i fall asleep but i not asleep i still aware of sounds and movements which really pisses me off coz its like i awake but my eyes are closed and it really pisses ma friends and fiance off lmao they talk and i asleep but i still acknowlage them

In my opinion the worst bit of insomnia is when you do eventually get to sleep and get the sort of dreams i get. But hey, that may just be me.

My musco-skeletal breakdown. I stand in one spot for a majority of the day and to feel like my muscles are ripping from my bones sucks the wang!

Thank goodness for this group. Until I joined DS today, I felt SO alone. I have a lot of the things that people have already mentioned - fed up with pills, being off schedule with the world, tired all the time, stuggling at work, dreaming being so intense. I mean, how much late night TV can you watch? The feeling of being alone, and the fact that no one seems to have answers for me is a lot to deal with at times. If it was not for the internet, I think I would have become a hermit or something. Thanks so much for sharing your experiences.

Has anyone done things like planning a craft project for 1AM to distract yourself?

im sleeping better but the worst thing about it is i feel alone n lonely even when ya have people to talk to they cant b there all night too

For me the most frustrating thing for me about my insomnia is once I wake up I can not go back to sleep no matter how hard I try. I wake up at night to go to the bathroom and I am not able to go back to sleep. Without my medication I would only probably be a sleep two hours then I would wake up and not be able to sleep for a couple of hours then I 'd sleep for two hour. It is a never ending cycle.

i'm 13 and havent slept well for about a year now. on average i get about 3-5 hrs of sleep a night. i wake up constantly, for no reason. i was diagnosed with anemia (low iron, which leads to loss of energy) and obstructive sleep acnia (something blocks my airway when i sleep), not a good combination. one frustrating thing for me is watching my friends run around and laugh when i can barely keep my eyes open (i don't sleep if i close my eyes either, just drift). my loss of sleep has lead to depression, which makes find good friends even harder. the most frustrating thing for me is watching this condition affect the rest of my life, and i can't do anything about it.

IT'S DEPRESSSING CAUSE EVERYONE IS SLEEPING, AND YOUR WIDE AWAKE, AND YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING CAUSE YOUR AFRAID YOU'LL WAKE SOMEONE UP IN THE HOUSE!

The unpredictability. It's not every night but a lot of the time when i need to br up early to do something so i'm tired all day but not even always then.. I really can't predict.

when i'm up for 47 hours, sleep 6 hours and then up for another 30 or so. wash rinse repeat. and then other times i can sleep thru the night for a week. when the meds don't work. and when people around me that know i've been up that long and know it's insomnia tell me to go to sleep. O.o yes thank you. now that you told me to it should all work out.

Hi all ,newbie here. Have been having trouble with insomnia the past couple of months. The most frustrating thing for me is that I will get a few nights of good sleep and just start to feel good again, and thinking that maybe this thing has run its course and is letting go of me and then WHAMMO! it comes back again. It's like I will be so tired at work and so sure that i'm going to be able to sleep and then I lie down and suddenly, bing! i'm awake and I just can't relax my mind and body enough to drop off. My kind of insomnia is where I can't fall asleep. Sometimes in the mornings I will drift off on and off for a while but not enough to give me any real rest. I am hoping it will go as suddenly as it came. I don't know what to do. I don't want to have to take prescription sleep meds because in the long run I believe that they will just make my problem worse. I am worried about stressing my husband out with this too as he is still recovering from prostate cancer and does not need any additional stress right now. This site is helping me though at least as a place to vent and to not feel like I am so alone. Thank you all for listening. Good luck to all of us to start sleeping normally again soon. Love and Peace to you all.

that I am awai=ke right now, and no one else is....

What hinders me the most is my noisy living enviornment when I leave the windows open on nice beautiful nites. I live in front of a railroad trx, the local er. and the local police. If thats not enough I'm waiting till two am for dadd to drop off needed items for me to survive. They help me live. He is on his way to work part time as a Truck Driver for the Catelli brothers in Camden. I wake when he does shade and a haircut. It is our signal, then I call out "DADDY? Just to be sure. "YES"" I answer. Kiss say what I say then he's on his way to work and I work on my novel.

I always get it before something important! I will be SO tired, but I will just lay there.

The worse thing is just lying awake and regretting things you did. Thinking about mistakes and feeling desperate.
Even though my body is tired, by brain can never rest.

It's also frustrating to hear people talking about their dreams, while all I can say is that I was wide awake the whole night.