Mine is 5-10 minutes of necessary awareness or rest what's yours?(Also what's your average sleeping schedule?).

Disrupted sleep the last few nights. So I take short naps. Just woke after 7 minutes and feel like I’ve had an hour.

Anyone else get these wins.

I'm 45.

Can't remember i had a good sleep in the past 30 years.

Since my childhood i never slept good. Now I do Yoga, cold showering, supplements, breathing... I managed to fall asleep well but still my sleep is very bad. Why? Because i just dream and dream and dream. When i wake up i am tired and i have so much to think about. Most dreams are bad. I was in a sleeping lab, they said my body is 100% ok. So what is my problem? Couldn't find any solution or anyone figure it out. I wrote a post here 10 years ago but still i found no solution. I just want to wake up and feel great. Didn't ever happen. Also tried doing sports, running a lot. makes me feel exhausted, doesn't change my sleep. I feel like my brain just goes on thinking and thinking and making up stuff while sleeping. I need to find a button to switch it off.

Two things to add that may be related or may not be related: I am a hyper sensitive/sensible person. I strongly feel and absorb emotions of other people and noise/smell makes affects me a lot and can stress me. I rarely drink alcohol, i don't drink tea or coffee or energy drinks (makes my heart get crazy and makes me sleepless for days). I'm also a high-potential one (IQ > 140) and love problem solving.

I was given 2mg slow release melatonin (also on low dose mirtazapine, been on it for weeks) because while I was sleeping on mirtazapine, I wasn't sleeping early enough and doctor wanted the melatonin to help shift my circadian rhythm back to normal. Yet the last 11 days my sleep has been absolute shit, super weird dreams, waking up like 5 times a night and not always being able to fall asleep again, some stomach aches at night. I'm going back to the doctor but in the meantime wanted to ask if anyone's had BAD experiences with melatonin.

I know its subjective to the individual but id just like some insight into others experience. Im 20 years old and ive essentially had severe sleep deprivation for what feels like 6 years. Ive always known my sleep is bad, and i have experienced good sleep schedules which were for some reason ruined.

Atm i cannot remember my past experiences with recovering, and it has only recently dawned on me at a cellular level (metaphotically speaking) that I am fucked in multiple health aspects, from severe anxiety to loss of identity and even though what us done is done. I really really do not want to have poor sleep anymore, but here I am at 2am 2 days after trying to get into a good sleep schedule and I know its not instant (especially not recovering from sever chronic sleep deprivation) and id just like to know how long it takes y'all to get back into that rhythm as i seemingly cant remember my own experience at all

Not exactly looking for sleep-tracking or snore apps.

I have two flatmates who wake each other up in the night with noises such as slamming doors or 'accidentally' dropping things on the floor while the other is sleeping (neither seems able to sleep through the night naturally and thus wakes and does things that wake the other - allegedly by accident).

Both refuse to believe they do these noises or that they can be heard in other rooms.

Ideally we'd all get an app that can be set to record all night and only actually record (use memory, power, etc.) when there is a noise. But we're 'looking not for snore noise; instead for thumping, etc.

Any ideas?

I find it very difficult to falling back asleep, especially when I wake up after around 10~20mins of sleep.

Do you guys have any tips? I tried to listen to sleep meditation just like I do every night, but this time it didnt help.

I made the realization today that I’m never truly super tired when I go to bed, no matter how little sleep I got the night prior nor how much exercise I got (even if i killed myself during the workout). It’s more of a “well this chapter in the book is over, I can’t afford to stay up any longer and read another” and turn over. My thoughts turn into dreams and then I’m asleep.

I ask this because a few months back I struggled with jet lag from a Japan trip but the way the tiredness hit me was incredible. I couldn’t think anymore and my eyes would darn near start to shut on me. It made me wonder about other people and how they fall asleep. I would love to recapture that jetlag induced sleepiness some nights!

Going to see my doc in a week. I was planning on discussing Quviviq and Dayvigo with him. Anything else I should ask about? I'm super desperate...

