It can be a slippery sloap and I wont wish it upon my worst hypothetical enemy. Time seems to pass differently. It seems to move at a snails pace but before you know the birds start chirping and the sun starts creeping out. Your mind is all foggy and your memory is terrible. It also affects your apatite, which is a double whammy since you need to eat to get some energy for the day ahead.
My problem is just falling asleep. Once I’m out I’m all good. I avoid looking at the time, but if you hear the birds start chirping and cars driving, you know its gonna be a rough day. I also wont take medication. It might help me sleep, but usually I’m more tired than when I just roll around the whole night.
I try to avoid light an hour before bed. If I’m watching tv late at night, il switch off lights and dim the tv light at maximum. Once in bed I usually make up my own stories. Anything fictitious to distract the mind. Otherwise I’ll spend hours thinking of trivial stuff.
Appreciate your sleep. For some people it’s a battle every night.
Ironic, itโs 3am for me right now. Just think of a night that you tossed and turned, and for some reason you just could not get to sleep, even if that feeling only lasted for half an hour before you could finally get your head to shut off and go to sleep. Now just think of that feeling for hours and hours on end, most, if not all nights, and there you! ๐
I don’t feel tired at all and just lay awake till the early morning, fall asleep for an hour then wake up exhausted.
Definitely agree with stress or hunger causing it. But, also if you stay on your phone/laptop before bed for too long, or if you just spend too much time in bed doing anything but sleeping (your mind stops associating bed with sleep I guess). If you get used to never sleeping well, that can continue even if you change those bad habits because you’re so used to it.
It’s also important to remember that people with insomnia do still sleep but it will be for much less than the recommended 7-10 hours someone in their age range needs. Although for me I tend to be awake more than asleep during the night so I like to chat what times I know for a fact I wasn’t awake and looking at the clock
For me its when I can’t fall asleep. Normally a person would drifts off, losing the conscious train of thought. Somehow like thinking automatically I would say. It’s hard for me to do that. I’m an pretty anxious person and I have a hard time relaxing. I’m tired but my mind is doing the same thoughts as if I was at work or doing stuff. Sometimes I fall asleep in 30min but I’ve had days where I didn’t get any sleep at all.
When I’m in this state, I feel physical tension in my head. It’s really strange. What I noticed is that before I fall alseep, the tension in my head is gone. It’s like a switch and I’m very aware of it. I’m rolling around in my bed and suddenly this tension is no more, I’m relaxed and can drift off.
Insomnia is having difficulty with sleeping for a longer period of time. In most cases we don’t know what causes it, but it can also be caused by stress or medication. I have had it real bad from medication for a while. Apart from the extreme fatigue and brain fog I just started to feel like I was tripping. Like tree trunks started waving in the wind, solid buildings started to look like they were a waving flag etc. I couldn’t really tell which cars were moving and which were standing still. It was real scary. Thank god I got sleep meds before I started hallucinating real scary stuff.
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