So, me and my boyfriend have been living together for 6 months. He has NEVER done this before and it is worrying me. It's 5 AM right now as I'm writing this. I witnessed it 2 times. What happened was his body would become tense and his eyes would open and mouth would open at the same time then he wake up like normal. Just asked him about it but I'll ask him again later when he's fully awake.

Hi all!

I’m 26F and have had issues with sleeping for YEARS, possibly from my teenage years. I’ve just never had a routine. It’s affecting me a lot now and I really just want to reap the benefits of good sleep and get it all together. I’ve developed thin under eyes and a lot of blue/purple is showing through and I just generally LOOK tired and dull.

Had recent blood work done and I’m only deficient in folic acid and vit D which I’ve been prescribed supplements for and I’ve also got anxiety and depression.

Previously I was advised to use Nytol and I was on it twice which worked well for me but it’s not something to use long term. I was prescribed Promethazine (25mg x 2) as well and it would knock me out but I wouldn’t be able to wake up the next day so I’d sleep in until so late and the cycle would repeat. I stopped taking it because it reached a point where whenever I’d take it, as soon as I’m about to fall asleep I’d suddenly get a numb tickly feeling all over my body that would disturb me.

My issues

• I keep my room dark and cold and limit screen time before sleep but I still find myself laying awake for 5 hours sometimes before I manage to sleep
• I cannot for the life of me switch off the constant voices and thinking in my head, and there’s also always a ringing sound in my ears that gets louder the more I focus on it
• I can’t seem to find a comfortable pillow level? One is too flat and 2 is sometimes too high and I’ve tried so many adjustments but nothing clicks
• Going off the previous point, I have a habit of putting my arm under my pillow while I sleep and often wake up with completely numb arms. Even if my other arm is on top of my pillow, for some reason I still get pins and needles and numbness in it? Is this poor circulation?
• My routine this far has been dependant on my husband: he doesn’t have a fixed work schedule, sometimes he has shifts from 3am, sometimes 7am onwards, sometimes 11am, sometimes 2pm. Apart from the 3am shifts (which I’d likely already be awake for), I wake up a little before him to prepare his lunch. When it’s the 7 or 8am starts and I manage to stay awake and not go back to sleep and if these shifts are for the whole week, I manage to keep that routine. But as soon as his shifts change my routine goes down the drain too. Similarly, I can’t sleep until he gets home. Sometimes he has shifts that finish at 11pm, sometimes as late as 2am. It’s been a habit of mine to wait until he gets back because I miss him and also want to tend to anything he might need.

I’m a housewife as of now and will be resuming my studies in the next academic year hopefully. I really just want to get myself together and I know sleep is one of the most important things. I’d greatly appreciate any and all lifestyle/habit recommendations and product recommendations! Thank you!

I (24F) have been in an awful pattern of sleep since around Easter time (April) last year. Essentially my mental health dipped significantly and I haven’t been able to bring my motivation and positivity back since.

Essentially I will spend around 2 weeks to 3 months of having low moods, binge eating, bed rotting and no matter how much I sleep I am constantly tired. This has affected my commitments such as work or college.

Following that I will then spend around a week/two weeks up to just under or over a month of having better moods but also increased anxiety/irritability. Essentially my moods are erratic and change quickly when in this period. I often have insomnia due to having constant noise due to having several inner monologues and “conversations” with myself. I generally feel wired during this time but it does not affect my work commitments as I will go to college or work regardless. The only issue with this is I am going to work (healthcare) on no sleep for one to three nights. As much as I know I feel awake and alert, this is still dangerous. I have had to start taking public transport as I had not slept in a couple days. Then had a good night sleep, got up for work and crashed my car. Although I felt rested, I can’t help but feel like this is a consequence of not sleeping for a couple days before.

