How Long Does it take you to go to sleep?

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It usually takes me about at least 1 hour to go to sleep after i've laid in bed. But it can go to like 3-4 hours. I heard it had something to do with depression or anxiety that make us stay awake. How long does it take you

I said 1 and a half hours because that's about what it would be if I wasnt on medication to help me sleep and also I stay up very late so i can get to sleep more quickly.

And sleep problems can be caused in some people with Asperger Syndrome by obsessions. You often can't stop thinking about particularly strong obsessions and also there are quite a lot of anxieties that someone with any ASD has and so can find it hard to stop worrying and calm down.

For me it's mostly because I can't stop thinking about things. But I'm on Risperidone and Melatonin to help me sleep.

Between 10 seconds and 2 minutes most nights.

About 1-1.5 with Melatonin. It usually helps if I stop doing anything stimulating like video games or writing two hours before I need to sleep too.

At least an hour because I can't turn off my thoughts. It will be extra hard tonight because I found this group, lots to think abt, I'm excited. It starts right up again in the a.m. also, I usually rock the bed to fall asleep and also sang when I was a kid. I had to stop the singing in college for obvious reasons.

It would of taken me less than 30 minutes when i'm really exhausted..

But since I got the cold, it's been already taken me more than 3 hours to fall asleep and I get really scared of death after hearing about the swine flu thing, the foot and mouth, bird flu that I'm literally too scared to sleep... Occassionally, I would actually stay up all night but it's obviously a not very wise choice to make.

But on a regular day, no matter what mood I'm in, it would normally take me less than half an hour to sleep, posibly 1 minute at the minimum.

When my anxiety and obsession are low and I am tired, sometimes only a few minutes.

Falling asleep usually takes 15-30 minutes. Staying asleep is the difficult part. I take benadryl to keep me out, otherwise I am staring at the ceiling for hours on end.

About an hour since I started taking medication to treat my depression. It used to be 3 hours or more so most of the time I didn't even bother attempting to sleep.

It takes me around 10 minutes to go to sleep. I'm shocked that 30 (and under) minutes was the lowest option.

What I do is get lost in one of the worlds in my head. I don't even know if I'm awake or not as soon as I go to bed, I just go to one of those worlds and my body shuts down while I'm busy. Sounds weird, but it's what I do.

Do you know what the difference between Swine flu and regular influenza is?

Influenza:
# Fever and extreme coldness
# Cough
# Nasal congestion
# Body aches
# Fatigue
# Headache
# Irritated, watering eyes
# Reddened eyes, skin

Swine flu:
# Fever and extreme coldness
# Cough
# Nasal congestion
# Body aches
# Fatigue
# Headache
# Irritated, watering eyes
# Reddened eyes, skin

See the difference? No. Don't worry about it. You're at no more risk then you were with normal influenza. I've had both, neither are nice, but there's not much difference.

1-4 hours.

It usually takes me a half an hour to fall asleep. I obsess over how much I look like my idol, calling myself by his full name, because I'm so much like him, for 15 minutes, and than it takes me 15 minutes of thinking about how sleep benefits the human body.

2-3 hours.

Takes me an hour or so. I usually wake up about 2 hours later and wander around the house for awhile. Then I'll go back and sleep for a few hours before my alarm goes off.

I would so love to be able to fall asleep within 30 minutes. Usually 2-3 hours though. It's summer now though and the heat makes it worse.

I've also looked this up. It is something like if it takes you 2 hours or more to get to sleep on a regular basis for more than 6 months its called sleep onset insomnia. There is another form of insomnia where you have trouble staying asleep which is the form usually shown in movies.

I used to have really horrible insomnia, sometimes to the point of staying awake three or four days, but I accidently learned a trick which turned it around.

I'd lay in bed and think about things, and the thoughts would keep me awake. But sometimes I would revisit the same scenarios I'd thought about on previous nights, and I discovered that the more often I revisited the same scenario, the less time it took me to fall asleep. Now I have five "good" scenarios which I can fall asleep to very, very quickly. I have to be careful not to think of them while driving at night, or I will fall asleep at the wheel. They're a bit silly, but I think what the scenarios *are* is less important than how often I've fallen asleep to them in the past (and I've been revisiting them this way for almost ten years now, so they're pretty solid).

Now if I go to bed and think about a problem I had that day, or a movie I saw, or an NPR interview I heard, or think about anything else that isn't one of those repeated scenarios, I can stay awake all night. But revisit one of them and I'm out like a light.

I have a theory that one of these "sleeping pill" scenarios can be manufactured by imagining the scenario while falling asleep every night for a month, and it works for me (two of my five were created this way, the other three were accidental) but I don't know if it will work for anyone else. My wife has trouble sleeping, and I've told her about the trick, but she gets too frustrated and gives up before it has a chance to "set" for her. Or maybe it just doesn't work for everyone .. I don't know.