Lying awake, waking at 3, and everything people tried to fix it.
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I get decent sleep. But when I wake up I still feel tired, and even hours later my eyes are tired and sometimes red. I can't focus. Then I decide, okay, maybe I need more sleep, and I try to sleep, and I can't. It's a never ending cycle. It's hard to fall...
I don't think I have true insomnia, because I don't lie awake for hours on end. But for some reason my body needs a little screen time, no matter how tired I felt in the other room. And if I stay in the living room, I sleep without hesitation. Does this...
Get into your sleeping position, preferably on your back, and close your eyes. Now start blinking as fast as you can, without stopping, for 60 seconds only. Aim for 120 plus blinks. Keep track of the time by saying the word Mississippi between each number...
Not sure how to explain this properly, but here goes. I keep waking up around 3 or 4am almost every night. It doesn't matter when I go to bed. Early, late, same thing. I'm dead tired, but the second I wake up my brain is wide awake. Thoughts start racing, my...
This might sound stupid, but apparently you're meant to have either a 15 minute nap or a 90 minute nap. That doesn't make much sense to me, because some people take longer to fall asleep. I'm probably in bed for about 15 minutes before I doze off. So when I...
After trying everything, melatonin, white noise, breathing, you name it, I found a trick that actually helps me fall asleep. I pretend I'm a medieval peasant. No emails, no bills, no doomscrolling. Just a tired cabbage farmer lying on a straw bed, no wolves...
I've had a breakthrough. Years of bad sleep, 4 to 6 hours a night, and 7 hours was a miracle. Recently I'm hitting 8, 8.5, 9 hours a night. I quit alcohol a few years ago, which helped reduce my anxiety, which helped my sleep. I walk a lot, exercise and eat...
I love my partner a lot, but their snoring is so loud that it's almost impossible for me to fall asleep if they fall asleep before me. It's even worse if I wake up randomly to it. I just wish I knew how to ignore it. I've tried earplugs and none of them have...
I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've woken up refreshed in the last four years or so. It doesn't matter what time I go to bed, early or super late like 2am, I never wake up feeling recharged. In fact I never even wake up feeling like I...
I've had chronic insomnia since I was 12. I'm 25 now. For 13 years I slept 1 to 2 hours a night on average, occasionally getting maybe 4 to 6 about once a week. I've been actively trying to sleep more. I've seen doctors and therapists and done sleep studies...
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