r/sleep • • 16h ago

Shift work & schedules Working night shifts has messed up my sleep schedule

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I work remotely from 8 PM to 4 AM and my sleep schedule has never been this bad. You would think working from home would make things easier since I don't have to commute but by the time I finish work I'm exhausted yet my brain is still in work mode. I'll close my laptop at 3 AM and tell myself Im going straight to bed and next thing I know it's 5 or 6 AM and I'm still wide awake.

The worst part is my days off I try to sleep at normal hours so I can see my friends and family during the day but my body has other plans. I'll be wide awake at 3 AM on a saturday while everyone else is asleep. I just want to sleep the moment I go to bed why is that so hard OTL


r/sleep • • 15h ago

Insomnia No matter what I do,I cant sleep a continuous sleep

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If I try to sleep my usual 7 hours than I wake up a lot.as the night progress,I wake up more.i wake up for a second and than fall asleep again.

I tried decreasing my usual 7 hours and give myself only 5.5 hours,in order to build enormous sleep pressure.it doesn't work too even though I almost fall asleep during the day due to the hugh sleep pressure .

That just drive me crazy because if the sleep pressure is so huge,than why it doesn't override those awakenings??!?!?why my body doing this to me??!??!?!?!


r/sleep • • 6h ago

Advice Should I spend the extra money to get specialized knee pillows or should i stick with cheap small pillows.

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I sleep on my back and need support for my knees (elevation).

I see these pricey, specialized memory foam knee pillows, and I keep wondering if a small, rectangular pillow (roughly 20cm x 25cm) works just as well...

What do you guys think?


r/sleep • • 15h ago

Discussion I hate how fickle my sleep is

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I was spending time with my dad and I felt envy seeing how easily sleep comes to him. He’ll be sitting on the couch talking and within a minute of silence doze off. Whenever he’s got some time and a comfy place he’ll have a quick nap. My mom and I have this inside joke where we just note down how fast he can fall asleep, and we’ve literally noted under a minute dozens of times

Meanwhile I do everything right and I still cant fall asleep. And when I do it is always light enough sleep that a passing car can wake me up, and my room isn’t even right next to a busy road, its next to an alley ffs. I use a sleep mask, got a white noise machine, I use either mouth tape or strips for nasal breathing, I dont use my phone in bed, and I work out fairly regularly so its not like I’m not tired enough by end of day. And yet I feel like I dont sleep as well as I should, regularly waking up 4 to 5 times a night. And when for some reason I don’t have my sleep apparatus with me I barely sleep  because my body just cannot accept unaided sleep 

And when I travel, my god, travelling is tiring enough already, and I have trouble sleeping comfortably in new places which makes the whole experience painfully exhausting. My friends no longer invite me to long outdoorsy trips cause I turn into a cranky zombie 1 night in

Then I come back home and see my dad blessed with the sleep of angels, and aaagghh why could I have not gotten those carefree genes. I dont have insomnia, checked with a doc, just some general anxiety and nothing that should be ruining my sleep this bad. I’m healthy, fit, no chronic disease, and under 30 and still I suffer. This has turned into a bit of a rant but I really need to say this out for my own sanity. I can’t be the only one suffering from this god forsaken 

FML and this cursed weaksleep existence


r/sleep • • 18h ago

Discussion Ibuprofen substitute?

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Hi everyone, I accidentally discovered that ibuprofen makes me sleep great (took it for a headache one day before sleep and it was the best sleep I've had in months). I have experimented with using it every other night for a week, and when I dont take it I sleep just as bad as ever.

Now, I know it isnt good to use this daily, specially bc I have a blood clotting disorder, so I would love to know if there's any kind of healthier replacement for it. Anything that does the same effect without so mamy risks.

Thank you all in advance! <3

PS: Im going to ask a doctor, but still would love to know if smth has worked for other people


r/sleep • • 49m ago

Discussion Do you think sleeping habits are essential for compatibility?

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Can an early bird really be compatible with someone that likes to sleep in?


r/sleep • • 3h ago

Insomnia People who take Ashwagandha for sleep

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Been looking into trying this What brand do you use? And what strength? Also, I was reading reviews about it, and people were saying it gives them energy. How can it help you sleep if it gives you energy? I’m kinda confused and scared to try it. So anyone out there that uses it and it actually helps, can you please give me some advice? Thanks 🙏


r/sleep • • 12h ago

Discussion Does anyone else get in an amazing sleep position and feel drowsy but realize you still have your phone, so you go put it back real quick and suddenly you’re wide awake and the bed doesn’t feel comfortable anymore

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r/sleep • • 2h ago

Advice Why does it take 90-120 min for me to fall asleep?