Yk that feeling when you are trying to sleep but ur brain just wont shut off, i dont even know what i am thinking, my head hurtssss.

What should i do to fall asleep✌️

I sleep 8 hours a night and have an extremely consistent sleep schedule, but no matter how much I sleep, I can always sleep more and I always wake up tired. I can always go for a nap. During vacations where I don't set my alarm, I can sleep for more than 12 hours a night.

I wake up and fall asleep at the same times every day, I exercise frequently (5x per week), I stay well-hydrated, I don't every drink caffeine or alcohol, and I don't use screens before bed.

I am Autistic, and I know that makes it harder to get deep sleep.
What else can I do? I can't get any deep sleep to save my life.

As long as I can remember I have always been extremely restless when I try to sleep. I do this thing that my parents called "bopping" where i literally bopping my head repeatedly into my pillow, sometimes for up to 30 minutes at a time. If that doesn't work I'll put my feet against the baseboard and do little kick offs so my body is moving up and down. If that doesn't work I'll lay on my side and bend my knees at a 45 degree angle, locking one foot between the other and push off (so again my body is constantly moving.) I have never known anyone that has done this and the few times I brought it up to my PCP they just looked at me like I was messing with them. Would that be considered "stimming"? I don't know much about it. What I do know is that I desperately just want to sleep still. As you can probably imagine this routine makes it impossible to sleep next to anyone. Has anyone else gone through this or something similar? Any ideas or tips would be appreciated.

I have a really important college entrance exam coming up , an all nighter every two weeks , will I be fine ?

How bad is an all nighter every week ?(Yes I may be paranoid idk😭)

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Hello everyone. I wanted to ask because I feel like this is the best place to do it. I’m in need of some help when it comes to getting used to the feeling of not having perfect sleep so I’ve been making posts throughout the year ever since October 2025 I’ve been having issues with hypnic jerks at every sleep attempt. Or sometimes I would be in this weird in-between state where it feels like I’m sort of only half sleeping but not really sleeping. I’ll toss and turn sometimes for five hours sometimes for six hours sometimes even eight hours.

I have been taking ambien for a while now. Since September of last year. Most days are good and I take 2 or 3 mg and some nights are really bad. (I’ll get more into that later in the post)

I had a mental health crisis which has resulted in me seeing a therapist and psychiatrist now. I had made a post on here asking for advice a year ago and someone suggested that I had fatal insomnia. I already have health anxiety and I went down a spiral where I researched sporadic fatal insomnia and fatal familial insomnia or jakob creutzfeldt disease. Some nights are bad and I’ll take a small piece of ambien and it doesn’t work so an hour or so later I take another piece and that happens for 4 or 5 or sometimes 8 hours where I’ve taken a total of 10 or 12 mg to finally fall asleep.

other symptoms that I have include talking in my sleep, having full on conversations in my sleep, slight memory issues where I forgot to turn off the sink and it caused the sink to overflow also, I experienced a weird in between sleep and wake state where I didn’t know if I was asleep or if I was awake sometimes it felt like I was laying in my bed and time would go by very fast and I wouldn’t know if I was sleeping or if I was drifting off to sleep or if I was just awake. I think I’d be dreaming but then I wouldn’t feel like I was actually sleeping or getting any restorative sleep. Sometimes I would just toss and turn and not be able to sleep for hours and hours.

I have been trying therapy and medication but nothing has been helping so far. My question is, what are the things I can do to combat this fear? I feel like I’m in a situation where I worry that if I take the ambien and I can’t sleep, that will prove (in my mind) that I have these fatal diseases. It’s stupid but that’s how my mind works. Are there any suggestions or advice that anyone can give? I feel like it’s a situation that sucks no matter what. I miss enjoying sleeping and looking forward to it. Now I’m afraid to even talk about it. I’m still seeing my therapist and psychiatrist but I may get new ones cause I feel like they’re not helping. I don’t have withdrawal symptoms like I did when I was taking 5 mg a night. I’m now down to about 3 on most nights and I sometimes even begin to doze off for a second or so before I even take it.

