For years I've suffered what is termed 'delayed sleep phase' tendencies. It's left it's lasting impression, let me assure you. Months on end with 3-or-less hours a night, along with innumerable times where sleep for several days was not an option can do that to you.

Now that I've got the whinge bit over with, I was wondering how many other people in our unusual forum suffer from insomnia, no matter the severity.

Well, up until recently, I used to get pretty bad insomnia. I have no idea why it stopped.

No matter the severity?
Well, it takes me about one to three hours to go to sleep after lying down in bed, no matter at what time, no matter how tired I am. Reading books during that time helps though.

I'm also extremely sleepy in the morning and quite capable of falling asleep again under a cold shower.

Labyrinth:
For years I've suffered what is termed 'delayed sleep phase' tendencies. It's left it's lasting impression, let me assure you. Months on end with 3-or-less hours a night, along with innumerable times where sleep for several days was not an option can do that to you.

Now that I've got the whinge bit over with, I was wondering how many other people in our unusual forum suffer from insomnia, no matter the severity.

My, that sounds familiar..... My insomnia (great word, by the way) started when I was a sophomore in high school and hasn't let up since then- very late to sleep and very late to rise would be the ideal condition for me

Chalk another one up here. I regularly (read 52 weeks a year) go for 7 days without sleep. Thankfully I crash, hard, on friday nights mostly through a culmination of vodka and painkillers.

I see things when I sleep so I think I'm afraid to. I see the past mostly, sometimes the future or reliving things that have happened to me.

Such joys.

I find that it is easier to sleep if someone is next to me though, so that's a bonus.

I love sleep its great. I sleep like a baby.

Gitsnik:
Chalk another one up here. I regularly (read 52 weeks a year) go for 7 days without sleep. Thankfully I crash, hard, on friday nights mostly through a culmination of vodka and painkillers.

I see things when I sleep so I think I'm afraid to. I see the past mostly, sometimes the future or reliving things that have happened to me.

Such joys.

I find that it is easier to sleep if someone is next to me though, so that's a bonus.

Funnily enough, I see things when seriously sleep deprived. Take the three-days-without style of thing. Shadows in peripheral vision. Lights. Movement. Shapes and colours really out of the ordinary. People around me always look different after that long.

Labyrinth:

Gitsnik:
Chalk another one up here. I regularly (read 52 weeks a year) go for 7 days without sleep. Thankfully I crash, hard, on friday nights mostly through a culmination of vodka and painkillers.

I see things when I sleep so I think I'm afraid to. I see the past mostly, sometimes the future or reliving things that have happened to me.

Such joys.

I find that it is easier to sleep if someone is next to me though, so that's a bonus.

Funnily enough, I see things when seriously sleep deprived. Take the three-days-without style of thing. Shadows in peripheral vision. Lights. Movement. Shapes and colours really out of the ordinary. People around me always look different after that long.

Yeah, completely. Hallucinations (both visual and auditory) are completely normal symptoms of sleep deprivation.... I hate hallucinations......

EDIT: and the people looking different? That could be a form of de-realization (another common symptom that I have as well)

I talk in my sleep and occasionaly shout. I also just randomly sit up crossed legged whilst still asleep which is kind of creepy. Also-

-Ricky

Death Magnetic:
I talk in my sleep and occasionaly shout. I also just randomly sit up crossed legged whilst still asleep which is kind of creepy. Also-

Picture detailing sleep.

-Ricky

This further cements the idea that sleep is for lazy people who want to entertain themselves

I have a something like insomnia. I can't fall asleep until about 1 in the morning, regardless of how tired I am. Once I fall asleep, though, I won't wake up until I have something to do. An example is that I can get out of bed, walk across the room without waking my roommate, turn off my alarm, check the time, go back to bed, all without actually waking up. However, if I have class soon, I immediately wake up, I just don't remeber getting out of bed or anything.

