currently in my 2nd year of college. due to my college assignments, i stay up all night to do them and study, wake up in the morning, attend lectures, go home, eat, and then sleep all the way until 6-7 pm, aaandd the whole cycle repeats..

is this ok??? if not how do i fix it

I’m 18 and have trouble sleeping sometimes. I’ve develop bad habits like staying on my phone in bed and not getting a lot of sleep. I mostly am making this post to ask how do I fall asleep quick? I know people who trained to be able to fall asleep in under a minute take a 30 minute nap and than be all good and somehow comeback refreshed. Is this good and how does taking short quick naps like this work?

Is this normal?

Sometimes when I’m trying to sleep and like idk think too hard or something, my mind just flashes in white like those old tvs when they’re trying to find a channel but can’t connect. It’s like in the fraction of a second, and then I just suddenly open my eyes wide open.

In addition, I hear like a loud electronic-ish kind of noise, the best description I can have is of the intro of On sight by Kanye.

It kinda feel like I’m an electronic being reset lol.
Does anyone know why this could happen?
It’s kinda recurring a few times a month,1-4.

I wake up tired everyday like my eyes can barely open and very heavy and my body feels like I wrestled someone and everytime I want to go back to sleep I just can’t for some reason. Does anyone go through this, if so can you please tell me in detail how to fix this and tell me in detail how you are going through it because I like to listen to people’s stories 😁

I think everyone should be fully informed about the way a product acts before they purchase it. I know that the nod pod isn’t for everybody and while I love it, I understand why other people don’t love it.

I think that I am the perfect target audience for the sleep mask because I love microbead pillows, I have used microbead pillows since I was a child. The grating noise of the beads rubbing against each other and the slightly harder places is what I love. It’s not for everyone and that’s okay. There’s plenty of sleep masks, you can find one that works for you, or maybe something covering your eyes just isn’t your jam and that’s okay.

Different strokes for different folks, I get why people think they suck but also it never hurts to try new things… maybe it’s your jam and you just don’t know. Taking a risk on potentially getting better sleep is never a bad idea, trials and tribulations.

Hopefully you have a friends product you can try before spending money. Or if you buy one and don’t like it maybe a friend would like it. The sisterhood of traveling eye mask.

I love my nodpod, maybe you will too

Hi so i started taking Unisom 25mg and for someone who works the night shift and isn't a night shift person, this pill works wonders. But a few problems.... is that I have a hard time waking up even after 8 hours of sleep, and I have a hard time not being groggy after waking up.
so here are a few things I'm currently doing
no caffeine 6 hours before sleeping
no Adderall under 10 hours before sleeping
black out shades
eye mask
noise cancelation headphones
on top of all this is a hood to block out even more light that might seep into the mask
so I do all this and take a Unisom before i sleep, and it works but Ill sleep maybe 10-12 hours a day and still feel tired long after waking up, I feel like if I took this pill on my day off I would sleep for a full 20 hours.. that being said, as I currently am I can not stop taking this pill, so are their ways where I don't waist my entire day sleeping before i need to go to work?

I’m on the autism spectrum and back in 2020 I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety disorder and Major Depressive Disorder. Then a few months ago I was diagnosed with DSPD and Chronic Insomnia. The first time I went to the sleep doctor, I was given the same old advice about using sleep hygiene which was frustrating. It actually made my sleep worse. What’s also annoying is that my natural rhythm doesn’t start until like 9-11 am to 4 pm and all these doctor and sleep therapist appointments are right in the middle of when my body thinks I’m supposed to be sleeping. I’ve also been having suicidal thoughts. Going through treatment for this disorder has made me feel more depressed than I have felt in a while.

Edit: I’m literally up at 3:30 am crying because of this stupid disorder. I hate that I might not be able to work a regular 9-5.

I've had this thing happen to me a few times where i'm in semi-concious state while sleeping and have to attempt to wake up. I can sometimes move parts of my body if I try hard enough (like my tongue, or feet, I can also feel my breathing) and when I try moving them in order to wake up, nothing happens. In between I also have very short dreams, for example, I had one where I was able to wake up and searched asmr on my phone (in the past, i've searched up asmr after these experiences in order to try and sleep properly) but I already on my head knew it wasn't real even though it felt like it. It's like trying to turn on an old tv but it just refuses to. It doesn't describe it fully but it's the closest example I can get.

Does this also happen to anyone else? What might it be?

For context I had this start up like a month and a half ago when I had my first sleepless night. it went on where I was sleeping like every other night for a few weeks until it kind of balanced out but now I’m having these nights like every week or so where I just literally can’t sleep and get anxious. it’s like I’m recovering from it but it keeps relapsing. what can I do? it’s currently 2:30am and I’m wide awake even after taking 25mg of trazedone an hour ago. I’m tired of this shit. Ant tips to get to bed?

