News of Sleep Disorders

Since i was little i have always had bad sleep patterns, i have always stayed up to late hours of the night. Its not so much a choice, i am always exhausted during the day and can barely stay awake. At night i my mind is active and i just feel alert. Which means its always a struggle to stop falling back into bad patterns. Usually i would sleep from 3:00AM to 1:00PM when left ...

Hi, I'm new to this forum so have quite a few questions I want to ask.

When I had just started at university I had an episode of sleep paralysis which was nothing unusual. My student accommodation was in a Victorian terrace house.

In this episode I was paralysised in bed and I was looking over toward the wall. I got the usual fear of foreboding doom and sure enough a white ghostly figure appeared ...

I have suffered from sleep paralysis since a child, which I can now control. I also have episodes of lucid dreaming. Recently through the sleep paralysis / dreaming has changed. A year or so ago I found myself back at my childhood home, it was daylight in my dream and I was looking around my room. Looking through the window at the view of the graveyard that backs onto my parents house. I looked at ...

Well long story short I suffer from Severe brain damage, as well as epilepsy. After the assault that me with brain damage I was working for the local police as an admin officer and surrounded and threatened in an intimidating manner by 6 uniformed officers (they where not even allowed in the area I was in, and it would of been caught on the surveillance system.. I spent about 10 weeks calling and emailing lawyers ...

I've never had insomnia before. About a month ago, a few hours before bedtime, I started feeling really fatigued and in a fog. I thought I was getting sick so I went to bed early. I had a bad night that night and haven't slept well since.

I'm still sleeping close to eight hours a night, but it's very light with frequent waking up. I'll wake up sweaty with watery eyes and cotton mouth (anxiety ...

Hi guys, I need to know something, today before bed I had a tea of lemon balm, 5-htp and primrose oil.
what happened is that the lemon balm tea gave me a violent sleepy for their sedative effect, but I COULD NOT SLEEP, I was in a meditative state and the whole night I could not sleep, does anyone know what could have happened? :| ...

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Im super curious if anyone else has this sleep problem I have.

I have had middle insomnia (?) since I was about 15/16 (im now 31), in the last 15 years I have spelt through the night (without being drunk or medicated) maybe 20 times.

I used to think this was normal! lol i thought everyone woke up during the night! apparently not...

anyway, i think the above is fairl standard but what i ...

Hello all, long time sporadic insomniac here - currently 1:15am and going through a bout. My insomnia has always creeped me out because it isn't seemingly like anything I have read - I will randomly go days with little to no sleep due to when I shut my eyes, it feels like my imagination takes over and I become an observer.
Basically, I will lie there, and when u shut my eyes, rather than being ...

I am a new user to the Sertraline (Zoloft) 50mg, and it has given me terrible Insomnia, I am looking for some advice from sufferers.

I have had insomnia for 10 years, I only sleep for 20 to 40 minutes at a time. It is driving me nuts i have tried many sleep meds and they wire me. The doctors are not much help. ANY sugesstions???? for meds or anything. If i could just sleep one night my life could so much improve!!!