I had a weird (not bad) dream about picking morsels of food from my throat.

I woke up with two of my fingers shoved all the way down my throat, coughing, spluttering and heaving. I remember gasping for air.

I was so freaked out i forced myself to stay awake all night, worrying it may happen again if i fall asleep.

Like i said, the dream wasn't bad at all, it was just weird.

In your opinion what improves your sleep quality?

Ever since I was a teenager in school during summer breaks, I would always stay up super late into the morning, around 5-6 AM, and if I would let it, as the days went by, it would be even later, one day 6:30, the next 7, and so on. and now as an adult less than a year away from 30, who is disabled and doesn't work, my sleep schedule is like that now. it's constantly rotating forward, if I go to bed at 4AM, within a week, it'll quickly be 6-7AM when i'm going to bed, and continue to rotate itself forward, and even when I do eventually get around, to where i'm going to bed at 8 or 9 PM, it doesn't last long. That's not normal right? people internal clock aren't normally like this? do I have circadian rhythm disorder? a form of it. is there anything I can do?

I'm going to ask my doctors about quviviq on the 12th this month and I wanted to know if anyone here is on it or tried it? After a two year long battle and sleep disorder diagnosis of "uncategorized" I'm willing to try anything at this point.

I'd love to hear your story.

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Hi, I've lately got a weird sleep disorder. I'm not new to sleep disorders and I have experienced some in the past, bu they were pretty rare and never were really a real problem. But this time I got one that is ruining my sleep: I wake up after almost one hour of sleep and I start shaking from head to toes, like I have an adrenaline rush. Then I have to wait it pass and then I could return to sleep. Some nights I experienced more than one time. I had some years with panic and anxiety in the past, many years ago, that I resolved. When I had some panic attacks or strong emotion felling, I had adrenaline rush like this. But this time it happen while I just wake up and I have no much control of it, so it scares me. What scares me most is that maybe it could be something not psychological, but I really cannot understand what it could be, because it only happen while I wake up, and not during the day.

There's someone that experienced something similar and could help me understand this situation?

I have experienced recurring nightmares since I was a small child. I still remember vividly many of them from over the years. I have vivid, detailed nightmares every night. A lot of the same themes are present but in different settings.

I have also experienced sleep paralysis in the past but thankfully that stopped after a particularly bad episode that I was able to break out of. In the episode I was able to break out of the paralysis, fight back and never had it again.

For a long time the nightmares presented as me being flung into the air and free falling forever. I have been able to become somewhat conscious and change the dream. For example one time I was being flung into the air by a catapult repeatedly and finally made a chair with balloons on it appear and flew out of it. It is not always possible to stop them though.

These nightmares and different themes sometimes continue over multiple nights like a tv show or movie advancing the plot. My question is how do I make them stop. I’m 35 and I’m exhausted. I just want to sleep normally. Are there any techniques I can try or things I can ask my doctor to test me for that might help? Has anyone ever had success in stopping these dreams. Even when the dreams aren’t terrifying they are still incredibly detailed and vivid and it is not restful.

I recently got married 2 month ago and my wife address me that I move around in my sleep to the point she tells me that I have wake her up by hitting her accidentally when I move around. And just a few days ago when I came back from I saw that her upper nose was bruised. I asked her what happened? Me thinking she must have fell but she told me that i accidentally hit her face. So now im really sad because im not a violent person. And now she wants to sleep on the couch or at least in a separate bed. Im just sad and scared because I truly love my wife and I don’t want this to ruin us

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[Male, 20] My life is ruined. I've had this trouble for a few years now. It could start earlier, maybe at 13-14, but it started to get bad at 16-17.

I know that my dad has insomnia(?), but he's the opposite. He has trouble falling asleep and staying asleep, since even the quietest noises can wake him up.

Basically, I have extreme difficulty with waking up to my alarm, no matter how loud it is. I even bought this classic clock, which is VERY loud when an alarm goes off. It worked at first, but recently things have started to go back to how they were. I also can't use it everyday, because it wakes up other people.

