I am 63 and have a very hard time sleeping regularly. Often during the day I get extremely sleepy in the afternoons. But if I take naps I inevitably can't sleep at night. Sometimes I get up early and eat breakfast but soon afterward want to go back to sleep. Do others my age face this? Is there a solution to being on a regular schedule for sleeping?

So I have always had issues sleeping, I am in my early 40s now but I recall as a child I sometimes sleep-walked. I often would see in my later years upon trying to sleep at 4AM strange creatures that didn't exist crawling up my wall next to my bed. I recently hurt my toes and this coincides with the removal of some cushions on my bed near the wall. I am starting to wonder if I should consider buying a cheap infrared camera to see what happens when I go to sleep, have any of you done this? What did you see? If you do consider trying this, please let me know what you saw, if anything unusual. TIA

Is there any advice for someone with a baby that struggles with waking up?

My husband has always struggled with being woken up in the night and reacting intensely - gasping, grabbing my wrist tightly, just in general a fight response.

He started the process of getting a sleep study done but never followed through, and was recommended to try taking some supplements but isn't taking them. We have a baby and at 9 months he's still waking in the night and I'm exhausted. But whenever I ask dad for help, it's usually a worse event than if I'd just gotten up and done it myself. He's often rude, yells at me, yells and swears at the baby. Sometimes he's on the verge of being violent and i have to get up and intervene.

Then it turns into this argument of "see he just wanted his mommy" and I'm sure baby wouldn't need me if dad was just nicer when he tends to him.

Is there any hope for working out my husband's sleep issues while his sleep gets interrupted because of the baby?

Because of our living situation, baby sleeps in a crib in our room. We don't have an option to move him into his own room at this point.

How do I navigate my own sleep needs with a baby and a husband that acts rashly in the night and then doesn't remember?

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I am a 16 year old guy, and I never really have any problems sleeping, just your usual teenage staying up to late with the guys and gaming, and i dont have any known sleep disorders, but last night my cat woke me up, i gave him food (hes fat as heck) and it was about 4 in the morning, i then went back to bed to try and sleep for a couple more hours, but when i went to bed, i layed there and felt like super weird, like sinking, like that falling feeling you get randomly but just like constantly, and i felt all the sudden like, okay so like, you know when like your leg falls asleep and you cant move it or feel it but it feels like static or pins and needle if that makes sense? my entire body felt like that, even my face, it almost felt like i was vibrating, and i couldnt really get myself to move too much, and then it went away, and it happened 2 more times, i felt heavy and like i was vibrating or tingling like static, but on the last little episode, its like i was seeing this face, and it was nothing like how i hear sleep paralysis described like on youtube, its like, it sounds unreal, but it was like a png image of this really unerving face was just covering my sight, like when you see something your minds eye but it was just stuck there, and even when i tried to close my eyes it was just there, i have never expierienced anything that scary in my entire life, i want to tell someone like my parents or something, but it just sounds stupid in my head, i dont know if it was just a really terrible dream or what but its always easier to tell random people online, i hope it doesnt persist, will update if it does, please respond i am cery unerved and will try to respond if someone has a question, it really has me shook, thanks.

I LOVE having naps in the afternoon, this is just because I feel that in the one-hour afternoon nap I am gonna sleep 90% better than I am gonna do at night. At the same time if I am gonna have naps in the afternoon I am not gonna sleep until like 2 am and it kinda destroys my routine and making me feel having naps necessary for the day after. It's gonna be just a vicious circle. How can I resolve it?

To create some context: I am 41, I've always had very vivid and intense dreams. I suffered Sleep Paralysis from age 12 to age late 20s. I have migraines, I am a visual person (creative type). I do have some personal fears and anxiety's about loss and abandonment. Most I am aware of consciously but seem to "relive trauma" subconsciously when asleep. I have trouble getting tired at a decent time, end up awake most of the night but still function with some lag during the day. I don't work so it's fine if I sleep in. I take B12 and Iron supplements as suggested by my docs due to low numbers.

