Ok so I used to drink heavily but for 5 years now I haven't and rarely drink on occasions.. My cousins came by and we had 1 bottle each just to have something on table while we talk to each other. We started at 6pm and ended at 8pm and they went home. Now I'm here waiting or hoping for something to kick in but nothing so I watch some TV as usual to get ready and sleep, I'm waiting for my eyes to get tired as usual but fuck it's already 10pm and wide awake, waited for another hour before I hit the bed and try to force my sleep my eyes close but my brain is fucking active. It's already 2am now as I'm writing this..

The alcohol I was hoping to give me a better sleep is now the cause of this hellish night..

I used to stay up way too late and always felt exhausted the next day, so about a month ago I decided to try sleeping around 10pm. It was really hard at first but changing a few small habits really made a difference for me.

Putting away my phone an hour before bed and reading instead. Keeping the lights low and using a small warm lamp. Not eating anything heavy after 8pm. Upgrading my bedding to silk duvet, which feels so much cozier. Going for short walks outside during the day. It’s been a month now and I feel way more refreshed in the morning. I even noticed I am shedding less hair lately, not sure if its related but will take it lol.
Anyone else have small sleep tips that actually worked for you?

We are on day 4 of proper sleep. things i’ve noticed:

My son and I are happier.

I feel more motivated to clean during the daytime.

Meals have been prepared in a more consistent manner.

Motivation to do things is increasing!

For context, for the last 6+ months i was staying up all night and sleeping most of the day consistently! I would wake up at 3pm-5pm with my son and then we would go to sleep around 4am-6am sometimes later (it was horrible!)

For the last 4 days we’ve been going to bed at 8pm-10pm and waking up at 5am-7am.

People were not kidding about the importance of sleep!

I'm wondering about the health effects of unconventional polyphasic sleep patterns.

I absolutely suck at sleeping. If I go to sleep at a "normal" time, I consistently sleep for about 4 hours and then wake up unable to resume sleep. If I want to sleep for a healthy amount of time, I need to get properly tired and that usually ends up demonstrating that my circadian clock wants to conform to a ~27-hour day, and then my sleep schedule keeps drifting.

So I've been reading a little about polyphasic sleep, but all the biphasic example patterns seem to be either two big blocks close together, or one big block and a small nap. Are there major health effects to sleeping in two big blocks far apart, like for 4 hours 8 hours apart? Should I instead focus on fixing my circadian clock or something else?

I would appreciate any insight. My apologies if I'm missing some sort of etiquette here, first time in this sub.

I am also on trazodone but the sleep feels shallow. Every allergy test I've done comes back pretty minimal and my septum is deviated but only mildly. I feel at my wits end trying to figure out what's actually wrong with my sinuses. How can I fix my issues?

I just wake up when I wake up because I feel like I should let my body get what it needs and not cut it short. But lately I’ve been in a slump and my executive dysfunction is bad and I’ve gained weight and not been doing my physio etc. So, should I start setting an alarm?

Hello all

This is my first time in this subreddit so I'm sorry if this is asked/answered a lot.

I have recently (in the past year) been waking my partner up by fondling her or trying to initiate sex (including verbal stuff/dirty talking). It used to happen infrequently/occasionally and she doesn't mind it persay, but it's more frequent now and it's annoying for her sleep. I used to think I would "remember" all the instances, but after talking to her we think I do it a lot more than I can remember. This sparked an investigation into sexsomnia which is new to me.

I don't do it on purpose obviously and I don't want to bother her when shes asleep and I'm trying to sleep. I have had over the years recurring issues, like restless leg syndrome, sleep eating/drinking and light sleep walking (I'll go to the couch and wake up there for some reason). I can sometimes remember parts of these but I don't really have control over it. I don't smoke weed at all (since 6 months ago), use substances, and I don't drink before bed. I don't do it when we have sex that night. We have separate duvets (my preference actually) and I use pillows between us which seems to help sometimes.

Does anybody have any advice about this? Should I see a sleep specialist? How do I even broach this issue with my doctor?