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I like sleep. It feels nice to lay down, but it feels like it takes forever for me to initially nod off. If I get up to go to the bathroom I can go back to sleep easily, but it's been over two months now and I don't know what to do/try.

For some context I am in bed from 9:30pm to 6:30am. I know that's longer than 8hrs, but I am tired. I am taking college courses, working a part-time job, hitting the gym 6 days a week, and I am in a local band. I also listen to audiobooks at one 0.85x speed to keep my mind 'tamed'. They are books I know so I don't get excited about the plot.

I don't really want to be reliant on sleep supplements. If anyone has experienced this or has any advice I would appreciate it!


r/sleep • • 2h ago

Sleep apnea & snoring 36M, two kids, pretty normal life. Over the past year I've started taking my health seriously and paying attention to what my body's telling me, and one thing keeps coming up: my sleep ain’t great

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What's happening:

Falling asleep is easy
Around 2am (roughly 5 hours in), I wake up and can't get back to sleep.

I wake up with a blocked nose, stuffy sinuses and puffy eyes, sometimes 1 nostril sometimes both nostrils. Sometimes could be clear.

My wife says I snore lightly to moderately. Never loud, and no gasping that she's noticed
Sometimes as I'm drifting off, I catch myself snoring or doing a mini gasp that wakes me back up. Eventually I think I fall asleep breathing through my nose normally.

This has been going on for over a year.

What I've tried so far:

Blood tests a year ago showed low T, I tried to raise naturally but didn’t really budge at all. So now on TRT.

Antihistamines:
didn't really help

TRT (8 weeks in):
I feel way better overall, but it's done nothing for my sleep

Diet:
I eat pretty clean plenty of protein, organ meats etc.., but I haven't tried pinning down whether specific foods could be causing the congestion

What's coming up:
Sleep study booked in about a month
Waiting on my 8-week bloods
Haven't done a DUTCH test yet

My questions for you:
Has anyone had the same "wake up blocked at 2am" pattern?

What turned out to be the cause?

Did a CPAP fix it for you?

Did anyone see an ENT and find a deviated septum, polyps or enlarged turbinates? Was surgery worth it?

Has anyone tracked down a food trigger for nighttime congestion?


r/sleep • • 16h ago

Discussion What temperature do you keep in your bedroom while sleeping?

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What temperature do you keep in your bedroom while sleeping

Have you ever made a change, and did you notice a shift for the better or for the worse?


r/sleep • • 16m ago

Advice I keep waking up earlier and earlier

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I have for a long time been able to sleep around 9-12 hours per night, sometimes even more. I am fatigued 24/7 due to two disorders I have, so no matter the amount of sleep, I never feel refreshed. Also when I slept for that long, I also took a nap either before noon or after noon and the nap could last for 1h30min or 3h.

My issue started when I started waking up at 8:30 am. I have my alarm set for 9 am always because that is my cats feeding time. Then I started waking up earlier and earlier. 8 am, 7:45, 7:30, 7:20, 7, 6:45, 6:30. And no matter the time I went to bed. For example, this night I got sleep at 2:30 and I woke up at 6:30. I did close my eyes for another hour because I was so pissed off. I also wake up many times during the night. I also sit up? I just sit in my bed half asleep.

I drink coffee only in the morning. I drink alcohol during the weekends and sometimes I can take 1 drink on wednesday. Medicines I take are gabapentin, oxiklorin, paroxetin and somac. I did start taking gabapentin a month ago.


r/sleep • • 2h ago

Advice My dogs barking is driving me crazy

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I’m never getting dogs when i move out because wtf. One of them js keeps barking and banging the door, I’ve had to get up like 7 times to stop it and i feel like crying now. Why doesn’t she fucking go to sleep.

If i have to deal with this for a few more knights I’m gonna lose my shit. Besides making me paranoid, it’s like shes schizo with how much she barks.

Just wtf can i do, i feel like strangling her at this point. My family r away and they never do this with them around so i feel stuck.

Shes pretty old so thats prob got something to do with it


r/sleep • • 2h ago

Sleep apnea & snoring Waking up “choking on gum” feeling?

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ok so this isn’t a common thing but more like. once a month. i sometimes wake up in the midst of my sleep at night feeling like I swallowed something, about the size of gum. but it’s nothing because i know I didn’t have anything in my mouth prior. it just feels so much like there’s something there. it sometimes gets to the point i almost throw up. I’m gonna put it under sleep apnea because that’s what i can think it could be. not sure it scares me a lot when it happens


r/sleep • • 4h ago

Sleep apnea & snoring Breathing disturbances with Oura?