I have to rely on other people to wake me up, usually it's my younger brother or mom. When it first started happening, others thought that I'm just lazy or overworked. It changed when I started begging them to hit me, drag me out of bed or splash cold water on me, just so that I could wake up. I can sleep for 14 hours a day and sometimes I'd still be tired. My record is almost 30 hours. When I can rely on them, I'm usually sleeping 5-8 hours a night. But then again, if it's weekend and they don't wake me up, I sleep double/triple the time.

I don't remember all my dreams. Those that I do remember are very vivid and almost like a real life. Oftentimes when I'm dreaming I know that I HAVE to wake up and go back to real world, but it's almost like I don't have the power to do so. Or I remember having dreams in a dream or knowing intuitively that something's wrong, but living my life in a dream. Sometimes my dreams are very brutal and scary, usually I'm the one that's being tortured and I can't escape the dream. It could be the reason why I wake up tired or terrified, but what could be the reason to me not being able to wake up?

I hate myself immensely for the way things are. I hate sleep. In highschool, when I knew no one could wake me up the next day, I'd just pull all nighters, sometimes for 2-3 days, because I couldn't afford not showing up. And it was way easier, because I'd be even unable to fall asleep after first all nighter.

I'm afraid I'll never be able to function properly on university or find a real job. Or do anything on my own. I can't help but consider ending it all, my life seems so useless and I'm so frustrated. I lost so many opportunities because of this. And money. Psychiatrist just gave me sertraline, which doesn't do shit. And others also wrote me off with some calming meds, that DON'T work.

I am a 21 year old male and this issue has been going one since March of 2023. To explain this better, I need to give backstory of how I used to (this still happens but its o ly like once every 6 months) self harm. I had a tendency to bute my hand and punch things or myself whenever I was extremely angry or had a lot of self hatred. I started doing this around the age of 10 but it got really bad at 13/14 years old and this 'habit' began to decrease around age 17.

My current issue is that if I have a stressful dream or something triggering happens, I will bite myself or punch my bed. Sometimes I will have a clear memory of this behavior and other times I don't realize it until I see the marks on my hand. These events have a few times a month. I have talked to a therapist and my primary care doctor but they don't seem to be that worried about it.

I have been told in the past that I sing and yell in my sleep by my parents and roommates. I also looked into REM sleep behavior disorder a bit. I would love some advice/feedback on how to go about fixing this issue and if anyone else has had similar experiences. Thanks!

If you've gone to a sleep clinic, how much did your office appointment cost without insurance? Physician bill, not sleep study. And was it a NP or MD? I have no insurance and the place I'm going to doesn't have physicians who do financial aid.

I’ve been sleep talking since I was a child. My family would always laugh at the unusual things I’d say in my sleep. Now as an adult who lives with their partner, I’m feeling a bit frustrated & trying to understand why this happens. Often times when I sleep talk, I am half awake. It’s as if I’m in the passenger seat of my own brain. I can see through my eyes & I can hear but my brain is doing its own thing. Like I’ll be half awake when sleep talking & my partner would respond to me & I’ll start arguing & swearing that I’m NOT sleep talking when in fact I am. The worst part is that I am aware of this when I’m in this state, so even if I am saying nonsense, I am also fighting to prove it’s not nonsense. I sometimes see things that aren’t there, like visual delusions that disappear once I gain full consciousness. Afterwards I wake up extremely confused & then knock back out. I just get worried because I’ve been saying some fucked up things like apparently I called my partner stupid & I swore on my cats life about something (my cat passed away 2 weeks ago) & I immediately was like oh shit that’s fucked up, stop saying this.

I’m just worried if this is a legit problem or if there’s some underlying psychological problem. I’ve always had vivid dreams, especially when going through traumatic life events. I guess it’s just hard to talk about it because I don’t even fully understand what I’m going through myself. It could even be nothing. I’ve never been diagnosed with anything but I do think I have anxiety (on a more than normal level) & probably a lot of unprocessed emotions lol. I guess I’m just looking for an open ended conversation & if anyone else has ever experienced this?