Reason for Post: So I have been noticing lately that I am having weird experiences surrounding my sleep and waking stages. More than my usual weirdness. Because of the intensities of my dreaming, I often wake up confused of where I am. I have been in my home for the last 11 years, so I have a lot of familiar things around me but even with that I am still unsure of my exact locations. For example, I often dream about being in different houses (most decrepit and dark in nature). Never in my current home. I see lots of faces, some I recognize, most I don't remember when waking. The theme usually some kind of stresser that I am living or have lived in the past. I'll either fight with my X husband or Mom and wake up confused of whom I am sleeping next too or where I am for a few seconds to minutes. I believe that now that I feel safe (ish) in my current relationship and home, that my mind is trying to process years of trauma that it couldn't before because the constant input of stress, anxiety, fighting with family, defending myself constantly, and caring for my two boys during the chaos every day. But with the growing severity of waking up confused, I am wondering if I should consult a doctor or even a psychologist. I do have short memory loss, I will lose chunks of conversations, faces to names, and time frames for occurrences. I am told I am too young for Alzheimer's testing but I really think I have early stages of it because of my mem loss and sleep troubles.
If there is any professions out there that read this, please feel free to ask questions and respond with thoughts. There is no information that I won't share because I really want to get to a solution and possibly a way to get better. I want to go to bed at a normal time, I want to sleep but my body just wont let me. Sleep meds only make me really drowsy so if I can avoid, I would prefer it. Thanks for your time.

Acting on dreamlike thoughts upon waking up

Last night I woke up after roughly 1 hour of sleep. I am awake but have dreamlike thoughts lingering upon waking up that make no sense but which I act on. In this instance i for some reason believed my phone could explode, so I got down from the bed and ran into the kitchen to get cover. After about 5-15 seconds I come to my senses and realize there is no reason for my phone to explode. I feel fully awake during this. This has happened once before a couple of months ago and once roughly 10 years ago.

Does anyone know what this is? I’m scared that I might wake up with a conviction/thought that might hurt me or someone else before I snap out of it. There is no indication yet that I would but since I’m not aware what this is I am scared of that risk.

hi there! i’ve been struggling with sleep what feels like my whole adult life. i always always stay up late and want to wake up late. it’s not that i can’t fall asleep, it’s just that i can’t get myself to go to bed. when i do go to bed, i fall asleep really easily, but i still feel so tired during the day, even when i actually get a full night of sleep. i nap more days than i don’t just because i feel so incredibly tired even when i get a full night of sleep (i.e. on weekends).

recently i got caught sleeping at work by my supervisor, which i didn’t even really know i was doing. i scheduled an appointment for a sleep consultation and hopefully a sleep test, but i couldn’t schedule until march. now every time i’m tired at work, i’m so so paranoid that i’m going to fall asleep without realizing it and get fired.

i’ve spoken with my doctor about this, and i’m actively in therapy and my therapist suspects i have some kind of executive function disorder and a sleep disorder but ofc can’t diagnose me with that. basically does anyone have any advice or even just some kind words? i’m really, really scared that i’m going to get fired and fuck up my life :(

I wanted to flair this as both ranting and needing advice but I can't do that. I've always had trouble sleeping since childhood (traumatic upbringing, CPTSD lifelong). I've tried Lunesta (is that even in the market anymore?), Ambien (didn't make me fall asleep, just made me do weird shit at night only to come to in the morning feeling rested but knowing I had just been dissociated), melatonin, Benadryl (taking 100mg a night because 25 -75 does not work and 100 works maybe 60% of the time), melatonin/Benadryl combo, magnesium, chamomile, breathing exercises and meditation... The list goes on and on. Within the past year, I went back on my Buspirone (non-benzo anxiolitic) to see if that would help me sleep. It does not help me sleep, but I'm not waking up in panic attacks anymore. I sleep with earplugs in because the slightest noise such as a car driving by or a neighbor's door shutting will wake me from my previous sleep in a jolt. I'm getting average 4 hours a night, sometimes zero. I went to my doctor and she put me on Trazodone 25mg and I literally laid awake all night last night. I was actually sleepy before taking it - a rare occurrence - like maybe twice a year I get sleepy at a semi normal time. Before I took the Trazodone, thinking "oh yeah, this will really knock me out and I'll sleep like a baby." Not the case. If anything it woke me up. I had been prescribed Trazodone previously at 100mg and had the same experience. Honestly, the only thing that helps me get angel baby sleep where I feel refreshed and not sore and exhausted in the morning is Xanax but doctors don't want to prescribe that. I got a psych referral so hopefully the psychiatrist can help more than my doctor. I'm sure there are plenty of CPTSD sufferers out there that can relate. What were your solutions? Sleep study? I really just want benzos because they work but requesting benzos is a red flag to any medical provider so I gotta make it their idea I guess? IDK, I'm going insane from sleep deprivation.

