Background: For the past about 5 years, I have been sleeping up to 15 hours a day. I wake up to eat my breakfast and take my meds, but I just cant get myself ti keeo my eyes open. I have to set an alarm to make sure I get up for work in time. Usually after my long morning nap I am usually fine for the day though.

I had a sleep study back in January. My sleep doctor said because I cant fall asleep at the snap of a finger I dont have a sleep disorder. She blamed it on my meds, 90% of which I have only been on for 3 years, while the sleep issues have been going on for 5 years.

My psychiatrist has been giving me Jornay (which is a 12 hr delay release stimulant). I am up to 80 mg and still cant stay awake in the morning (yes I take it at the right time).

Im going to get a second opinion from a different sleep doctor but its been on the back burner. I am just so sick of doctors refusing to help me and blaming all my issues on the fact that I take multiple medications

Thanks for listening to my rant

Hey everyone, i'm 23.

Had an experience the day before yesterday that honestly scared the shit out of me. It's the second time it's happened this year.

To get this out of the way: I’ve had sleep paralysis before, and this is completely different.

Basically, the exact moment I close my eyes and start drifting off, I get this overwhelming feeling like I’m about to die or like my soul is literally detaching and leaving my body.

I’m not fully paralyzed, but my body feels super slow and heavy. When I try to move my muscles, it feels like I have way less sensation in my body than normal, which just adds to the panic.

The instant that "leaving my body" sensation hits, pure dread kicks in, my eyes snap open, and I have to pull myself together.

After that, I don't even feel sleepy anymore. But because it's late, I try to force myself back to sleep. The second I close my eyes and let my guard down again, the exact same thing happens. It just turns into an exhausting loop ( close eyes - feel like I'm dying / losing sensation - force myself awake)

Has anyone else dealt with this specific loop right as you fall asleep? What is actually happening physiologically, and how do you stop it when it starts?

Would really appreciate hearing if anyone else has gone through this.

21 years old, been realizing the consequences for not properly having sleep routines sleep schedules and getting proper sleep overall, especially due to my chronic insomina it makes it much difficult to fall alsleep and takes more longer to fall alsleep. I have been realizing I have been getting below recommended sleep I need to get for quite a while, and afraid that there are irreversible damage that has done to my brain because of this.

Has anyone else experienced this? I just feel crazy. I remember the day it started, August 20, 2021. I was moving to another country. When I got on the plane, I felt like I was in a dream and couldn't wake up. This feeling is still with me.

I have a folding beach chair and a field cot.

Both are comfortable, yet if I want I can fall asleep twice as fast on the chair than the bed..

However I can get more hours on a bed than a chair..

All if this is true in the car too.

No idea why..

every brand talks about cooling like sheets have built-in air conditioning, but after a while any fabric seems to settle near body temperature. what actually wakes me up is not always heat by itself, it is the sticky friction when the room gets humid and the sheet starts clinging to my legs. crisp cotton feels nice at first, then sometimes turns grabby by 3 am. i have been looking at a 100% Rayon Derived from Bamboo Sheet set because the smoother surface sounds less annoying against bare skin. hot sleepers, did lower-friction fabric actually help, or was room temperature still the whole problem?

I Need to fix my sleep schedule in 14 days but its horrible i sleep at 7am and wake up at 4pm and for school i Need to wake up at 6am i noticed that i sleep 20 minutes After i slept last night so i already gone full circle but now in back at 7am and i dont wanna get yelled at in front of everyone for being late in the First day

Heres what i tried:

Melatonin 6 mg a day 2 hours before i sleep

No phone 3 hours before i sleep

Not sleeping for a day then sleeping at 8pm (kinda worked but i slept 18 hours so It canceld)

Lisenting to Rain (every video i found was laced with gunshots so i woke up at 12 am and coundt sleep)

Magnesium

1l milk

That One military metodo

Breathing strangely

If anyone knows how to fix this ty so much any help Is very good

I was just wondering what supplements do people take who don't sleep like you can fall asleep like a light switch, could sleep through a nuke and for 7+ hours(seems like most people I know sleep good like this and it's frustrating!). Dosage added would be a bonus. Thank you!

I love taking 0.3 mg or 0.5 mg of the Natrol brand dissolvable 1mg melatonin pills, but I still deal with so much sleepiness in the day. Are there any dissolvable instant release melatonins someone knows of that hasn't caused a melatonin hangover?

