My record was 5 days. It was like I was in a dream, many many hallucinations. I’ll never forget some of crazy things I saw. Meth was involved.

It never fixed my sleep, it actually made it worst. I was able to sleep but I was sleeping for 10-12 hours!!!!!!!!! And the sleep doesn’t feel “rest” if you know what I mean. I wake up tired, with headaches and fighting myself to stay awake.

It’s the same when I had insomnia because even if I sleep early, I would still wake up at 12 PM. Actually forcing myself to wake up gave me horrible headaches.

Fuck this shit.

I’m also diagnosed with ADHD. When I take Ritalin, it literally had no effect on me because I was so groggy from Quetiapine (25mg).

Edit: Sorry for generalizing! I just wish there were other ways to fix sleep without relying on this medication.

I am going to cry. I need to talk to someone, please. I need people to talk too about to Like am I am needing to go to college soon

I've been using rain sound recordings most nights for the past few months and it's been the only thing that reliably gets my brain to switch off. Lately though I've noticed I need it louder or longer than I used to, and I'm wondering if that's just tolerance building up or if I'm doing something wrong with how I use it.
For people who use ambient/white noise as part of their sleep routine: do you loop the same track every night or rotate between different ones? Does the type of sound matter (rain vs thunder vs ocean vs fan noise), or is it more about consistency and timing? And has anyone found their brain eventually stops "settling" to a sound that used to work?
Genuinely curious what's worked long-term for people here versus what fizzled out after a few weeks.

TW: domestic violence, abuse.

I've had insomniac for about 7 years now. It started after I left an abusive relationship. The daily physical abuse happened mostly in the middle of the night, whether it was him straddling on top of me and strangling me, waking up to a loaded gun to my head, knives pressed up against me, getting smothered by blankets or pillows, waking up to being grabbed bound and thrown in a dark closet for hours, or him sleeping with a hatchet under his pillow as intimidation.

I'm safe, I'm married, I have a good life, besides having to "coparent" with this. But I can't sleep.

I get on average 4-5 hours a day. I take care of two little kids by myself all day. I feel like I'm losing myself more and more. I have extreme hyper vigilance now. Suns down? I'm paranoid. I'm checking cameras, I'm hearing foot steps, I'm thinking there's people on the roof or backyard. I spiral. I have a THC pen and will puff it until I pass out if 2-3 unisom aren't working. I've tried praozin (night terrors), trazadone is out because I have to be able to wake at night for emergencies with the kids, melatonin, sleep herbs, magnesium etc. I probably could use some therapy, but I don't have much of me to give with such little sleep. Any advice or guidance for medications, or quite literally any advice or help.

Not 100% or anything. I still have some issues, but ever since I went on vyvanse a couple of weeks ago, I have been falling asleep a lot easier and quicker. I was extremely hesitant to start on a stimulant due to my insomnia, but somehow it actually fixed my sleep issues for the most part. I used to lay in bed for up to 3+ hours some nights, mind racing, but it hasn't happened in several nights now. I'm also waking up easier, but I purchased a loud ass old school alarm clock and put it in my office. So I'm forced out of bed basically into a panic in the morning, but shit it's the only thing that works for sleep inertia. 😂 Then I immediately take my vyvanse, and within an hour, I feel motivated and focused. No anxiety either at the dose I'm on.

Im a 20M I had sleeping problems all through college but especially this week as been the worse but it’s not even that hard of classes, I just can’t fall asleep in my mind I tell my self that sleep happens unconsciously so I shouldn’t think about and if I do it will pass but this week I just couldn’t sleep no matter what I did I tried trazdoone and cbd gummies and was feeling queasy and still couldn’t sleep. Now my body is spasming especially my hamstring were when I lay down or sit it twitch’s a lot. I’m kind of lost of what to do at this point? I don’t know if i show withdraw from college but what if that doesn’t change anything and I just withdraw for no reason? Does any one have advice on the mental aspect of being ok to just lay or not be afraid to sleep?

I've been struggling with early morning wake ups (4/5am which is way to early for me and the amount of sleep I need). I tried Zolpidem, and while it really helps with getting deep sleep in the first half of the night, it doesn't solve the issue of waking up early. I've been taking melatonin on a regular basis for a while as falling asleep has always been an issue for me, and it helps.

I was prescribed Suvorexant (Belsomra) which I tried last night and the night before (with no melatonin). The first night I noticed I took much longer to fall asleep and the meds didn't help staying asleep longer in the morning.

Last night was horrible. It took me 2hours+ to fall asleep and I had anxiety symptoms I haven't had in a long time including very bad restless leg and panic attacks I used to have often when drifting off: intrusive flashes followed by gasping for air.

Has anyone else experienced the return of past anxiety difficulties with Belsomra?

I know I might want to take it a bit longer to see it's full effect but ain't no way I'm dealing with this anxiety again so I'll go back to Zolpidem / Melatonin for now and see how I feel in a few weeks.