So I've been having these weird situasions, where i kept switching inbetween dreaming and waken up state, when this switch did happen, i woke up to not being able to move my body at all for like 10 seconds on average, and then suddenly being able to move my body as if it never happened, before my brain forcefully making me fall asleep

with the fake seizure, i swear to god at some point my body was furiously shaking as if i was having a seizure, or a stroke. I'm not sure, but recently i have been feeling symptoms like constant tiredness, sleeping up to 12 fucking hours and STILL being tired, even when taking CBN (basicaly weed that helps with sleep quality/falling asleep), feeling of weakness, feeling confused and forgetting things way too often especially words, feeling like absolute shit, procrastinaging more, struggling to read to the point where it legit feels like im dyslexic (never been diagnosed with dyslexia), struggling to comprehend things or understand litteraly even the simplest of things (an overexeggerated example: if someone said that 6 + 6 is 12, i would for some reason struggle to comprehend that 6 + 6 is 12). Also when typing, I forget to write certain words in order to complete a setence. Like in my thoughs I think "This cat has a white tail" so when writting, i end up writting "this cat a white tail"

I recall this night of paralysis, when i woke up and was hallucinating this phone ringing noise. My brain kept telling me it was coming from my phone it legit didn't sound like my phone, like the music it was playing, i never heard it before, and when i was able to move, at which this paralysis lasted a record longest, i no longer heard the ringing, and then once again forced to sleep

These parylsises were happening so many times, that my left arm, which was basicaly the patient zero of paralysis, feels weak and heavy to lift

So this is going to be a long one, but I'll start with some context:

I (M19) have a lot of ongoing mental health issues and my sleep hygiene is pretty poor (I go to sleep at very irregular times, like between 1 and 4 am, and often nap in the day too, regardless of if i have had a full nights sleep). I also have autism and am on antidepressants.

From pretty much when I was like 12? I have woken myself up in the night masturbating, and waking up with my hand on my dick and just finishing. I've had wet dreams before, and it's distinctly different from that. It's not every not, it's not all the time. But it happens enough to be notable, and annoying. Sometimes I'll be having a dream, sometimes not and I will wake up and be jerking off and just on the edge of orgasm, and I wake up pretty much as I cum. I also am pretty sure I finger my ass in my sleep because my pyjamas have holes in them, right in line with my asshole, and I have woken up having wiped my butt with them and soiled them in the past. Obviously this is pretty inconvenient.

So recently I've been struggling with my mental health. I consistently have issues with intrusive thoughts (of harming myself or others) I don't act on these thoughts but they are quite distressing for me. Anyway, I have reason to believe I am acting on these thoughts in my sleep? I wake up with scratches and bruises and I don't remember getting them in the day. Increasingly my dreams (which have always been extremely vivid) have become more similar to my intrusive thoughts. I have been shouting out in the middle of the night and waking myself up. I have also kicked out at something in a dream, and actually done this in my bed. Often I will "trip" on the sidewalk in a dream and feel like I've fallen over as I wake up in my bed (like when you think you have another step to go but you have reached the bottom of a staircase - that sensation, but while lying in bed)

When I lived at home apparently my siblings noticed I would occasionally talk in my sleep (and all of them walked / talked in their sleep at some point) and I also grind my teeth extremely loudly. I also would often wake up on the floor, or just sleep in weird positions.

Now, I'm aware of sleep disorders, and aware of the risk factors (I have autism, my (paternal) auntie has epilepsy and my (paternal) grandpa has sleep apnea and I suspect my mom has that too). But I can't get support for it. I don't even know how to navigate getting a diagnosis. There are no sleep clinics round here, and I can't afford a private consultation to get a referral to a specialist. I've tried going to doctors but they don't know what I have - I was told by one of them to just accept this as who I am because there is nothing I can do and I can't get a diagnosis for something he has never heard of; another told me I need a mental health referral because there is nothing else to be done. I'm really at my wits end at this point and considering getting in contact with specialists myself because I have nothing else to do and I just want to have a normal night. And given the content of my intrusive thoughts, I'm increasingly worried about the potential risk I pose to myself while I sleep.

