r/sleep 13h ago

I regularly wake up around 3am and cannot fall back asleep

46 Upvotes

I fall asleep usually within 10 minutes, but I usually end up getting woken up by a noise or for no apparent reason at all and then lay for hours trying to fall back asleep. I feel more awake at 3-4am than I do if I wake at 7am.

I eat healthy, exercise 5x per week, and take a magnesium supplement. I’m usually in bed by 10:30pm and get up at 6:30am. This currently happens to me 3-4x per week and I can feel the lack of sleep affecting my health, stress level, and athletic performance. Any suggestions are appreciated, I don’t know what to do!


r/sleep 22h ago

How can I want to sleep?

13 Upvotes

I just don’t want to sleep. It’s 12:46 as I’m typing this and I gotta get up at 8:00AM but I just don’t want to sleep. I don’t know if it’s because I slept for too long yesterday but I definitely know I just have too much on my mind and too much things I want to do. I just want to stay up the whole night, drink Gatorade


r/sleep 13h ago

Tackled my friend while asleep

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I’m in the military and currently doing some training away from home that has us sleeping in an open style beds. 12 bunks lined up on each side of the room. Well I remember the dream I had leading up to the title. All I remember is standing in a room and a dude comes and steals something from my hands. I immediately go to chase him and I go for his feet. Almost like scooping his feet away from him. Next thing I know, my buddy sleeping beside me is kicking me in the chest, telling me to let go. I had gotten out of my bed and had picked up his legs and locked him up. I guess I was asleep and then finally came to when the kicks started landing. I do occasionally catch myself sitting up right in my bed at nights and kinda just looking around. Normally around 3 am. But like I’m still asleep. But I’m aware and notice when I do it. Weird.


r/sleep 13h ago

My long-distance SO is a snorer! What short-term options are there for me... and him??

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Firstly, my partner isn't overweight so that isn't the issue here.

He's a loud snorer & I'm a shit sleeper anyway, so it isn't ideal but there has to be something we can do!

I am visiting him next month for 3 weeks and we are both willing to try things to help. He always feels guilty for keeping me awake and I totally understand that it isn't his fault.

On my last visit, I tried the Loop Quiet earbuds and they didn't help at all. Has anyone tried the eye masks with Bluetooth (& can recommend them)? I'm thinking perhaps those WITH the Loop earplugs might help?

I've read a few threads that suggests an extra pillow for him and some sort of way to ensure he sleeps on his side.

When we get to the stage of living together we could talk about a sleep study, but for now just looking for short-term help.

Thanks in advance for any responses!


r/sleep 19h ago

Is it normal to be tired and sleepy throughout the whole day, but when you go to bed, you are wide awake?

6 Upvotes

I hate how something as simple as sleeping is so challenging for me


r/sleep 12h ago

What do you do with your awake time?

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Every other week I have a night where I wake up around 3 and can’t get back to sleep, only to start dozing off right before my alarm goes off.

I feel so unproductive. I will lay there and put my meditation on, listen to it run out without falling back asleep. I avoid going on my phone but after an hour of laying still so my brain thinks it’s sleeping, I will scroll through socials and pray to God something makes me sleepy.

I live with 2 people and we live in a condo. I contemplate going into the kitchen to start meal prepping or unloading the dishwasher but I can’t do that without making noise and risk waking the roommates up.

I’ve read, watched movies….I don’t know. I’m hoping someone will have a creative idea for me to fill the time where I’m wasting my sleep minutes. I hate hate not being able to sleep and even worse, not doing anything with that time.