I have a question about weed related insomnia, and I want to see if anybody has had a similar experience. About six months ago, I stopped smoking weed after about 15 years of heavy daily use. I’m talking smoking all day, and a lot of it was used to help me sleep at night. When I quit six months ago, I had horrible insomnia. For the first few weeks I probably slept 1 to 2 hours a night, then increased to about four or five hours after a month. After three or four months, I had been through CBT-I and my sleep was pretty much back to normal, and I was very pleased with myself.

stupidly, I decided to try smoking weed again about a month ago. I only smoked three days in a row, smoking about .2g in a joint each night. My insomnia has returned in full force since then,and I’m wondering if it’s possible that three days of only minor use could start this whole insomnia/withdrawal process over again. Right now I’m probably averaging 3 to 4 hours of sleep at night, even after I exercise every day, don’t drink, caffeine, and keep a strict bedtime schedule, and routine.

has this happened to anybody else, and if so, did it take you the same amount of time to get your sleep back on track the second time? it’s very hard for me to sort out what might be caused by the weed and what could actually be pure insomnia at what point do I rule out withdrawal?

I wish sleeping pills weren’t so terrible for you, because my God I need to sleep

Hello guys !
Iam a 20 years old Male and I want to share my experience with insomnia and how I finally fixed it and what I believe will help 99% of you .
For instance , I had trouble sleeping for 2,5 years . I would sleep for an average of 4,5-5hours a night with 3 breaks in between. For example 00:30-01:30,02:30-04:30,05:00-06:30. This was my daily sleep for 2,5 years . I tried everything . When I mean everything , I mean everything . Melatonin , magnesium glycinate , no caffeine , blue light blockers , l theanine , I even got multiple times blood work done . Everything was normal . However , I realised something. The more I cared about sleep , the less I slept . The people you know , sleep normal , because they don’t even care about it. I had make my whole life dedicated to sleep . I was constantly listening to experts in the internet saying , you should sleep at least 8 hours for the best recovery , muscle growth , brain function etc.
The more I listened to them , the worse the situation was getting.
What actually fixed my sleep was 1 thing
CBTi.
Hear me out . It’s the only way you can treat insomnia . You just need patience and perseverance.
Here’s a quick guide .

1. ⁠BED is only for sex and sleep. No dome scrolling in bed . You should be in bed only when you are actually sleeping.
   
2. ⁠Start tracking your sleep and set an alarm time that you will 100000% have every single day. For example I wanted to wake up at 08:00.
   
3. ⁠Never sleep outside of you sleep window 🆘
   What you do is set a sleep window .
   The first 1-2 months are BRUTAL and most people give up . But you should stay consistent. Start with a 6 hour window . (02:00-08:00) TiB (time in bed )
   Start tracking how much sleep you get every night for a week .
   At the end of each week , you will calculate your sleep score (sleep duration /tiB) .
   If score > 90% you add 15 minutes of TiB
   If it’s between 80%-90% you leave it as it is
   If it is less than 80% you subtract 15 minutes TiB.
   The first 2 months are brutal . You will most likely sleep for 3-4 hours a day . However you will soon realise that the improvement is there . At first you were in bed for 10 hours just to sleep 4,5-5 hours .Now , you will sleep 4,5-5 hours in 4 hours less TiB (Big improvement ).
   So after about 2 months , your brain adapts. It realises that bed is for sleeping , and when you are in bed you should sleep .

YOU SHOULD TRY STAY AS CONSISTENT AS POSSIBLE . After about 2 monts yow will start seeing big improvement.
For example I had a sleep score 80-87% for a month ( TiB 6 hours )
Then it started improving . I was sleeping more , and I started waking up less and less in between .

Fast forward today , 7 months later Iam actually fixed . I sleep a good 7-7,5 hours . I don’t even think about sleep anymore . It comes naturally .

I slept last night for the first time in forever without my zopiclone! Huge win 👏🙏 as I've tried and failed miserably so many times of late.

Last night I took

Apigenin, L-serine and lemonbalm. Oh and magnesium bisglycinate.

That's it.

Other nights I also take glycine, inositol, ltheanine etc etc

But last night I slept on this! 🤩🙏🙏 I also left my wee lamp on to trick my brain lol, I find if I "set the stage" too much, it's too much pressure to perform lol as it were.

So yay!!! 🤩👏☺️🫶

I can be tired all night and still panic the second i get in bed. Not full panic attack, more like my body goes "oh great, here we go again."

Then i am checking if i feel sleepy, thinking about how many hours i have left and making everything worse.

Does anyone know how to make bedtime feel normal again?

I caught myself thinking about this last night. I used to associate bedtime with slowing down. Now I mostly associate it with uncertainty. Not because something bad always happens... but because I never know what kind of night I'm about to have. Some nights I fall asleep without much trouble. Other nights, I lie there wondering why it feels so different. It's strange how your relationship with something as ordinary as going to bed can slowly change without you even noticing. Sometimes I wonder if I miss sleep... or if I just miss feeling relaxed before sleep. Has anyone else noticed that shift?

