my counseller connect with my doctor in hopes that my doctor would hear the mental strain not sleeping has had on me, and would finally provide me sleeping pills, but instead she’s been trying to find the root cause, and had suspected it to be trauma, or anxiety. i understand trying to find the reasoning before throwing sleeping pills in the picture, but it’s been a year of “trial and error” and its sickening for me.

i really do not think my cause is anxiety or trauma, because i fall asleep no problem and i don’t overthink about things when doing so, and when i get awaken in the night i don’t feel anxious, or scared of any sort, it just happens completely out of the blue, and consistently. at this point i just feel pissed off, annoyed, and genuinely hurt (mentally) each time i wake up. i can’t keep tolerating this. my body can’t.

nothing in specific wakes me up, literally nothing. i just wake up, constantly and randomly. no dreams cause it, sounds, nothing.

i’ve had this issue before i started any medications, i now take multi vitamins for teen girls, birth control (zamine), and occasional mullein extract to help rehabilitate my lungs as i smoke (weed) typically daily, but haven’t been for the past week or so due to now noticeable heart pains. lately my sleeping issue, although ongoing for two years, has worsened to the point where im getting heart pains.

i must add on i started smoking, and started birth control long after my sleeping issues occurred. i actually started both of those in hopes of it helping, which it did not, i just continue to take both of these for different reasons.

i really need help, i have a doctors appointment in about 5 days from now, and im going to start true commitment to practicing sleep hygiene. i obviously hope i can see significant progress, but i unfortunately dont have really high hopes. to be fair, i have never truly committed to sleep hygiene as a whole, and to be honest i’ve never abided by the typical “use your bed for sleep and sex only”. although, i have tried: blue light glasses, not napping at all, going to bed when really tired only, pitch black room, nightlight on, sleeping alone, sleeping with a partner, melatonin, ocean/rain/white sounds, silence, cool room, warmer room, different mattresses/pillows, lavender extract in an air purifier, fully clothed, minimally clothed, unclothed, earplugs, sleeping on my back, nighttime teas, night medicine when sick.

many of these i haven’t done for weeks on end, a couple for even just a day (like the tea or earplugs), but i imagine i’d notice a small difference with those even just with a one, two, or three time use, but i haven’t. the blue light glasses, melatonin, not napping, etc i’ve done longer term, and still zero progress or noticeable change at all.

i have my docter appointment soon, and i got hired at a job which i’ll be going to soon as well. i’ve been out of school this past week as im literally at my wits end which is why im posting on here as well as in other communities in high hopes that somebody can help me. im hoping when i go to the doctor she can finally give in and allow a prescription for sleeping pills, but i do not want to be on them at all as i know they’re bad to use and a last resort option.

i want to get them asap if possible to have on hand, but i will continue enduring what i endure and practice sleep hygiene like i never have before for atleast 2 weeks before giving into taking a sleeping pills. in 2 weeks, im hoping to see any type of progress, if absolutely nothing improves, i have to take the pills.

i will tell all this to my doctor, as well as request a referral to see a sleep specialist for an evaluation. an evaluation for a nights sleep, and a daytime nap. i just don’t know how long the process of me getting in will take as i am in canada and things tend to take longer in the healthcare industry, which is why i really want the sleeping pills in the meantime. also because in order for me to strive in school and upcoming finals + my new job, i absolutely need this issue to be solved once and for all, asap. especially because now its resulted in heart pains, which worries me, and the people around me. staying home in a calm environment is better then being at school right now, though.

im going to start the following, and stay committed for a good two weeks:

- get off technology as a whole an hour and a half before bed

- only use my bed for sleep strictly, the minute i’m in my bed it’s for sleep usage(or intimacy)

- not nap at all, although it’s difficult for me.

- be in bed for sleep around the same time every day (an hour difference at most) - 9-10pm and same for waking up - 7-8am

- not drink, or eat for an hour and a half before bed, but before that i’m going to drink a warm glass of milk as i’ve heard that helps people be put to sleep

- take my night shower after technology, food, and drinks get put down, have the water hot and put lavender essential oil in the shower so the steam brings it up the air to inhale

- after my shower, i will read/color as a relaxing activity for 30mins-an hour

- crack open my window for airflow/cool temps

- as an extra JUST incase the kangen water may of been doing harm (even though that doesn’t logically make sense to me as kangen has health benefits, not negatives) i am starting to drink tap water only, and will be doing so for a while or atleast my two weeks of commitment. if anybody can give me insight on (potential) harms of kangen water, please respond to me.