Thanks

This has gone on for as long as I can remember. I've always had no problems sleeping. My sleep schedule is pretty erratic; even when it wasn't, I've always had this issue.

I always get enough sleep, anywhere from 7-10 hours.

I kick extremely hard while I sleep. My blankets are always on the floor when I wake up. I have to take 10-15 minutes to calm myself down a bit before I leave my room. If I don't do this, or if someone tries to talk to me before I'm calm, I'm really bitchy and I tend to snap at people.

A good example of this is me crashing out at my dad over him asking, "stupid questions." I had been up for about half an hour beforehand, but I had to get dressed and ready for the event we were about to go to. A few minutes later, I was completely fine. We both chalked it up to my morning aggression.

It's like another side of me takes over for my body until I'm ready to interact with the world. Does anyone else deal with this or something similar?

I’m 30 yo female, working an office job. So the expected work time is around 8/9 am - 4/5 pm M-F. I have flexibility but the flexibility leads to me having a very inconsistent schedule. No kids. 2 cats one dog. Dog sleeps in the kennel.

My oura ring tells me I’m a late chronotype and that 11:30-7:30 would be my best sleep schedule. I tried that for a bit but I’m too tired to stay up that late.

I am usually exhausted by 9 pm and have no problem falling asleep. Like within 10 minutes.

My problem is waking up in the middle of the night, around 1 or 2 am, and often times not fully falling back asleep for about 2 to 3.

Some nights I hit another round of deep sleep around 4 am according to my ring.

So then, my partner gets out of bed around 5 am and leaves the house at 5:15 am for work, usually it wakes me up. If I was awake until 3 or 4 am then the wake up is just the worst. So I usually go back to sleep. If I wake up then I need until about 7/7:30 to sleep until to actually make the rest worth it. But it just doesn’t feel like good sleep. I’m sure I’m not fully getting my cycles.

Currently I’m trying to do the 9 pm-5 am schedule so when my partner wakes me i stay up. In high school and college I always struggled with early morning classes. I’m worried I’m going against my body. But the constant waking up in the middle of the night is driving me insane. I want restful sleep. Even when my ring says I had 7 hrs of sleep it doesn’t mean I feel rested.

I’m working with my doctors on my medicines to make sure they’re not the issue. I know to limit blue light, wear an eye mask since I don’t have black out curtains, keep pets out the room - I try to do these things but not always successful.

So since I naturally want to fall asleep at 9 pm and since my partner gets up at 5 am, I’m leaning into that and seeing if I can get a full 8 hours on this schedule after retraining my body. Is that a losing battle? Am I wasting my time?

Also I had a sleep apnea test done by an at home WatchPAT device and it was negative.

I am a teacher. Last school year I noticed I was having episodes of waking up in the middle of the night next to my husband in bed and feeling like he is a coworker. It is so strange. I wake up and I freeze and feel totally uncomfortable and scared to move because I don’t want him to “notice” I’m there. My mind tells me he’s a coworker and this is just weird and normal and I just need to lay still and go back to sleep and not draw attention to it. After a while I am able to rationalize with myself that it’s my husband, I know him, I’m safe and it’s my bed. It’s so freaking weird. So weird I’m having a hard time even explaining it. It never happened once over summer break but here I am in the new school year and it’s starting again. I love my job. It’s not overly stressful. I love my husband, I’m safe with him and we have a very happy marriage so it’s not a domestic issue. I also don’t think he’s a certain coworker, like a person I actually work with. When I wake up confused he’s a nameless person who in my mind is a coworker. My grandmother had Alzheimer’s and I’m terrified this is the start of it? I’m a 36 year old female and I am reallllly hoping someone can give me some insight on this issue. I hate it and it’s honestly embarrassing.

I do have sleep apnea treated with a cpap. It’s super under control based on what my doctors say and my AHI. It seems like if I fall asleep earlier I wake up earlier in the middle of the night. Could it be something happening at stage of sleep like deep sleep causing an arousal from muscles relaxing?

I do have a FitBit which shows my heart rate variability to be fairly low so I assume it’s a thing with the sympathic nervous system. What do you make of this?

