A little while back, I woke up and had no idea where I was, who I was, and was in a confused state with zero memory. My gf was next to me already awake and I had no idea who she was. I quickly came back to my senses and everything was back to normal. It felt like 30 seconds but my gf told me it was a few mins. That was the only time I've ever experienced something like that. My grandmother developed dementia and I saw how messed up of a disease it is and I wonder if that's how she felt all the time.

I had a really weird experience, it’s embarrassing but I truly remember nothing. I woke up today and went to drink my water out of my water bottle and it tasted gross, like pee. Turns out sometime in the night I had peed in there, I dont understand how I can open my bottle and do that without any recollection of it. I definitely wouldnt want to do that but I did for some reason. It’s really scary to know that I did things without knowing, what else could I do?

Basically as the title states. I sleep almost all day as of recently, but the last few days I’m showing signs of severe sleep deprivation. Cognitive, judgement and motor function impairment, inability to focus, microsleeps, a general feeling like I’m high despite no drug use. I have a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome as of about a year ago. I’m seeing my doctor tomorrow about it bc it got so bad I considered leaving work but literally could not because we were severely understaffed. I’m a nursing assistant so being alert is very important. Idk man it just really sucks. I got referred for a sleep study but haven’t been able to contact the scheduler as I was told they’d call me and I wasn’t given their information. Wish I knew what the hell was going on w me.

That’s the post. I think it’s a medical disease. Every day. I can’t prevent it from happening, I just have to make sure I’m somewhere I can lie down.

TLDR: Insurance won't pay for sleep lab study but will pay for at home study, even though both my doctor and I are almost 100% sure it's not apnea.

So frustrating. Believe me I am beyond aware of how lucky I am to even have Medicaid (even though it means I have to stay poor because of my extensive medical needs), but jeez do they make you go around your a** to get to your elbow to get treatment. For years I have suffered from insomnia and lack of sleep. At the beginning of this year I started to oversleep, like through 5 loud alarms, and when I do wake up I'm physically unable to keep my eyes open or get my body moving to get ready for the day. After about an hour or so I'm usually able to get up and get ready for work, etc. but then I go through waves throughout the day where I'm barely able to keep my eyes open. I'll be at a red light and have to keep my eyes wide because I feel like if I close them I will fall asleep, I'll walk into my office and as I'm going down the hall I'm almost running into the walls because I feel like I'm drifting out of consciousness, and of course it happens at times like when I'm working (at a computer), or just relaxing watching tv/reading. Then I'll have this period between like 7-11pm where I'm my most alert and then of course the insomnia kicks in and I'll lay in bed for 2-3 hours unable to actually fall asleep. This part is mitigated slightly by klonopin. Given all of that, my doctor really wants me to do an in lab study (I'll take my klonopin to go to sleep) because of the onset of all of this and symptoms in general, etc. Well of course Medicaid denies the lab study and approves an in home study. SMH. What is probably going to happen is the at home study will show no apnea and they will end up having to pay for a lab study anyways. I really wish they would just listen to the medical providers since they are the experts! So now after they cancelled my in lab study a week prior (it was supposed to be this Friday) after waiting a month to get scheduled in the first place I have to wait to be called to schedule the in home. And continue to spend time fighting with whatever the heck is going on with me and trying to function like a normal human being.

*sigh* I just needed to rant. Happy Hump Day everyone!

I have been finding, more so recently, that I keep falling asleep even when I have absolutely NO intentions of sleeping. This has been happening for the past couple months and I am frustrated beyond belief, I can't even remember when or how I fell asleep and when this happens I wake up confused at odd hours; I don't trust myself in my own bed now haha! I get enough sleep normally so I am confused as to why I just "Black out". This is starting to affect my academics since I've always been a successfull procrastinator, doing minor assignments the night they are due and getting by fine... but now I just woke up at 4am, startled and confused, sweaty (for some reason), my phone was cleared of all tabs(?) and no assignments were done 🥲 (all locked at midnight) going forward, since I can't seem to trust myself to not fall asleep, I am changing my methodology for school work lol. This sleep issue is really upsetting me... I don't know why my body is doing this, I am scared and I feel distrustfull of my body😭

I have a problem with a very irregular sleep schedule (and other issues, obviously). I tend to go to sleep very late, around 3-5 AM, or very early, around 6-7 PM. When I do manage to fall asleep, I enter a deep sleep within 5-10 minutes and it's almost impossible to wake me up. It's common for me to sleep through three alarms and then be abruptly woken up by my dad 20 minutes before I have to leave the house.

