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I have exhausting night terrors every night, does anyone else have sleep difficulties?

I just can't sleep at night. Night is so quiet - it seems such a waste to lose it. All the interesting things happen at night.

It takes me at least an hour to get to sleep, and I can't sleep until later and later every night. Right now my sleep schedule is so messed up that I don't get to sleep until about 8 AM. I cram in as much sleep as I can before I have to be somewhere, and then I'm really tired until about when I would like to go to sleep. Then I get a burst of wakefulness and energy that lasts all night long. I've been dealing with this problem all my life, but it was only two days ago that I learned this is called Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome.

I take Melatonin for that, 3 mg.

When left completely alone (no comitments), I tend to start taking on a non-24 hour schedule. I think it runs closer to 28 hour days. Doesn't work well with school/work though.

I have soo much trouble falling a sleep! It's like my mind dosen't stop!

I don’t have night terrors (thank goodness!), but when I do have nightmares, they’re incredibly vivid. The most disturbing part about them is the feeling I have during them. After I wake up, it takes a good 24 hours – or more – just to shake the feeling. I had this horrible dream once where I seemed to be trapped inside a corpse. I couldn’t get out. It was like trying to claw my way up through a dark tunnel, and I kept slipping back. I’m not claustrophobic but I swear, whatever claustrophobics must feel in small spaces must be what I felt in that dream. The fact that it was a corpse didn’t help. I’m not a very emotional person, but I was on the brink of tears for a couple of days after that one.

I found I have RBD (rapid eye movement behaviour disorder) and understand that I have been suffering it for many years, which explains the horrible nightmares and states of sleep that I have often been through (such as getting up to do something, or fighting, shouting, as if I was in a state of awakeness) sometimes every night. The body doesnt enter a proper REM state, and the body thinks it is awake. I have always suffered from being very tired every day no matter how much sleep I got. The more I have understood the condition, the better I have been able to control it

Restless leg syndrome....uggg...

I don't sleep as much as I should. I usually only get 2-4 hours a night.

Yeah, I can't fall asleep without meds. I can sleep 11 hours and still be tired during the day.

Without meds I'm an insomnic who stays up for days on very little sleep. Of course, this makes me miserable.

I used to take things to sleep every night... got addicted to nightnurse for it as my mind just wouldn't stop and my ex would keep me awake with his snoring and we were sleeping in a very small space, so I would find I had no room to curl up. It was horrific. I used to dread going to bed. Now my main problem is my mattress is a coil sprung one and for some reason, the springs are near the top and they dig into me all over the place... I cannot sleep with anything digging into me. It is not an old mattress so I have assumed either it is meant to be that way or I am so immensely heavy I have gone through to the springs