I have mild insomnia, where sometimes i won't sleep for a night (but thats about it). This was caused by my severe sleepwalking issues. In a nights time (every night) I will be walking around, talking, acting out anything that i saw that day or 2 days before hand. I actually played syphon filter for a day, and slept walked around my house, avoiding light and hiding from "would be" terrorists. The problem with this is I do not get any rest, and I generally wake up getting only an hour or 2 of sleep a night.

It has also become enough of a problem that I have to drug myself before bed to not move around anymore, mainly because I fell down the stairs once, I also tripped on a coat and bashed my eye into a corner of my nightstand (9 stitches is in no way good to wake up to), walked to school when i was young through the snow at 2 am. Needless to say, the girlfriend has a full time job making sure i stay in bed every night.

I cant sleep if someone else is in the room. It has broken up a couple of relationships. XD
I fall asleep then girl comes over and wakes me and I cannot fall asleep again or even if I fall asleep with them I would get like 3 hours before something forced me awake. After a few weeks running on 2-3 hours a night I get really cranky.
Also I refuse to work morning shifts since if I know I have to get up in the morning I cannot sleep the night before.
Other then that I tend to sleep just fine. I go to bed at 5am and wake at 2pm.

I've had insomnia for around 6 years. One time I didn't sleep for 3 days and I started to halucinate. I genuinely thought I saw a car drive up a tree and got insanely paranoid. I thought people were trying to break into my house and I could see red eyes watching me from my window. it was strange, but fun in a fucked up kinda way.
I don't mean to whore my music to my fellow escapists, but I wrote a song about insomnia called Requiem for a Dream (yes, I know its a film. I was pissed off when I found that out) which you can check out at www.myspace.com/philhaynes. Don't listen to the other songs though because they're shit :P

i just remember 2 times years ago where i couldnt sleep 1 night, i think the 2nd time was cause by something i ate.

I've had quite 'mild' insomnia since I was about 10. I was told (by doctors & parents who researched it) that it was "probably due to hormones", then it was because "I was one of the few people who don't need very much sleep" and finally I "just have insomnia".

It often takes 2 or more hours for me to fall asleep and I often wake up multiple times during the night for no reason other than I'm a 'light sleeper' (as an example, and excuse my vulgarity, I used to wake up whenever my brother farted in his sleep; a frequent occurrence unfortunately).

Every time I'm disturbed it takes another couple of hours or so for me to then drift off again; thus on average I get 4-6 hours most nights.

Worst I've had though was three days of absolutely no sleep, two of which were college 'cram days' I had to attend or I was going to fail (and I still don't know why they thought it was a good idea to do half a term's worth of work in 2 days).

I've got insomnia and sleep apnea. According to numerous sleep studies I've been to.

I've found a cocktail of Diphenhydramine, Clonazepam, Quetiapine, Zopiclone and Melatonin put me out in conjunction with a Binaural Brain-Thetawave syncronizer and my CPAP machine.

That's probably akin to killing a mosquito with a bazooka in your case though, so I'd recommend Melatonin, as a starting point. It's available OTC and you can pick from the kind harvested from animal peneal glands or the synthetic version, if you're a veg.

I'm a really poor sleeper, no matter how tired I am, I just don't sleep well, or for long.

KneeLord:
I've got insomnia and sleep apnea. According to numerous sleep studies I've been to.

I've found a cocktail of Diphenhydramine, Clonazepam, Quetiapine, Zopiclone and Melatonin put me out in conjunction with a Binaural Brain-Thetawave syncronizer and my CPAP machine.

That's probably akin to killing a mosquito with a bazooka in your case though, so I'd recommend Melatonin, as a starting point. It's available OTC and you can pick from the kind harvested from animal peneal glands or the synthetic version, if you're a veg.

Whoa- insomnia plus sleep apnea must not be a good combination...

I sleep really badly the last few weeks. I sleep well whenever I sleep, however, I think too much. I think of the uselessness of life and what will happen after the death and stuff like that when lying in bed. It just keeps me awake the entire night, in some extreme cases.

However, I feel for you. Real insomnia must be at least a thousandfold worse.

rottenbutter:
Well, up until recently, I used to get pretty bad insomnia. I have no idea why it stopped.

same thing during last summer.

