How Long Does It Take You To Get To Sleep?

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I was just wondering how long it takes you to go to sleep, because a lot of you guys seem to have a lot of trouble sleeping for various reasons.

I don't seem to be able to stop thinking about what will happen the next day, talking to myself, planning, organizing my thoughts, analyzing situations that may have happened; the list goes on.

Usually it takes me anywhere from a half hour to an hour and a half to finally stop thinking and sleep.

Leave a comment for your reasons for having trouble sleeping.

Up to an hour on meds, usually about 3 hrs off meds. Sometimes worse and I will use a strong sedative which essentially knocks me out. I suspect inadequate melatonin, depression, anxiety, restlessness, chronic pain etc. all contribute to my poor sleep.

It takes me two minutes to get to sleep.

Since I started sleeping with a weighted blanket, I've been dozing off rather quickly most of the time. I also take 30mg of melatonin, and a "ton" of Valarian Root and St Johns, as well as wear headphones playing music designed to induce delta waves -- I don't just need a lullaby, I need something with undertow.

without all of the above, sleep comes when I drop from exhaustion, and lasts only a few hours and/or is far from restful.

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It's not whether I have trouble FALLING asleep, which I do most of the time because my brain WON'T SHUT UP, but whether I can STAY asleep. It's a rare night when I can stay asleep all night. I average waking up about 3 times a night. I wake up for all kinds of reasons -- too hot, too cold, noises outside, panic attacks...but the main reason is that I worry that I won't hear my alarm in the morning, so I keep waking up to look at the clock. It's really crazy because in my whole life I may have missed hearing my alarm maybe 10 times. But I still worry about it every night.

I have a non-24-hour sleep-wake cycle. If I go to bed when I get tired (i.e., around 1 hour later each day) then I can usually fall asleep within half an hour. If I try to go to sleep at a regular time then I can't stop thinking and it can take hours before I fall asleep.

It depends. If I'm in my own room and have my stim toys, I will generally fall asleep within 10 to 30 minutes. When I'm at my friend's house, it can take over three hours if I don't have things to stim with. When I first went to university, I didn't sleep but one hour a day for over 5 days due to the change in surroundings coupled with being extremely close to a busy railroad (make that three tracks right beside each other). A train would pass every 5 to 10 minutes and you could feel the entire dorm shaking while the train passed.

30 to 60 minutes, if at all, if i havent fallen asleep in that period i get up and read for half an hour in another room before attempting again.

It usually takes me 1-2 hours, just depends on how tired I am and if there is anything troubling my mind. I suppose I like it in a way, its the one part of my day were there is complete silence and free from distraction to reflect on different aspects of my life.

It varies. If I'm exhausted from work and have managed to not fall asleep in the afternoon/early evening, I drop off within ten minutes. Otherwise, it can take 1-2 hours of my just lying there. Even if I have attempted to relax myself by reading for a while beforehand, and think I'm tired enough to fall asleep, I can't.

On occasion, I'll have the "waking up periodically" issue also. I HATE that.

1-3 hours after 3 hours I just stay awake another 24 hours because if I dont I will wake up at 6 pm and my sleeping will be all out of whack. also I stay up really late because its the only time I get to be alone.

I keep avoiding sleep so its my fault, not good at all.

2-6 hours. Even then, I will wake up 1-4 times during my sleep time to go to the bathroom, scratch an itch, etc. It can be worse during times of extreme anxiety, which have been more common than I would like over the last few years.

It is very dependent on my stress and energy levels, but it can take anywhere from five minutes to six hours. It only takes five minutes if I am extremely tired or sleep deprived. I can stay up until dawn if I am very energetic, excited, or stressed. The fact that the only real anti-social decompression time I have is late at night doesn't help. However, once I fall asleep, I have been known to sleep through thunderstorms, earthquakes, and alarm clocks.

Depending on how restless I am, it can take me anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours to fall asleep. My nightly round of meds used to knock me out within half an hour, but I guess I must have built up a little bit of a tolerance for them.