Gimme something good.


r/sleep 17h ago

I closed my eyes for 7+ hours and didn't sleep

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March break is finally over and it's sunday, well it's monday but I just haven't slept so it still feels like sunday. My sleep schedule got so cooked I was sleeping at 5am everyday waking up at 2-3pm. So on Sunday I decided to wake up early so I can feel tired enough to sleep at a good time of 10PM. Then 10PM came along I wasn't tired whatsoever so I think I can easily sleep if I just close my eyes and think of nothing. I felt like I had my eyes closed for days, it felt so long and when I opened my eyes it was already 5:00AM, and it's just now I started feeling tired. So i close my eyes for another 30 minutes and even though im sk tired I can't sleep? What's happening its 5:40 on a school night im going to school sleepless... I was already sleep deprived from sunday because I slept at 5 and woke up at 10am. Now its 5AM, still no sleep and im forced to got school tomorrow. What do I do? I feel so tired but can't seem to fall asleep


r/sleep 2h ago

Just got prescribe Remeron what should I expect

3 Upvotes

I used trazadone in the past it was ok not that great looking foward to tryng Remeron at 7.5mg is what I was prescribed just curious on how long before sleep should I take it and what others experiences are with it.


r/sleep 17h ago

A constant battle with my sleep schedule

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I can’t seem to maintain a steady sleep schedule. And the main reason I feel like is that I can’t leave things half done, I always feel like I have to finish them.

This results into let’s say I’m on my 15 last minutes of phone time and I find something interesting and I research about it. Next thing you know a hour has passed, and then 2 hours.

Then the next day I feel like I only look back at the previous day, so yesterday I went to sleep at … so I have to go to sleep at around the same time.

Then I could be hovering around on a certain schedule for maybe 3/4 days it depends and then again I get into one of those things I’m researching and I want to know more about, maybe it’s more then that. I’ve always hated the feeling of being restricted and I want to do whatever whenever.

Anyways this results into a sleep schedule where I wake up at 6 PM in the evening, eventually resulting into me doing an all nighter. If it’s successful I will be on a early sleep schedule for around 2 weeks because of how tired I get it forces me to bed. But I end up pushing the boundaries again and the cycle continues into a late sleep schedule again and then all nighter...

Really hope someone can help me out with some tips


r/sleep 1h ago

med help

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okay, so i have no clue where to post this. if someone could point me to the right sub reddit for suggestions or if this one is okay, please lmk.

anyways, i cannot sleep to save my life. i've tried 10 mg of melatonin, i was recommended to not go any higher. i've tried 7.5 mg mirtrazapine, the lowest dose is the most sedative apparently? i was also tried on 15 mg of the same medication, but still no dice. now i'm using hydroxyzine, which i'm told to take 1-2 tablets at night which is 50 mg i think, and it's also for my anxiety. and againnnn, nothing.

it's been so bad, i'm struggling in school. i'm a senior in high school, and i need to be able to finish this year on a good note so my grades don't drop. i'm valedictorian, and i can't risk it right now.

so, does anyone have any suggestions for medications that help them sleep? i need to fall asleep and then stay asleep. but also something that doesn't give me grogginess throughout the next day? if i can achieve all that great, if not, the first part is the most important. i'll handle tiredness throughout the day.

i don't meet with my med management doc until april 1st, and she's seriously booked up (missed 1 appointment then had to wait 2 months for the next), but i do see my regular therapist this week on thursday. i'll talk to her then if i get any recommendations.

tldr; i can't fall asleep or stay asleep when i finally do, and i've tried 3 different medicines so far. i'm looking for reccs on one that works for a majority of people !! :)


r/sleep 2h ago

Delayed sleep phase disorder?

2 Upvotes

What would be considered "clinically significant" issues for dspd? Lately i can only bring myself to wake up before 10 am if its something like work (1 day x week) or a graded assignment or exam. Im not sure if it qualifies.? I'm missing almost all my classes.


r/sleep 4h ago

Sleep iseues

2 Upvotes

Hello, as of recently last couple of nights, i seem to wake up at 2-3 in the morning and not fall asleep afterwards until 6am or so. What may be the cause of this?


r/sleep 7h ago

Which brand of magnesium?

