How long does it take you to fall asleep?

[Ice_Fire]

Normal for me is anything between an hour to 90 minutes. I know because I have a lo-fi playlist that I have set to 90 minutes before it turns itself off. Most of the time I’m asleep before then. I had had it set to an hour but I kept getting to the end of it.

Not going to sleep is a massive trigger for me. Long and short is that I was purposefully sleep deprived if I hadn’t got to sleep ‘on time’. So now if I haven’t got to sleep in that hour/hour and a half…that’s me for the night.

I’ve had another bad patch with PTSD and the not sleeping and it’s turned into a vicious cycle so I’m on sleeping tablets the now. Which are helping.

As for how many hours; my good is 6-7 hours. At the moment it’s about 5, with the sleeping pills. When I’m very bad it’s days with nothing or maybe 2-3 hours. To the point of hardly human, can’t function. Hallucinations and dizziness and the whole nine yards. Which re triggers the sleep deprivation itself and that’s a whole heap of fun.

 

[DogTired]

After a bad day? Hours. Most I get on one of those nights is 2-3 hours (with interruptions).
Good day, but not tired? Go to bed, listen to my sleepy music.
2 hours it runs for and I don't think I've ever got past track 13 out of 67.
4 minutes after the music cuts off. I wake up. EVERYTIME!
Reset the timer, off I go again. Call it hopscotch for sleepy time.

 

[Friday]

Call it hopscotch for sleepy time.

I actually am going to. Because that’s brilliant. And so, so true.

 

[beaneeboo]

Good sleek - falling asleep within about 45 minutes and sleeping a good 7 hours.

Bad sleep on average takes me about 5 hours to get to sleep. I'll get about 2.5-3.5 hours sleep. When that happens my adrenaline system is so fired up i can feel quite good the day after... then I crash the next day

 

[hypervigilant]

It takes me anywhere from 15 minutes to 4 hours to fall asleep and I may only sleep 2hrs before I'm awake in utter fear. I rarely sleep a full 8 hrs. I'm always exhausted and I rarely sleep without a nightmare or flashback.