Just for some background I will say I have been on Venlafaxine since the latter part of 2022, (current dose 300mg). Also metformin (PCOS), propranolol and I have just came off my contraceptive mini pill because I am struggling to lose weight - I don’t know if this can also be a side effect of my bad sleeping pattern and/or medication. I am also temporarily on dehydrocodeine due to 2 large ovarian cysts that I am waiting on surgery for possibly to remove, or remove the full fallopian tube depending on if it is damaged.

TIA

I’ve had a doctor diagnose me with mild hyper thyroidism and says that these are symptoms of it, however this only happens to me some nights. I also have a somewhat inconsistent sleep schedule, sometimes sleeping at 3-4am and other times sleeping at 1-2am, usually this happens when i try to sleep earlier

Sometimes when im trying to sleep, i just close my eyes and relax, and thoughts keep coming to my head, of all kinds of random stuff, and then i reach the point where im still awake but im almost falling asleep. When i get to that point, i hear some sounds or voices randomly, like a voice saying random stuff, or someone calling my name, and its really loud, not to the point that it bothers me, but to the point where its very noticeable. It doesn’t affect my sleep in anyway, but i got curious about this stuff. Have any of you guys ever had it? What is it? Hallucinations?

I've been getting into be around midnight, falling asleep around 1am, and sleeping until about 11am every day ths winter. Am I oversleeping? I don't have a headache during the day, but I usually feel quite sluggish until about 2pm. I can't tell if this is an okay amount of sleep since it's winter or if I'm oversleeping and possibly hurting my body somehow by sleeping too much.

Hello everyone!

A little background is that I'm 20, I live at home for college, and I work as a realtor. Up until I started my winter break from college in mid December my sleep schedule was great. I was going to bed around 11 and waking up around 7 or 7:30. However, my sleep schedule has simply derailed. It's currently 12:36 AM and I'm still awake and I probably won't wake up until 9:30 tomorrow and get out of bed at 10:30. That's only because I have class at 11. I rarely have to be up early for work. Moral of the story is I'm just really frustrated that I'm wasting a lot of my time in bed. I feel like my day goes by so fast because I'm waking up so late, but I can't help myself. I do need to show myself a little grace because I was on a 14 day course of antibiotics a few weeks ago, and I just felt awful from the antibiotics as well as from my illness. I just don't want to fall down the rabbit hole that many college students do where they sleep all day. Can anyone help me? This is really frustrating. I feel like I'm spending a good portion of my day sleeping. Thanks in advance!

37M. The last year I have been needing to nap twice per day. I thought it was because I was going to the gym every day and pushing it too hard. But this week I have only gone to the gym once but every single day I have needed to nap twice. First between breakfast and lunch and then again in the afternoon between lunch and dinner. I sleep normal hours at night. I just keep crashing during the day and it has me wondering what could be going on. Seems really abnormal to be this sleepy.

I have for a long time experiencing what I think are Hypnagogic Hallucinations, but I’m not really sure. The definition is like sensory hallucinations which I experience but I feel like mine are a lot more lucid, I also read that you can’t move while having these but I have movements and everything. In general they don’t really take place a certain time after I fall asleep and I don’t really know what nights they will happen on. But recently I have noticed that when I think it may happen on a certain night it’s more likely to accrue. Any way lemme explain the experience. It can really be anything thing, but it mostly involves interaction with “fake” people. At the start it was very simple like someone else would be laying in my bed. Yelling at my to go sleep somewhere else, in which case I would. Like the floor, couch,etc… But it also wasn’t always bad sometimes it would be happy good interactions. Like talking about fun dates or good times(In these I stay stationary). But as it has progressed the experience have took a very steep drop and honestly concerning. Recently I had one in which I saw a person who appeared to be my mother creeping her head around my door. And just staring at me intensely(She’s dead btw). Keep in mind that I’m still asleep but also awake if that makes any sense. But I sprung out of bed and grabbed a knife off my counter and just sat at end of my bed waiting. The weird part about this one is that my brother actually came home at the time and saw me in this state. He said that I was just repeating "Their watching us" even with this interaction with him I was still in this almost trace line state. Honestly I wouldn’t make a fuss about it as it doesn’t really have an effect on my life, but for the past two weeks it has gotten really out of hand. I have gone just form moving around my house to going outside. Thank god it has only happened a couple of times but I have these interaction where it appears some is in my house trying to kill me and I just run. So this leads me to end up waking up in a random place on the street or in my neighbors lawn. I should also add on that the people can change from family to characters that I have seen in a show. All of this has made me absolutely terrified to sleep. I haven’t gone to the doctor because I am a little scared they are going to put me in a psych ward or something. I’m curious if anyone has had these kind of experience and if there are any know solutions.