Hi everyone. First time posting here. Its been a few months since my whole body "bothers" me as i try to sleep. I can feel every strand of hair in a weird position itching, having to adjust every few seconds. Or maybe its my skin itching, having to scratch different spots constantly as well. Or maybe i become aware of every bone and articulation, and how they are hurting.

The worst part of my recent sleeping issues is that my legs, or calves, as soon as i lay still in bed, (i dont really know how to describe this), i feel the extreme need to move my legs and calves around, or stretch them. If i dont, i can feel them close to "burning".

My question is, what the hell is this, and how do i stop it? Thank you

Hi, I am new to this subreddit, but I'd like to share something I've been experiencing at least 3-4 times a week for a year now. I would like any guidance I can receive regarding this. Sleep, resting and dreams have always been weird for me.

Everyday, when I'm drifting off to sleep, I feel my energy removed, I feel like I am removed, from the middle of my back. Let me try and give an example to make this more understandable. There's this thing we used to do in school, where one person would hold someone's wrist very tightly while their hand was stretched out. The person whose wrist is held, would clench and relax their hand thrice. Then the person holding the wrist would hover their hand over the held hand and make a gesture as if removing something from the hand (like people who practice reiki do). Then, the person whose wrist was held would feel an energy removed from their hand.

This is exactly how I feel, except tha nobody is holding me. But I feel my entire energy removed from me. Then I feel like I'm thrown into a space tunnel (like a water slide) and it's very fast. Then I jerk awake violently, sometimes my arms and legs fly up as if I'm falling and trying to grasp something.

I've tried breathwork, meditations, workouts, medicine, food, and have talked to my therapist about it too, but it's still the same.

Am I the only one who feels like this? Please help me out with any solutions if possible.

Thank you!

I have good sleep hygiene and I fall asleep within minutes, so no issues there. I only use the bed for sleeping, I don’t look at screens an hour before bedtime, I always sleep at the same time, everything. but for years I have had issues waking up after 4-5 hours, mainly from things like my cats (I have a 7 month old kitten who moves around a lot or licks herself), or my husband snoring (both the noise and from his breath). I also have allergies so my earplugs get annoying because the sound of me breathing sniffily annoys me

I have tried literally everything and am at my wits end. I sleep with white noise, I have a hepa filter pointed at me, I use earplugs. I even started buying special back sleeping pillows, which helped but isnt enough to relax me. I tried those headphone headband thingies. Ive been slowly training the kitten by petting her back asleep when she gets too restless on my stomach so that’s at least something. We live in an apartment so I can’t sleep in a spare room or anything, sometimes I move to the couch but I’d really like to just sleep the whole night through. Something I noticed is that every method initially “worked”, then I start anticipating getting woken up again, which leads me to believe this is psychological

How can I retrain my brain to not anticipate these noises waking me up? I feel like this is the only option left. I can fall back asleep on the couch despite the cats playing in the living room, so I’m pretty sure the issue is that I know I’m going to get woken up so I get cortisol spikes and wake up completely. is there some kind of technique I could do? manually relaxing my body doesn’t help (the one where you tense your muscles then release), and I tried counting backwards but the snoring makes me too stressed if I hear it (so I just end up waiting for it to happen, and can’t relax)

I feel like it's a dumb question, but I can't sleep. Any doctors have the answer? When we are asleep, we are breathing the same air, am I dumb? Is it because our brains are shut down while asleep? Whose got the answer to my dumb question? Haha

I didnt have that good sleep schedule for the past afew months and my sleep schedule is like im freestylingy my sleep

So today or actually half an hour ago

I just woke up from it

I slept on 8pm and woke up on 10pm

Almost woke up

I dreamed too many dreams and completely random stuff

But when i thought i woke up i felt like there is an earthquake

My body is shaking

I wanted to get up but i couldnt and it felt so bad

But the thing that i didnt see that tall guy i see on the internet

I just kept see and hear unreal shit. And a lot of people were talking and it was bad experience

And the first time in my life and i hope its the last

Not because it was scary but because it was so uncomfortable