Sleep is taking over my life

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I cannot bring myself to get out of bed lately. The only things I've managed to do is eat and manage my bodily functions -- and then crawl back into bed. I get out of bed and feel so sleepy and cold; I just want to get back into bed and curl up under the warm covers. Its almost I spend more time asleep than awake right now... I feel like I am being sucked into my dreams. Is that such a bad thing?

I drink coffee, but I feel even more sleepy after drinking it sometimes.

Anyone else experience this? How do you get over this?

It is a hard pattern to get out of. I have been there a lot and am currently in between there and "normal" myself.

When you get up in the morning try not to drink coffee and sugar, as it leaves you more tired and gives you worse sleep in the long run.

I presume it is cold (depending on where you are) and this is leading you be less active. the best thing you could do when you get up is to go for a 20-30 minute walk every morning. finish off with a few stretches as well.

i think a bit of exercise, especially early on in the day helps us to wake up and since we wake up properly, we can sleep better at night.

avoid the computer too much. it does us little good. i know all too well.

Coffee is a stimulant, not a source of energy (calories is energy, and coffee has almost no calories).

Anyhow, this could be a simple nutritional problem or lack of workout. How and what do you eat? What's your BMI? Are you active?

Do you go to doctors? (I know some aspies don't like their routine interrupted to a point they don't go to doctors or even have haircuts...) Go have a physical and have them do a blood panel. Sleepy and tired could be a vitamin D deficiency. 2000 units of vit V per day and some Sun exposure could turn you around in a matter of a month. If it's vitamin D...

You're probably right about the lack of nutrition. I do not cook very much for myself because I feel bad, which in turn leads to feeling worse. I tend to eat cereal with soy milk for meals because it is the easiest thing I can cause myself to eat without resorting to fast food. I seem to have some lactose intolerance -- hence the soy. There is a good bit of vitamins, fiber, and protein, but probably not balanced amongst all vitamins. Maybe supplementary vitamins would be a good start.

Unfortunately sun exposure is not an option right now -- come spring that might be possible. Right now the sun is usually hidden behind gray dreary clouds (midwest us) where I am from November to about April or May.

Starting with vitamin D3 is a good start like Dilbert suggested.

What is your diet currently like from day to day?

I get like that sometimes too. Especially in winter when there's no sun whatsoever and it's way too cold to even think about going out. I found that the best way to get out of this is a regular workout. It's terrible and hard at the begining to force yourself to move when all you want is to lay down but it actually gets better. Working out takes my mind of things and gives me more energy. And then beter mood and feeling better comes as well... But i think you need to find your own way that helps you. Good luck

Sleep is the most perfect state there can be.

You're alive.. but unconscious.


Ain't it great?

I used to sleep all day and night in my early 20s. It was partly medication. But having a job in the day really helps with your body clock, it gets it to the right place. I know exactly what you mean, I did not want to sleep but I had to because of the fatigue.

What meds are you on
How is your blood sugar
when and where do you work
Are you depressed

All these can contribute.

Are you prone to having blood sugar or depression problems? Are you on some medication?
You might want to track the amount the amount of sleep you get and when and how often you are eating and maybe your mood.
Taking a multivitamin once a day helps anyone.
When things get weird for me, I start doing this to figure out what is going on.

I have the opposite problem... I can't shut off...

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peaceful and undisturbed sleep and dreamland is indeed one of the only good things about life. but there can be too much of a good thing, and so i found that after a while, my body would refuse to sleep anymore, unless it was good and ready, which meant at least 24 hours of being awake- tired but awake, until finally my body had had enough and let me doze for 10 hours or so. for a few decades, [i learned that] i was also clinically depressed during this time.
i found that after several years of this, my metabolism started creeping downward, to the point that i was gaining weight. so i learned to take as my cue, that when i felt drowsy and it was not nighttime, that i had better get busy doing something, and sure enough, the drowsiness went away when i did something physical such as mowing the lawn or bicycling around the neighborhood. i stayed alert afterwards, all or most of the way to my normal bedtime.

Well if you can't have a blood test done, treat and see what happens.

Go to a store and buy vitamin D supplements. Take twice what's recommended on the bottle. Don't worry you won't overdose. Continue taking for a few months.

Find a local tanning salon and go 2-3 times. Don't worry you won't get skin cancer from 3x10 minute sessions.

Hopefully, you haven't recently been bitten by the Tsetse fly

Lyme disease is an ever growing problem. Fastest growing infectious disease according to my friend.

If you're on the autism spectrum, this coincides with the Neanderthal-autism theory I was just reading about. http://www.rdos.net/eng/asperger.htm#SAD Is the section, but the whole thesis is worth a read.

The theory is that Neanderthals actually hibernated during the winter. Since some of them intermingled with humans, they might have passed down some of their traits to certain modern humans (like shutting down during the winter, and having a longer lifespan).

I think the whole thing's worth a read.

Actually, I was referring to Human African trypanosomiasis, a parasitic infection spread by the Tsetse fly, better known as African Sleeping Sickness. It can also be spread by other means, such as bodily fluids, or so I've read. Though its only prevalent in Africa or people who have visited Africa at some point