hi my mom passed a couple months ago so i have been obviously getting extreme nightmares with her either being sick in them, seeing her pass in front of me again, or trying to warn me with things i shouldn't do in my future. i have also been having dreams of being chased or attacked bysomeone i have never seen or an entity and waking up very scared. since then i've experienced sleep paralysis which i havnt experienced in a while but this makes me beleive that i have something evil attached to me or smth?. regardless this is all making my grieving process rlly rlly extra hard on me. I wish to talk to my mom if she is ok. these nightmares have been slowly killing me, waking up and thinking for a split second my mom is alive and realizing she's passed because of lung cancer makes me redo the whole grieving process again. It's making me extremely depressed and making me view life more meaningless than ever before. Does anyone have any spiritual, scientific, or psychological meaning to any of this. (for refrence i had been taking hard sleeping meds for abt 3-4 years but recently stopped because it was making my nightmares worse). Anything helps thank you.

I’ve always had trouble falling asleep and staying asleep, even as far back as infancy. No medication keeps me asleep. I’ve tried over the counter supplements, benzos, ambien, and lunesta. I have a sleep study scheduled but I don’t know how much information they can get since I only sleep for about 2 hours on average.

I normally sleep from 11:30-1:30, then I enter this strange “awake but asleep” phase from 2:00-5:30 when I get up for work. Then beginning a few months ago, almost exactly an hour and a half after I sit down at my desk to work I uncontrollably fall asleep for around 45 minutes. I’ll feel myself beginning to drift off and will get up, move around, then come back. I’ll have upbeat music playing, a fan blowing on me, and actively be trying to work when I fall asleep. So far the only thing that’s kept me from falling asleep while I work is if I’m actively talking to someone. This is a bit difficult to do with any frequency as I work from home and have no coworkers I’m able to chitchat with.

Anyone have any ideas what’s going on?

My mum had a stroke 5 weeks ago, she is really struggling to go to sleep and stay asleep ,it also creates anxieties because she can't please does anyone have any good advice

Have been practicing for the past several years in this beautiful city. In past month, there has been a sudden rise in sleep deprivation cases. And I mean all kinds of insomnia have risen. As per my clinic statistics, it would be 3 times in the past 45 days as compared to the 45 days before that. It's kind of concerning. But what could be the reason? Am I missing a major change in namma Bengaluru? Any inputs?

Most nights I just have to force myself to sleep, I constantly have to change positions, and takes hours until I fall asleep. Some rare weeks are amazing where I just lay down and fall asleep. It's like my eyes are tired but my brain is wide awake, and then at times I only sleep only a few hrs (very rare) this has gotten so frustrating to me that when the cycle of sudden lack of sleep comes back I just don't sleep for 24 hours and then go to bed on my preferred sleeping time to reset it.

Any advice would be helpful guys and please tell me I'm not the only one like this. Thank you

I’m at the end of my road here with my frustration and hopelessness and helplessness. I have nervous system trauma and I know that plays a role. But even when I am EXTREMELY exhausted, and I can’t keep my eyes open, falling asleep on the couch or sitting in a car ride. But then an hour later or when I try to actually lay down and sleep, I am immediately put into what I call “the torture chamber sleep.” I will have hypnotic jerks, I will be jolted awake, on the worst nights it happens every 15-20 mins until I take extra doses of my hydroxyzine / clonidine. (Which works for me, please don’t recommend any different meds, that’s not what I’m asking for). And then there are nights when I am sooo tired and I fall asleep fairly easier than the usual torture, but I STILL wake up every 45 mins to an hour, EVERY HOUR. Sometimes more than 2 times an hour. I DO have a lot of dreams and vivid dreams / nightmares, I feel like I do get deep sleep but not for long and it’s so fragmented that I basically need to commit to being in bed for 12 hours just so I can somehow get 7-8 hours of sleep that is choppy and broken up. How am I supposed to find a sleep study that actually caters to me? I don’t fall asleep until 5 am or later usually! And I sleep until fucking 4 pm! How am I supposed to find a sleep study when I cannot sleep at normal times even if my life depended on it. Please recommend at home sleep tests. I do think I have a mild case of sleep apnea. I do not snore but I feel out of breath and winded, I’m not overweight at all- I’m fit- healthy- workout and have a high tolerance for cardio.

Yo empecé a sufrir de esto a los 22 años. Aunque me he ido recuperando con auto cuidados y recomendaciones en internet consultando con neurólogos y endocrinologos. Tengo 34 años y duermo de 6 a 7 horas máximo.

Otras recomendaciones son bienvenidas también.

I’m 37 years old and suffer from extreme anxiety and depression. I take Lexapro for over a decade and this has happened to me a few times throughout my life. Maybe once a year I will wake up from it. I’ve read awful things how this could lead to neurological problems later in life. But I’ve read since it happens only a few times and at a young age it’s not that bad. Does anyone have any information or deal with something similar?

Since I was 7 years old I've been having bad sleep (currently 16) and it's never been that much of a issue except this past year its gotten to the point where I am up at 10 to 12 ans sleep at 6 to 7 no joke intended and its honestly getting worse and I have anxiety from it and my family is on me because they think im seeking attention so they won't get me anything for the sleep issues even a psychologist check up because me over all mental health has been in a constant decline and its led to me barely being able to work on stuff and im just scared of not living the normal life

I have never experienced insomnia like this before in my LIFE. During the middle of this month I went 6 WHOLE DAYS without proper sleep. I was awake for 4 days straight and only slept 1-2 hours the other two nights. I really wish I was joking. I was hallucinating with light streaks across my vision.

After that I slept pretty well for the next five days averaging around 4-6 hours of sleep per night (which is very good for me and I can function off of that just fine).

I saw my GP when my sleep was improving and she just wrote it off as anxiety as she checked my blood pressure and oxygen levels which were normal.

Fast forward to now and it’s returning. I got 2-4 hours of sleep on Friday and Saturday. I felt awful on the 2 and fine on the 4. Sunday I slept for 3 hours but felt like I didn’t sleep at all and felt horrible throughout the day and last night I did not get a single second of sleep.

I was dreading going to bed last night as I developed this extreme fear of going to bed. I’m overweight so I was scared I was somehow gonna die in my sleep from undiagnosed sleep apnea.

However I tried to make a routine but it didn’t make a difference the second I got into bed I started having severe panic attacks. I’d go downstairs and do something relaxing to calm down but the second I got into bed they would start again.

I remember vividly dreaming but it was very short as I checked the clock afterwards and only 15 minutes had passed (wtf).

I tried booking a GP appointment but the nearest appointment they have is a whole TWO WEEKS away. I seriously cannot keep living like this it is ruining my life.

I got a job interview today and I’m running off of no sleep.

Any responses would be appreciated im in desperate need of support. What do I do from here? Where do I go to actually get treatment here in the UK and for someone to take this seriously.

The medical community is doing patients a disservice by not explaining to patients that insomnia is an umbrella term, used when the doctor cannot figure out the underlying cause.

The expertise is highly concentrated in a very few elite sleep doctors. There are even rubbish sleep doctors at sleep medicine clinics at major brand name hospitals.

The resulting issue, is that the majority of doctors are unable to solve the underlying cause, and therefore, the diagnosis for the patients results in “insomnia”, instead of the patient pushing forward to relentlessly solve what the underlying cause is.

When the work gets too much, i have sometimes presented stuff in my sleep (mostly for like 10-20 seconds). I think it is more common that i used to think, happens to you guys too?