For context I am 16 years old and I struggle to stay awake during school, and after, despite having 8+ hours of sleep every day. I have a lot of friends that do fine on 6 hours of sleep(side note: they don’t do this every day that is unsustainable) , but idk why I can’t function that way. Note:my tiredness progressively gets worse throughout the day. Is there something I can do to boost my energy levels? Please help.

It's hard for me to not sleep for 20-30 minutes in the afternoon, especially on work days. Anyone else feel like this is just how their sleep schedule works? Sometimes it's inconvenient.

im 20 , male, in good shape . but every time i go to bed i wake up and my entire bed is COVERED in sweat . drenched even , not sure why this is happening, i dont eat that healthy but if anything im on the underweight side.

Hi everyone so just as the title says I haven't been able to sleep 'good' anymore for the past 5 years. Everytime I wake up I feel restless, my body ache, joint hurts, feet and hands are swollen. Putting my feet on the ground I feel electricity shooting pain. My jaw hurts my face feels swollen, and neck/shoulder feels stiff. No matter how long I sleep I feel bad/resless. The longer I sleep I feel groggy and I would get headaches. I have try every method there is, such as not using phone before sleeping, digest meals 2 hours before sleeping, drink warm water and take a soothing bath. Not even massage therapist works anymore. Tried out so many different pillows and wasted my money on all of them. My hands are tied I don't know what's going on with me I don't know if it's my body or something else. I need answers and advice anything that'll help I'd feel appreciated.

I want to know if anyone else has experienced this and if they know what it is. I fell asleep at around 6am, woke up at 7am, fell back asleep, and woke up again at 8am. Once I woke up at 8, my legs and just body overall felt....strange. Tingly??? But not the pins & needles kind of tingly, more like an energy kind of tingly. It felt like my limbs, specifically my legs were a little weak, and I needed to keep stretching or moving in order for it to go away, but it didn't go away until I had gotten up, moved around a bit, and went back to bed. And it only happened whenever I would close my eyes to go to sleep. I wouldn't say it's restless leg syndrome, I already have that and know this wasn't that. Before I had gotten up to move around I started getting super panicky and my heart started pounding. Idk if it was just an anxiety thing related to sleep, or if I was just panicking cause i didn't know why I felt like that. I would strongly relate that body feeling to whenever you take too much benadryl, or too much tylenol PM. Whenever I used to do that, my body would feel the exact same way. I've also been taking 3mg of melatonin for about 2 weeks now and it worked wonders for me every single day up until today, however it was easier for me to go back to sleep than if i hadn't taken it. Could it maybe be from the melatonin? Maybe rebound effect? I still felt tired though, but my limbs felt like they were full of energy that was unable to be excerted in any way.

Hey everyone.

So I started having insomnias about a year ago.

Basically, every time I need to get up early (especially if it’s important), but even if it’s just the most mundane thing I have to do, I won’t sleep at all or I’ll just get 2/3 hours of sleep. I just get so much anxiety over plans and I stress so much over not being able to sleep that I end up not sleeping. Or sometimes I’m just really anxious.

This has been escalating to , if I know I have a plan in the afternoon, I won’t sleep, so I just stopped planning things in general so my sleep isn’t effected.