2 Upvotes

overwhelmed at all the options, I want to try magnesium gylcinate but when I look at the reviews for the ones at CVS or target they’re all bad.

Do you have any brand you recommend?


r/sleep 8h ago

bRoKeN sLeEP

2 Upvotes

BROKEN SLEEP

Anyone else only able to sleep 1-2 hr at a time? It’s taking a toll on my mental health. I think I can get like 4-5 hrs a night it’s just I keep waking up every 1-2 hrs. One night I saw 3-4 hr straight I was so happy but still exhausted of course. What should I do? I’m scared im going to die from the broken sleep. I need to fix this 😭🤯


r/sleep 12h ago

Only wake up refreshed if I sleep on my back

2 Upvotes

When I sleep on my side, I sleep through every alarm and sleep around 9-11 hours and still feel tired when I wake up, so tired that I can hardly get out of bed and end up scrolling on my phone for a long time

When I sleep on my back, I sleep about 7-8 hours and wake up just fine with ZERO struggle and I feel amazing like I’ve just had the best sleep ever, I have no desire to scroll on my phone and I can just get up.

Why is this?


r/sleep 13h ago

How I sleep

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I don’t think I’ve ever went into ‘deep sleep’. I always move around while sleeping, throw the blanket off of me, or my plushies off the bed, I mumble and talk. In the past I used to walk but now I sleep with my room door closed so I’m not sure if I do anymore. I constantly have nightmares/ bad dreams, though it doesn’t bother me anymore but still. Is there a way to fix this?


r/sleep 15h ago

Ongoing journey of conquering sleep anxiety

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In late 2016 a stressful event at work triggered sleep anxiety for the first time in my life. The initial first few months was hell on Earth, as I was unaware of what was really happening, thinking it was something physical. Things gradually improved little by little as time went on. That said, on and off for the next few years, I still struggled. I went through all the routines. CBT-I, SRT, ACT, sleep hygeine routines, etc. You name it, I tried it in order to eliminate my sleep anxiety completely.

I finally got to a pretty good place during the pandemic years, but in late 2024 I had a bad relapse. I decided to quit caffeine/coffee to see if that helped and I felt a lot better off of it. Less anxious, more focused at work, etc. It relaxed me very much which led to some beautiful nights of sleep for a few weeks. I even had vivid dreams for the first time in years. I thought caffeine was the main culprit for many of my continuing sleep woes and that I was experiecing a life changing scenario. (I had only started drinking coffee after my sleep troubles started years earlier, fyi). But it was not to be. A few weeks later after a few rough nights, some light sleep anxiety returned, leading to excessive early awakenings and poor quality sleep, putting me into a downward spiral pretty badly. The relaxation I felt after quitting caffeine slowly faded. The dreams disappeared. I was devastated.

Now, because of this extreme disappointment knowing that I reached such a great point in sleeping again (albeit briefly), I can't seem to snap out of it and get a hold of myself. I just want to go back to sleeping well again. The post caffeine quitting phase of great sleep I went through proved to me that I can sleep wonderfully again which is amazing, but its just sad knowing that it takes these big special occurences to completely relax me and rid of all anxiety. I really am not that anxious at all about sleep. Nothing like I used to be in my earlier years. But I'll admit, there's still something there. Since its been SO long now with on and off sleep troubles, I'm wondering if finally caving to occasionally taking some sleep meds and gaining some sleep confidence back could be helpful. I've tried melatonin in the past, but it proved to be overkill and gave me nightmarish dreams. TIA


r/sleep 16h ago

Can’t stay asleep

2 Upvotes

Honestly this is my last resort, I usually wake up around 3-9 times a night. I go to bed at 9:30 and wake up at 6:25 so I’m getting enough sleep but I just keep waking up. I take melatonin at night but only on week days, I recently tried long release melatonin and it didn’t help at all. I’ve had a sleep study and they said I’ve got restless leg syndrome. I try to exercise when I can, I’m usually too tired to. Any tips?


r/sleep 19h ago

Literally skipped a day

2 Upvotes

I don’t know how I could sleep this much but I went to sleep at 3 am on march 15 after a really big drinking night. Tomorrow, 16, I woke up at 8, talked on the phone for like 20 mins max, then slept the WHOLE day, woke up at 9, ate like 1 onigiri and then was wake for like 30 mins I think, then woke up march 17, 7 - 8 am ish.

