#sleep troubles

[gaspriceboner]

Narcolepsy? Sleep attack?

No I’m just a cat wdym I just need to sleep a lot 🙄

[bogglebabbles]

Had a series of dreams last night where most of them weren't quite nightmares but they occupied that space on the scale where I was still like, "...alright can I see something different please?"

[sasukimimochi]

Since I've been recommending this a lot recently (friends who are having similar issues to me when I was a bit younger) I thought I would mention it to you guys!

If you have really bad nightmares and you're not sure what to do about them, try valerian root. Its typically used as a natural sleep aid and minor muscle relaxer- and is an over-the-counter herb. you can get it in other forms if you can't swallow capsules but keep in mind its a bit stinky so if smell really bothers you, you can leave the bottle open for a minute to air out the bottle and it smells normal after (well, unless you stick your nose right up on it)

I used to have nightmares almost every night in my teenage years (very bad ones that made me not want to sleep). my dad recommended this to me to take, and almost every night after when I took it, I didn't have nightmares anymore.

two of my friends have already tried it if my memory serves well (I can't remember if one of them is still taking it but the other recently tried it with instant results) though I get a lot of dubious looks, when people actually try it I'm glad to see it helps, so I wanted to share it in case it could help anyone else who wants to try another alternative.

of course if you take life-saving medicine you should ask a doctor about interactions, to be safe, but there's not typically any interactions as far as I know bc its just an over-the-counter herb.

also its a pretty good alternative to melatonin if you have a slight trouble sleeping but melatonin makes you way too groggy the next day.

Happy sleeping!

[hellscape-halogens]

hey how do you guys deal with night terrors?

I've been having awful night terrors. I'm worried I might start sleepwalking again.

It's keeping my partner awake, and I'm considering sleeping separately from him for his own safety because he has said I fight in my sleep (thrashing around, being physically combative, etc).

I also have been straight up screaming in my sleep. Loudly.

I also talk very clearly in my sleep especially when having night terrors, mostly begging for someone to stop hitting or torturing me, or other times I will be saying mean and bitchy things that I would normally never say when awake.

I just want this to stop. What the fuck do I do?

[breethenecromancer]

Going on 5 days now where I've woken up at 2am. I cannot get back to sleep at all and spend the rest of the night just sitting there, either on my phone hopping I get tired again or slamming my eyes shut hoping I fall asleep. I hate this. No matter how early or late I sleep I keep waking up at 2am.

[itsnovavi]

I'm too tired to go to sleep

[aizawas-upper-left-wisdom-tooth]

I was reading fan fics and was having the worst time trying to concentrate when I remembered this story and thought I'd share!

When I was about 8 years old I was having attention issues while trying to to do my "art homework" that was trying to draw my puppy. My 3rd older sister (we'll refer to her as Zara) heard me complaining that I kept spacing out and fidgeting and had a great idea!

You see, Zara had about one of THE WORST cases of ADHD that our doctor had seen at the time! (After puberty, her symptoms lessened significantly and it's down to about average ADD now) So Zara(being 11 at the time) thought to herself, "Oh! My medicine helps me focus! I bet it will help Aizawa too!"

Thing was, shes 3 years older than me and was about twice as tall! Not only had she gone through a significant growth spurt, but I had always been extremely small for my age! (Drs had actually been worried that I was being neglected due to my shy personality/the fact that I was so small/underweight, but that was due to a health issue and is a story for another time) and to top it all off, I would later find out that while I build up strong immunities to things very quickly, the first time I have anything new, the substance will have the most EXTREME REACTION on me!

So, when naive little me goes along with the plan and takes the 'not-so-micro-dose-meth'.... In the late evening.....

Well... Long story short, I didn't sleep for 3 days. I started getting auditory hallucinations by hour 60ish??? Then some visual ones by the last 2ish??? And spent about half of that time just desperately pretending that everything was fine because we were poor growing up and I refused to go to the hospital over something that was not only so stupid, but also entirely my fault(also my sister's, but we usually hated each other and I didn't want her to get in trouble for one of her few kind acts towards me)....

So.... Lesson learned!

Kids, don't take other people's medications... While a funny story to look back on, it definitely was a.... Learning experience....

[rylee-b-crylee]

me & sandman are beefin' can he chill already

[renasty]

Oh my god, I do this kind of!! Except I do it alphabetically, rn while I’m trying to sleep I try to think of Disney movies that start with A, then B, then C, etc. I never finish the alphabet before I fall asleep (or get sidetracked). It’s really helpful. I’m stuck on K tho. I cannot think of a Disney movie that starts with K. I never knew I was correctly counting sheep this whole time

A bit of trivia:  A lot of people don’t understand what it means to “Count sheep” to sleep. In reality it’s an Insomnia treatment method where you pick a random topic where there might be several examples that fit the criteria “Disney witches” for example or “Films that feature Dracula as a character.”  It can be anything at all.  "Movies with Danny Elfman musical scores.“  You don’t Google the answer.  You lay there and try to think of things that fit the topic you chose and count them. That’s how you really “Count Sheep.”  

[rum-inspector]

I have not had a good dream in weeks if not months, what is the point of going to sleep if it's all borderline nightmares and anxiety in there??? I've got anxiety when I am awake, I do not need that when I am sleeping and supposed to be recuperating as well

[bogglebabbles]

Negativity under the cut.

I love how occasionally I'll think to myself, "Surely a good night's sleep will knock me out of this small funk I'm in," and then my subconscious is like, "WRONG! thousand night terrors attack 🗡️🗡️🗡️💀💀💀‼️‼️‼️" and I get stuck with a mental debuff that follows me around all day and makes me jump every time I hear footsteps in the upstairs apartment.

[b0yskylark]

Idk why but I feel utterly insane, I feel like a freaking looney toon bc I can't sleep without tv?? Specifically YouTube. I tried ASMR, color noise, night wave/vapewave, audiobooks, podcasts, and so on but I just CANT sleep without my stuff. Hell I'm sitting up now bc I spent hours with the TV off (and insomnia but that's unrelated)

I feel broken. I feel like I'm broken in the brain and there is no fix for it.

[dogesphere]

Reeeaally not a fan that my body has decided that 4 hours of sleep is enough. ALL THIS WEEK EVEN!!

[saltonthebreeze]

I would just like to sleep... but the "voices" fill my head like a THICC jelly, and they whisper such loud silence to me. The silence is deafening... it won't stop... I beg them to silence their silence, but they just silence louder...

They sat upon the air

They whispered nothing without a care

They whispered nothing yesterday

They spoke dead silence again today

I asked them please to go away

But yet more silence is all they say

Some nights they let me get some rest

But tonight they want to be my guest

A guest that isn't welcome here

A guest that isn't real I fear

A guest that's quiet oh so loudly

And seems to always leave my head cloudy

The voice seems to need it's rest

I won't complain; it's for the best

O' narrator of every thought

With a net I wish you'd get caught

[artjournalwarrior]

Best work about sleep paralysis! Love it so much

[dlindle]