Sleep Problems - Childhood Support Group
Childhood","This community is dedicated to parents of children who experience insomnia. Insomnia is inadequate quantity or quality of sleep. Children with insomnia exhibit 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...
I'm not a child, I'm 20, but this is the only sleep problems place I could think of going to.
I swear, I have something that's undiagnosed. I don't think this is normal.
Take tonight for example.
I've been attempting to sleep for two hours. Exactly two hours actually, but I only seem to enter that dreamy state in between wakefulness and sleep . The state where you're still sort of aware of your surroundings.
I keep thinking I'm moving around in my sleep and doing things like getting up, but then in the back of my head I'll be thinking "No, you're asleep.." and if I concentrate a bit harder, I'll find myself laying back in my bed.
I keep thinking i'm texting people and having vivid memories of doing it, but there's no messages on my phone. I just swore I had a 10 minute conversation with a friend on my cellphone, only to realize it never happened.
Sometimes I'll have dreams within dreams, where I'll wake up many times without really waking up. Usually in these, I'll get out of bed and go out to the kitchen only to be attacked. Wake up, go out to the kitchen...get attacked again. It'll happen so many times that when I finally AM awake, I'll lay in bed too scared to move because I'm not sure if I'm still dreaming.
More than once I've felt things when I've just woken up. Not long ago I was laying in bed and had just woken up, I was staring at the floor when something big and black jumped on me and smacked my shoulder. I could feel it hit me for hours, but nothing was ever there.
Sometimes I'm too scared to go to sleep because of this stuff. Right now, I am so so tired but I don't want my mind to be played with anymore.
Does any of this sound like anything anyone knows off?
I swear, I have something that's undiagnosed. I don't think this is normal.
Take tonight for example.
I've been attempting to sleep for two hours. Exactly two hours actually, but I only seem to enter that dreamy state in between wakefulness and sleep . The state where you're still sort of aware of your surroundings.
I keep thinking I'm moving around in my sleep and doing things like getting up, but then in the back of my head I'll be thinking "No, you're asleep.." and if I concentrate a bit harder, I'll find myself laying back in my bed.
I keep thinking i'm texting people and having vivid memories of doing it, but there's no messages on my phone. I just swore I had a 10 minute conversation with a friend on my cellphone, only to realize it never happened.
Sometimes I'll have dreams within dreams, where I'll wake up many times without really waking up. Usually in these, I'll get out of bed and go out to the kitchen only to be attacked. Wake up, go out to the kitchen...get attacked again. It'll happen so many times that when I finally AM awake, I'll lay in bed too scared to move because I'm not sure if I'm still dreaming.
More than once I've felt things when I've just woken up. Not long ago I was laying in bed and had just woken up, I was staring at the floor when something big and black jumped on me and smacked my shoulder. I could feel it hit me for hours, but nothing was ever there.
Sometimes I'm too scared to go to sleep because of this stuff. Right now, I am so so tired but I don't want my mind to be played with anymore.
Does any of this sound like anything anyone knows off?
narcoplesy..Parasomnias, Idiopathic Hypersomnia, Sleep paralysis,hypnopompic hallucinations, Excessive daytime sleepiness,,, google sleep disorders
Dr. Rubin Naiman is assistant professor of clinical medicine, specializing in sleep, at Dr. Weil's Program in Integrative Medicine at University of Arizona. He has written some books on sleep. He also has a private practice. His Web site is www.drnaiman.com . (That's d-r-n-a-i-m-a-n.com)
(a) the initial post here, by MorganVA, was in 2010, and
(b) earlier replies advised that s/he go to the insomnia group or seek info elsewhere instead of here in the Sleep Disorders--Childhood group.