Do you go to sleep at night, or do you literally just fall asleep, not always even making it to bed?

I used to wake up several times at night. Since I started using my cell phone alarm clock, and unplugged the other clock, I’ve been sleeping better. However, I snore like a man. I can fall asleep any time, any where….except in a car with someone else driving…I can only sleep when I’m driving.

I need to see a Dr…

I’m rarely tired at night due to inactivity during the day. I take Ambien to go to sleep. I think I’ve become accustomed to and prefer being put to sleep by a substance or situation (sex) rather than falling asleep naturally. I don’t think I’ve fallen asleep naturally since last spring. And yes, I’m aware how important sleep is.

I sleep about nine hours a night (sadly not without interruption). I usually read before going to sleep so when I start to nod off, i know it is time to put down the book.

I need absolute darkness, even the light from a clock will keep me up. I also like to fall asleep with music, but it has to be very quiet. The last thing I need is a glass of water at my bedside because I sleep with my mouth open and I usually wake up in the night with a nasty dry mouth.

Other than that, nothing…

What’s sleep?

Seriously it’s that bad.

Background noise makes it extremely difficult for me to sleep, I need some source of ambient noise to cancel it out. I started sleeping with a fan on years ago, and now it’s impossible for me to sleep without it.

I can’t ever sleep good. I don’t know what the problem is. It takes me about two to four hours to fall asleep, and I usually give up before then. noises of all kinds keep me awake, silence keeps me awake, it’s so lame.
If I pass out it’s due to near exhaustion.
I’ve fucking tried it all, hot milk, cherry baths, yoga, meditation, watching what I do before bed, eating, not eating, trying to build a habit for when I go to sleep and wake up and for the past plus ten years I’ve failed, failed and failed again.

The Sandman just totally gave up on me, and when I DO get some goddamn sleep, it’s always plagued by episodes of nocturnal paralysis, nightmares and brain flies. I hate sleeping. It’s such a project.

Incidentally, I find that day time naps, I pass out in like seven minutes and sleep deeper than I had for the whole week, although that’s probbaly due to my shit sleep condition.

I have no habits or tactics because sleep just won’t come to me as it does a normal person. The only thing that works is getting plastered and falling asleep from that.

I have a very bad habit, and that is I always feel sleepy and tired late at night, but I don’t go to bed like I should. I find myself fighting my heavy eyelids, and I really know I should go to sleep, but I forestall it to play more on my computer or do little things. You see, the time before sleep is usually my most enjoyable moment of my day——the house is quiet, the kids have gone to bed, I am not at work, etc., the only real time of the day for me to let go and relax. I don’t want to waste it by going to bed. I know that sounds crazy, but as sleepy as I am, I just want to have a few more minutes of fun before I hit the sack. But I always pay for it the next day, because I’m all tired again! Sigh. :(

@Symbeline Same here! I can’t sleep at night and have tried everything over the last several years. Daytime nap – I fall asleep right away. It really pisses me off, especially when I am in bed staring at the ceiling at night.

I haven’t slept well since giving birth to my first child 23 years ago. I vividly remember the details of the last good nap I ever had—windows open, strong breeze, early fall…heavenly. I went for several years not sleeping at all for days because of a demanding work schedule, and caring for small children. I would pick up at day care by 6 pm, do the mom thing until 10 pm, and then go back into the office after they were tucked into bed, come home at 3 am, sleep until 6 am, and then get up and do it all again. I’ve never recovered from that.

I would love it if I could sleep somewhere other than the couch.

I used to sleep very well but then I got married and had to get used to having another human in the bed and the room with me.

Then I had children, and I still wake automatically at 2 am and 4 am, and wonder if they are hungry.

Now, thanks to the wonders of dialysis for my husband at 6 am, getting a bipolar teen up, medicated and to school, the needs of dogs and cats, and the usual too-much-stuff-to-do, I sleep at odd moments and generally in a recliner.

I did shift work for years- lots of nights. There are studies showing this is detrimental to health, saying that day sleeping is not as healthy. I don’t buy that, I think it’s switching from daysleeping to be awake back to day sleeping that is hard on us. I still sleep best from 6 am to 10 or 11.

Since the crash (April 2004) that caused my chronic pain with which I live daily, I suffer from chronic sleep deprivation. I can NOT sleep in a bed, no matter how good without suffering horrible back spasms and pain that lasts for days afterwords.

I need a “zero gravity” chair, but can’t afford to buy one.

I “sleep” in a second hand recliner with my neck suoorted by a special pillow in short spurts until the discomfort forces me to get up and move around. Yes, I take medication to assist me to fall asleep but that can still take four or five hours and I’m up again in an hour or two at the most.

I’m always feeling tired and my memory is poor because of the lack of healthy sleep. Even when I am asleep, I moan from pain fairly frequently.

Since falling asleep is an ordeal and staying asleep is nearly impossible, I usually stay up until I can’t keep my eyes open. When I wake up 60 – 80 minutes later, I get up and walk around a bit they go back to my chair where I may try to sit with my knees elevated to relief strain on my lower back and hips.

I wouldn’t wish my sleep pattern on anyone, even the negligent driver who disabled me!

@Dr_Lawrence—Hi buddy, I always feel so bad when I read about your predicament. Missed you the last couple of days – I’ve been working like a dog. You?