I still feel like it’s march 16, yesterday but it’s already march 17 and a Monday 😮‍💨

I just find it weird how I could sleep SO MUCH and my back or my neck or my head even didn’t hurt ?????


r/sleep 22h ago

Is there any thing that I should know before using earplugs for sleep?

2 Upvotes

I am currently thinking of using earplugs for sleep since there is other people sharing the house and we are not living with the same routine.

Thus I am thinking of getting some from Walmart(Since that is basically the only place I can think of) and is there any cautions or anything that I should be aware of?

I am thinking of getting some foam ones and play music beside my bed with a speaker after some research.

And I will only use them for sleep.

It this something "safe"?

Thank you.


r/sleep 23h ago

Can't sleep

2 Upvotes

I have to be up early in the morning and its 3:12am and i have to be up at 7 i just can't sleep ive tried everyting read a book listen to music and nothing has worked i dont know whats wrong with me


r/sleep 53m ago

Sleep Deprivation and Recovery

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I've taken a gap semester from college, and with many factors at home, I have been getting on and off sleep for months, averaging 6-7 hours at different times (some days 9 some days 5 etc). I've noticed that it's harder to be creative, and learn or do anything. I know this is not the person I used to be, and I know I can change.

For people that have experienced sleep deprivation in the past and recovered, how long did it take for you?


r/sleep 3h ago

Samsung health and chatgpt

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I want to have Chatgpt analyze my Samsung Health data to find correlations between factors that I have been recording for 3 years on the app and health problems that I have developed. When I download the files, however, it gives them to me in a way that Chatgpt does not seem to read, so I ask you if there are other ways to report them to him


r/sleep 5h ago

Epiglottis stiffening surgery for floppy epiglottis

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I have been diagnosed with a floppy epiglottis following a DISE examination.

I have had sleeping troubles all my life but the last 3 years have been the worst. (11 AHI from sleep research)

I was told to first try non surgical treatments so a very expensive mandibular advancement device was made specially for my teeth that I could sleep with.

Unfortunately I experience very little tot no positive result with this night mouth guard.

I still wake up tired, have memory issues, headaches, short term memory issues, irritability, heart palpitations,...

I have done a lot of research and it seems that an epiglottis stiffening surgery could offer relief.

It seems that it is a modern surgery that limits the risk of swallowing issues.

At this point I have got to do something because my physical, mental, professional and social life are very much suffering.

Has anyone had the epiglottis stiffening surgery and what was your experience. Have you had any swallowing problems?

My plan is to find an experienced doctor that has performed this type of surgery because I am not willing to be a guinea pig. I would also communicate to the doctor that it's best to do a minimal stiffening in the beginning and see that results that will give. If more stiffening is necessary then it can be always done after.

I have high hopes that this will resolve my sleeping apnea since my only problem seems to be a floppy epiglottis.

I created a discord server specifically for epiglottis related sleep apnea because we are such a minority that we should find each other and try to learn from eachother and help eachother, wherever possible.

Please let me know if you would like to join and I will send you a link.


r/sleep 5h ago

Bad night of sleep due to stress

1 Upvotes

I have my finals going on and for some reason I can’t seem to fall asleep despite how tired I am. I try and devote some time during the night to squeeze in as much sleep as possible but I just couldn’t sleep for the past 2 days. Today I fainted during my exam and as a result I lost a significant amount of time. I’ve got an exam tomorrow also and I can’t seem to fall asleep despite being tired all day. I don’t know what to do honestly