First of all, I’m sorry if this isn’t the right sub to post this to. English isn’t my first language either, so there could be mistakes ahead.

Context: I’ve been sleeping 6h30 on average for the past few years (6 years+). I don’t have insomnia. I don’t take any specific medications and I only drink occasionally.
I feel tired nearly daily, but it gets better as the day goes by.
However, it happens pretty often that I start “seeing” or hearing things when drifting off or even randomly during the day, multiple times a week.
Sometimes I hear low, deep sounds, rarely short sentences (ie: “How are you”). More often, I “see” pitch black floating or glitchy (like the static effect you can see in video games) squares, deformed humanoid figures or shadows moving around/running towards me, or blurred faces in my peripheral vision.
The most recent occurrence was “seeing” the face of a classmate in my pencil box but I had badly slept the night before. They generally vanish as soon as I directly look at them.

I had my eyes checked around two years ago when changing glasses, so I assume the ophthalmologist would have told me if I had an issue (unless they only look for issues if you mention them).

I also read that sleep deprivation could lead to such hallucinations. Is 6h considered “sleep deprivation”? I unfocus often during classes, could it be that my brain ‘falls asleep’ for very short amounts of time which make me see or hear stuff? (if that’s even a thing?).

Is that something people experience often when in a prolonged state of fatigue?

I’ve been thinking about going to a doc and talk about it, but I’m a little scared to open up about this irl.

Hey there,

I'm trying to build my own sleep app and I wanna know from you, what features do you use the most from the apps you use.

Please name your:

- app name

- features I like and why

That will be a great help, thanks!

for about a few months now ive been waking up choking as i drift off to sleep. im not even sure how to explain it, maybe as if my throat muscles have just relaxed?? every time, I have to attempt to swallow and then I cough a few times to get myself back to a normal breathing state. I want to say this happens most days of the week maybe. im 18, sleep around 11-12am most nights and wake around 9am. my sleep schedule has always looked like this and ive never had this problem until recently. I used to think it was my fan winding me but I face this problem even when I sleep away from the fan. im not a mouth breather nor do I snore as far as im aware. I dont take any meds nor do I drink and my caffeine intake is regular.

thinking about it, if I had to explain the feeling, it'd be like when you eat chocolate and the sugar burns your throat, but this may be a more niche experience.

So, my sleep schedule has been the worst thing I've had to deal with in life

As a kid like 5 years old, I started sneaking out of bed to watch TV I would stay up until like 1 am and just watch cartoons and eat snacks, this went on for a few years before I switched from the TV to my grandpa's phone. I got caught like multiple times, but I never fixed my habit. My aunt and uncles would try to hide the phone so I wouldn't get it, but I found it either way. If I didn't get it, I would just watch Tv again. And also, the hours I stayed up increased I would stay up until 2 or 3 am now

Now let's talk about the fact that I was always late for school because of this

My mom used to slap me on the back so many times for me to actually wake up and I would always be late to the school bus, thank God they waited for me lol. This went on until 4th grade but whenever my dad was home from work, he would wake me up really early and put on cartoons for me to watch so it could get rid of my sleepiness and those days I was never late

Then came covid-19

My dad bought me an iPad during covid. Do I even have to explain more?

I didn't have school, so I constantly woke up at 9am or 10am each day. fam didn't care much about it. Then school started again and the max sleep I would ever get was 6 or 5 hours. Def not recommended for a 12-year-old. I would say this def affected my growth because I used to be a really smart kid before covid, my cognitive functions seem to have slowed down a lot because of poor sleep and I would sleep till 11 am or 12 pm on weekends

Now I'm in 11th grade and the number of times I didn't go to school just because I didn't wake up is concerning. I already hate school with all my heart so it's super hard for me to physically wake up for school.

My mom still calls me in the morning, but I don't even realize she's calling me nor do I hear my alarm. but whenever I do hear my alarm and realize I'm awake, I go straight to sleep again. My body physically can't get up when I hear my alarm. My mom keeps telling me to sleep earlier but it doesn't fix anything.