Based on feedback from my girlfriend, who sometimes sleeps over, I twitch constantly in my sleep. I sometimes have full-body twitches and constantly rapidly move my foot. I also never dream, and the time I spend sleeping feels like seconds. I'm always surprised when morning comes, and I often don't feel refreshed after sleeping. Given the chance during the weekend, I'll always sleep 12-14 hours which actually makes me feel often energized but also sweaty. I'm also constantly sleepy, and I often fall asleep on the way to and from school, sometimes even during break.

Anyway, some of this is fine because I'm used to it, but some of it is starting to get really annoying and negatively impact my life. For example, I can't take simple 20-minute naps to energize myself and get ready for schoolwork. I just fall into a fucking coma and wake up pissed in the morning. Now i would like to mention that i do have adhd and been recently medicated which does seem to Impact how deep my sleep is and how capable i am to seemingly ignore my alarm, since it used to be a regular occurrence for me to over sleep and not hear my alarm but not a consistent problem which it turned into after i started taking my adhd medication. But then again it used to be that bad when i was younger (used to be woken up by my pissed mom who got woken up by my alarm while being separated by a whole floor and 2 doors so you can imagine how loud that thing was)

I hate having to wake up in the middle of the night because I have to go sleeping. How much time before going to bed should we stop drinking?

When I was a teenager I'd be up until 2 am pounding energy drinks and playing computer games. Then jump straight into bed and fall asleep within 15 min, and then stay asleep until the alarm rang.

But now in my mid 20s, I've quit caffeine, I don't look at screens before bed. But I'm laying awake for hours tossing and turning, and I wake up before the alarm rings.

On the odd occasion that I give in to my temptations and drink a coffe during the day it's almost guaranteed to result in not falling asleep for the entire night.

What changed? Is it just easier to fall asleep when you're younger? Was I more active? Did I have less anxiety?

I'm much "healthier" now compared to then. I eat more nutritious food, exercise more, read before bed instead of playing video games, etc.

I have an anxiety disorder and OCD, and one day I had the thoughts of 'what if my partner dies in his sleep?'.

I don't actively think of it, but my brain does so apparently. I wake up almost every night in a panic, and half asleep my partner looks 'very pale' to me and I shake and wake him to reassure me he's still alive.

I feel like this happens on autopilot. I have sleep terrors and paralysis and hallucinations, and it rather feels like waking up from a sleep paralysis, so I don't feel like I can actively control it. But it obviously scares me and prevents both of us from a good night's rest.

Does anyone else experience the same? I never seeked professional help with my sleep disorders because I have 'worse' health issues that I address in the short time I have with my docs.

But I'm so tired, literally, from waking up like this and thinking my partner died. It's hell

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The past few weeks and on and off for the past few months I've experienced extreme exhaustion making me feel unbelievably sleepy and lethargic.

The past few weeks however it's started to effect my day to day because I am finding it hard to stay awake. I'm so fatigued despite getting my 8 hours of sleep. I'll go straight into a deep sleep immediately as my head hits the pillow and I'll only come out of it if my alarm goes off or if my body jolts me awake.

I'm waiting for my neurology appointment, but this is getting harder to manage.

Has anyone experienced this before and what ended up being the cause?

I'm not trying to self diagnose. I am just trying to understand.

Thank you :)

24 enby(afab fem presenting) I've experienced much trauma as a child having an abusive mother and an entirely absent father (no child support even despite court ordees) but now as an adult I am really paying for the faults of my life donors. I'm autistic, have adhd, ptsd, and general anxiety disorder diagnosed when I was 22. My mom is absolutely undiagnosed with ADHD, depression, and I believe NPD after my old therapist suggested her behaviors and cycling with my siblings heavily point towards that, which is tragic because if my mom just got help I would still be in her life. Ever since I was 18 in my senior year, I moved in with my best friend after my mom abandoned me to pretend to be a teenager with her new boyfriend and I was listed as an "unaccompanied youth" by the school counselor along with my older brother. I began to open up to my gyno(my mom brought me to her gyno for my severe period symptoms) about the abuse from my mother and she prescribed me zoloft and then did a gynesight test. Zoloft ruined my mental health and it made me extremely suicidal feeling and I went off of it and am now on cymbalta with great success. These traumas have been manifesting in my sleep, to the point I began to wake up crying almost daily from these nightmares(night terrors?) since my late teen years. I will have moments of lucidity in these dreams where I KNOW I'm dreaming but have zero influence over it. I also cannot wake up or open my eyes when this is happening and I can feel my real-life environment around me (my cat, blankets, hot/cold, my night sweats). Today I had another experience like that, except I started to rapidly breathe out of my mouth while this partial-lucidity while my nightmare continued and I was 100% aware of this until I actually woke up and my eyes could open. Ever time I try to explain my experience I can never find anything on google search that brings up what I am dealing with. Being autistic I like to be able to explain my situation to a doctor before talking to them to avoid extra appointments or confusion of me not making enough sense because of my difficulties with emotions and understanding my own complex feelings. I also suffer with many diseases (sjogrens, Fibromyalgia my doc says is probably trigger from trauma, arthritis, and more) so existing in this body is so hard when you cant even sleep. Does anyone know what this is? Ive been considered a sleep recording app. I sleep sleep in discord with my boyfriend (temporarily long distance) and he says sometimes I mumble a lot and one time I even called out his name while I was sleeping and he was doing a hobby

