Sleep deprivation?

I wake up tired all the time. Since I can remember I've always had sleep problems. I'll stay awake for days if I don't take my medication. But sometimes it still doesn't help.

But well I'm wondering if it's because of an alter. The little girl only "comes out" at night. (There's been a few times where she'll come out for a minute/talk to me, during the day time.) But she normally only fully "comes out" when it's dark and no one is around/up. So I'm here all day, then she wants out at night (when I need to sleep). Lately my meds haven't helped half the time, or I'll remember going to bed, but I'll "wake up" finding myself outside walking on a street or doing other things. Or sometimes I'll wake up going back into my house or sometimes I'll wake up in my bed half dressed (not what I go to bed in).
So when I wake up it feels like I haven't gotten any sleep.
I'm tired all the time and I have to work during the day. If I'm not getting any sleep it makes it difficult to work and do things.

I don't know... Does anyone else have this kind of problem? Is there anything that can actually help?

I suffer some deep insomnia, have for almost all my life, but I don't know too much about what you're describing. Others may know more, but that also presents as dissociative fugue state, have you looked into that.

Thanks for sharing with us

This post might be triggering.

Got a lot of sleep issues here too. Don't know about fugue or clothes swapping - functional struggles mean we're wearing the same set of clothes to bed as in the day. Just keeping on the same t-shirt...

We had a reversed sleep pattern for a long time. I know from pretty young I didn't sleep properly and really struggled to get up in the mornings. When I got really ill the first time I was awake every night and during the day slept with constant nightmares and super intense inner world dream travel plus sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations of alien abductions, demons and ghosts and other entities, which were often threatening and sexually violent.

My dreams are still startling in intensity, so much so that I often wake feeling like I haven't slept, though like you have wondered if an alter could be involved. If they were waking it makes sense that we might experience morning exhaustion. Insomnia is very much tied in with nighttime. All of my senses dial up on max; sound becomes physical and painful. I can hear everything and anything and the smallest click or tap is amplified so it feels like I've touched an electric fence. I can't deal with anyone making noise while asleep, including anything other than light breathing. It's so disruptive, so often I have to leave the room and go sleep on the couch. I get very uncomfortable if there is any part of me touching anyone else as well, it's like a spear of white noise, anything, finger, toe, doesn't matter. I don't get the same reaction during the day. Can fall asleep in a few minutes daytime, can be in someone's arms as well.

skin wrote:Don't know about fugue or clothes swapping - functional struggles mean we're wearing the same set of clothes to bed as in the day. Just keeping on the same t-shirt...

Well I don't quite mean clothes swapping. It's just that I'll be dressed as if I already got ready and went somewhere. Only my shoes aren't on.

skin wrote:though like you have wondered if an alter could be involved. If they were waking it makes sense that we might experience morning exhaustion.

The thing is with me or well the little girl, she only comes out at night and she likes going out to play. Likes playing outside and at playgrounds, but since she only comes out at night, she's up when I need to sleep.


Sorry that you have alot of sleeping problems at night. Like (though not as extreme) as you, my senses are extremely tuned. Every slight sound, movement of anything will wake me. I'll jump awake alot of times. Like I can hear everything 10x louder. ( I do have/ know of a few reasons why my senses are extremely tuned. Things that can't be changed)

Is she old enough to read/write? You could try communicating with her by leaving a note explaining you need to sleep. Maybe you could try to negotiate a specific time before it gets too late that she can come out and play for a while before bed.

Honestly, I've had so many sleeping issues I'm half tempted to stop fighting it.

There was a period of time where I would wake up and felt like I literally ran a marathon. That happened for (i'm thinking 2-3 months?) then it just mysteriously stopped.

I dream extremely intensely and vividly. I usually have 2-3 dreams a night, and remember all of them in the most astounding detail. It's quite fun, actually. It's pretty much like I watch movies when I sleep, and then I get to recall them.

But I know now that somebody is messing with my sleep patterns. Last night I was on this website, clicked on the DID thread to do some lurking. Saw a post, someone got mad and irritated about it, completely shut off my computer and went to bed. I was supposed to wake up at 8:00 like usual for Wednesday so I don't miss class (I had to miss on Monday so it was imperative I didn't miss today)

And so I set my alarm like normal. But the alarm never went off. Someone changed it to go off at 3 PM. (Sometimes I don't even need the alarm, because somebody usually just wakes us up if we need to at a specific time)

But guess what time I woke up today? 9:30. The exact time that my class starts. :/ I later found out they thought that if I had already missed the class start I'd just stay home. I almost proved them right, but I went anyways. (Proud of myself for that)

I'm only just starting to realize how much my sleep is affected by everyone else. There are some night owls that can stay up all night. But it messes ME up, because I have to be up at certain times for school. So sometimes I'll want to take a nap. Nope, can't do that, others are totally active and won't stop and let me sleep.

Sleep is honestly one of the most frustrating things. Maybe you and I need to set some ground rules? It doesn't seem as though we are in enough control. Things need to be decided, so that we can function better. Just let them know, and understand, that certain things need to happen a certain way so you don't go nuts

She's 5. I guess she can write/type, because she sent an email to my friend. (she has alittle more knowledge about some things then a normal 5 year old. I guess) She's never written anything to me, but she does talk to me.
I'm kind of new at this whole talking/communicating with her thing. (I've been trying to ignore her for a long time.) We're not exactly on the same page. I've been trying to let her come out and play sooner and such, but there's alot of bad nights. Which normally causes F***ing trouble.

LastStatement wrote:I dream extremely intensely and vividly. I usually have 2-3 dreams a night, and remember all of them in the most astounding detail. It's quite fun, actually. It's pretty much like I watch movies when I sleep, and then I get to recall them.

Yep. Me Too! But I have this "weird" (I guess people might say) "connection" with someone that affects my dreaming half the time. Then there's the nightmares. (those movies aren't normally fun)


I think deciding some ground rules might be helpful. (maybe)

But who the f*** likes to follow rules? I sure as h*** don't!
(Haha )

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AShatteredSoul wrote:But who the f*** likes to follow rules? I sure as h*** don't!
(Haha )

Sorry.. Don't know where that one came from.

Don't be sorry They obviously had something they wanted to express. I happen to be dealing with someone very similar (Though they are more underhanded.)

No, rules aren't always fun. But in order for EVERYONE to have the best possible life, communication and being able to work together is the key. You have to give a little to get what you want. And I'll tell you first hand, when you deprive the body of sleep for long enough, there are very bad consequences. When it was at it's worst, I could not function anymore. I lost my job because of it, too. (Hated the job, so it wasn't too bad a loss, but still.)

Sleep is as important as food and water is. Healthy sleep = healthy mind.

LastStatement wrote:They obviously had something they wanted to express

I guess someone did. Haha.

LastStatement wrote:And I'll tell you first hand, when you deprive the body of sleep for long enough, there are very bad consequences.

Oh I know, I know. I've gone over 5 days without sleeping before. Thoguh I just had to go to high school, which I never functioned well in anyways. So I didn't really have any big loss or anything. But it sure as f*** makes you go insane.