This is no way to live, and I honestly feel like if my sleep wasn’t fucked up I could conquer the world 😂

I feel so alone in this because when I talk to my family/ friends about this no one really understands. It would mean the world to me if someone had any insight regarding this or any advices. I’d owe you everything ..🥹🥹

P.s- taking medication is not an option for me. I feel fucked up the whole day as I’m extra-sensitive even with the lightest medication

As the title states, every time I sleep on my back I either have a nightmare or some form of sleep paralysis. It first started when I was about 20 years old with my first episode of sleep paralysis and it’s been pretty consistent ever since. If not sleep paralysis, I will have a nightmare and usually wake up out of breath and sweaty. The nightmares usually consist of someone trying to kill me or breaking into my house. The sleep paralysis is your standard stuff of a figure entering the room or trying to talk to me. It’s been going on for about 5 years now. I’ve never really looked into it and my work around is just sleeping on my side or my stomach, but recently I’ve been shifting to my back while asleep so it’s been happening more frequently. Just wondering if anybody experiences a similar thing due to a certain sleeping position or if there’s actually scientific evidence to why it happens. Thanks.

I have always had really bizarre experiences surrounding sleep, and a lot of weird sleep behaviours. i have this really disturbed sleep, but not a lot of insomnia. I'm trying to work out how to describe it to a doctor to be referred to a sleep clinic.

My dad experiences a lot of these symptoms too, so I think it might be partly genetic.

• My mum says I had night terrors when I was a child and that I always kicked when I slept (even when I was a baby). Partners haven't reported that I still did that up to about 7 years ago (I haven't had a sleep partner for many years).
• I experience sleep paralysis sometimes
• I don't snore. Partners have never complained and I have recorded myself so many times.
• Recent movement trackers on my bed have shown that I effectively die through the whole night. I don't move when I'm asleep.
• I don't talk in my sleep unprompted.
• I don't use nicotine. I don't drink caffeine after 3. I don't drink any alcohol ever. I had problems with addiction in the past, so I even stay away from paracetamol unless absolutely necessary.
• I hallucinate before I fall asleep. I sometimes trip really vividly. Occasionally I hear scary whispery voices.
• I have always had really wild, vivid dreams and nightmares.
• I often wake up extremely confused about what is real and what was a dream or a hallucination.
• I have false awakenings most mornings
• I experience insomnia sometimes and sometimes (at least once a week) have such bad nightmares that I wake up with my heart racing
• I often can't be woken by sound and can only be woken by the presence of another person. I am often not woken by my alarms, but if someone knocks on my door, I'll turn them off. I never have any memory of this.
• If my sleep is really disturbed, I can hallucinate to the point that I'm awake enough to text people about the hallucinations, but too asleep to know that it's gibberish. This is not an issue if I'm practising good sleep hygiene.
• I sleep walk sometimes.
• I have full conversations with people when they think they've woken me up, but I don't remember the conversation. I am apparently very rude in these conversations.
• I feel extremely anxious and uneasy around people when I wake up and find it really hard to talk in the morning.

Any ideas for what you think I should look into would be much appreciated!

edited for clarity.

so i’ve just back home after a long day, i ate two sandwiches with meat and a sandwich with nutella, now im going to sleep. Isn’t it bad for stomach ? will i woke up tommorrow with stomach pain or nausea?

Every time I see a big metal item in water (submechaniphobia) even for a second I loose the ability to sleep. My only guess of what caused this was Mildred the croclebog. But I need some help or advice on how to get sleep with this

Honestly….. What time do you go to bed and wake up? How many hours sleep do you get? I go to sleep 11pm ish and get up 6.30ish so 7.5 hours weekdays, 8/9 weekends.

For some reason, right after I fall sleep my heart rate steadily climbs for a couple of hours. This happens whether or not I drink alcohol. Anyone have any idea what could be going on?

It will climb from the mid-40s to the high-60s almost every night and then return to the low 40s.

