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Question: why am i waking up after every dream? Anyone else have this?
This is a good conversation. I’ll add more soon.
Thanks for all your experiences. How did you use weed to help you? I am new to it, but it’s legal in CA and I’m looking at trying for a backup plan.
I made a note to myself about those books you liked. I’m adding them to my list to try with Magnesium oil.
I love my blue blocking glasses.
I need to get back into meditation.
Sleep restriction is physically painful, and I don’t have anywhere else that is comfortable to lie down or sit in my tiny cave-like room.
I’m slowly getting more sleep here and there, but now my dreams wake me up. They are awful dreams. My brain hates me. Anyone else see an increase in difficult dreams after getting an hour or two of sleep?
So does it usually take everyone 3-4 days of intense and painful sleep restriction to see some good sleep happen?
I understand being scared. I wish we could all have a nice quiet place we could all set up perfectly for sleep in, and be around during the day to commiserate. What a great business it could be, with perfect sleep hygiene and lots of support.
BTW, I went to Mexico again this weekend. I like it there, but never miss a chance to get sleepy meds. It’s not cheap, but they don’t give me a hassle.
I try not to take them as often as possible to prolong my use of them. This is what I am reduced to.
I find if I get to bed around 9-10pm, I usually get a night I don’t need them, though I wake a lot. And I have too many loud unpleasant dreams on those nights. I miss having dreams that are just background noise, instead of ones that make me cry when I wake up. Anyone else having dream problems as they get more sleep?
Thank you for your thoughts. This is my family business that I co-founded and love. I would rather suffer in the sleep department, than suffer the pain of not being a part of it anymore.
Since it’s online work from home, and all the other nights are fine, I call it a win. 🙂
I have a job where one night a week is a late night. I can’t avoid this. Those are nights I have to either have no sleep, or use a sleeping pill.
As I mentioned, I can’t manage the sleep diary bc I can’t do the math requested to do it, not even by by hand. I did it until there was the 3-4 weeks at once, and that just intimidated me. Also, I was afraid you were going to be mad at me and accuse me of not being serious about fixing my sleep. All of that scared me. I am trying to figure this all out very slowly.
BTW, when I mean work, I mean it’s a late night thing. I work between 7pm til sometimes 1-3AM. Usually once a week, sometimes a night or two more. That can’t be helped.
No, it hasn’t resolved bc this is too much math for me to handle. I have math issues, a form of dyslexia. That is one reason I can’t do my sleep journal. It hurts my brain to process it. I can’t understand, Martin, what you are saying to do.
The only thing that helps without drugs is going to bed really early. Like 9pm-11pm instead of my previous 2am. And I MAKE myself get up between the 9am-10am window, even if it’s just the last free minute. But it’s slowly becoming a habit to make it closer to 9am than almost 10am.
If it’s later than 9pm, more like 10-11pm, I can get some sleep within a half hour, then I generally wake up between 1-3AM, and then read a book in bed to a light I can barley see by, and let it get to the point I am nodding off, then turn over and usually get back to sleep.
I seem to do best when I can get to bed closer to 9am than 11pm. On 9pm nights I sometimes get a full night’s rest (waking a lot, but going back to sleep relatively quickly).
On later nights when I have to work, I can usually get two or three hours, but then have to take sleeping pills.
