Eli5: Why do sleep-aids make me restless?

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Most of the time, when I take a sleep aid, I first fall asleep nice and easy. But then 3-5 hours later I start moving around a lot and it wakes me up. But my body tries to fall back asleep but then it fights itself and tries to wake up. So I end up falling asleep, and then I wake myself up again because I’m literally thrashing around in my bed, and repeat until I finally fall asleep and get a shitty 2 hour nap before my alarm. Why?

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I also get RLS when I take sleeping pills. I rarely take them any more for that reason. If I can’t sleep I get out of bed for about 20 min and then come back and try it again.

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