Trouble falling asleep?

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I know. I'm exactly the same. It sucks having to depend on drugs to sleep but the alternative is intolerable. I've suffered with this my entire life.

The biggest problem for me is getting up in the morning as I'm always so incredibly tired when my alarm goes off that hitting the snooze button repeatedly becomes irresistible. Then when I finally do get up my eyes burn and my whole body feels weighted down. The cold morning air on my body and loud traffic sounds in my ears feel so harsh and ruthless as I walk out the door. It’s like all the harshness of the world is magnified by ten when I just wake up.

I don’t think morning people will ever understand what it’s like. It really pisses me off when people nag on me about getting up in the morning. Especially the ones that can fall asleep on cue as soon as they touch the pillow.

Last edited by marshall on 22 Oct 2007, 2:23 am, edited 3 times in total.

I could never wake up on time for school, I was always late. Now that I am not going to school, my natural sleep time is from about 4am to 2pm. Itrs just that I start getting more and more hyper the later I am up, if I stay up past 6am I will be feeling to hyperactive to go to sleep.
But when I get in bed, I often have a problem with thinking to much, because I have to think hard about things at night to keep away the bad thoughts, since while I'm going to sleep I cant be playing videogames or listening to music or doing anything to keep my mind occupied. So if I start thinking too hard about something, I wont be able to get to sleep.

I don't allow myself to hit snooze because I'd never get up. I'm never late or anything, but getting up is just painful. It feels like how you describe it - I just feel so heavy and warm and it hurts to get up.

I'm on and off insomniatic. I've gone weeks without sleep, which is not pleasant. Recently it's been hard for me to sleep at night, so I nap during the day. The problem with this is I'll get horrible headaches when I sleep during the day and everything will ache once I get up.

I have a lot of trouble falling asleep at night. People say you should NOT lie in bed and let your mind wander, you should get up and do something relaxing. But I get so engrossed in what I'm doing, I never get back in bed. So that doesn't work...

i too have big trouble falling asleep. its because i love dreaming so much that i am waiting to finally fall asleep like a child awaiting santa claus. i get really happy and excited when i feel that i might fall asleep in the next moment that i am right awake again.

and some days i just dont get tired, im lying in bed and dont know why, i am bored, getting up and spending the rest of the night at my computer and having fun with my favorite game or with my beloved google earth.

Yeah...if I get up and read I just get into the story. I never fall asleep immediately so the longer I put off going to bed, even if it makes me more tired, the longer it takes me to fall asleep.

Yea, I have alot of trouble just falling to sleep. I don't even bother trying until I'm exhausted. It's kinda weird I guess but having the TV and a fan blaring is the only way I can go to sleep. Hearing little stuff around the house would just drive me crazy and better not to get my mind all worked up. No trouble staying asleep though, alot of the times for 12+ hours which can be quite annoying. I'll sleep through my alarm. Just wake up quick and go back to sleep and have no recollection of doing that which really sucks when you have to do something.

If I have something I can't be late for I make sure I only hit snooze once. I can't just jump out of bed as soon as my alarm goes off or I'd feel really light headed and possible collapse. I have to get up gradually, but oh man is it hard. The big problem occurs when I don't have anything I absolutely have to get up for yet I'm trying to get up earlier to get out of a patturn of sleeping in late. This is when I can't stop hitting snooze. It happens when I set my alarm unrealistically early thinking I will have the will power to get up when I don't.

I go through periods of having trouble falling asleep but luckily at the moment i am not going through one.

Problem is the only thing that is relaxing to me is going on the internet. But doing that just keeps me up later and later each night.

I also hate how the only time it feels so good to be in bed is when my alarm goes off in the morning. When I go to bed at night I'm never tired enough to actually enjoy it. I get uncomfortable in bed and toss and turn then hardly remember when I eventually fall asleep.

I so know what you mean. I love waking up hours before I have to get up so I can enjoy it and go back to bed.

Thankfully I can normally sleep solid once I get to sleep.

Ironically the only time I have a real problem with "waking up" insomnia is when I take sleeping pills. If I take them for more than a week straight I start having this phenomena where I can get to sleep quick but then I wake up after only 5 hours or so of sleep. I will wake up and not even feel tired which is kind of nice for a while. But after going through several days of this I realize my brain is a mess. Like I will forget to pay my bills, make wrong turns on the way to the store, etc. I also can't dream at all with pills which sucks if you like to dream. Also, my brain will get all whacked up and confused to the point where I wake up in the middle of the night and think it's morning or vice-versa.

Yes I've always had this trouble.

Not sure how AS it is, but yeah, I've always had great trouble crossing the sleep barrier, in either direction; I suffer from the over-active mind that many have mentioned; I don't want to call it a bane, but it is frustrating sometimes when my mind starts a racin' and I really need to get some sleep. I did not sleep at all last night in fact; I just laid in bed, thinking, pondering, exploring the universe with my mind. It was a good night in itself, but I'm starting to feel like my head's packed with cotton right about now. And once I'm asleep, and especially when my mind starts dreaming, it doesn't want to let go of the Dreamlands; I often feel like I have a foot in both places, and that may in fact not be too far from the truth. Dreaming not included, I have to say that sleep has been a rather large pain in my ass, my entire life. My circadian rhythm apparently has no rhythm. I've even experimented with optical brainwave inducers, but nothing seems to work well.

There is a point just above consciousness that I like to ride (when I can), just after waking. I am awake, but my dream centers are still partially engaged; in this state I hallucinate, both visually and aurally, and I greatly enjoy watching the beautiful and bizarre thing my mind generates in that state. Some of the thing I see and hear, I really have no idea where they come from; the mind is truly a wondrous mystery. I need to take care; sometimes I get smitten by sleep paralysis and/or repeated false awakenings, which I have to say freaking sucks; in that state, it actually hurts, a lot, to cross the barrier from sleep to waking, so I hover just beneath sleep, and repeatedly bounce off of waking.

Good fortune,

- Icarus lives the greatest adventure possible in his dreams…

Yes, I do have sleep problems, now I stick to a strict sleeping schedule. Go to bed at 10:30 get up at six everyday. Plus I'm exhausted from work. It has helped, my sleeping problems are not as severe as they used to be.

Sometimes I fall asleep in 15 minutes, sometimes I fall asleep in 5 hours. My brain just won't stop, I'll get obsessed about a subject or fantasy or problem. I guess it is the low sensory input that just sends my brain into over-drive. I have the most vivid thoughts and exciting revelations when I am in bed. So it may be worth it for the lack of sleep. However sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night with a racing confused mind, with a falling claustophobic feeling, it is quite scary and somewhat painful. Though I can stop the bad feeling if I get up and walk around for several minutes. It is similar to what I had when I was a kid but I couldn't stop it then, it grew exponentially.