I've read up on some of the literature (and am open to any articles you guys are familiar with) and am currently reading Guy Leschziner's book "The Nocturnal Brain" which has been really helpful. I appreciate that everyone's difficulties will be different but I really just want to feel heard, and would be really grateful for any advice or recommendations from this sub.

Thanks,

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So when I sleep for some reason I tend to put my hands on my face. It seems to happen only when I sleep on my back and usually its the left hand, less often the right one or both. When I do it, the hand goes with palm over forehead or eyes with elbow in the air (when its both hands they go across eyes and cheeks and some forehead). It does not really obstruct my breathing or wake me up. Believed it may have been the light from the windows bothering me, but it happened in fully dark rooms too. Cannot say its a problem really but it is strange. Does anyone have an idea why it keeps happening?

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A couple times a month, I have this situation that happens to me where I kind of dream while awake. You know how you're never really aware of the moment you fall asleep, how you're basically awake and then you're in the dream, and you aren't aware of the crossover? Well, when this happens, I am completely aware of the crossover, and I start dreaming -- BUT I AM STILL AWAKE. I am completely aware of my body in the bed, and can consciously move, but I am simultaneously dreaming. While I do smoke medical weed, I don't do it before I go to bed (I typically stop a few hours before bedtime), and it can also happen when I'm completely sober. When it does happen, the dreams/hallucinations are incredibly intense and even more bizarre than a normal night. I also wear a CPAP mask at night.

Anyone have any idea what is happening to me? My sleep doctor seems completely unconcerned, and doesn't really have an explanation, but it kind of freaks me out.

I know this product was kind of viral on tiktok for a bit, but can anyone confirm if they've worked for them? Melatonin never helps me, so I'm looking for something a little different without just upping my melatonin alone

Idk if I have a disorder or smth but I gotta doctors appt coming. I heard bags of cheese being shaken at me like 30 minutes ago. I do usually hear screaming and yelling and fighting and books and shit being thrown but that’s normal, it sounds like a bag of great value Parmesan cheese that’s a tiny bit stale because it wasn’t fully closed in the fridge Is quite funny to me.

Mostly just hoping to see anyone else who’s experienced this, but advice is appreciated if you have it.

For most of my life, I’ve periodically had what I’ve assumed are some sort of hypnagogic/pompic hallucination or sleep paralysis where, as I’m falling asleep or waking up, I start suffocating. These are sometimes very vivid scenarios that I can’t distinguish from reality, like thinking I’m dying on my bathroom floor when I’m actually still in bed, or even thinking to myself “the previous ones were dreams but this time it’s definitely real.” It’s also hard to “snap out” of or wake up from them, as I usually can’t move while I’m having one.

They’re absolutely horrifying and I had a particularly awful one last night where I also fully believed I was schizophrenic and was hallucinating ambiguous voices and shapes as I suffocated, so I figured it’s time to do something about it. I don’t have them often, so I worry that a sleep study wouldn’t show anything.

Additional background: I’ve had lifelong difficulty sleeping, sleepwalked as a child, and am not diagnosed with any sleep disorders, though I do have depression/anxiety. I’m 20 years old.

My wife has been dealing with violent nightmares and dream enactment for about 4 years now, and it is steadily getting worse (example: she was dreaming that I had something on my face and was trying to get it off, and woke up yanking on my CPAP mask). She also kicks a lot in her sleep fighting of monsters/attackers and occasionally yells out. She recently did a sleep study, but she does not remember any of her dreams and there was no dream enactment during the study. She was told there was no evidence of REM sleep without atonia (RSWA) and that it is likely nightmare disorder to be treated psychologically. He seemed to believe that if there were neurological concerns, even if she didn't have nightmares and wasn't acting out during the sleep study, there would still be some reading on the sleep study results to indicate something deeper. Does that sound reasonable? She loves sleeping, but she is at her wits end. This is just another in a series of tests that have been inconclusive, and she is worried it is because she didn't act out during the sleep study.

