Insomnia Support Group
Insomnia is a symptom, rather than a disease, and is characterized by inadequate quantity or quality of sleep. People with insomnia complain of difficulty falling or staying asleep, which results in significant impairment of daytime functioning. Insomnia is categorized as transient (shorter than one week), short-term (one to three weeks) or chronic (longer than three...
The last week here's how I'd say my sleep went. Tues: Good, Weds: Good, Thurs: Bad, Friday: Good, Saturday: Good, Sunday:Bad, Monday: Bad. I'm mostly very annoyed about the last 2 bad nights. Sunday I had trouble going to sleep(took around an hour) and I woke up a couple of times. Last night I fell asleep right away but I woke up at 4:45-5 A.M. I had to pee so I'm not sure if that's what woke me up but I didn't feel very tired and when I tried reading to go back to bed even that didn't work.
I wasn't supposed to get up till 8 and I know for a fact I would have been craving a nap later in the day if I would have stayed up. Frustrating part is I was stuck in stage 1 until 8 a.m. and now I feel more tired than I was at 5. Even my mom said she heard me tossing and turning.
Its also just so frustrating because despite sleeping bad sunday, I did one of my exhausting workouts early in the day and my body feels so tired if I don't get a solid good 8 hours. But yea, it's also frustrating only sleeping well on 4/7 nights. Sleepings all about a pattern of consistency and being able to sleep well for 2 nights in a row isn't good enough.
On a side note for some reason I've been having mini nightmares on most of even my good nights. They aren't the nightmare types where someone is trying to kill you or something but they're bizarre. They're either panicky or just flat out bizarre. For example one I was god knows where and wearing god knows what but I was hiding somewhere and trying to scare people. I was on my knees and lunged out. I actually woke up because I mimicked the motion I did in the dream. A freak out dream was one about some school work I was reading earlier and I can't remember the specifics and it didn't make any sense why I was having a panic attack but in the dream I was absolutely terrified and when I woke up I didn't feel well rested at all.
I wasn't supposed to get up till 8 and I know for a fact I would have been craving a nap later in the day if I would have stayed up. Frustrating part is I was stuck in stage 1 until 8 a.m. and now I feel more tired than I was at 5. Even my mom said she heard me tossing and turning.
Its also just so frustrating because despite sleeping bad sunday, I did one of my exhausting workouts early in the day and my body feels so tired if I don't get a solid good 8 hours. But yea, it's also frustrating only sleeping well on 4/7 nights. Sleepings all about a pattern of consistency and being able to sleep well for 2 nights in a row isn't good enough.
On a side note for some reason I've been having mini nightmares on most of even my good nights. They aren't the nightmare types where someone is trying to kill you or something but they're bizarre. They're either panicky or just flat out bizarre. For example one I was god knows where and wearing god knows what but I was hiding somewhere and trying to scare people. I was on my knees and lunged out. I actually woke up because I mimicked the motion I did in the dream. A freak out dream was one about some school work I was reading earlier and I can't remember the specifics and it didn't make any sense why I was having a panic attack but in the dream I was absolutely terrified and when I woke up I didn't feel well rested at all.
Regarding the nightmares, just speculating, but they typically occur during a REM dream stage, which normally happens after completion of the deeper and most refreshing slow wave sleep stages.
We typically cycle through 4 to 6 complete sets of these stages per night, and awaken briefly between each set. Most people forget about these transient awakenings by morning, but you may have awakened after your second or third set and found it hard to fall back asleep.
In cases like that, our sleep drive is by then significantly reduced, and we rely more on our circadian rhythm, or more specifically our circadian alerting system, which typically is at its lowest ebb in the early morning hours, to finish the remaining cycles.
That's another reason why consistency is so important. Helps strengthen that all important circadian rhythm in addition to synchronizing it to the sleep drive.