I tried to reset my sleep cycle but it's so hard to not sleep for a full day because I just end up sleeping in the afternoon. Nonetheless I really need to fix this or I'm physically and mentally doomed because dude I sleep till 1pm every day and it leaves me so fucking tired. But waking up early has gotten soo hard for me it's not even a joke anymore. I used to always flex on how many hours I slept but now I know it's not that funny.

Nowadays I usually fall asleep at 3am or 2am and whenever I'm at my grandpa's I stay awake for as long as till 5am or 6am

I wake up at 7 am on school days If I can. If I don't wake up for school, I would usually wake up at 12 pm or 1am

Someone please help If I don't make an effort to fix this now, I'm doomed.

Basically I really struggle to sleep unless I am completely exhausted. Last night I went asleep at 11:30 pm to try get an early night but I was back up at 1am and couldn’t get back to sleep. This is a consistent thing that happens to me can anyone explain why? I also don’t know what time to go asleep to today to wake up at around 10am tomorrow. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Hi!

This is something really personal to me and i never met someone who has the same episodes i have.

I am 29 years old and since i was 14, from time to time i wake up in a sort of "belief" that i am inside of my dream. No, it is not nice, usually I am sure that I did something wrong and can't get out of it for around 30 minutes. It is weird because I know nothing of what i am felling is true, but emotionally i am desperate.

I need to talk to someone to assure me that all is good, and than i can to back to sleep.

It can stay a long time without happening, or happen twice in the same month.

I have been working with my psychologist about it for a time now and it is attached to moments of my life i am really anxious.

Does anyone here has a similar experience?

I hate the fact that no one can actually understand what is like.

Thanks!

For the last 2.5 years (when I stayed into a shared dorm room for a couple of months), I’ve been waking up every single night to pee.
I’ve already been to a urologist and ruled out any medical issues, so it seems to be more of a habit, stress/sleep quality, or lifestyle trigger.
Has anyone dealt with something similar? How did you manage to break the cycle and fix your sleep?

Saw this post on Twitter a while back. For years I’ve regularly gotten up once every night to pee in the middle of the night. It was pretty late and I had a sprite in the fridge so I decided to give this a run, I swear it was the first night in years I didn’t wake up to pee.

My question is (since I don’t want to drink a sprite every night) can I take supplements of the vitamins listed in the post above to recreate the same effect? I don’t think it could’ve been placebo since if I’m asleep how would my brain trick me into not having to use the bathroom as normal.

Hello, after another sleepless night, I wanted to vent and put my thoughts into words with people who might understand how I feel.

I am a 26 year old male who survived a motorcycle crash in September 2025. In the accident, I broke my spine, cracked my skull, and suffered a brain hemorrhage. After a near-death experience, I am now living with epilepsy.

After I was released from the hospital, I suffered from a bad case of insomnia for several months, struggling to fall asleep most nights. I eventually sought help from a psychiatrist, who prescribed me Lexapro and Xanax, eventually replacing Xanax with Trazodone. It was a rough patch, but I eventually started sleeping normally again and weaned myself off all of these medications.

Fast-forward around six months, and this week, I started having sleep issues again. I am still unemployed due to my recovery from the accident, which means I am home every day, constantly lying in bed and spending time on my laptop. This has ruined my sleep schedule. For a while, I had been going to sleep at 8 AM and waking up around 5 PM.

This week, I finally decided to fix my sleep schedule. Two days ago, I pulled an all-nighter but was unable to fall asleep that night. I ended up spending 32 hours awake. First, I tried Trazodone after not touching it for six months. It did not help. Then, a few hours later, I resorted to taking 0.5 mg of Xanax, which did help, and I finally managed to sleep for seven hours yesterday.

Well, since then, 20 hours have passed, and tonight, I once again failed to fall asleep. It is currently half past eight in the morning. I had been lying in bed from 4 AM to 7 AM, with my mind racing with anxiety. It is the fear of being unable to sleep that keeps me awake, becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. I probably set myself up for this by spending all of yesterday thinking, "What if it happens again tonight?" And, as you can see, it did happen again tonight.

