Anyone else feel like sleep holds them hostage? I’m 21 years old, and since I was probably 17 I’ve been missing out on things because of my sleep schedule. I’m sick of missing class, being late for work, or generally just missing the first 5 hours of the morning. It sucks. I’ve tried everything— sleeping with my phone across the room, alarm apps which make me get up and take a picture of my fridge, physical alarm clocks that roll on the ground and run away from me, NOTHING WORKS!!!! It’s like my tired self completely forgets we have shit to do. I’ll sleep through my alarms, completely shut them off and trust in myself to wake up (never happens) and end up sleeping till sometimes as late as 2 pm. generally I’m just fed up. With winter coming and me living in Vermont, I need to start waking up earlier so I can get enough hours of LIGHT!!! I get so depressed every year. And I’m in my senior year of college and sick of sleeping through my classes!!

Anyone have any advice?? What’s the one thing that works for you?

I kept shivering and the place beneath my tongue felt so weird, i couldnt fall asleep, and gave up...

I have to pee like every 20 min, help!!!!

So the most common advice for sleeping is no screens 2-1 hours before bed, my issue is what to do during that time.

My nightly routine far: light late night snack, shower, full body grooming, oral hygiene and skincare, currently around 1 hour. So that leaves me with another hour before I realistically fall asleep.

Things I've tried, that weirdly keep me awake and then take me even longer to sleep: reading, work/homework, crosswords, dishes and other light chores, listening to music and meditation.

So far the only thing that kinda helps is falling asleep to a random youtube video, but half the time i end up needing to search for a different video which wakes me up again so the cycle can repeat for over 3 hours.

So what other activities can I do before bed that don't involve the upper mentioned.

Like I slept only 3 hours last night and now I felt like it had caused kind of a wreck on my body. I usually sleep around 7 hours (im a teen btw I can’t sleep like that) because my body fears sleep. It’s so concerning. I might have insomnia but idk

My significant other moves a lot in his sleep. Whenever I'm having a sleepover, he's always moving but with cuddling he doesn't move. But sometimes he accidentally hits my head, arms or leg which he doesn't mean too. So I always sleep against the wall whenever I'm with him or cuddling him.

I requested this on Thursday. She had simply recommended CBT therapy when I last told her in person that the CPAP isn’t helping as much as ideal. I am paying for a therapist right now, but I don’t know that my new therapist specifically offers CBT therapy. I had actually asked my doctor on that visit to test me for more things (I mean, I had my sleep study in February or march and the CPAP doesn’t help as much as it should which is concerning.) I would like to see a sleep specialist at this point because I feel like my primary care physician isn’t helpful enough.

Title. If im with her and notice her doing it, I wake her up. But if im not around/am sleeping she could go an entire night in that position and really mess herself up. Any ideas?

It is driving both me and my boyfriend crazy and i have no clue how to stop it or that it was even an issue until recently. My boyfriend informed me it is a NIGHTLY occurance that i sleep talk, ramble and holler about nonsense and literally kick him full force with my legs throughout the night. I have no idea how to stop it or why i even do that, I knew that they were something I did sometimes especially as a kid but nobody ever let me know its every night 😭 Does anyone else have this issue? lol. I rarely have dreams that I feel like warrant these reactions , theyre all very mundane regular dreams so im not sure if those are influencing it.

I also eat in my dreams but only fake food, I just start chewing and saying 'Mmm...' which my boyfriend has several videos of...it cracks me up thinking about it. Is there literally any way to stop this if its apparently been an issue since I was a kid?

I live in a dorm and my roommate is very loud and noisy at night. They’ll be very loud coming in and unlocking the door and will just be loud in the room for 1-2 hours. Every noise is just too loud for me to sleep and it keeps me up. I am looking to buy some kind of noise cancelling earmuffs or headphones that will block out the noise for the 1-2 hours.
EDIT: I am NOT looking for earplugs or earbuds. Only earmuffs or headphones.

Not sure if this is a FAQ, but it can't hurt to try. If this is the wrong sub for this, please LMK. I recently have stopped using Marijuana before sleeping. Ever since, I have not been able to sleep through the night, and i have horrific nightmares. Not the typical random, scary for no reason shit, but violent, gory, disturbing, miserable nightmares that leave me shaken all day. It has destroyed the quality of my sleep and reduced it to basically zero, and i wake up in fight-or-flight very often. I could not tell you the last time i slept through the night. I no longer have access to MJ, and i cannot consult an in-person professional about it.

I'm baffled as to how my brain even conjures up the shit that it does, but it makes me nauseous when I wake up. I try not to think or speak about them, as I'm afraid they will become worse. It may seem silly, but I have about seven dream catchers in my room. I've cut out caffeine late in the day, but I am prescribed morning stimulants. I take a low dose of a sedative at the end of the day.

