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For the past 7 nights now I have not been able to fall asleep. It feels like I'm on the verge of falling asleep but just cannot. I'm a zombie during the day and so tired at night, but my brain will just not shut off. I've tried breathing exercises, diphenhydramine, Seroquel, counting, but nothing is working. I've never been great at falling asleep but nothing like this. I'm going out of my mind and am crazy stressed about staying the with week again with no sleep. I find myself sort if hallucinating/wake dreaming the last few hours of the night, but no real sleep. Any ideas as to what is going on? I'm not a drinker, no drugs, active during the day, not sick.

So I'm currently 26, and I need too see someone about my sleep. It's been like this since as long as I remember. Basically I sleep like a rock. I know people claim they're deep sleepers but I kid you not. I will literally sleep through micro-shocks at 100% power at 5 zaps, every 5 seconds, in 15 seconds intervals. I own this pavlok (alarm clock wrist band) it basically shocks you awake. I've been using it since 2021 and I don't use it regularly. Just when I know i need to get up within 6 hours. But I constantly find myself sleeping through my Pavlok alarm as well as my phone alarms. I don't even remembering it going off but I eventually wake up with some gnarly wrist pain. I recently just had a new born and I'm even sleeping through her crying at night. Who do I need to talk to or go see? I'm tired of being scared of falling asleep thinking if I'm going to over sleep and be late to work.

SIDENOTE: I was working a job for about 2 years, and I was able to start work at basically anytime. So I haven't been late to work in the last 2 years. But I just got a new job and I'm scared of messing it up and I'm just seeking advice. BTW I'm a truck driver so my sleep is pretty irregular. Might have something to do with it.

Personal stats for medical professionals😂 6ft 6in 210lbs Rarely work out 300mg of caffeine about 4 times a week Frequently vape I don't drink alcohol Sleep anywhere from 6-8hrs a night.

It’s really easy for me to fall asleep in class or to take naps during the day but when I try to sleep at night I just can’t.

for as long as i can remember, i’ve woken up at around 6-7 am no matter how late i sleep, and i can never fall asleep again. the only time i can disrupt this is if i literally go to sleep at 5-6 am, and even then i will wake up again in a few hours.

i always chalked this up to my body being used to waking up early for school, but i’ve been out of school for a couple years now with no reason to wake up early. i never feel like i’ve gotten enough sleep, and i find it hard to take naps during the day. if i do manage to get a nap in, it does nothing to help my tiredness.

im wondering what could be causing this, and if there’s anything i can do to fix it. any info or advice is appreciated!

When I sleep I need to have my face pressed into something firm like my orthopedic pillow at just the right angle, or have my arm or fingers pressing the inner corners of my eyelids if I want to sleep. Otherwise I can’t and I feel an almost painful tingly sensation right above/behind my eyes and especially between them. Does anyone know what that’s about and if I can do anything to help? I wanna start sleeping on my back but find it impossible.

I’m hoping this might be a good place to ask for pillow recommendations. I always used to be a side sleeper but past year or two I find myself preferring to sleep on my back with my head tilted to one side or the other. This is actually causing quite a bit of neck pain. I feel I need a pillow kind of like those things you have on an airplane that keeps your neck supported. Is anyone aware of such a thing? I see a bunch of options online but it’s hard to know what’s decent and what’s junk.

I usually get about 7 hours a night regularly.

im 22 y/o male and every once in a while since i’ve been a young boy i will have severe anxiety of feeling watched or someone or something is in the room looming over me somewhere watching me. it gets worse and worse and i cant sleep and i hate it so much. i get so anxious. i will close all windows and all the lights will be on. when i was younger i went to my moms room crying freaking out about the doors in the house being open and windows being open feeling watched and right now currently im in a hotel room because of my job and i feel so fucking weird i want to sleep but i feel watched i dont want to close my eyes i dont know why this happens to me

Very good for sleeping, meditation & studying. https://youtu.be/FLGoxcQnI98?si=WO89rSIcQsADOnMo

I always liked to work late night because of peaceful environment and then sleep in the afternoon. I took several USA based freelancing jobs as well. But after 6 months I noticed I'm gaining weight, I've tough time talking afternoon naps/sleep and soon I realised sometimes I'm sleeping less than 2 hours a day to sometimes 15+ hours of sleep in a day and still feel sleepy.

Everything was deteriorating, my sex drive, my energy levels, my appetite for food has increased immensely roughly started taking 3000/day calories to sometimes 4000 calories/day before I used to take only 1200-1700 calories/day.

This Dhanteras (Hindus Festival before Diwali) I slept for almost 18 hours and I got literally fed up.

Now the solution: 1 day: So just after Dhanteras I started cycling (biking) for almost 16 KM, I suppressed my hunger and lowered my white sugar intake. Later the same day I only took roughly 2000 calories and started intermittent fasting same day (16 hours of IF).