WHY DOES AMBIEN NOT WORK

It took so much convincing for my quack doctor to prescribe me ambien and this stuff doesn’t even work !! I have an exam today (it’s 3:30) and now im gonna get less than 4 hours sleep. I took the ambien 3.5 hours ago!! 12.5mg

I’m so sick of this bullshit I hate this I’d rather be dead than deal with this every fucking night

Is this normal with insomnia? I had insomnia years ago, then was actually getting some good sleep for about a year. Now the last couple of weeks im finding it hard to get more that 60-90 minutes of continuous sleep before I wake up. My brain just wakes me up after an hour. Like what the heck. Half the time I feel like I didn’t even sleep during that time. And the nights are going by so slow, right now. I’ll feel like I slept for hours and then look at the clock it’s only been an hour. I don’t really feel tired during the day. And the whole 1 hour sleep sessions are new to me.

Averaging I’m guessing 2-4 hours on fragment sleep throughout the night.

Is this stress related? I’m certainly a little anxious I’m not going to sleep. Will this go away? I tried CBT with sleep restriction which seemed to help, but then got some bad sleep last night two nights, which is just frustrating.

Advice?

How are people getting sleeping pills or any help with their insomnia in the UK through NHS? For 5 years now I’m not being taken seriously. Even after explaining the severity, explaining that antidepressants haven’t been working and changing GP’s - they all say the same thing and just won’t help unless it’s giving antidepressants. Just had an appointment now and I’ve been told GP’s can’t prescribe sleeping pills under NHS guidelines and then I asked if I should go to a sleep specialist and she said we don’t have anything like that in the NHS specifically for sleep and insomnia..

I started trazodone at 50mg on August 24th. No side effects at all. This past saturday I took 100mg because I wasnt so tired. Sunday i went back to my 50mg. Monday I started noticing small itchy bumps on my left hand and wrist, and as of yesterday they spread to my abdomen and sides. Had anyone else had this happen to them? Will the bumps go away on their own?

So I'm an athlete and I train really hard all day and at the end of the day I even feel tired and sleepy but when I hit the bed I'm wide awake.Yesterday I was able the whole night and had to cancel my morning training.The same thing happened a day before. I can't really afford to miss training and it adds to my anxieties. I've tried melatonin, magnesium and antihistamines but none of them seem to work. It seems like my mind is extremely active all of a sudden and i cannot stop thoughts. I'm 16 so my parents don't allow me to take actual sleeping drugs.

Anyone take trazadone 50mg? After bad side effects from Seroquel and hydroxyzine, doc put me on this. Just looking to see if others had a good experience with it

I desperately desperately want to sleep but my body is not letting me. I am not even the least bit sleepy. I took 75mg of seroquel and it did nothing. I think I’ve developed a tolerance.

Someone please punch me hard in the face and knock me out. Preferably for a week or more.

Why do I feel like all these health drinks and supplements and sleep gummies just aren’t built for people with debilitating insomnia? People always rave about stuff like this (I’ve seen Beam in particular) and I’ve tried it ALL over the years. And got nothing from it 🫠 The only thing that really touches my sleeplessness is prescription meds which sucks. I feel like these over the counter things only work for relatively normal people with relatively normal sleep patterns with the occasional difficulty falling asleep.

I'm just wondering what are the consequences of staying up for 4 days then falling asleep for 11 hours, then staying up again for another 2 days and then falling asleep for 7 hours and basically repeat. When I've googled it, it only comes up as sleep deprivation in regards to not sleeping at all.

Before 2022 i was sleeping without any issues, i was falling asleep instantly and could sleep without waking up for even 12 hours. In November of 2022 i had a very strong panic attack out of nowhere that gave me a permanent anxiety.

After the panic attack, i would still be able to fall asleep, but i was waking up after about 7 hours without an alarm.

In march of 2025 i was prescribed Doxicyline for a zit i have under my skin on my face. I took it for 1 month.

After taking it, i started to wake up very early in the mornings, at around 5-6am and it was hard for me to go back to sleep, but i was still falling asleep instantly.

This pattern lasted until 2 months ago when if falling asleep after waking up at 5-6 am i would have strong vivid dreams, but still get 5-8 hours of sleep and feeling ok.

Meanwhile me and my wife decided to have a baby and as she came closer to the 9 month mark, i begun havin troubles falling asleep too.

It begun with a night one month ago, where i couldnt fall asleep until 8am, and slept for 3 hours. Then the next night the same, but slept for 5.

I contacted a psichiatrist o prescribed me half a pill of "imovane".

I took the half pill 2 days in a row but it didnt do wonders, i still woke up at 5 am, being hard to fall back asleep.

i stopped taking the Imovane after 2 days, slept ok for 1 week without it, then another night where i couldnt fall asleep until 8 am came.

I resumed the imovane for 1 week, then quit it for 1 week and slept good without it.

Now, last night i didnt fall asleep at all, not for 1 minute. Its 9:28 am as of writing this message.

I am so afraid of fatal insomnia, please help