Help

Can't stop falling out of bed when I'm sleeping. To the point of injuring self falling off my ground level mattress. I'm scared! Woke up on the ground last night smashed andecor item and my head and knees. Tips please #help #activesleeper #falling #health #help

So I want to say for the past 2-3 years, I'll sleep fine most nights, but every 4-6 months, I'll have a situation where I'll wake up and my body can't breathe. But, I'll roll out of bed. I'll move stuff around. And I hear myself say strictly I can't breathe every time. Then a few moments later I come to. It happened today. It lasted about a minute. Each time I feel like I'm going to die or something. But then I'm able to stand up afterwards and go about my night and I even fell back asleep with no other issues. I've lost 12 pounds this year. I'm eating healthier. But I also have Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum. Don't know if there's a correlation although only been having these wake up incidents since they told me about it 3 years ago.

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What helps you relax before sleeping to have a better sleep? I am asking this as I noticed that if I do something that makes me active before going to bed is gonna be much more difficult sleeping in a decent hour

About once or twice a week I will have this strange instance of yelling in my sleep. It’s always in the early morning hours and always a sound of loud groaning or yelling words of agitation (think “leave me alone” or “stop!”) I’ll typically wake up maybe an hour or so later with a feeling that I had yelled, and I also tend to wake up anxious and irritated afterwards.

I’m not screaming and I’m not having traumatic nightmares, typically I am just arguing with people in my life or living out an uncomfortable scenario (i.e. no one can hear me speak, I can’t run, etc). I know it’s actually happening because I’ve had several people hear me yell and check on me, or some think I’m yelling at my cats to get out the room.

This has been happening for a few years now and I find it strange that it’s not a PTSD situation nor any general sleeping disorder I’ve Googled because I can vaguely remember the yelling. I’m sure it’s stress related but does anyone know anything about a disorder or occurrences like this? I want to stop scaring my stay-overs LOL

Has anyone heard of anyone who seems just fine going days or longer without reaching REM and delta sleep cycles? Have I just forgotten what restorative sleep feels like?

I'm wondering what else I can try to not be tired. Or what my problem is.

I am always tired and never have refreshing sleep. I think I've been tired since age 10-11, not sure about before then. I'm early 40s now. I'm just so tired - everything is a drag because I'd rather be asleep.

I used to fall asleep after everyone else in the house when I was a child, but not because of insomnia, simply because I was awake. As a teenager I would fall asleep between 1am and 4am after hours of being awake in bed. As an adult I alternate between insomnia and falling asleep just fine.

I had never actually taken a nap (except when I was sick) until I developed some kind of fatigue at age 19. I didn't even nap as a child, not even much when I was a baby, apparently.

After developing the ability to nap, I didn't like to actually do it much because I get severe sleep inertia (?) - extremely nauseous, lethargic, thirsty, no appetite, hard to stay awake until I go to sleep that night. The sleep inertia doesn't happen for short naps, but that doesn't help because I don't fall asleep in a reasonable length of time.

As a child and teenager I used to experience feelings of spinning and my body being different sizes before falling asleep. This rarely happens as an adult. I also used to get "false awakenings" regularly, I hate those...

Although I'm always tired, I'm not sure I'm "sleepy" - although I desperately want to sleep it doesn't feel the same. I just go to bed and fall asleep, sooner or later. Sometimes if I take melatonin I actually feel sleepy.

As a teenager, there were three times (seperated by 3-4 years) when I woke up feeling refreshed and not tired. Those were amazing days.

