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Insomnia or can you go to sleep at the drop of a hat? Do you sleepwalk or talk? Do you have a lot of dreams? Do you wake up instantly or slowly?

I've had insomnia since I was a kid. On a good night, it takes me at least an hour to fall asleep, usually more. And I will wake up 1-4 times on a good night (5+ on a bad night). And I rarely can get to sleep before 10PM even if I want to, unless I'm so behind on sleep I'm feeling sick.

I have a lot of dreams. And I semi-lucid dream. What I mean by that is that I'm usually aware that I'm dreaming, and I can often direct things to happen. But also there is a lot of time where I know what I want to happen and yet I can't make it. Like, whenever I have Middle Earth dreams, for some reason, the setting always looks modern with cars and everything. I can't get rid of them.

I wake up instantly. And once I'm awake I'm awake (if I'm fully awake). If I want to go back to sleep, it will take another hour.

Lucid dreaming is so fascinating to me. I've only had a few (not voluntarily) and it's just such an odd feeling. I remember having one where I realised early on I was dreaming, and kept trying to do stuff to wake myself up in the dream like jumping down stairs, hitting my head etc, and nothing worked. I got really frustrated. :P

My back is shit, so I wake up constantly in the middle of the night. Sometimes in a burning sweat. I know a lot of this is on me, because of my increasingly sedentary lifestyle, but it's frustrating as fuck too, trying to get out of it. You know you need to move around more, but you're too tired to do shit and it seems no matter how healthy you eat or how much you move, sleep is still of poor quality.

I have had a few nights where i *could not sleep at all*, but i don't know if it's insomnia if it doesn't happen all the time.

Mostly I sleep fine, but my stupid Crohn's means i'm up once or twice (or, on a bad night, three or four) times a nice to use the toilet.

I generally go right back to sleep, though. Ditto if my cats jump on my head or whatever - I usually fall back asleep within five minutes.

I've had insomnia for years. It's better than it used to be, especially since my anxiety/depression aren't as bad. I still use OTC sleeping pills to fall asleep, and the occasional edible (Indica).

I don't have insomnia but I do take a long time to get to sleep and always have, ever since I was a kid. And every few months I either get an episode of sleep paralysis or a horrific nightmare that fucks up my ability to sleep for the best part of a week which fucks up my pattern.

It could be much worse so I don't gripe much, but it's still not fun.

I can deal with nightmares, usually. Sleep paralysis is the worst, though. Absolutely terrifying.

I normally don't remember them, I just wake up fucking terrified and can't get back to sleep(this is fun when this happens at 4am because I am a zombie the whole of the next day and don't rest well despite being tired). Sometimes I do however, like I did 3 weeks ago and I didn't want to go to sleep the following night and I was jumpy and paranoid the whole day, it was not a good dream.

Sleep paralysis makes me too scared to sleep, so even though I am exhausted I can't shut off because I'm too anxious to and some episodes leave me so scared I spend a week not sleeping well.

Sleep paralysis sounds absolutely terrifying. I'm sorry. :( Hugs.

Ha, thank you. :)

I wish I could purge it from my brain but I really feel for anyone who gets it more frequently because even my every-few-months episodes are a whole bag of DNW.

(Though as it turns out I used to get it waaaaay more as a kid, I just thought the house was haunted, lmao).

I usually take an hour to get to sleep. And I wake up 3-4 times a night. However, that changes depending on how stressed I am. If I am relaxed, I usually don't wake up at all.

All I have are nightmares. :( I can't remember ever having a good dream.

I am also the type of person who (on weekdays) goes from asleep to awake in like 15 seconds.

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My partner said to me the other day that he "really enjoys" nightmares. Like he loves the adrenaline rush of waking up and realising that everything's fine. I told him that he's lucky that he's never had the kind of nightmare that keeps you up for the rest of the night. :(

I had a nightmare as a kid that made me not go outside for 2 days. I was afraid it would come true.

Stay up until way too late, go to work sleep-deprived, try to catch up during the weekend but stay up even longer and try to not sleep the entire day away.

The problem is that no matter how crap I feel in the morning, I never get sleepy after seven in the evening.

Your sleep patterns sound just like mine! The upside is that I recently flew to Australia for vacation, and no significant jet lag. I give the credit to my consistent lack of sleep. My jetlagged travel partner was very annoyed with my resilience.

I have always slept better during the day. When I was in school I was constantly exhausted because no matter what I did I was up almost all night. I am much better now that I am able to sleep during the day. I am still stuck with the idea that I am supposed to sleep at night, and be awake during the day even though I know it doesn't work for me, and every once in a while I will drive myself nuts trying to get into a "normal" sleeping pattern.

I'm a terrible night owl. I'm more active and alert at night. I can physically make myself go to bed early if I know I have something to do in the morning, but guaranteed I'll just be tossing and turning until about 5 AM anyway. Once I do sleep, I sleep like a baby.

Drop of a hat if I'm trying to sleep, but I'm real good at procrasinating going to sleep. Used to talk and yell all the time but not on meds anymore so it doesn't happen as much. Rarely remember my dreams. Slow only if I'm using alarms.

My sleep patterns have been fucked up for years, to the point where I was on Ambien for a long time, though of course it became less effective as time went on. My doctor decided I didn't need it and I got sick of fighting him about it, so I stopped trying to and have been without it since October. Turns out it was helping more than I realized. These days it's not unusual ~~to be loved by anyone~~ for me to go more than two days without being able to sleep at all, but when I do finally get to sleep I tend to be out cold for up to 18 hours. Nothing I try seems to help me balance it out. I've cut way back on caffeine, I take melatonin, I'm already on muscle relaxers and I've tried OTC sleep remedies (all of which used to be super effective). Frankly, it's maddening, and I'm having a hard time getting my current primary care physician to take the issue seriously. Here's hoping I can find a new one soon...

Man, that's real rough. Hang in there!

I can usually fall asleep pretty quickly. But for the occasions that I don't, I do have a prescription for Sonata that I can take.

My main issue is that sometimes I wake up too early, and then it's hard for me to fall back asleep if I know I have to get up within a couple of hours.

When I do get up, it's usually right away though.

As for dreaming, I do tend to have some fucked up dreams. That's when I usually wake up because I don't want to have more fucked up dreams.

I usually fall asleep within 15 minutes and sleep for about 9-10 hours if I'm not interrupted by the alarm clock or a full bladder. I rarely remember any dreams. But every couple months or so I hit this streak of insomnia and my brain won't shut up and let me sleep. Last summer I started taking melatonin and this hasn't happened as often since then.

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