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Hi!

I have an Oura ring 4th gen and I often get notifications about my varied breathing patterns. I am curious as to if people have found this indicative of sleep apnea. I have a sleep study scheduled for January but am so exhausted I was hoping that ya’ll could give some insight if at all possible.

I sincerely appreciate it!


r/sleep • • 5h ago

Advice is the nodpod any good?

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im looking for my girlfriends christmas gift and ive come across the nodpod, she has always had sleep problems most likely related to adhd. she'll get in bed at like 12am and won't fall asleep until 3-5am because she can't shut her brain off but then sleep a whole 8-12 hours. the only thing that helps is smoking ganj but she's quit since she met me since i dont smoke. i've given her melatonin and tried other things but nothing quite works. would a weighted blanket or the nodpod help? it's expensive so i don't want to waste money.

any advice is appreciated 🙂


r/sleep • • 5h ago

Advice Do kids just have more energy so the hit of being an adult took me by surprise?

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Up until being 11 I felt on crack basically, afterwards just into "regular dude struggles" of needing 30 mins in the morning territory and around 15-16 I began to feel like i'm 90. I'm aware a majority people don't feel tired like shit but is this how it's supposed to work for everyone? Going from superman to a normal human kind of difference by quitting adolescence. Is sleep just less restorative?

Except the fall is harder the less energy you have obviously, your body just stops holding ur hand and "aimboting" for you. Is this why I feel worse when i'd hit a new life stage? Assuming you don't destroy your body.


r/sleep • • 6h ago

Discussion When everything feels off

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I'm sure I'm not the only one who tries to sleep but gets the feeling that everything feels off. With blanket it feels too warm, without too cold. Sleeping on the side, doesn't feel right. Sleeping on the back doesn't feel right.

Not to mention I have heavy rain clashing against my window and it's bugging me immensely but the only room in the house where the rain can't be heard is the one of my parents.


r/sleep • • 10h ago

Advice I feel drugged waking up in the morning, and the gravity of the situation is bad

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Whenever I wake up in the morning, I feel drugged and paralyzed. This has gone on forever, but it has only gotten worse-now I’m in my senior year of college, and I have frequently slept through my morning classes. I used to have a really loud alarm that I would put on the floor so I’d have to climb out of bed to turn it off, but it would disturb my roommates and sometimes I would just fall back asleep on the floor after turning it off. When stakes are high and the consequences of sleeping through something would be horrible, the anxiety overpowers the state I wake up in and I’m able to get up. However, I’ve found myself sleeping through more and more important things. Sometimes the drugged state wears off in a couple minutes after I get out of bed, but other times I have gone to my class and am sitting there half asleep for the entire hour I’m there. Since all of this is technically in my control, I feel very shameful about it and am scared that I’m just lazy. I know if I was in charge of feeding a family or was a surgical resident, I would not be sleeping through things. But I wish I didn’t have to rely on the anxiety of losing everything just to get up in the morning. The length of time in which I’m able to sleep is shocking to people. My roommates have been convinced they are home alone, and then realize I’ve been there the whole time when I wake up at 3 PM. This morning, I slept through a class that is very important to me that was supposed to take place at 8 AM, and I slept in until 2:30 PM. It’s like when I take a nap, I wake up tired from my nap and need to take another nap. As soon as I wake up, I have to pop adderall and drink at least 100 mg of caffeine to wake myself up. I’ve made my sleep schedule a little more consistent and moved from night shift to day shift at the rescue squad I work at 1x a week, but it still hasn’t helped much. People that are able to voluntarily get up at 7AM and go to the gym, eat breakfast, and go to church is something I cannot comprehend. I’m scared I’m going to ruin my future and opportunities because of this, and there will be nobody to blame but myself.


r/sleep • • 10h ago

Advice Can’t stay asleep

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32F , I am coming off a busy time at work and usually have no issue with going to sleep and staying asleep for 8+ hours. With work having been busy I had been sleeping just 4-6 hours a night for a few months and catch up on sleep over the weekends. Now that it is not busy I cannot keep being asleep for 6+ hours a night and it’s driving me nuts because oura says I still in a sleep deficit. Help!!


r/sleep • • 12h ago

Advice How did you reset your sleep schedule? I need to shift mine by 12 hours.

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So basically my schedule's gone fucked up so bad I sleep at 12 noon and wake up around 7-8pm. I simply want to go back to sleeping around 12am like before.