The night before last my cat was sleeping beside me and I was convinced he was very sick and he was going to die. I kept checking he was breathing. This was very unusual behaviour from me and last night I thought the wind chimes in my room which are blown around delicately by my fan were the noise of someone outside unscrewing something trying to break in. I’m developing weird thoughts and behaviours at night and I’m not sure what’s going on?? Any ideas? Didn’t know where else to post this.

sometimes upon awakening i am hit with a lot of confusion and i believe my partner is next to me/ hallucinate him being there on nights where we aren’t together. when i realize he isnt there, i get frantic and turn quickly to each side, jt feels like a rush.

it feels like i am halfway between sleep and feels close to what sleep paralysis would be even i am able to move, but the hallucination is there: does anyone know what this would be ? i also deal with texting in my sleep and not remembering it

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This is making me pretty anxious tbh. Sorry if this isn't in the right place!

I'm 16(F), i honestly dunno when this started. I have a few diagnosed conditions that may be helping cause this? I'm diagnosed with POTS and autism and in the process of a PCOS diagnosis. I have also been prescribed melatonin before for being unable to sleep for a while after I lay down.

It's really been in the last couple weeks that I've really noticed all of this. My mother tends to wake me up abt 15-20 mins before my alarm (I set it later as a failsafe.) My father sometimes comes in too before the alarm. The weird thing is, I can never remember when they first come in. Take for example, today, apparently my father woke me and then my mother also came in to wake me. I do not remember any of this. I didn't remember any of this in the morning either. First thing I remember is my alarm even tho I think I was already awake? I also struggle for abt another 20-30 mins to get up and start moving.

This is causing me a lot of concern as it even happens when I sleep through the night pretty well. It caused me to miss my bus, resulting in tension between me and my parents. I don't wanna ask to go to the doctor again as I seem to constantly be at check-ups, specialists, etc. (I've gotten a bunch of diagnoses over the last few months)

Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks for reading anyways ^^

This night (well, it just happened, as it's still night here), I woke up after 3/4 hours of sleep, and I was dreaming about something involving going around with job van and Lupin (the cartoon, I know it's weird...). During awakening I had this weird feeling that what I just dreamed was a thing that really happened yesterday and it was little hard at first to remember the real day of yesterday because the memory of the dream was like overwhelming. Then (after one or two minutes) it started slowly to fade away and the right memory came back, at the point that after something like 10 minutes, it already was hard to remember the details of the dream and now I barely remember some details. Btw, that feeling during awakening scared me so much I started shaking a lot and it lasted for a while like an adrenaline rush. It happened some times in the past I wake up not really alert (like I feel half sleep), and I feel scared and my body start shaking for the fear like a way to full awake myself, and then after that I'm really awaken. It's a bad felling though, but it seems work...

There's a name for things like this? There's someone else here that had/have similar experiences?

If so, what is/are your experience(s) with it?

Thank you in advance! :))

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I’ve become pretty depressed recently as a result of some difficult things in my personal life. I have trouble falling asleep, and I tend to sleep excessively whenever it’s the weekend and I’m able to.

My job is remote but I still work on a schedule. I have to wake up at around 7:50 and I’m so exhausted I can’t think or function until about 12pm. I frequently nod off and sometimes I’m so tired my vision is blurred for hours.

