How would you react if you were not allowed to sleep?

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I'm in such a stupid situation, and humans can be so unbelievably selfish... so, just because they can't be assed to walk a bit (like, literally, a minute away) they want to pass by really close to my flat and the worst part is when they exit their cars they bang their doors, so last time I tried sleeping I've had a hellish time... every time I came close to falling asleep a car door was bashed... this didn't happen once, so I was really unlucky as it doesn't happen literally constantly but it so happened to occur just when I was about to fall asleep...

Honestly, this must be some sort of recipe it seems to me concocted by someone who wants to turn the tortured person into a criminal... and why should cars pass by really close to someone sleeping?! Anyone else in this situation? Because, honestly, it sounds so rare that someone must have set me up to fail intentionally...

Because, of course, the more one doesn't sleep the more one goes insane, the more one goes insane to infinitely selfish people who bash doors just because they don't want to walk for one minute the more one edges closer to just going out there and bashing their heads instead... I've endured this for many months so far, but for how long? It's not like I can even move right now with the chaos outside, nor do I have anywhere to move to, which is the more pressing future problem, and even with the pandemic as it is, not being able to sleep could harm my immune system, as such just because (not only are they driving around potentially spreading the virus themselves) they don't want to park the car nearby and walk for one minute my very life could be risked... just not damn fair!

Sleep deprivation is recognized as torture by the UN. However, in your case, the problem seems to be ordinary noise that you have an unusual sensitivity to. Perhaps if you go away briefly and return rested, you will be better able to let it go. As long as the sound continues as it has been, it is also a signal that you won't be getting a knock on your door, and there's no bears, or other unusual threat around.

Not sure what you mean at the end... and I can't go anywhere to rest, this is my only bed, which is the point... and is it unusual sensitivity? When one is nearly about to fall asleep is the mind supposed to ignore a smashed car door?

Arranging a temporary bed is a hassle, but sometimes it has been the only way for me to recover. You should be able to distinguish between a car door (safe) and your front door (needs attention.) Right now, that sound hits a groove straight to irritation, so it needs re-programming.

It's not about danger, one still needs quiet to fall asleep, and my whole flat is quite close to this space with cars, so there's nowhere else I can go... it's almost like claustrophobia in real life, the more I hate cars the closer they come...

you live in small apartment with paper thin walls and its next door to a garage used by folks out on the town in the middle of the night, and you hear every door slamming?

Maybe start wearing ear plugs?

My house is like that too. This has its ups and its downs, our neighbor was being robbed and I heard it immediately

You can get earplugs, there are some spongy ones that are really nice and take the shape of your ear canal so they are comfy but if the texture annoys you, you can try silicone ones. Make sure they fit cause they may fall out while you sleep.

Be grateful for one thing.

Freddy Kruger can't get you!

I can only sleep with:

- sedative meds
- nightmare meds
- ear plugs *
- blindfold
- night guard
- weighted blanket

I was supposed to use a CPAP too, but I couldn't tolerate it for sensory reasons on top of the other things.

Definitely try earplugs if you are a sensitive sleeper like I am.

During normal sleep, the brain cells shrink and their waste products are flushed out in a rinse between them. The rest of the body does this continuously with the lymphatic system. If waste builds up, the higher reasoning processes are cut off first, and you eventually wind up as smart as a lizard, and probably feel cornered.