Calobi:
I have a something like insomnia. I can't fall asleep until about 1 in the morning, regardless of how tired I am. Once I fall asleep, though, I won't wake up until I have something to do. An example is that I can get out of bed, walk across the room without waking my roommate, turn off my alarm, check the time, go back to bed, all without actually waking up. However, if I have class soon, I immediately wake up, I just don't remeber getting out of bed or anything.

I can hold full-fledged conversations in my sleep without knowing it.

Funny, I think I might also have a form of sleep phase disorder, but I only discovered that diagnosis recently. I cannot for the life of me fall asleep before 4am, and usually, it's later. If I try to adjust it, I end up sick for a few days until I end up right back going to sleep at 6am. Recently I discovered I can correct this condition with alcohol.

There's probably a catch there, though...

Is it possible that to catch insomnia from someone? because i used to have bad insomnia when i used to sleep at my boyfriend's house.

Murrah:
Is it possible that to catch insomnia from someone? because i used to have bad insomnia when i used to sleep at my boyfriend's house.

Whenever I'm sleeping over at a girlfriends house, or the other way around... neither of us get much sleep, either. That's wierd ;)

I get three hours of sleep each night. It's totally cool, I get a longer day out of it I guess.

It tends to come and go with me. Right now I'm in a phase where I'm going to sleep at 5 or 6 and waking up at 9 so it sucks at the minute. It usually comes about when I'm stressed or have unresolved issues playing on my mind, but I can't think of anything that could be causing it this time. Hopefully I'll get back to a regular pattern soon.

My worst cases have been before exams. I took three seperate exams in uni without having slept the night before. The really odd thing is that I aced all three of them, so perhaps insomnia is not without its benefits.

Ixus Illwrath:

Murrah:
Is it possible that to catch insomnia from someone? because i used to have bad insomnia when i used to sleep at my boyfriend's house.

Whenever I'm sleeping over at a girlfriends house, or the other way around... neither of us get much sleep, either. That's wierd ;)

See, that's what i mean. I really think it's possible to catch insomnia from someone most especially if that someone is very close to you or who is very influencing.

Murrah:

Ixus Illwrath:

Murrah:
Is it possible that to catch insomnia from someone? because i used to have bad insomnia when i used to sleep at my boyfriend's house.

Whenever I'm sleeping over at a girlfriends house, or the other way around... neither of us get much sleep, either. That's wierd ;)

See, that's what i mean. I really think it's possible to catch insomnia from someone most especially if that someone is very close to you or who is very influencing.

He doesn't mean that, he's talking about something else...

I always get plenty of sleep. I'm a deep sleeper too, so it takes quite a bit to wake me. I once had a tent collapse on top of me without me noticing.

I've had insomnia since it could be detected (about 5 I believe) anyway it's a very very strong insomnia example as KneeLord said i've tried Melatonin and that hasn't worked and my doctor put me on some sleeping aid that when my idiot brother, because he couldn't sleep, took one he was out for a full day before we woke him to the point he could function but he still was dead tired for two more days, and that makes me mad i take one i'm still up to at least three man i envy those who can sleep

I've had insomnia since I was a wee little baby.

I've had pretty bad insomnia my whole life. But mine is a bit...odd, in that it comes and goes in waves. Each month there's a cycle, for the first week I don't have much trouble getting to sleep, the second week It's quite a bit harder, but a few Nyquil will do the trick. The third week I won't be able to sleep at all (This never lasts the full 7 days, longest I ever went without sleep was six, at which point I overdosed on sleep meds so I could pass out because after 6 days it becomes dangerous.) The last week of the month I have slight trouble sleeping.

And my sleep cycle is off track because when I finally do pass out from the week of no sleep. It's at a random time like 2 PM or something, so I wake up at midnight and start my day.

i have trouble getting to sleep if the room i'm in is over like 60 degrees. I don't know why but the heat really bothers me

I had insomnia really bad last year after my friend died. Had it for about a month, went to see my GP.

The nice doctor gave me Tamazepam. I didn't take it.