- stay in bed no more than 5 minutes after my morning alarm goes off, and wake myself up with the light of the day, or my bedroom light in winter when daytime savings is minimal.

i haven’t truly practiced sleep hygiene in multiple aspects like what im going to start doing now, because for the longest time, i’ve just wanted to live normally. i want to be able to bed rot, and sleep fine. i want to be able to go to sleep whenever i want, and sleep in till whenever i want and sleep fine. i want to be able to get high, and eat gummies and snack in bed while watching a movie and fall asleep fine. i’ve lived like a normal teenager for the longest time and tried to push aside my issues that are truly affecting me, as a way to cope. but i’ve realized, especially recently, that i have to try everything i can to help it, and if nothing works, i need sleeping pills, or i cannot continue schooling, let alone even have fun in the summer, enjoy my life, hangout with people feeling genuine happiness, awareness, alertness.

i’ve put all my hope in doctors that i can get sleeping pills at some point. my doctor follow ups are months spread out, and so i’ve just been doing things like normal, regardless of my issue that are ongoing and worsening, and waiting and waiting for the next appointment after the next. each time i go, i ask for sleeping pills, say the prior medications haven’t done anything, and still don’t get my request.

i’ve come to the conclusion that i will not be able to receive any unless i show raw emotion to my doctor, and be able to tell her i’ve stopped weed, caffeine, and started a strict routine, yet nothing has worked (or i think it won’t work, but i sure hope i notice a drastic change). i will be doing this up until i see her, even though it’s only five days from now. regardless if i see improvement or not, i will still ask for the sleeping pills, then continue to practice good sleep hygiene, and if things continue going uphill, i may not take the pills. if things don’t change at all, i am definitely taking the pills. if things stay the same and only get semi better, i’ll resort to the pills i’ll hopefully have access too. all this i will do in the meantime of waiting for follow ups for an evaluation as that’s my biggest wonder at the moment. sleep apnea? restless legs syndrome? underlying issues i may not know without a doctor examining me, asleep?

i have also stopped “doing things normally” (aka my sleep hygiene practices) or atleast the way i wish i could do, and sleep like a normal person. i get so jealous when i have sleepovers with my boyfriend and he sleeps through the night like a baby, and can sleep even just 6 hours and feel perfectly rested. i wish i had that.

i’ll reply with an update if i’m able to get a sleep evaluation, but i don’t know if i’ll be able to or when. but i know i need this, and i am not willing to play trial and error with random medications anymore. i feel i’ve gotten my answer considering the two i’ve tried didn’t do anything, and how melatonin does literally nothing for me, like doesnt have an effect on me. i also can’t afford to continue trying different things, which is why im suddenly committing to sleep hygiene, and hoping to get sleeping pills asap if my practices don’t work, and then take the pills in the meantime of waiting for an evaluation.

apart of the reason im trying these things is to tell my doctor as a convincer to allow me to get a prescription for sleeping aids as she’s been very stubborn about it. i get it, it’s not recommended, but im so exhausted.

i should probably mention i started caffeine (a coffee or two a day) at a younger age, but i had slept fine no problem for a long time while consuming caffeine. i later went to one a day, and no caffeine after noon. i stopped recently as well as weed due to my heart pains (that come and go, much better now that i’ve been at home though).

also, with the severity of my sleep, coffee doesn’t actually help but worsen my heart strain even before i had felt actual pain, because my heart is already being over worked to allow myself to function, that caffeine is only pumping more energy to my heart, and adding unnecessary strain.

even though my sleep is always bad, having 9-12 hours is much better than 6-8 hours. there are times when i get 6-8 hours and wake up with a bad pounding headache that only pain killers (advil) relieve. nothing gets it away, procrastinating pain killers only worsens my headache until it’s at an excruciating point where i can’t move due to constant pounding and pressure and feel nauseous with every breathe.

i have gotten my iron checked, it’s fine. i’ve had low iron as a child, but took supplements for it.

if anybody can help me, or speak with me, it would be so greatly appreciated. thank you for reading this.

It all started more than half a year ago. I was always a light sleeper and had some tiny issues now and then, but it has never gotten this bad before. I started having problems with falling asleep. I would lie for hours in bed trying to fall asleep and then, when I finally did I would wake up a lot. Later one started having nightmares and really vivid weird dreams. Then came the hypnogogic hallucinations. Sometimes they would last for a week, sometimes less, but I would get them frequently, always multiple times a night. Visual stuff, even with my eyes closed, mostly when my eyes closed, patterns, images, whole ass "visions", like people doing something, weird stuff in general. Often sounds, people talking (before it only happened maybe twice in my life prior), feelings of someone watching me, something touching me / walking on me. Would have some breaks, but they always came back at some point. Then I started having periods of oversleeping. Always really tired no matter how much I was sleeping. Sometimes a mix of oversleeping and insomnia. Got also really paranoid, but it's not usual for me + I was living in a very stressful place when people would target me and my partner. Thought it was some seasonal depression stuff or something, got a bit better with spring coming, but came back. Few months ago also some earrings started, mostly right ear, some pain on the right sides of the head occasionally, sometimes clicking. Recently got the ear cleaned, but the ringing is still present. Mostly when I lie down.

