I’ll start by saying I hate my job, so much, it’s making me completely miserable and giving me all kinds of mental health issues. My contract is up in 6 weeks though so yay. Anyway, I wake up m-f at 6/6:30 am. When my alarm goes off I feel like I’d rather die than wake up at that moment (maybe because i hate my job?) I’ve called out a few times due to exhaustion and ended up sleeping until like 10am. Weekends, I can’t seem to sleep past 8am. Even though I’m so tired and my body hurts. On weekends I often wake up around 6:30/7 and get hit with a jolt of anxiety that I’m going to be late for wo ..read more

I was in a deep sleep due to sleep deprivation the night prior and I woke up out of a dead sleep in the middle of the night with my heart pounding, I didn’t know who I was or where I was. I had to tell myself I was traveling and I’m in a hotel and say my name. It’s freaking me out has this ever happened to anyone before? submitted by /u/mariellasmom [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Might sound like a stupid question but I'd love some answers anyway, as maybe it can just be a natural thing like dreaming is. I talk and move a lot in my sleep. Sometimes I even half-realize I'm doing so, but it still feels like a dream. I'm thinking I should go to the doctor and ask about possibly getting a sleep study or something. I used to sleep really badly (5-6h a night - not insomnia, just bad organization), so feeling tired was nornal and justified, but recently I'm trying to get 7-8h every night, and I still feel tired and foggy the next day, so it's got me thinking more about how I ..read more

So I'm in a bit of an interesting dilemma here. I've been into the health space for a bit over a year now, and I've optimized mostly everything about my life, including my diet, training, sleep as well as quitting substances, including caffeine. Despite all this optimization there does appear to be one area I can't get right despite my best efforts, and that's sleep. I wasn't sure why at first, but after listening to Dr. Matthew Walker's podcasts with Andrew Huberman I realized that my Chronotype (innate circadian rhythm) has me waking up at 7-7:15, despite the fact that I need to wake up at ..read more

1.5 years ago, I fell in love for the first time. Im fairly young & it felt magical. I couldn't stop thinking, fantasizing & creating fake scenarios about that person in my head. I liked so much thinking about them...that I'd daydream leaving everything that I was doing. I got so used to thinking about them even before sleeping that I'd do it the entire night. The daydreaming has reduced now but I've got this sleeping problem where it has become my mind's default nature to think of something before sleeping, it could be anything random. And that doesn't let me sleep entire night, I do ..read more

I’m currently on study leave from work and it’s all online and I basically have no reason to leave my house. I’ve fallen into a bad pattern of not sleeping until 10-11am and waking up at 6-8pm. I just lay in bed and I can’t sleep and I’m just twiddling my thumbs. I’ve tried melatonin and antihistamines but nothing really works. I’m worried as when I get back to work (still 6 months away) I’ll be getting up at 7 and sleeping around 10:30 which I don’t think I’ll be able to do. Does anyone have tips on how to fix or improve my shit sleep schedule? submitted by /u/SirSonix [visit reddit] [comme ..read more

So I apparently enter REM as soon as I fall asleep which is very abnormal. Almost every single time I sleep I will dream right away and wake up and find only half an hour to an hour has passed and I have had a full dream. In recent months these have often turned to nightmares. The nightmares happen 95% of the time right after I first fall asleep. After that I can usually be assured I won't have any more. I also wake often unless I am very tired or have taken a sleeping pill. I will wake after around an hour after I first fall asleep, The dreaming right away I can remember happening two years ..read more

I(19f) am indian and i have strict parents . our family is also very enmeshed where I literally have nobody to talk to or spend time with except my parents since I cant go out of the house for any reason whatsoever . i hate it but its fine . Now comes the bigger problem , MY PARENTS REFUSE TO LET ME HAVE A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP !!! for context- [everything we do is dictated by my parents]. If I want to sleep early some day and wake up early - I cant do that because my dad watches tv loudly in the room and the noises comes to my room , im not allowed to close the door so I simply cant sleep until ..read more

Sleep problems since my early 20s. Long clusters of insomnia to nightmares to sleep paralysis. At menopause, I took a deep dive. It's been 5 horrible years. "Early retirement" due to plummeting mental health. - I do have the tools to manage that - BUT! Not without restful SLEEP! ~ Terrifying hypnogogic hallucinations are new AND THEY are RUINING ME! And idiopathic hypersomnia is keeping HH company. ~ What Do YOU Find Helpful? (Other than a pill or potion;last resort) ¡¡¡ I am literally teetering on the brink with extinction bc I'm severely sleep deprived and now AFRAID of sleep !!! submitted ..read more

Even when i sleep well (which i usually dont), im tired every single day, sometimes more, sometimes less but no matter how much I sleep im always tired and every morning i feel nauseous. Is there a reason? submitted by /u/KeshaCow [visit reddit] [comments ..read more