2 Day: (Diwali) In the morning I went to biking, Still I was feeling lazy af, till 3 pm I only had my Black tea without any food. Later, Again I had roughly 2000 calories. It was quite hard to stick to the schedule but I did anyway. Later in the night I wasn't sleepy at all so I got 1 beer and 1 quater of whiskey. Had it till 1am. (Remember to have atleast 1 litres of water after drinking)

3 Day: I woke up like a baby.No hangover. Went to biking. Appetite was in control. I felt energetic. Still doing intermittent fasting. The 5 day I felt sleepy around 11pm but I had some work to do. So completed my work around 12:30am and later started reading a book and slept around 1:15am. Again automatically woke up at 6am and went for biking.

I noticed I've had too much sex in the last 2 months and maybe that was an issue as well.

My lethargic lifestyle also needs to be blamed.

Mostly I was too much dependant on Biryanis and non-veg food. (Also lowered that)

Way too much screentime.

Let's fix our sleep cycle because your health is way too important than any pleasures. And fixing your sleep can give your body enough time to repair itself.

#Sleepcycle

Has anyone ever experienced this issue with hostage tape? It literally blistered and scabbed up my lips from taking the tape off and that was after I put it on my hand before applying in an attempt to minimize the adhesiveness of it.

Hi yall,

My sleep is a bit wonky. sometimes I can fall asleep fine, sometimes it’s super hard to make my brain shut up, and I also tend to wake up randomly in the night (but I believe thats because of stress and mental health factors). I want to find a night time routine that works and have a consistent sleep schedule

Can yall tell me your best sleeping routine/ sleep hygiene tips! Thanks :)

19F. I don’t drink too much before bed but always having to use the toilet before going to sleep at least 5x (often more). When I go only a little bit comes out but it’s really frustrating as I can’t sleep and when I wake up I need to go again. And it’s not a mental thing because I can physically feel it. It’s stopping me from getting enough sleep

I usually go to bed at 9:00 PM. I really don’t know why but at around 5:00 PM today, my body demanded I go to bed. I tried to fight it but I ended up giving in at 5:30. I thought I just needed a 30 minute nap but I got up at 6 and my body still felt so weak and I couldn’t keep my eyes open. So I had to just not fight it and lay in bed for 5 hours wasting my night (I didn’t actually get to sleep, just rested my eyes)

Now I lied in bed for 5 hours and my body doesn’t like that, I feel groggy and sleepy when you sleep too much, but it’s now 10 pm when I usually go to bed and I don’t know what to do. I can’t get up and walk around because I’m in a small apartment and I’ll wake everyone up. And when I try to sleep my body does this weird thing where I get jolted awake.

In my first year of uni (stressful time) i started experiencing tinhling sensations sround my body and a feeling that i was about to die if i didnt wake up immediately. It came and go and was kept normal, two years passed so i thought it was psychological and dindt have anything to do with brain conditions... but these last 3 nights i have been up till 5-6 am trying to sleep and unable to due to these episodes! I am in my exams season and i have class at 9 am! So its becoming sort of a problem! To explain more as im dozing off i get really caught up on my dreams and cant separate them from reality and the zaps keep me from going into the deeper state of sleep. What is scaring me most about these 3 days is that usually after i get up right after a shock the hallucinations keep going (for about 5 min) and before they would stop immediately! I also get the sensation that im getting a lot of pressure in my head and headaches (that are not really there) and a feeling that if i dont move my head will explode, also i feel like my face is "melting" towards the side of my face that is resting on the pillow. Im asking for any relatable experiences and how to get better! PS: about 2 months ago i started having constant tinnitus in my left ear, that i hear all day 24/7. Dont know if its related, its nothing wrong with the outer or inner ear

My son (12) has a normal sleep schedule and has just one thing that keeps him from sleep. My son can sleep by himself but he needs both his parents in the house. If one parent is gone on a trip or something, he starts stressing about sleep for some reason. This stress keeps him from sleeping. So, how do I get my son to sleep without stress while one of his parents are not in the house.

For anybody wondering, he’s had multiple sleep issues in the past but this is the only that has stayed long term.

I find the rush of waking up at 3 am much greater than the tiredness I feel, and it allows me to be up before my family. Since they are a big distraction for me, waking up at this hour gives me peace to do my homework. It might be important to mention that I naturally wake up at 3am. Is it sustainable?

Hello! I’m 15 and I always used to sleep late when I was a kid. I normally sleep around midnight/1am but the last 2 weeks I had a break from school and slowly went to bed even later (from 3am, to 4 and to 6 last night). I hate when I do that. I have school tomorrow, I have to wake up at 6am and it’s already 3am. I wanna get a normal sleep schedule because sometimes when I get home from school I just sleep, I can’t help it the problem is that I have a lot of things to do so it just feels horrible and it’s like a cycle after each school break. I wanna break this cycle. I want a good sleep schedule. I don’t wanna be tired at school, I want to work well. What do I do?