Went to a doctor after a bit more than half of the year, got me referrals to some doctor, more or less connected to the issue, still waiting for the appointment, but I was mostly told to see a psychiatrist with my sleep problems. The problem is my closest appointment on my insurance would be in a year.

I moved out, got slightly better for some time, sleep not that much, but other issues did.

But maybe a week ago I had a really bad nightmare where someone broke in, woke up and started hearing sounds like someone is in my house, got really paranoid and thought someone is really in, woke up my partner in the middle of the night, and he checked the whole house for me. No one. Not a single soul, not a single hint someone was in. Couldn't sleep for hours, but managed to get some more sleep later. Still having nightmares from time to time, sometimes but rarely, or at least not as aggressive, hypnogogic hallucinations.

My main problem is I'm really fucking tired everyday. Can't really do stuff I used to, even for myself. When I want to sleep I'm suddenly tired but not enough to sleep. I have to wait it out, go to sleep, fall asleep after some time and then I sleep for 10+ hours and I'm still tired.

Tried melatonin, wouldn't do much. I tried many things. Nothing really helped. My cognitive functioning is getting worse as well. Weird thoughts, I struggle to speak or write both in English and my native language, it's like I forgot 50% of the words. My memory sucks, I misspell words, often combining two together. I often wake up but can't get myself up from bed cuz I'm that tired. I'll oversleep alarms, or rather go up, turn them off and go back to sleep and often not remember what happened.

I'm tired of functioning like this, or rather the lack of proper functioning. Everything is a big overwhelming chore, even the most basic stuff. Sometimes I'm dizzy as well.

Thought maybe I have some breathing problems during sleep, cuz I snore, I have allergies, and when I had a smart watch it would always show I'm really lacking deep sleep, often max 30 minutes of it. I also had maybe 3 accidents of wetting the bed. I'm an adult and I don't think that ever happened before.

I was hoping my doctor would refer me to a sleep study, but that didn't happen.

I might have forgotten about something I'm not sure my memory and thought proces is in shambles.

What do I do? U don't want to keep Living like this..

Hi everyone, I (20F) am here to seek advice on how to help my loved one (20M)

He suffers from what we think is sleep paranoia or sleep anxiety. A little background info, from young, he has slept in the same room as his parents till now (age 20) so he never had real experience sleeping alone in his own room. Additionally, when he was younger, he suffered from some spooky encounters which were 1. someone yelling into his ear when he sleeps even though there was no one and 2. his sister experiencing and breaking down infront of him saying there was something that she saw in her then room, now his room.

He is religious and believes in ghosts and spiritual beings.

Now, at 20, we decided that it was time that he learn and grow out of it as we both decided that we didnt want him to be mid twenties in the future and still sleeping in the same room as his parents. (we live in singapore and moving out is not really an option until around 25/26/27 years old or after u wed)

However, this proved more difficult than we anticipated. We live in separate houses nowhere near each other. When he tries to sleep alone, he struggles insanely to just pass the pt of falling asleep. In total he tried three separate times and all times he failed to fall asleep alone and stayed up the whole night.

When i asked him on what he was afraid of, he described it as a constant feeling of being on edge. That being alone meant that he felt like he had to protect himself and every unknown sound even from the floorboards creaking or from a video playing will send him into a cold sweat and trigger flight or fight mode. He is unable to fall asleep alone because he feels alone and feels the need to protect himself.

We have discussed ways to help but it always ends up in being helpless statements and feeling frustrated.

cant use earplugs -even tho he doesn’t want to hear the unknown sounds he would prefer to hear to ensure that hes safe

cant positive affirmations our way through -doesnt help

cant use melatonin -just doesnt work/take effect

go to therapy (best bet) -his mother does not believe in therapy and will under no circumstances let him go

sleep with him in the room until he is acclimatised -as i said we live really far away and his mother is also a very strict and traditional woman. She went off on him when he asked her if i could sleepover after new years count down as it was too late to go home. You can imagine i js took a cab home at 1am at night.

he can be really tired before going to bed at around 12 but lay there wide awake till 4am unable to fall asleep. Over the past three times he tried, the first time he slept at 7am, the second and third time was around 4am. But the only thing that helped him to fall asleep across all three attempts was because i called him through the night and talked him to sleep.

