What to do when I feel no need for sleep?

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Sometimes I just stay up for days. I did for 3 days. Or I'll wake up every 3 hrs and think every number is significant. Once I spent the whole night just thinking I was connected to the moon. My family gets concerned, tells me to go to bed but I just can't. I was given sleeping pills, CBD too. Nothing would help.

In fact I thought I was in Alice in wonderland when I stayed up all night after taking a sleeping pill. I also thought I was abducted by aliens once but that was when I had stayed up for a few days. I don't fully know why I do that.. I will just be ok with it and then get anxious when people get upset or concerned. Sometimes I don't sleep because I get scared as well.

It happens once in a while that I just don't sleep. Everyone else I know struggles when they can't sleep but for me it seems to make me feel energy. Sometimes it gets to be too much and I feel excess. Nothing will knock me out though. My anxiety goes up, I get irritable, happy, and paranoid all at once. It's confusing. It also causes me to feel excited randomly and then disappointed.

My situation is rather different, finding myself able to sleep only for short periods, and at just about any time of day, like after a meal. At night I'll get off to sleep eventually , but with lots of fits and starts, but rather than stare at the ceiling, I'll turn on the radio (at low volume of course) and play a grid or two of Sudoku, or, less frequently, have a snack (I have, around my bed, a large choice of high fibre crackers, low fat yogurts and cream cheeses, all fairly healthy stuff). Eventually the Sudoku will become tiring, and I'll switch to reading (I'm rather short of anything interesting at present) and eventually I'll start nodding off, and shut off the light and radio. I may go through this loop three or four times, but it provides adequate sleep, and minimises the boredom (for which I have little tollerance).