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Cliodhna Eoghan · **02-22-2015, 06:40 AM**

(02-22-2015, 06:29 AM)Elysia Wrote: !!

I had to deal with insomnia a number of years ago. It began suddenly when I was preparing for my college entrance exams - I wasn't consciously feeling any anxiety, but the sleeplessness happened, and it took months for that to run its course. Saw a doctor, Â then a psychiatrist, tried sleeping pills for all of two days before I realized they wouldn't work for long.

I still have nasty 'relapses' every now and then. Probability of an attack is 90% if I have a flight to catch in the morning.Â

The worst of this is the fact that when it happens, my body makes me wake up at the same time ANYWAY, so there have been days where I'm clocking 2? 3? hours of sleep in 48 hours.Â

Remedies: ... none. I also have a terrible habit when insomnia strikes, which involves tossing and turning until hours have passed. (DON'T DO THIS, PEOPLE. GO GAME OR SOMETHING.) I've actually found that the best method is prevention, and the most effective one for me is to keep regular hours. If I stay up past, say, 2 or 3AM, the chances of me not being able to fall asleep at all are significantly higher.Â

Anyway I hope you're able to get to sleep soon, Clio: D:

ohhh stress will do that..... *nods* i haven't been to get it treated but there was a short time i was kinda nursing the night time cold medicine to help.... >.>; it was just so much easier to get a deeper sleep that way but i've sense stopped that because i can't be passed out/dead to the world for about ten hours. xD

that's always the awful part when you wake up because you're used to it but you don't need to, then you can't get back to sleep.

i'll admit sometimes i'll get tired enough where i'll pass out in front of my desk in my chair or on the couch but that's around the middle of the day and not a good idea. trying the whole "lying in bed" thing doesn't work for me either, i just start thinking about wayy too much stuff at night. a lot of it not good. you know how your brain gets crazy when it's tired... .----.

aww thanks <3

(02-22-2015, 06:29 AM)Khoure Wrote: I don't have insomnia, but I do occasionally get super weird and thankfully short lived half-asleep, half awake dream states. Probably the worst/most interesting one: One time I woke up in the middle of the night, started to pull into a sitting position, when I saw movement behind my cabinet (it had been pulled in the middle of the room because we were going to paint the walls) There was a man with indistinct features (it was dark + dream-like state, so I didn't question it) that sharply and distinctly said "don't move or I'll shoot you".

Needless to say I froze in my half-up position, petrified for a full five or so minutes. Eventually, I whispered something along the lines of "can I sit up?" and upon not getting a response, slowly came to the realization that it had been a dream/hallucination hybrid of some kind.

oh jeez D: that's scary!!! when i was a kid i had a dream that i was riding a roller coaster so fast the wind whipped my arm back and broke it. it felt so real i woke up in a sitting position on my bed. kinda dumb to think about now but at the time i was so scared xD

will also admit that when i was a kid i was terrified to sleep with any part of my windows or doors open. buuuut, this was because my dad thought it would be a great idea to watch xfiles in front of me. and i was soo creeped out with that window scene i thought for reals aliens were gonna come get me xD now i sleep with the windows closed cause light is evil and there's a horrid street lamp that likes to bind me. >.>

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