I've tried:

• sleeping more
• sleeping less
• melatonin (2mg gradual release. melatonin only available on prescription here)
• sour cherry extract
• magnesium supplements before bed
• relaxing herbal teas
• all the sleep hygiene stuff
• lying under a weighted blanket before going to bed
• wearing earplugs to sleep
• doing relaxation-meditation before bed
• doing progressive relaxation in bed
• I don't have sleep apnoea (did an at home test)
• I don't snore
• fitness watch doesn't report any weird heart rates overnight
• methylphenidate for ADHD

I kind of feel that since this is basically a life-long problem with no change (other than those 3 weird days) that there's something physiologically wrong, but I don't see how I can find out what, or what I could do about it.

There's no possibility of medical help because you can only get a referral for a sleep study if you score over a certain amount on the Epworth Sleepiness scale, and I don't fall asleep in the day - this is actually one of my issues, inability to sleep when I need to. There's nowhere that does clinic cased sleep studies that I can self-refer to - only basic at-home sleep apnoea tests.

I went to Dr for her to schedule a sleep study but she says insomnia is a clear indication for a sleep test. I don’t understand then what does?! Should I fo to a different Dr? She said my insurance won’t cover it. I have very good insurance.

Wouldn’t the number one reason to do a sleep study be insomnia? She said we can do a at home one without recording brain waves! I know I don’t have sleep apnea. Just another reason for them to bill I’m guessing? Should I go see another Dr?

I don't know why but whenever I sleep in my normal house I am not gonna sleep as good as I sleep in another house that is my dad's house. What could be the difference between these? I just thought that maybe it could be due to the fact that my father house is quieter but at the same time I can't find any other reason...can you help me?

I have had a sleep study and have a lot of the parasomnias that there are… confusional arousal, sleep walking at times, night terrors, and episodes of RWA. Last night I went to bed, and my boyfriend came to bed at 3:30am. I heard him come to bed and woke up briefly and then I realized I was soaked! I said the what the hell?! Sometimes I get night sweats, but realized I peed! I’m sooooo embarrassed! I think what is more concerning is I didn’t even know or wake up when it happened!

I currently take klonopin before bed to assist with my sleep, and my nocturnal panic attacks have slowed down.

I have a few mental diagnoses- PTSD, anxiety, etc..

I’m just so freaked out! I’m literally 32. I haven’t done this since I was like 10!

I have always struggled with insomnia, horrible vivid dreams and sleep paralysis since I was a child. Currently 38 with ptsd. Even if I can get to sleep with some of these meds, the dreams are so vivid, horrific or stressful that I wake up exhausted and sometimes more traumatized. I have tried... Natural: red light only at night, no tv/phone, no drinking, cbd and any strain of thc or dosage does not help (makes it worse), meditation, yoga, sauna therapy, breath work, magnesium baths and sprays, every tea and supplement under the sun. Melatonin even in the smallest doses gives me nightmares. Talk therapy and EMDR for years. Scripts: gabapentin, trazadone, mirtazapine, amitriptyline, hydroxyzine, atenolol, topamax... the list goes on.

I am starting to run out of options. It has greatly affected my daily functions and quality of life. The only med that sometimes helps is my Ativan or clonazepam to fall asleep and have a restful nights sleep. However I only take these in emergency situations. Couple times a month and do not want to take these. I am currently on lexapro daily to manage anxiety. If anyone has had a similar situation please let me know if something has worked for you. My doctors and myself are running out of options.

i have a nasty anger whenever someone tries waking me up and my first instinct is to fight or shout at them.. but whenever this happens im always semi conscious or not conscious at all and i cant control myself from doing this.. and i dont remember half of what happens when i have these episodes when im fully awake, only snippets... is this normal? its been going on for quite a while now

Hi, So most nights I wake up around 4am and I have a huge surge of energy, but if I try to go back to sleep and wake up at 7am or 10am I am exhausted. I go to bed around 11pm every night, so I don't understand why my 4am self has so much more energy than my 7am well rested self. Any ideas what's wrong? I thought it was my cortisol levels at first, but now I am not sure as I have been doing cortisol therapies for over a month now and it hasn't helped at all.

Any suggestions welcome.

Does it happen to you to have more sleep like at 9 pm rather than 11 pm? Because I noticed that if I exceeds a certain time I am not gonna feel that much tired as I used to in that time

i believe i might have some sort of sleeping disorder,im constantly exhausted (like i cannot stay awake) i constantly fall asleep in class or literally anywhere. the second i get home from school i will sleep until im woken up by my parents,this is the first day in the last two weeks i havent fallen asleep earlier than 3pm so thats good but im a bit concerned,i have had this for about 4 months ALSO DELETE IF NOT ALLOWED!!