Me and my boyfriend live at home with our parents (leaving me no where else to sleep) in the past few months he's been snoring insanely, which is driving me mad, possibly thinking I have misophonia, I wear ear plugs, but they're not doing the job and I've been having ear infections constantly. Sensitive to silicone ear plugs and foam ones are causing irritation. Looking for Recommendations for other ear plugs or other solutions to help me sleep and how to deal with misophonia.

I feel like I’m in a cycle I just can’t escape. My sleep schedule has always been a little messed up but I’ve always been able to wake up close to when I needed to. I just missed my own birthday dinner because I over slept for 6 hours. I fell asleep at 1:30. The party was at 7, like thats insane. I literally can’t take regular 1-2 hour naps anymore. I always end up sleeping for longer. On the night of my actual birthday I went to bed at midnight but was only able to sleep for 4 hours. How do I fix this going to bed at normal times doesn’t seem to work and alarms don’t work for me anymore.

I’m 19m, last night I was out in town with 2 close friends, we rented an Airbnb, I slept on the couch, at about half 5am I woke up to someone entering my room and standing at the door, I was paralysed, could not move, try to scream, couldn’t. I can’t tell exactly how long this last, felt like a few minutes, but could have easily been seconds.

This morning i tried explaining what happened, I was shaking and ended up breaking down telling him, at first he thought I was joking, but fully realised i am serious .

As a person I’ve never experienced anything like this before, I don’t do drugs, I only had a few drink that night. I’m on a few prescription medications but they have been the same for years now. I was incredibly scared, any time today I’ve thought about what happened Ive ended up in tears, I’m scared it’s going to happen again, I don’t know what I can do to help this. Can someone please tell me what i experienced last night, and what I can do to prevent this. Thanks

Hi so back in the day I used to sleep very well. I slept like for 5-7h straight and I had a nice sleep position and I woke up refreshed. Then after I changed my diet and started exercising and losing weight my sleep got worse. 🥲 I cut out sugar and fast foods and stuff like that. People say that the way I eat and exercise affected my sleep so that's why I mentioned this. Do you think that's the case? If so, how do I fix it?

I really want to be able to sleep like I did before but now I wake up every hour. I lost my sleep position and I can't seem to find anything comfortable. Anyone know what I should do? Is it a hormonal problem? Who should I talk to?

Hey, I often can't sleep because I am in the same room as my brother and he stays on pc until early morning and it distracts me. I've tried earplugs, but I don't really like them. Anything I can do? Talking to him will not help.

Any ideas on what is the best magnesium brand for sleep that is affordable. I’m thinking about getting nutrition geek 3-in-1. Any thoughts?

I’ve taken the melatonin, tried waking up and doing something, and nothing works. No matter what time I go to bed in the morning, I wake up at exactly 1:30pm. It’s like my body physically can’t sleep any longer. Because of this, I’ve been running on 3 to 4 hours of sleep for close to a month. I’ve already had to call off work because I was physically too tired to do my job. I really like this job, and if I can’t get my body to sleep for more then 4 hours during the day, I’m going to have to quit out of pure desperation. What do?

Hey. I am quite sensitive to light and need complete darkness to fall asleep. That is why I have been sleeping with an eye mask for some time now. I have become accustomed to it, and once I build a sleeping habit, it is very difficult for me to break it. For example, I cannot fall asleep without listening to my favorite YouTuber. Can sleeping with a mask affect the quality of my sleep? I always have problems getting up in the morning, I feel terribly sleepy and I am looking for the cause.

Howdy!

I've recently looked into ways to improve sleep, and I came across some people talking about how they thrive on five hours of sleep every night. They were saying that they focus more on the quality of the sleep, more than the quantity of it. What are you guy's thoughts on this? Is it really possible to just get five hours of sleep, but still feel great because those five hours where more restful?

I have had issues with sleeping since I was super young. I used to sleep walk but have since grow out of it and I tend to have pretty frequent nightmares, but somethings that bothered me a lot recently is something I’m not sure is a normal occurrence and I’m just overthinking it. The gist of it is, is that I commonly will start awake from a dream like how I usually would from a nightmare, but in these cases they’re not usually nightmares. I’ll just wake up from a dream and still feel like I’m in it. Like my brain can’t process I’m awake. I’ll respond to a question from the dream or try to finish the activity within it. Even physically feeling and hearing stuff from it (sometimes I’ll even wake up from feeling pain in a dream and still feel it after I’ve fully woken up) the scariest one being waking up from an earthquake in a dream and my bed still shaking for a few seconds after I woke up. I asked my family if there was anything shaking the house and they all said no. I often remember these occurrences afterwards as I always feel embarrassed by them so that would rule out something like confusional arousal right?? Is this normal??