What are your sleep problems?

[buckyboy14]

I've never had problems sleeping. Apparently I'm one of the lucky Aspies who can get to sleep just fine.

 

[Flinty]

It was horrible. I now have to take a Seroquel--a big dose of it (600mg)--every night or else I will go for days without getting a wink.

I used to do that, but there were problems with my sinuses that kept me from sleeping anyway. So I was switched to Seroquel XR when it became available - but it doesn't make me drowsy, either. That was OK until the summer of 2011, when I decided I needed a different sleep aid.

What I came up with was nighttime sinus medication. There's one brand that works really well - unfortunately, I think the brand is only available in Canada. OK, apparently it's also available in Israel, Poland, and China. :rolleyes2:

 

[laurahansb]

One of my biggest sleep problems is nightmares. Sometimes, when I am waking up from a nightmare, it takes me at least several minutes to snap out of it because the dream seems so real. Then once I wake up in the middle of the night, I'm lucky if I fall back to sleep. I find that my nightmares increase in intensity and frequency when I am under stress-like I am with all of the stuff that I've been going through lately.

Another problem that I have is shutting off my brain. Some nights, the thoughts just won't stop, and by thoughts, I mean mostly negative ones. I might start thinking about my worries, or negative stuff that happened during the day, week...etc. Or other times some really scary or disturbing image will get stuck in my head to the point where I am too upset and frightened to sleep. Last month, I read an online article where one of my favorite authors was interviewed. He described how he had once taken his teenage son to see the movie Precious in an effort to teach him some kind of lesson through seeing the movie. Well, after I read that, all I could remember were the advertisements for the movie that I had seen on TV with the flashing scenes of the main character experiencing life in her abusive broken home. I would constantly hear her abusive mother shout "Precious!" The images from that brief preview became tatooed on my brain. I couldn't sleep. I left the lights on as I laid in bed, tossing and turning. And needless to say, I thanked my lucky stars that I will never have to see that film. Intense stuff like that scares me to death; I can't even watch stories about hauntings on TV without freaking out and having nightmares. So while I sleep pretty well most of the time, I have my rough nights, too.

 

[oscar2012]

i want to go to sleep before i go to work.i dont sleep much at night as you say my brain wont switch off.and i sleep better of a day than eveining.i get to stessed wondering what kind of day i will have so i sleep to much going on.i dont like being around negative people aswell

 

[Kida]

I have a hard time falling asleep. (Or atleast, at times when I should/want.)
Like, I'll go to bed, and it'll take hours before I finally manage to fall asleep somehow.
It's really frustrating.

It also doesn't really help that I commonly feel less tired during the night than I did during the day.
I could be feeling tired during the day, but then when it's night, a lot of my tiredness often seems to fade for some reason.
As a result, I commonly find myself living during the night, and sleeping during the day.
Which I don't want. But it just kinda happens.

I've considered something like sleeping pills, but I'm not sure if I should.

 

[wyverary]

I've considered something like sleeping pills, but I'm not sure if I should.

They are worth a try, I think. Everybody reacts to them differently, of course, but if they help, a good night's sleep is WAY worth it.