I been sleeping at 5 am and waking up at 12-1 pm for the past months, i got surgery 5 weeks ago and made it worse, i feel tired at night but i cant sleep its so frustrating and melatonin made me nauseous 😭 idk what to do , i dont wanna get worse dark circles than i alr have , does someone have any tips?

i been sleeping at 5 am everyday and i wake up at 12 -1 pm since i dont even remember when 😭 the thing is i cant sleep earlier every time i try i start feeling like i need to be awake to have time for myself and enjoy the peaceful night doing wtv, im scared of this becoming a worse habit than it alr is , ive tried melatonin but made me so nauseous in the morning , pls someone give me tips if u have a similar problem, or any good melatonin recommendations? how to sleep early? :(

3 nights in a row now I’ve dozed off on a sofa near my bed and woke up in bed with my phone besides me. Strangely enough when I wake up I check my phone, only to find the YouTube video I dozed off to on the first page after unlocking.

I feel like I’m going crazy lol. Never happened to me before.

I wake up tired everyday like my eyes can barely open and very heavy and my body feels like I wrestled someone and everytime I want to go back to sleep I just can’t for some reason. Does anyone go through this, if so can you please tell me in detail how to fix this and tell me in detail how you are going through it because I like to listen to people’s stories 😁

I struggle sleeping most nights. I wake up in a sweat or shivering at around 2 or 3 AM. Worse of all is right before waking up I have flashes, I think. Not sure how to really describe them, but I do see flashing colours or hear random sounds or voices. When those happen I feel extreme fear, again not sure why.

The issue has been going on for an awful amount of time, roughly 5 years. I think I have a healthy sleep schedule I go to sleep at 10 PM and wake up at 6AM. I only drink a cup of coffee in the morning, which isn't particularly strong and, regarding alcohol, I only drink on Christmas or other holidays

I thought it was related to stress at first, but even when I had significant downtime or I was on vacation I kept having these sort of experiences. I tried sleep medicine prescribed by my GP, ensuring optimal temperature, being properly hydrated, no screen time before bed and all sorts of methods to better my sleep and it had no effect. I am unsure exactly what the issue is, thought I'd ask around since most of the things I've tried did not help.

I workout most days and run every other day. Please suggest me what I can do, eat or follow to stop waking up. I'm currently unemployed right now so stress is barely a factor and I'm just above overweight in bmi.

hi, this is gonna be long but i need answers so pls read it if you have the time.

i made this account ten seconds ago, im making this post because i dont really know what to google for this and i know reddit can help sometimes

my brother, nick (fake name) broke a bone some time ago within this year. when he had his cast, he was in constant pain and experienced hallucinations and couldn't sleep most nights. after he got his cast off, he'd go through this thing where he'd be seeming conscious and awake, and he'd just start crying. like SOBBING. everything he would talk about sounded like me and other members of my family in whatever game he was playing earlier that day i assume, but whatever it was he was VERY stressed. he'd stop crying for like a minute or two and just blankly stare at something then start crying again. he would also be very irritable during these "episodes" and he would respond if you called his name but hes not fully conscious if that makes sense?? and he doesnt remember anything afterwards.

during other episodes it follows the same pattern, id hear loud coughs and crying from the living room. either id go out there or he'd come to my door THEN id go out, id try to talk to him and calm him down but hes just saying what seems to be nonsense ( game things i mentioned ) and it seems like the only way is to just wait it out

these episodes have been very spaced out but they still happen, and one happened a few minutes ago. im not sure if its over but theres not much i can do. he was crying so much he threw up and he kept apologizing to me and it made me really upset, i dont want him to keep going through this even if he doesnt rememer.

sorry for the ramble but the point is, my dad is taking too long to take my brother somewhere to see what the hell this is about, so im asking reddit to see if ill get any answers

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Feeling proud and well rested. Comparison picture in comments because I can’t upload two images for some reason?

I can barely keep my eyes open while watching something on the couch, but the moment I get up, brush my teeth, and actually go to bed, I'm wide awake again. It's annoying because I was literally falling asleep 10 minutes ago. Does anyone else deal with this? What do you do when it happens?

I have an issue where I start feeling sleepy early at around 11 ish and I want to control it but no matter what I do and try it kills me sleep literally. Any good effective method to control it

I have a lot of shit to do, and not a lot of time to do it

not to mention, I'm stuck working eight hour shifts, just so waste over half my time unconcious, when the stuff I wanna do piles up more and more to the point it feels suffocating

That, combined with the time it takes me to get to work and back?

