Trouble falling asleep?

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22 Oct 2007, 7:46 pm

Sleep? What's sleep? I have trouble sleeping almost every single night. Sometimes I will try to go to bed very early like 10 pm but it takes me until 1 or 2 am before I'm asleep! Then on top of that I keep on getting up in the middle of the night! Its a struggle to sleep. For me that is the worst time of the day. I hardly ever feel rested. I am always tired.

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22 Oct 2007, 8:40 pm

Jimbogf wrote:

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.

My problem is I just can't go to bed at 10:30. If I'm just finishing my work at that time I feel like I need to reward myself with some quality free time. I never want to go to bed then when it's the only time to feel free to let my mind wander. Because of my AS and introverted tendency I need my solitary thinking time. Sucks that the only time I'm in the mood for deep thinking is late at night. During the day I'm usually just feeling tired, bored, hungry and staring at the clock waiting to go home. Not the most conducive mood for deep thinking.

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22 Oct 2007, 9:53 pm

I can't just get in bed and go to sleep like a normal person, I'd be awake for hours. The trick that works for me is reading. It really relaxes me, so I read in bed and within about 30 minutes I can fall asleep fast and easy. Prior to discovering that trick, life was much more difficult. On my own, I don't feel tired until 3-4 AM.

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22 Oct 2007, 10:19 pm

marshall wrote:

Jimbogf wrote:

Perhaps you are a night person?
http://www.vic.com/~nlp/n-people.htm

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23 Oct 2007, 1:32 am

I normally stay up even while I'm tired. When I do go to bed, I wear earplugs, which results in nothing waking me up before I've gotten enough sleep.

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24 Oct 2007, 8:03 am

I've never exactly been a sound sleeper, but the past week, it's gotten even worse. I've found that I just can't get to sleep until around 5 in the morning.

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24 Oct 2007, 3:53 pm

I have no consistent sleeping time but it gets a better routine if I'm doing exercise regulary, but once I miss a day I stop for weeks/months. I can't just "go to bed" I have to wait until I'm too tired to be awake, and then burn my brain out thinking in bed for a few hours.

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24 Oct 2007, 4:01 pm

I used to have issues falling asleep, but that was mainly due to my night shift at work. now I am at normal house I am pretty good. I had a few spell if insomnia, a glass of whine clears that right up.

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24 Oct 2007, 6:40 pm

Let me join the club. I've had sleeping problems for most of my life.

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04 Nov 2007, 4:34 am

marathon_and_not_a_sprint wrote:

Yeah, the overactive mind...it's like the bane of my existence. I've had pretty much everything that doesn't induce zombie-ness: melatonin (lots), homeopathic stuff, rozerem....Melatonin worked for the first four months or so, then it stopped working (you're supposed to take breaks if you take it regularly), so I stopped it for a while and used rozerem instead, which doesn't work at all. I hope when I go back to melatonin it works, because I don't want sedatives.

You shouldn't take benadryl to go to sleep.

If it's one sense that is causing your overactive mind, you can try to deal with that. I've got hyper-auditory problems, so I listen to music.

Where can you get melatonin. I know what it is a natural chemical in the brain responsible for sleep but never heard that it could be bought. Does it require a prescription? I use benadryl and xanax to help me sleep.

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05 Nov 2007, 2:45 pm

This has been a struggle for me my entire life. I absolutely CANNOT get to sleep before 3:00 a.m. (with work the next day). It doesn't matter what time I go to bed, my mind will not shut off. I've become immune to Ambien over the past couple of years... nothing works anymore.

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