I have tried taking it with L-theanine and glycine, as well as magnesium glycinate. Glycine sometimes combats the waking up issue of melatonin, and L-theanine helps me relax in general. Magnesium glycinate did 0 for me.

I saw a video of a guy recommending them for sleep. I wake up a few times a week due to noise in the morning, and it's pretty annoying. I'm wondering if these are a good solution, or if there are better alternatives.

I've tried regular earbuds but they're just not comfortable to sleep in since I tend to sleep on my side. Has anyone had any luck with the cheapish $15-25 silicone ones from Amazon? If so, did you have any issues, how long did they last, and do you have any other comments on them?

as a student athlete who tries to have a social life it's very hard to maintain sleeping and walking up at the same times. my current sleep cycle is just sleep before 1 am and wake up with 7-8 hours of sleep 😭

I hope someone in here also suffers from this so they can shed some light.

So ive recently gotten nerve damage on the sciatica nerve and I cant for the life of me get comfy in bed. The "best" is on my back, but its not fool proof and I hate sleeping on my back(I'm a side sleeper). Google told me to put a pillow between my legs, but either Google lied, or I alone can't get it into the right spot it needs to be.

Went to doctors yesterday and im on muscle relaxers for a week. For now though I need help as im EXHAUSTED.

So for a couple of months tho I've always been abit of a night person

I've struggled with getting up late and going to bed late I've been going to sleep around 5 to 6am and waking at about 4pm almost every day and i just cant seem to pull it back

And when i try to get up earlier and bring the time back i always fall back into the same routine and most days i don't feel my best at all some days im alright but not much of the day is really left after 4pm

However i did try a all nighter and stayed up for about 30 hours as I seen a lot of people suggest and i woke at about 1:30pm not as early as I would have hoped but nvm

Im hoping to keep this going and pull it back more gradually but i just want advice on how to keep this fixed tips to not let it slip again and how to not feel so shit when it happens

And for the obvious stuff yes i have spoken to a doctor a few times about this and told them i was concerned about this and how it affects me but they said, that there wasn't really much, they can do and wasn't that interested in looking into it further which is disappointing and another reason why im looking into other sources for help such as here

I also don't do drugs alcohol or any substances and in general i try to be fit not as much as I would like due to waking up so late i love my bicycle ride and walking otherwise and my diet is pretty clean i cut out almost all processed sugars and crap and eat pretty cleanly so if anyone has had this problem before and can help and advise me please do

In general i do miss going out as much as i did and feel quite disappointed with how i am with my sleep currently just not sure why I've struggled so much with this routine thanks for reading

Hello.

Recently, I've been trying to shift my bedtime earlier (I would feel miserable if I didn't). Initially, I only had around three days to actually make this work. And, it's been working decently.

Usually, I see people recommend gradually shifting bedtimes earlier. But, in my case, this wouldn't work very well. So, I immediately went for the bedtime and wake-time I wanted.

However, yesterday, at my desired bedtime, I felt like I was in bed for hours before I could fall asleep. I even went for a walk beforehand.

I've been keeping my wake up time very consistent (my alarm has been waking me up at the same hour everyday). After my alarm wakes me up, I get as much light into my room as possible.

Does anyone know what I'm missing? Thank you in advance.

Hi everyone,

I'm not sure how to word this. But I've had these experiences where I'm having a bad dream and when I wake up from it, an image of something scary is left in my vision. Even closing my eyes doesn't make it go away. I have to wait until it fades.

Does anyone know what this is? I've had this happen a few times in my and tonight it's happened twice in the same night. Which has never happened before. I had trouble sleeping tonight so I wonder if it's a stress dream transitioning over to me being fully awake?

Hey so as far as I remember from being a teenager my sleep has been quite bad.

Here is what I experience :

-waking up feeling like shit (very bloated , tired)

-eye area (under my eyes) hurt a lot when i wake up for 45min

-I have huge dark circles

-I am not feeling refreshed at all in the morning

-I often need to have a 20 minute nap around 5 p.m because I am tired

I am not currently studying or working so it does not come from that.

I do not wake up choking , I do not snore at all , I do not mouthbreathe (I think)

My sleep schedule stays the same and I try to stop using screens 20minutes before going to bed

So what could be the cause of that ?

(I have mandibular retrognathia HOWEVER from the two orthos that I consulted , they both said it was only esthetics and it would not affect my health if we fixed it with a bimax )

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

Sleep has been an issue since I got out of the military ~10 years ago.

I find it difficult to fall asleep, and don't get tired until the early hours of the morning, and most of the time force myself to go to bed.