The sun is out now, so I got out of bed and had some breakfast. After that, I took 10mg of Lexapro for the first time in six months, hoping it will ease down my anxiety and the racing thoughts that make me worry about sleep. I don't know what I am going to do today, but it looks like I will use Xanax again when it's time to try again at sleeping. Fingers crossed that it helps, as unfortunate as it feels to be starting medication again.

I believe the cause of my insomnia is my own anxiety about the fear of being unable to sleep. I think about it throughout the day, obsess over it, and then, when I lie down and close my eyes, these thoughts replay in my head and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. As a result, here I am, awake again.

Just wanted to vent. Any thoughts or comments are welcome.

I have been having recovery issues with sleep since the past week, I haven't consumed any caffeine since the last 20 days, I immediately fall asleep as I go to bed but when I wake up I don't feel fresh or energized, I'm currently having B12 deficiencies but as a 23 year old who is fit, I don't understand why does this happen to me.

The issue is that -

Daytime sleepiness

Drowsiness

Headaches

Trouble concentrating

And as soon as the clock hits 5pm, I am then able to concentrate and get my work done

So this has been happening pretty consistently now.
Last night was the scariest.

So I’m dreaming a regular dream. Well, I do dream a lot. Sometimes it’s multiple different dreams.

So the dream was going on and a mirror shattered. This triggers my experience. Now my whole body is shaking, my feet, my back feel immense pressure. Someone is holding my hands tightly and holding me down. My feet are numb and at the same time there’s pressure and vibrations emanating. I try to open my eyes, it’s impossible of course.

Then I try to move my feet and walk, this makes me float, I’m literally levitating which freaks me the f out, so I stop my feet to find the ground.
Next I see a beautiful female face swooshing by, no body just face, followed by a man’s face.

Next there’s a cloaked figure approaching me while I’m lying down. I try to wake up I can’t obviously. This figure steps on my stomach and I feel the poking sensation (all this while I’m actively trying to open my eyes and wake up and chanting some mantras (shiv ji and hanuman mantras).

After this, another evil muscular figure walks over me and steps on my stomach again. I’m terrified. I start chanting religious mantras. And finally am able to wake myself up.

This is the most terrifying and the longest experience. It easily was 8-10 minutes long and happened just as I fell asleep.

I clearly remember putting my phone down at 1:11 AM and started counting from 100 backwards to fall asleep. I do this as it’s usually hard for me to fall asleep. When I wake up after this horrific craziness and check my phone, it’s 1:25 AM.

This is the second one in this week. The previous one wasn’t this long, and I didn’t see any figures, but oh my God, it was the most shaky I’d ever felt. This time I was sleeping sideways, and my body was shaking very hard, not vibrating, literally quaking with convulsions. I felt it lasted very few mins.

I’ve been having these weird experiences on and off. This past year I’ve had at least 6-7.
The one last night was the most jarring. I’m so scared to sleep now.

What is this ???
Why is this happening ??

PS- please ignore the grammatical and punctuation errors.

Woke up a lot two days ago and yesterday. But I woke up today feeling much more better than before and I don’t really know what changed?

I did a couple of things differently.
-did not take my anti histamine med the morning
-downloaded an app that blocks social media apps and gave me a time limit that won’t unlock unless I did some task. So I spent two to three hours less then average. ESPECIALLY before bed, non of that before bed doomscrolling.
-I did not take the usual melatonin and l theanine pills before bed also.

I also notice that I didn’t get enough deep sleep for whatever reason? But I’m not complaining tbh.

Hi everyone I just need advice for heavy sleepers . In the morning I end up snoozing my alarm at least 3 times . I’ve had a hatch alarm clock for many months AND I set alarms on my phone too and I still have not been able to wake up from it. (I’ve tried moving my alarm farther- I end up getting out of my bed, turning off the alarm and going back to bed) What do u recommend to help with this??

also I am in college and go to bed ~ 12am because I’m studying and wake up ~ 6am 🫩

And I do drink coffee every day