I’ve somehow managed to stay caught up at work so far. I’m just worried I’m going to fall asleep on the job one day and miss a meeting or get caught by my boss. Any advice?

Recently found this subreddit. So I atm have Essential Tremor & Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome, in addition to psychiatric conditions including CPTSD.

For a while I thought I was dealing with night terrors. It started around late high school, barely could remember those but then first year of college came and I always remembered laying on my side on the twin bed in the dorms and kicking the wall so hard in my sleep I'd wake up on the floor. I'd just get back up on the bed and fall back asleep. No panicking. Forward to now, I'm 25, and sleep in bed with my boyfriend. A few times a week he'll wake me up due to me kicking, punching, or yelling in my sleep. He'll tell me I'm having a nightmare. Sometimes they're bad dreams, like recently in a dream the roof almost collapsed so I started kicking and yelling, but then in another dream I had just got in an argument so I yelled in my dream so I had also yelled out loud. I'm just prone to hearing him say that I'm having a bad dream and I start to apologize until I just fall back asleep again.

I am moving out of state at the end of the month but have reached out to a sleep specialist in my new area (Denver). I suppose next steps are sleep studies. I've gone thru a lot of MRI's, MRA's, spinal taps, but never a sleep study. I'm kind of freaking out. Just as much as I know this will provide answers, this will leave an open door for a lot of things. I saw that melatonin can help, but I'm on so many psych meds I can't take melatonin. Can't take magnesium either with my current medication rundown. But I suppose first thing is, could this even be REM Sleep Behavior Disorder? It's looking further and further like night terrors as days go by.

Hi everyone

The past week I've suddenly started to respond to dreams, but it just happens when I wake up - so as soon I start to do a physical movement associated with my dream, it wakes me. In the past few days I've dreamt my husband was having an affair and woke up giving him a smack (I apologized immediately) I've backed my head away from someone who was getting too close to me in my dream, and I've also woken up when I've started to copy facial yoga movements in my dream!

Each time I start to do the moments I wake up, and remember doing them and also my dream.

Has anyone experienced this before?? I'm so worried

I kind of discovered that If I want to wake up I need at least 8.20 otherwise I will feel unbelievably tired. There are days in which I actually need less sleep and I do not feel that tired. Does it happen to you? What could it be the reason why?

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So as the title suggests I think I might have rds since my legs seem to have a mind of their own when I sleep. I'll kick, curl them up, bring them to my chest and open and close them none of this hurts my sleep as I stay sleeping the entire time but it ruins my boyfriend's ability to sleep to the point he has to leave the room and sleep on the couch to actually be able to sleep is there anyone with any advice on how to make it either stop or happen less?

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I don’t remember the dream I was having but I woke up thinking that it was real. I disturbed my girlfriend and told her there were packets under her that I needed. I don’t know what was in these supposed packets but I remember really believing that I needed them. When I didn’t find them, I went back to sleep. I am a sleep talker but I remain asleep when I talk. I remember very vividly waking up and making her get up so I could search for these packets under her. I googled it and thought it was a false awakening, but I know I was awake and she confirmed it this morning when I remembered it. I don’t think it was sleep paralysis because I remember running my hand along the mattress while searching for the packets. Sleep walking maybe? Do people remember that?

I don’t mind my sleep talking because it only happens once in a while, but I’m worried about this instance becoming a pattern and disrupting my girlfriend’s sleep. I made her get out of bed and I feel awful about that since she had just worked a thirteen hour shift.

Does it happen to you to need less sleep whenever you eat whole food?

I’m not a mom. Nor even pregnant. But I do have chronic sleep terrors, which are more common in times of stress.

I was upfront about my disorder the first time I slept with my now-husband, and he was immediately understanding though it took him some time to comfortably adjust to my sudden wails and thrashes in the darkest hours of the night.

We’ve been talking about having kids lately, and I only just now thought about how my sleep terrors may impact a newborn, exacerbate or be exacerbated by postpartum, and how it may cause a greater rift between sleep-deprived partners.

Any moms (or dads!) with experience in how your sleep disorder may make postpartum life harder? Is it easier with those with chronic insomnia?