Insomnia

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Generally I have insomnia when the school holidays are occurring. My theory is that the lack of routine causes this.

I've had insomnia since I was about fifteen. I'm now 29.... I've recently been prescribed Seroquel, since it's gotten out of hand, but I'm not sure if I should take it as I'm concerned that it may permanently affect the creative part of my mind - make me slightly brain damaged, that is. Sure would like to sleep normally, though. :/ I tried zopiclone, before, but it made me get really severe panic attacks when I got addicted to it after not even a week of using it... and it only worked well for like two days. -_- Also, if you combine it with alcohol, you can easily get memory loss; sometimes really severe.

I have diagnosed hypersomnia. Its opposite of insomnia. Im usually awake at night though instead of the day.

I voted "yes" on the poll because, everyone seems to think I have MAJOR sleep issues, but I don't think I do.

I stay up all night and sleep all morning,which is normal for me.

If I mess up my meds I do but I've been controlled for a year now from insomnia.

It's 1:49am here now, & I'm still awake. I may very well not sleep at all tonight & there are times when I go 48+ hours with no sleep at all, purely because I just can't sleep, regardless of trying. So, I definitely do have insomnia. I've struggled with it since I was 13 & I'm 28 now.

I have at times both insomnia and hypersomnia (sleeping too much). Some days I sleep for about 2 hours and others I sleep for 12+ hours.

I don't sleep that well, sometimes even when I'm on my melantonin (I take melantonin as a supplement, as I have a startling lack of melantonin in my body), and usually it's when I am thinking too much...which would make it nearly once every week or two. I also have hypersomnia at times when I have too much melantonin, so my body isn't regulating the hormone. It still doesn't regulate the hormone, and sometimes in the summer I get up at three or four in the morning.

It always has taken me at least 3 hours to get to sleep. Hate it. Even when I'm totally drunk I cant do sleep. I've never known "how" I just lie there and wait.

Yes.

I'm lucky if I get 5 hours of sleep a night; toss and turn for an hour before getting to sleep, wake up at regular intervals feeling anxious.

Sucks

i have had insomina for nearly 8 years i take circadin but it doesnt help i can hardly sleep some nights and every night i wake up 7 times throughout the night.

Sometimes. Stress related.

I wake up a lot - can't remember the last time I slept solidly. Usually about twice during the night, but sometimes very frequently, and sometimes I'm awake for quite a while, although usually sleep again quite quickly. A few years ago when I was depressed I would regularly be awake between 1am (3 hours after going to sleep) and 4am (2.5 hours before getting up). It didn't make me tired so I would do Sudoku or go on the computer and not bother to try and sleep. Nowadays I do spend many days feeling half asleep due to waking up so much, but being tired does not make me sleep more solidly. I am a morning person and sleep better in the first half of the night. After that, sleep is almost optional, and I am happy to get up early.

I wonder if I have some type of sleep disorder as I seem to spend most of my time asleep dreaming - sometimes wake up after only half an hour sleep and remember dreams, which shouldn't really happen apparently. If I am stressed by noise (which often happens), I frequently have very vivid, realistic dreams where I wake up in my bed and either go out to investigate the noise or shout at people to try and stop it. These can happen multiple times in sequence, so I am rewaking into new dreams of waking up in bed. Very confusing, and I end up not being completely sure whether some of it actually happened - sometimes I can identify things in the dream which are not true in reality (for example, once I went into the corridor outside my flat to complain of noise and there were disco lights flashing different colours), but other times I can't be sure whether I have done things or not. I also sometimes have lucid dreams, and frequently spend time in a state of semi sleep when I am actively thinking about things but have lost my reason, so everything starts going very bizarre. I also get random involuntary thoughts (which are people saying random sentences, so could be thought of as voices, except I don't actually hear them) frequently as I am trying to get to sleep - these may be hypnagogic hallucinations due to mild sensory deprivation. Once I heard voices and had semi sleep paralysis - my impression was that half my brain had gone to sleep and the other half was awake still, listening and thinking how bizarre and frightening it all was. Again random, but I actually heard them, in a horrible hollow voice. Fairly frequently I find I have too much physical energy and cannot stay still in bed, let alone sleep. Makes my legs ache because I have to move all the time. When this happens however I am usually in an excessively good mood, so I don't mind.

DSPS here again. I can also sleep 14 hours a day and sleep in many strange places, f.e. during the classes. Or in the church, train etc. Time doesn't matter. I sleep, because I have to.

Now it's almost 3 am here and as you can see, I don't sleep.