[Pale]

Hi there,

I’ve had issues with insomnia on and off since I was diagnosed with Grave’s Disease (I’m on medication for hypothyroidism now) back in 2014. I can have long stretches of sleeplessness dotted with times when I can sleep somewhat decently.

Sometimes when I’m sleeping, I have these weird moments of what I call “sleep awareness”. It’s like a part of my brain wakes up completely, and I am 100% sure that I am asleep. It’s not an out-of-body type of awareness, I can’t see myself lying in bed asleep, but I KNOW that I am sleeping. I can feel how even and slow my breathing is, my hands are heavy and relaxed, and if you asked me upon waking, I could accurately draw how my body was positioned at the time of the “awareness.” I never change position or even move while this is happening, and I know that because I can (and do) wake myself up several times a night by rolling over.

Now, this is weird enough, but then a little voice in my head starts commenting on how asleep I am.

“Oh wow….I’m asleep. Would you look at that?”
“I am very asleep. Sleeping.”
“I am so good at sleeping.”

Sometimes I have this “awareness” happen a few nights in a row, sometimes it only happens every couple of months. Whenever it does happen, I wake up feeling absolutely EXHAUSTED. My eyes hurt, my body feels all noodle-ish (like how you feel getting out of a pool after doing laps), and I usually wake up with a headache. It takes forever for me to actually feel awake, and I know that I’m going to have a slow, unproductive day. It drives me crazy, and when I try to explain this whole ordeal to people they look super confused and concerned.

I should clarify that I have ALWAYS been a very light sleeper, while my two sisters both sleep like drugged boulders. When mom would wake us up for school, hearing her walk towards my door could wake me up, while my sisters would both need constant reminders to wake up.
When we would go to the the dentist and needed to have “laughing gas”, both of my sisters would be dead to the world, while I would only feel a little dizzy and my hands would tingle.

Does ANYONE else have this happen? HOW does one stop it from happening? WHAT is this?

[RavenOfNight]

Man ! You sound like a “Doctor Strange” to me. I think that’s so cool.

I don’t see a huge problem here but im wondering is the exhaustion you are feeling when you woke up decresing as time goes by ? Or stays in the same level ? I’m asking this because acording the resarch i read , many people claims they do feel tired , dizzy or exhausted when they first woke up. Even the many perfect sleepers claims that ! So the feelings we feel during the first hours after woking up might be tricky. I don’t know , i’m not expert or anything but thats the what i read on that article and maybe that’s the reason why you feel this way.

Wish you a good day and nice sleeps my friend. 🙂

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