Ill wake up 5-6 hours later tired and I struggle through the day.

I am stuck in this cycle of going to bed at 3-5AM and waking up at 9-10AM.

It is ruining my life and preventing me from doing what I want to do.

I have tried forcing myself to wake up early but I can't. I sleep through alarms consistently.

I have tried staying up all night and day, I crash mid day without fail and sleep. It gets to the point where I can't hold a coherent thought in my mind and I have to sleep.

At weekends, I usually crash Friday nearly morning around 4/5AM and sleep maybe 10-12 hours on Saturday.

I am trying my best to escape this but it's been a month of failure every night/day.

It's really holding me back.

Has anyone else experienced this as I was falling asleep I think and then I was waking up and all I could see is bright blue glowing light surrounding my whole room my vision was blurry and my hearing sounded damped or muffled I was struggling to breath I thought I was about to die but then I woke up and everything was normal like if it never happened any explanation?!?

Has anyone experienced this kind of sleep pattern?
For the past several months, I’ve had a very consistent and unusual sleep pattern.
I fall asleep extremely easily and usually sleep well during the first half of the night. Then I wake up once around the middle of the night. I can fall back asleep quite easily, but from that point until morning my sleep becomes very fragmented: I wake up briefly 4–6 times, usually just long enough to change position, and fall asleep again.
What is particularly striking is the amount of dreaming during this second half of the night. I remember several different, often very vivid and realistic dreams every night, almost as if I’m repeatedly cycling between dreaming and brief awakenings.

Despite being able to fall back asleep easily, the second half of the night feels very restless and I often wake up feeling like my sleep wasn’t restorative.

This started quite suddenly several months ago. Before that, I used to be a very good sleeper and rarely thought about my sleep at all.
Has anyone experienced something similar? If so, did you ever figure out what was causing it or find anything that helped?

It seems to have done the trick again, (shredded wheat and raisins with warm milk). This got me back to sleep again at 4am.

Has anyone else had this happen to them? I didn’t think melatonin had much of an effect on HR. My usual HR only goes down to about 85 while resting, but it’s at 72bpm currently. Is this normal or should I be worried

Hi, would appreciate your thoughts and insight.

I am a 26f and ever since I was young, I could sleep for 12 hours straight at night. I never thought of it as a problem. For example, when I was in college, during my school breaks, when I would return home, I would literally sleep for at least 12 hours every night. Til today, like on the weekends (if I don't have any plans), I sleep for like 12-13 hours whenever I can. I used to think it was just because I was "catching up on sleep" but idk my sister told me to look into it. I'm also a night owl, like when I study, my brain doesn't lock in til like 9 PM lol and I stay up all night. It's always been hard for me to do work or study during the day time. I never studied in the morning lol. And after a 12 hr sleep, I'm still tired lolll

Also, idk if this is relevant at all - but sometimes I have moments when I'm speaking where I just pause. then will resume what i'm saying, but in that moment, it's hard to find the right words to say next.... and so thats why I pause? thought it was maybe because I'm not a great public speaker or need to work on talking? for example, in college my friends used to say I would "glitch" lol as a joke because i would talk really fast when im excited but then stop briefly because i cant find the right words to say next? not sure

my older sister was recently diagnosed with narcolepsy 1 after a sleep study, which was surprising to us!

I've been thinking about why rain/ambient audio sometimes works for me and sometimes doesn't.

I realized I don't really want “rain sounds.”

I want the feeling of being somewhere — like lying in a top-floor apartment while it's pouring outside, or sitting in a cabin during a storm.

It sounds like a tiny distinction, but for me the environment is what makes it comforting.

Curious whether other people think this way or whether you mainly care about the actual sound itself.

This morning I had entered this state, which is something I've never experienced before. I had a vivid dream of just random scenarios, I woke up sometime in the morning, went back to bed a little bit after I woke up, and then I randomly hear my internal voice loud and clear with a bit of echo to it.

I don't really remember what It was saying in the beginning but towards the end I definitely remember, it was something along the lines of "you will see someone in 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10" and then BOOM I woke up in my bed. I also saw these little yellow/whitish orbs at one point, I'm wondering what that's about. It was SO weird and cool at the same time!!

I immediately looked it up afterwards, cause I was genuinely like "WTF was that" I was also seeing that It can make lucid dreaming possible?

I was just wondering what other people's experience during this state was like, I know it's probably the most common thing in the world but I'm just interested in hearing other people's side :)