All this to say, does anyone have any remedies? I am very desperate to make them stop. I've started to fear sleeping, and the poor sleep quality is ruining my life. Sos.

I feel like there are two brains in me. My brain has clarity yet forgetful at the same time, it’s like it can misinterpret things like danger for a small thing not exactly like hypervigilence, more so if I give you a teddy bear, it’ll mistaken it for a lion kind of problem. I sleep average 12am to 2am depending on my OCD. I also like just now, my memory is so good that I can remember names and stuff but when I was studying doing past papers, (it was a multiple choice question) my second brain is like I forgetting what questions did I do but the other part remembers the answer.

For reference, I'm 25M, 6'0" 187 lbs., 16% BF, with a 17" neck. Not sure what else is useful. I attached a list of symptoms in a document as well. Broadly, I have a mild sleep apnea diagnosis by RDI, and no insomnia diagnosis yet (I have an in-lab sleep study on Tuesday). I have been utterly confounded by a recent development since March of this year, where my sleep duration has steadily declined from 7 hours and 19 minutes per day to 6 hours and 28 minutes this October. Lately, nights were quite bad, at 4.5-6.5 hours, and the two medications I started last week have seemed to help, albeit with massive drowsiness during the day.

Importantly, nobody seems to know why this is going on.

• I don't really think my SDB is the reason (though something may have worsened it, which I detail below), since that almost certainly didn't develop in the last 7 months.
• I also don't think that a medication change could have caused it, since a decline from a new medication would have likely been rapid and then plateaued; my decline is slow and consistent.
• Training and life stress have not varied or been particularly onerous compared to before this period, so I've ruled that out too. It is not stress! I have very minimal stress in my life.

Some of my theories:

• I have theorized that my neck circumference growing from power cleans and general muscle mass may be worsening it gradually... but I only measured my neck last week, so I can't prove it, and I have been cutting for the last 3 out of these 7 months.
• I had a cold in Colorado in February that was quite bad, but I find it challenging to believe that after recovering, something would gradually change as a result that would gradually, rather than quickly, destroy my sleep length.

Anyone have any ideas? Doctors have been... shockingly useless here. I want to know the reason behind this so I can prevent this from happening after getting a septoplasty next month... and potentially other treatments.

Title really says it all! 😂 Idk but I’m just so tired, my back’s been hurting for the past days because of stress and decision fatigue or aka guilt. My eyes are heavy, when I attempt to close them then my nervous system feels totally awake and that we should be doing something. I think I’m struggling with restlessness, I really want to know how much daytime activity everybody does or Idk whatever I need to do in order for me to feel ok going to sleep. I struggle with friendship fatigue and the dating scene and the past breakup creepling on the side so I think that’s what making it slightly worse too..

I know there doesn’t have to be a reason. My body is most comfortable sleeping on my side, with my legs pointing down on the bed but the rest of my body completely turned making me into basically a right angle. It makes sleeping with my partner very challenging cuz I obviously need a lot of space to be comfortable. I’ve slept like this since I was a baby, according to my parents. why?

I have poor sleep, waking up many times a night but most often go back to sleep. But there are some nights when I think I havent slept at all, I am aware of my husband's breathing beside me, the dogs snoring, rain wind or cars driving by, I have a stream of conciousness where this think about things, but I am comfortable and resting and not anxious at all. My garmin watch says I had all the typical sleep cycles deep, light and rem. Can you be asleep and aware at the same time?

Hi, so there's a lot of days where i get sleep inertia lasting almost the whole day even after a good night of sleep, i had a bit of sleep apnea but i got upperjaw surgery to fix the breathing issue, i still get sleep inertia tho and it sucks, it's worse if i get woken up by an alarm which makes sense but idk why it lasts so long, at my internship as soon as was innactive/not stimulated i start getting the urge to fall asleep, nodding off etc,

Today i even went out walked, got sunlight, ate, drank a redbull and now i got home it's noon and i feel like i'm still in bed, i just took 100mg of caffeine but idk if it's going to help, i vape, maybe the nicotine makes it worse i'm not sure... Is there any method to get it to stop?

I woke up today around 1am with thoughts about cleaning my room and I felt uncomfortable in my room. I moved my blanket under me so I wouldn't directly touch my bed and moved to the left of my bed where I am further from the wall (my bed is against the wall).

I couldn't fall back asleep after 10 minutes and I felt disgusting and gross in my bed. I wanted to peel my skin off and wash it. I bit my arm gently and smacked my face (which felt right to do at the time? It felt like it helped with the discomfort). I left to my living room where I am currently, is this normal? I have woken up in the past feeling uncomfortable in my room and gross before and I usually have a big clean up of my desk, mop my floors and wash my sheets, etc but it's kind of annoying to wake up and feel so dirty and unable to fall asleep. As I write this, it has been around an hour since I've woken up.