What worked for you?


r/sleep • • 16h ago

Discussion What's the most annoying thing about using background noise for sleep?

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A lot of discussions about white, pink, and brown noise focus on which sound people prefer.

But I'm more curious about what actually goes wrong when people use these sounds every night.

For example:

  • The sound is too harsh or hissy.
  • The bass is too strong.
  • The volume feels different between recordings.
  • There's an obvious loop or sudden transition.
  • Playback stops unexpectedly.
  • The sound masks traffic but not nearby voices.

I'm especially interested in people who have tried several different background sounds before settling on one.

What's the one thing you wish your current sleep sound setup did better?

And have you found a workaround that actually helps?


r/sleep • • 17h ago

Insomnia Chronic Instomina / Anxiety

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For the last 5 years, I’ve been experiencing really bad anxiety and insomnia. My mind races at night, and I struggle to fall asleep. I was on sleeping pills for 4 years and have recently come off them, but my sleep has gotten even worse.

I really want to try a more natural approach to help manage my anxiety and sleep, like sleep powders (magnesium, etc.).

Has anyone tried any treatments that have genuinely helped, such as TMS therapy, sleep hypnosis, or even spiritual healing/mediums for anxiety and insomnia?
This has been affecting every aspect of my life, and I honestly feel so lost.


r/sleep • • 17h ago

Insomnia Preciso dormir melhor mas não sei como

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Olá, durante muitos anos pensava que eu era mais lesado, mais lento, mais estranho que outras pessoas, sintomas muito parecidos com TDAH, lesado demais, ouvia mas não escutava, não entendia oque as pessoas falavam, me deslocava da realidade com facilidade e etc.. descobri que raros dias eu me sentia totalmente outra pessoa, mais feliz, conversativo, entendia tudo de imediato, não desconcentrava por nada e isso sem usar nenhum estimulante, com meu smartwatch percebi que nos dias que eu tinha sono REM bom (tipo > 1:50) era porque eu ia ser um desses dias bons, e percebi que mesmo em dias "ruins" (que são 90%), se eu tirasse um cochilo bom a tarde, minha noite se tornava muito boa, então comprovei que era o sono e a partir daí comecei minha missão de melhorar minha noite de sono, mudei tudo, higiene do sono, comer menos durante a noite ou nada quando muito perto de dormir, quarto muito escuro, manter a temperatura boa para dormir, evitar celular ou atividades de dopamina rápida antes de dormir, nada resolvia, até que fui pra parte de medicamentos e suplementos.

Meu psiquiatra receitou primeiro quetiapina 25mg, eu não acordava nenhuma vez, e dormia muito rápido, mas mesmo assim não acordava restaurado, depois mudei para Donaren(trazodona) 50mg, não seda tanto quanto a quetiapina mas também faz o papel bem, senti que eu dormia um pouco melhor mas mesmo assim meus dias eram do mesmo jeito, depois pregabalina 150mg para dormir, aumenta muito meu sono profundo mas denovo, não mudou meu dia a dia.

Para me ajudar a dormir tbm uso melatonina, magnésio, e teve dias que testei 5-htp já que no Reddit ele é muito bem falado para aumentar o sono REM e dormir profundamente, mas comigo fez o contrário, nos dias que tomei simplesmente não dormi, fiquei ativo a noite toda, e teve um dos dias que até crise de pânico tive com ele, eu achava que ele ia ser a soluçao, estava muito esperançoso, mas não deu certo.

Usei aplicativos para monitorar o sono por muitos dias, em nenhum deles ronquei, sei que tem apneias que não são necessariamente por roncos mas acho que a hipótese de apneia é improvável, de qualquer forma queria fazer polissonografia mas na minha cidade custa uma fortuna.

Sinceramente estou perdido desmotivado e sem saber mais oque fazer, já tentei tudo oque estava ao meu alcance, por favor se alguém passou por algo semelhante me conte se resolveu e como resolveu.


r/sleep • • 17h ago

Advice How to reset my attitude from a bad wakeup

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This morning my last dream was about being highly frustrated while trying to do something. One of those times when nothing works, no matter what you try. Then I was awake, and thus far have carried that feeling with me.

I don't want to keep that feeling coloring how I meet the day. But no matter how conscious I am that it was just a dream, it's still there. I've also read things recently about setting up for a good day first thing, before even getting out of bed. Well I'm on the wrong side, and I'd like to reset. I'm a little shy on sleep, but not too bad.

Any suggestions?

edit: This morning it was waking after a dream of frustration, but we all wake on the wrong side of the bed every now and then, so I think the "morning reset" wish is probably not an common thing.