So I have been having trouble adjusting my sleep schedule for a while now. I go from working lates at work finishing at ten pm and going to sleep anywhere from 4am to 7am and waking up about 2pm or about 3. I used to go to work then stay up until college day was done and go sleep when I went in now I end up sleeping about 4/5/6 and waking up just before 9. It makes me feel horrible throughout the day and I do this for two days as I’m only at college and I end up going to bed earlier then normal but still waking up at 2pm 3pm to catch up on missed sleep. When I don’t sleep much I have really bad anxiety and get frightened of sleeping it turned from being scared of not getting enough sleep to being scared of sleep itself. I don’t know what to do at this point and I’m at this situation again went to bed at 5am and woke up at 8:45. I’m scared to sleep and need to be up at same time again tommorow and it’s currently 9:45pm and I’m tired but scared to sleep. Any advice I know it sounds stupid but I suffer from anxiety and derealisation. I used to go to school and I would get about 6-7 hours per night. I think it’s. A messed up sleep schedule but u would think if I only slept three hours I would sleep when I get in but I don’t and can’t really unsure why. If I’m sleeping at 7am and waking up at 2/3pm I can sleep over 9 hours easy. And when I’m not recovering from lack of sleep I average about 8/9 hours which I guess is healthy but I don’t think doing this to my self every week can be healthy.

Hello everyone

How do you deal with going to bed irregularly? In theory, you should always go to bed at the same time. But sometimes this is just not possible. In my case, the circadian clock is extremely strong, which drives me to despair. For example, if I go to bed at 11pm on Saturday, I won't be able to sleep until the same time on Sunday night. This is particularly annoying because I am a person who needs 9 hours of sleep a night. This means that my week usually starts with 6 hours of sleep, which robs me of all motivation and energy for the start of the week. I get enough exercise, go out in the sun, use blue light filters and even bought a Philips Hue White & Colour Ambiance Twilight and a Kindle to help me fall asleep. I also drink sleep tea :). Does anyone have any unusual tips as I have tried just about every sleep tip there is?

Im so annoyed over it, it literally came out of nowhere. I used to be able to sleep through almost anything (earthquakes, storms, loud neighbours, EVERYTHING) or at least fall back asleep semi easily.

That changed a week ago. I woke up one night from a family member coughing and now I find myself waking up at every little thing. And as if thats not enough I can't go back to sleep for hours after.

I also feel like it takes me a bit longer to go to sleep initially which is a shame because I just started being able to regularly fall asleep in less than half an hour a few weeks ago.

This is really fucking me up and id love for it to stop. Does anyone have any ideas as to what might have caused this and how to fix it

Hi, do you know something to use because I put myself on the bed but then when I go to sleep it’s hot, is there anything to make it cold or make me cold in a short time? For example a spray?

Hi, do you know something to use because I put myself on the bed but then when I go to sleep it’s hot, is there anything to make it cold or make me cold in a short time? For example a spray?

For a long while, I've had experiences with audio hallucinations that occur around when im either about to fall asleep or when I'm woken up by my alarm clock. Usually, they're fairly infrequent so I've dealt with it, but recently the frequency has increased. Especially when I am woken up by my alarm. I've had trouble finding any info regarding this as anything sleep and hallucination related shows results for sleep deprivation only. I'd appreciate if anyone had some insight or experiences this themselves.

I, 24F, went to bed at 1am last night and woke up at 9am. I had a late breakfast/brunch at 11am which consisted of 2 sunny side up eggs, half an avocado and 2 slices of smoked salmon with a glass of cranberry juice and 1 water bottle. It is now 2pm and I’m laying down and could go for a nap. I’ve always gotten a little tired after lunch but in the last few months, I’ve been having symptoms of a possible autoimmune disease, so now I can’t tell what’s normal for me anymore. Other people get tired throughout the day and take naps too right? I don’t consume any caffeine btw.