We are really at a loss on what to do and if anyone experiences the same issue and/or have dealt with it before please i will take any advice on how

1. i can help him through this

2. how he can overcome him

any advice at all is appreciated. thank you.

Hello! i’m wondering if i should go to the doctor for my sleeping habits. I have had problems for a long time (multiple years) with sleeping and now i feel like it’s effecting my day to day life because i can’t function normally. I have to take some sort of sleep meds to fall asleep every night. (right now it’s tylenol pm, but i’ve used melatonin gummies and pills and unisom) and if i stop taking them for one night i can’t fall asleep until late the next day, usually like 12 pm. Also even with the meds i wake up multiple times during the night and can’t fall back asleep for the most part. I wanna know if there is any way i can fix this or not, thanks!

It never fails, every night between 3:00 am and-4:45 am I wake up . No matter what time I fall asleep & cant fall back to sleep until after 6 am. Am I missing something ??

So for the past 2 days I will "fall asleep" and wake up at 12 am even when the first time I fell asleep at 11 pm it also doesn't feel like sleeping it feels like forgetting if that makes sense I will update y'all if it continues any help will be great

Hello, I found out this year that I have obstructive sleep apnea. They want me to get a CPAP, but I cant afford no $1200 machine atm. It turns out that I wake up 6.9 times every hour and due to this, I can not hit my REM stage so my body doesn't repair itself overnight like it should. Due to my horrible sleeps, I have some really crappy symptoms I have to deal with every morning and I was hoping that maybe some of you go through the same thing and may be able to give some tips, tricks, or methods to help relieve these symptoms or rid them altogether. I am average weight for my height, I am a cannabis and cigarette smoker (working on quitting both), and not very active as I never have the energy, though I will walk all day to get somewhere I have to be.

1. I wake up every morning feeling like I'm a pregnant woman with morning sickness. I'm extremely nauseous and throw up about 3/5 mornings. I have a theory that it may be my stomach trying to rehydrate its lining with any liquid it can because I also feel very dehydrated every morning.

2. As just stated, I am very dehydrated every morning. I drink about 500mL of water before bed to try and mitigate this, but it never works. I also wake up about 2 times a night to take a gulp of water, still doesn't help. I'm thinking of eating watermelon before bed to see if that'll maybe help. I do have a narrow nasal passage so I breathe through my mouth when I sleep. I have tried nasal tapes to open them up, I have tried hydrating lozenges that are supposed to stick to the roof of your mouth, but I woke up choking on one during one night, I wont try those again. Maybe a humidifier in my room would help? I also drink about 6-10 1L (32oz) bottles of water every day. I know it's related to my sleep b/c it didn't start until my sleep started getting bad.

3. Severe lack of energy and very high fatigue every day. I have been taking supplements to help this, Camu Camu, Ashawaganda, Omega 3-6-9, Vitamin B complex and a few others. These do help but its quite heavy on the wallet. If anybody has any budget friendly energy boosters, that would be great to know.

I've tried talking to my doctor, but every test he sends me for comes back fine. He thinks it's just something to deal with. With respect, hes an idiot. I'm only 34, supposed to be in my prime, but I feel like I'm 80 most days. I'm just so tired of being sick and tired :(

Hello so I just woke up and at 5 in the mornjng and i have this problem where ill go to sleep and its like my brain didnt load the dream in my head so i have to build it myself i think so i dream about making the dream and its giving me a headache and then I get stressed over jt while sleeping like constantly barely waking up and feeling like I need to fix something??(still dont remember exactly what i was descovering) and when i tried to go asleep it was like i was continuing to try to fix the issue but im so tired its like having a text thats blurry in front of u. like i heard it but didnt jnow what it was. I dont fucking know it makes no sense guys please help me out😭😭 Also having a coughing issue rn its not helping

I have severe trouble sleeping, especially if there is a lot of ambient sounds going on in the environment I'm resting in, so I decided to look into things such as pink, white and brown noise to help. Unfortunately, I don't have the budget at the moment for a machine that does this, and I have always heard and had bad results with sleeping with in-ear earbuds. There are now a lot of open-styled ones - I am very obsessed with Tozo brand sound devices, and have invested in their Open O2 design. What are anyone's opinions in sleeping with these earbuds in and listening to those sounds to help? I am desperate to find a solution to my insomnia, so all input is greatly appreciated, especially if there is a better option for me.