My partner can’t stay awake. Whenever we lie down and we want to chat for a bit about the day to wind down, she’s asleep within seconds. It even happens when she does something like read a book, even if she reads it out to me. It happens very quickly too. From one sentence to the next, she’s fast asleep and she didn’t even notice she was dozing off.

It’s happened before that I’ve been going through a really tough time and needed her support throughout the night to deal with some very intense stuff, but she would still keep dozing off, probably multiple times a minute until I realised there was no point in constantly waking her up. (A point of interest is that if one of our pets needs her to stay up for a night, she can do it just fine.)

It’s been this way for a few years now, though I remember it never used to happen. It’s really upsetting us as we both want to be able to chill in bed without that meaning she’s immediately asleep…

It never happens during the day. If she has to do something for herself, like write an essay, she also doesn’t struggle with this problem as much.

This has happened to me a handful of times but has become more frequent lately. (Also under an exorbitant amount of stress lately, probably related.)

So just as I’m drifting off to sleep after hours of trying, I’ll slightly open my eyes to experience one of a few things.

I will see:

1. A bug crawling in my bed.
2. A thick cloud of gnats settling down over my face.
3. A spider hovering down over me.

All of these hallucinations are real enough to wake me out of a near sleep state of relaxation, and send me running across the room or scrambling and falling off a bed or couch. Sometimes it takes me a few moments of turning on the light and searching for whatever I saw to realize it was never real, forcing me to start over in trying to calm down and get back to sleep from my full fledged adrenaline dump.

Tonight was a little different. 3 hours of fighting to fall asleep, (meditation, rain sounds, old cartoons, etc…) and I finally started to drift off when I suddenly opened my eyes and saw movement crouched down behind a kitchenette table 15 feet from me.

I’m currently couch surfing in someone’s home and they stayed elsewhere overnight. But the movement was real and scary enough to me, that I grabbed my g*n off the coffee table and drew down on the figure. The closer I got, the less movement I saw and quickly realized what happened and just about collapsed from the adrenaline.

Im currently on medication for high BP and depression. This has undoubtedly been one of the hardest years of my life and I have no doubt that it’s related to these hallucinations. I just want to know if there’s a name for it and how to help it.

Some nights I’m not sure what happens, but as I’m falling asleep or think I’m asleep. I start to see things in the dark, like for instance a finger coming through from the curtains and in intense instances someone coming towards me. I can’t make out a face it’s just a shape in the darkness and my heart suddenly feels like it’s going to beat out of my chest and then I’ll quickly turn on the lights.

Anyone know what this is?

I have these random episodes that occur at the end of some of my night terrors, the dreams are always some sort of malicious entity coming after me and attacking me by "magically" holding me in place without physical contact (I have extremely vivid dreams that are often lucid to various degrees) at which point my body starts shaking like a minor seizure but not like the seizures I'm used to (syncope not epilepsy) until I finally wake up and my heart is racing and the fear leangers until I'm able to calm myself. Sometimes it feels like every nerve in my body is lit up. It seems completely random to me and the only pattern I've noticed is that I always wake up on my back regardless of which side I fell asleep on. I also have dysautonomia.

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My partner has a sleep disorder. That’s all we know so far. He went and got checked out in September, was told that he for sure had a sleep disorder, but had to have a sleep study done to know for sure which one. So here is what I need advice on, we had our daughter a month ago and his body just simply refuses to wake up to take care of her. Do you guys have any advice on how to get him to wake up, or is there nothing I can do? Also question for those of you that have diagnosed sleep disorders were you able to be woken up once you got diagnosed or is not being able to wake up just your life now? Thank you!

I recently got diagnosed with non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder, with a circadian rhythm that falls around 26,5-hour days. I'm struggling with how to deal with this news, and my sleep therapist can't really help me (i.e. tell me what my future could look like) as they don't see these types of cases often. I'm here to hopefully find some peers with this diagnosis who can give me some advice/share their story. For example: I am going to go back to studying in September, but how am I gonna be able to follow lectures and do projects and meet deadlines when I don't even know if I'll be able to sleep/wake up at the appropriate hours? Any and all reactions would be appreciated ❤