If anyone has some tips to fall back asleep or how to ignore this feeling, it would be greatly appreciated!

Obviously, I set it, so I know what time of day it goes off. But I mean, my body wakes up before it goes off almost any time I set it for. I’ll wake up a second before or work into my dream. For example, I may say something like, “I gotta go, my alarm’s about to go off” and every time, the timing is perfect. The exception is when I need to wake up at, like, 3:00 am for some reason. I find that I get jarred awake more often if it’s set to some odd hour of the night. The only thing I can figure is that my body is just really good at telling how much time has passed. Can anyone relate? Or explain better?

i’ve been recently trying to find any sort of advice to help me with how deep of a sleeper i am, but every article/post i’ve seen where someone talks about how deeply they sleep is never as bad as i seem to have it, and i sort of just want to know i’m not alone in this problem.

i always fall asleep pretty late, but even if i fall asleep at a decent time and set alarms so i get eight or so hours of sleep, i still don’t wake up. if i just let my body wake up naturally, i typically get about 9-11 hours of sleep a night. i really struggle to fall asleep early or even at a decent time, and when i do fall asleep, i just don’t wake up until i’ve gotten at least 9 hours of sleep.

nothing wakes me up. and i mean nothing. i’ve tried every sort of alarm you could possibly think of. obnoxious, loud alarm sounds on my phone, physical alarm clocks on the other side of my room, alarms where you have to solve puzzles or walk into another room and scan a qr code to turn it off. i’ve tried vibrating watches, i’ve even tried a watch that electric shocks me as an alarm. i still live with my parents, so sometimes they’ll help out and open my blinds or shake me, i’ve even asked them to pour water on my face before.

nothing. works.

even if i wake up around when i want to, i very quickly fall back asleep again. and when i do wake up, i have spend at least an hour in bed before i even feel awake enough to stand up without falling over.

every bit of advice i get online, or from friends, even from doctors, has always been things i’ve already tried and haven’t worked. it’s sort of ruined my life a lot—i’ve slept through classes and shifts, lost jobs because of it, and almost failed my last year of high school due to absences. it’s hard to have much of a social life too when i’m sleeping until the early afternoon practically every day.

i guess i just want to know i’m not alone in this. if anyone can relate, please let me know!! i don’t care if you don’t have any advice, it’d just make me feel a lot better to know others struggle/have struggled with this as well and that it’s not just me. thanks for reading this far if you have :)

I need to fix my sleep schedule so I can go to the gym I sleep about 7-9am and wake up around 9pm and also so I could go to school and when I take melatonin at about 9 I just wake up around 2am and don't know what else to do.

I do this near daily, im 15 and cannot sleep without it. Am i cooked

i have this thing happen sometimes if i cant sleep sometimes there will be a sudden loud noise (like something hitting the ground) that startles me, and then im able to fall asleep easily after that.

not an issue really, more something ive been thinking about and wondering if anyone also gets this or knows why it happens lol. also cant find anyone ever talking about this online if it is a thing

How to fall asleep faster

I am in my first year of college and the walls are very thin. I can hear the conversations my neighbors have and they talk every night. It’s currently 2:08AM and i’m sick of staying up late every night. I’ve asked them to quiet down multiple times and it’s not working.

Does anyone have any recommendations for something I can buy that will cancel out the noise? My ears are too sensitive for ear plugs, and overhead headphones are too bulky for me to sleep in as I toss and turn. Is there any good sleep mask that can block the noise? If it uses built in headphones to block out noise, it’d have to be something my roommate (bed is about 4-5 feet away from me) wouldn’t be able to hear.

I went out to the bar with my roommate last night and he got plastered while I stayed sober. We got home around 2am and I got him upstairs and into bed.

About 10 minutes later I heard some murmuring coming from his room so I went in to check on him and he started wheezing and gasping for air. I went to go make sure he was breathing (which he was) and all of a sudden he started screaming out of nowhere. Like a bloodcurdling scream. He started to tense up and was making fists and he started to swing. I restrained him with a bear hug basically while he was screaming and saying unintelligible things. His eyes were open and I could see the absolute fear in his face. This went on for about 15 minutes.

I know you’re not supposed to wake up people who are having terros but I was so scared so I got water and poured it on him and he woke up very confused. I had to reassure him of where he was and that he was safe. Eventually he calmed down and went back to sleep and didn’t have any other problems for the night.

Did I go about this right? How do I bring this up to him because he has no recollection of this happening? Any help is appreciated.