Sleeping troubles

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Is anyone else a really sensitive sleeper? I can only sleep well in my own bed. At other people's houses I am awake pretty much all night just lying there wishing I was home.

I usually only sleep well when I'm alone.
I don't get a good night's rest anywhere but in my own bed with my 8 pillows surrounding me. I've always been a "nester".

I can only sleep well in my own bed too. That and I take calcium and magnesium. I started to take it because I wasn't getting enough calcium, but while looking it up I found out is that it's good for sleeping too.

I CAN sleep in beds that aren't mine. I just prefer my own.

i dont sleep well period (will try Melatonin tablets tonight, but right now i need to get some sleep and get back to my study)...but i sleep even worse in other peoples beds....and i usually prefer to sleep alone... although lately ive been rather lonely so i guess these days i would enjoy some company..

I have sleeping problems, but there are quite different. I do not have any problem to sleep at all or in unusually places, but I have chaotic sleeping patters. For while I go to bed a 10h00 pm, a week later it may be the time when I leave bed and pepare my "morning coffee". It is absolutely uncertain when I am awake or sleeping. There are periods over weeks when I sleep only five hours a day, on other I need more than ten hours.

I have no problem sleeping in places other than my own. Used to but got over it naturally. But I do have a problem sleeping around most people if we're touching, my heart often races. I can't even let my cat sleep on me or rest on my arm while i lay down or my heart will race furiously to her purrs.

yes, me too.
sleeping problems are well documented as being an a/s trait. over brain activity or something.
i have to sleep alone (even another person in the room is impossible), and though i can sleep in other beds, im so sensative to touch that the feel of a different bed disturbs me.

i also get woken by traffic passing, fans in bathrooms in nearby flats, doors slamming etc ad infinitum.
this is with sleeping pills and ear plugs- were it not for all this, id probably have insomnia.

its just more a/s fun....

I have NEVER been a good sleeper, period. It was my mother's biggest annoyance from the time I was a baby (and gawd knows she had plenty of things to be annoyed about!), and one of mine as well. Even when seriously ill, I have never slept straight through a night, and on average will wake up at least 5-10 times in a 5-hour period (which is about the average amount of time I spend sleeping). ANY noise (even a vibrating mobile phone) or light will wake me up, cats jumping on or off the bed will wake me up, and if there's noise around me at all, I won't go to sleep in the first place.

I don't have any more trouble sleeping in others' beds than I do in my own, but I'm sort of a cross between Goldilocks and the Princess and the Pea when it comes to what SORT of bed I can sleep in.....too hard, too soft, or weird texture, and I will NOT be able to sleep there!