autism,sleeping issues?

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Trouble for me is I've had a lot of jobs with evening or graveyard shifts. Wreaks even more havoc with seeping. (what ever happened to steady, fixed shifts? Thanks a bunch Wal*Mart!!). I don't get sleepy now until near midnight. But trying to sleep in daylight in a house with pets with my hearing is like sitting near a concerto.. of Jackhammers! UGHH
Never AGAIN (aside from the odd gang with guns issue!), too hard to rest.
In college, I was once rx'd with Elavil. That certainly helped my sleep. Until I ran out of it. Withdrawl from that stuff is worse than the DTs. Insommina 100% and eventually started dreaming while I was awake. I discovered I had been reading TOO much Stephen King! LOL

Sincerely,
Matt

I was terrible for not sleeping as a child. I took a long time to fall asleep. I think it was the arrival of our cat that helped me get over that - he loved to sleep, including on the bed with me, and I rather liked lying there listening to him purr.

As an adult, I usually fall asleep quickly and I can sleep very deeply. A few times I've scared my partner a little because he couldn't wake me up! However, I now have the opposite issue. I talk in my sleep - not random mutterings, but actually waking him up and holding a lucid (but random) conversation. I've been known to sit up in bed. As a child I let the cat out in my sleep once. And on a residential trip at school one time I apparently chased another boy out of the dormitory and was very angry with him. In all these cases, I have no memory of any of it the next morning. It wasn't until quite recently that I realised the other kids weren't making the dormitory thing up.