How Did You Sleep Last Night?

[somerandomguy]

I usually don't sleep more than four hours a night. Five max. And then one night a week, usually Saturday night, I crash and sleep nine. But I still feel tired all the time.

When I'm awake, all I can think about is going back to bed. But when I'm in bed, I'm usually wide awake ...

 

[tin-man]

Badly. The humidity, mixed in with my tinnitus flaring up made for a fairly crap nights sleep. There are some ASR videos on youtube I find very helpful for drifting off. I would link them but this forum is (rightfully) worried about spam.

When I'm awake, all I can think about is going back to bed. But when I'm in bed, I'm usually wide awake

Yeah, I get that. I've found that napping to be very helpful in that situation. I find that even if I don't sleep that night, I'll at least get one-two hours sleep during the day. Better than nothing.

 

[Emotional girl]

For the first time in ages I had a full nights sleep and that is due to a increase in my medication.

 

[bumbles]

I kept waking up to the sound of someone shouting for help in my room but there was nobody there. Stupid brain.
Other than that, I slept a good 7 hours !

 

[LanaD]

I can't sleep! I can't bloody sleep! I normally avoid medication but I'm at the point where I just want something. I feel like I'm in sort of mild state of delirium :(

 

[garden]

It's like a viscious cycle.:(

I find my nightmares to be cyclic too somehow, and I believe there is a connection to the things that happen by day, as in the levels of stress that I experience by day somehow impact whether or not I have nightmares or not, but I could be totally off. Just trying to make some kind of sense of it.

Just in the past 2 weeks I have begun having nightmares that someone is trying to 'groom' and rape my daughter. I find the perpetrator alone with her in a seemingly innocent situation, but I am perceiving the things that she cannot detect, and then I proceed to protect her somehow, but the emotions and tension are gnarly, I wake up in knots and my body feels like it might shatter into a million pieces. I used to be afraid to sleep, but have found a way to disarm that fear, now I feel it coming back, I don't want to have these dreams.

She is nearing the age that I was when I experienced the worst segment of my abuse, I know this is part of why this might be happening. How do I stop it? I have not yet brought it up in therapy, mostly because I am not sure that it's even any use, I mean my nightmares about myself continue intermittently despite all the work I do in therapy, and I don't feel like a therapist has ever been able to address nightmares with me really. I get the feeling, based on non verbal cues, that my therapist doesn't see any value in talking about nightmares anyways.

 

[Lucycat]

I am back into the not sleeping well. I get to sleep OK, then wake at about 2.30 am , staying awake until sometime between 5 and 7 am. Last night I got back to sleep at about 6am, and was then woken by the bin lorry at 7. It has been getting worse over the past couple of weeks after previously having a run of good sleeps.

All the stuff I read says after 20 minutes you should get up out of bed, but that disrupts Rory - even if I think he is asleep when I creep out.

I have really weird dreams with it all too.

 

[Deleted member 8714]

I had two nightmares basically about the same thing yet I was sleeping in two different places. I started off in my recliner and ended up in bed. I got some decent (hours) yet disturbed sleep.

It's interesting that these nightmares come after buying and partially reading a chapter in Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists on self injury because I think they are about my father doing something to or with me with a knife. There's something on the end of that knife.

To clarify, I don't use sharp objects to do self injury yet I believe the reason I self injure is somehow connected to my father's use of knives and other sharp objects.

 

[Kallisti]

I was really, really tired last night, and sort of half-slept, until my partner's snore woke me up. I have difficulties falling asleep, and when I sleep, I have intense, stressful dreams. Tossed and turned until 02:30, caved, took a valium and slept for a few hours. Been sleeping 3-5 hrs the last 5 weeks, and it's such a pain to wake up and function.

 

[Friday]

Nightmare cycle kicking off :wtf: Oh joy. Oh rapture.

 

[Tim_Holgate]

The nightmares have come back with vengeance the day I get home from sea.

 

[ms spock]

I am struggling with sleep in a big way.