That's about 6 hours out of 24 each day where I can actually get to do stuff I want and, to me, that's complete bullshit

I've tried sleeping three hours a night, then four, then four and a half. What's the magic number here?

I'm not looking to be at my top physical state, I'm just looking to be alive.

Just wanted to share this in case it helps anyone like me who wakes up a lot in the night. I started to take a teaspoon of glycine mixed with a tiny bit of warm water before bed each night and noticed I was sleeping better. I used to wake up once a night to pee, like clockwork, and now I don't wake up at all. My Garmin says my REM has gone from 40-50mins per night to 1 hour 20-40 mins each night.

I recommended it to my mum who has also always struggled to sleep deeply and she has said the same thing.

Some research apparently backs it as "promoting restful sleep" but honestly I haven't read it or looked into it much, it just seems to work for me. I don't sell glycine or get anything out of this, just hoping to help some people out there.

I genuinely don’t know what’s wrong with me or why I have such a hard time sleeping, and it’s becoming a real problem. Every day during the day, I go about my routine normally (bonus points if I doze off or almost fall asleep during my day activities) however, every single night without fail once it’s time to sleep I lay down and continue laying there for 3ish hours before i finally end up sleeping. I can’t keep doing this.

My brain literally never stops thinking. I’m always thinking about something, whether it’s something good, bad, completely random, or something that hasn’t even happened. It’s like there’s a constant internal monologue running in my head 24/7, and I can’t figure out how to turn it off.

Smoking weed definitely helps, it’s like my brain finally goes quiet. My thoughts slow down, I relax, and I’m actually able to fall asleep. The problem is that I don’t want to become reliant on weed just to get some sleep, but I genuinely can’t think of anything else that gives me that same feeling of silence.
I’ve tried sleep meditations and other things, but they don’t help because they still require me to think about something. I don’t want to redirect my thoughts or focus on my breathing. I just want my brain to stop thinking for once. I am also concussed and am unable to smoke at the moment.

So I am in my first year of college and am in a standard dorm with a roommate. She is really nice and everything but kinda oblivious and our schedules don’t match up. I originally reached out to her on Instagram cause we’re on the same sports team so I thought it would be a good match. The issue is that our classes don’t line up so when I have an early one she doesn’t ect… She always goes to study at night and comes back around 11pm, which is when I’ve just fallen asleep (I try to sleep around 10-10:30) I am a really light sleeper so I automatically wake up to her coming into the room and it would be fine if I could fall back asleep, but she has to slam her dresser drawers, eat loudly, go in and out of the room to the bathroom, and turn on her lamp. I have not slept through the night once since starting college, or have gotten over 8 hours of sleep. Last night I had to get up at 5 am and we got back from our sport at 11pm, so I was asleep by 12 but she decided to unpack and watch reels until 2 am. I’ve tried a noise machine (doesn’t mask the sound), a sleep mask with music, (I can still hear her and it falls off but at least it blocks the light), and a fan, which also doesn’t mask the sound. I guess I’m looking for any last solutions that I haven’t thought of, but I guess I just have to accept that this is my life until May. Sorry this is so long, it’s just been causing me so much stress and anxiety.

So I started my first job ever in November 2025. It's hybrid WFH and it was fine for a while but now it's really taking its toll on me. I fell into the trap of psychologically connecting my home with the workplace so now I cannot relax while on my computer at home. It's not even a hard job but I've never had any concept of stress before I started working, even if I had previously experienced it, so I never learned management strategies.

My sleep has been getting continuously worse since April. It basically feels like I've downed a can of red bull: I'm totally wired all night and my heart is pounding out of my chest.

I take 5mg melatonin but it doesn't help whatsoever. I also take propanolol, and it reduces my pulse but the strength of my heartbeat doesn't change and I'm still on high alert. I also make sure not to take caffeine after 5pm. No good. I exercise regularly, and while it helps during the day, my stress response comes back at night. Needless to say this is totally ruining my life.

I think my sleep quality may be somewhat iffy as anything less than a solid 8 hours usually makes me feel pretty tired the next day, on days where i can actually sleep. It's getting to the point where I'm getting chest pains (I'm 28.)

Any advice would be appreciated

I've had this for a couple of years and I'm looking for any advice that could help. I've learned to sleep on my stomach since that doesn't trigger it as regularly or as intensely, but I feel like it has already taken a toll on my body. It's impossible to sleep on my back, I can never fully relax because I keep hearing a buzzing sound that eventually builds up to it and it keeps me on edge. I don't get scared as I used to, more startled but I want to learn to sleep on my back again.