I Have Insomnia Stories of Experiences (Page 6)

Growing up my children believed mommy never slept. Any time day or night you could get her and she would answer like she was wide awake. Them kids are grown up now...I am still awake, only feeling a lot less friendly about it now.

I...

I have been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder because of an accident that happened to me I go through hell to try and sleep

Most people would think that I sleep quite a lot because I spend so much time laying in bed but the truth is that I'm depressed and I don't want to get up so I just lay there in the dark and think. I'm lucky if I get more than 4 hours...

Sleep is so.. elusive. Good sleep even more so.

I usually can't sleep, and when I CAN get to sleep, I either have a nightmare, or an extremely disturbing dream that wakes me up an hour or so later. Many nights I don't sleep at all. I...

USUALLY ARTHRITIS Pain/sometimes vivid dreams/sometimes no cause but will watch the clock turning from 2 to 3 to 4 to 5 ets

I have terrible nightmares that I don't know how to get rid of. I thought of hypnosis, but I don't know if it will work...I'll try anything at this point. I have been having many nightmares about being strangled and suffocated. I am...

I wasn't like this always. All of this began 4 years ago. I was just out of my senior year planning my future , setting my priorities right , checking out different courses and colleges.Everything came crashing down when the results...

I've gone to sleep at weird times for so long, even though it's like a set pattern now, I have like an internal alarm clock, but still, I'd go to bed at around 5:00am to as early as 7:00am. And it's been like this for so long I've...

I have to admit that staying up all night has some really cool advantages. I've met some really great people on my late/all night escapades, gotten things done that I never seem to havethe time for otherwise, and caught up with some...

I'm so tired, my eyes are so heavy...but I can't shut off my mind. It just thinks and thinks and I toss and turn and sometimes begin to cry. I then wake up and just decide to watch netflix or something to occupy my mind and exhaust it...

How many nights until you see monsters? How many days until you are a zombie? How many? Man I am tierd. I dont sleep yet I close my eyes. I feel as if I am dreaming but then I am flashed I all reallity and its only been hours. 2or3...

Time I went to sleep: 4 a.m. roughly.Time I had to get up: 8 a.m.Oh joy.

Today is friday. I spent 40 hours this week assisting in the spaying and neutering of over 200 animals. And I have been wide awake since I woke up sunday morning. I'm barely functioning and so exhausted. Why can't I just go to...

so i close my eyes and i start laughing at something i`d watched, heard or something that happened. like my hyper mind won`t ever let me sleep it`s 3 now and i`m really tired but i`ll try to sleep but i`ll start thinking of funny things...

That bad fairy Insomnia perched on the end of my bed.
Where did I get that phrase from?
Its questions like this that keep me awake at night. 

Here I sit in front of this computer wishing I was sleeping and getting some good rest for my body. If I'm not here then I'm watching television right on up til the time it gets light outside. By this time I am so exhausted I just...

All I want is to fall asleep.. but my mind won't stop racing.

So im layin here right now. After a day of tanning, swimming, and energy drink you woukd think i would be able to sleep. But noooo. Im laying here and cant get comfortable. My mind feels like my mind is racing. Wtf. Ugh.

i cant sleep an entire night unless i take 4 benadryl and a few melatonin...and even then, I wake up every hour.

I honestly havent slept well since elementary school

I have the weirdest sleeping schedule. There are periods where I sleep just fine, but then for some reason, the good sleeping stops.There are full weeks where I can't get a good nights sleep. I'd stay up all night, just laying in bed...