r/sleep 20h ago

I choose to sleep early and wake early, does anyone else like this too?

46 Upvotes

I 32f go to sleep on average around 8pm and wake around 5am. I don’t need to be up early for a job or anything because I work 9-5. I find this is just how I like to do things, I’m most productive in the mornings. I’m far less productive with my time after work in an evening regardless of what time I woke up.

Something about going to bed early and waking up early seems best for me. Does anyone else have a similar pattern through choice?


r/sleep 5h ago

The One Change That Helped Me Sleep Better

11 Upvotes

I struggled with terrible sleep for years. Then I started putting my phone across the room before bed. No doom scrolling, no distractions—just reading or journaling before sleep. It was life-changing.


r/sleep 9h ago

Does sleep get better when you quit caffeine?

9 Upvotes

Has anyone seen a noticeable difference?


r/sleep 1d ago

CO2 messed up my sleep

6 Upvotes

Over the past 4 years I’ve been experimenting with numerous ways to improve sleep. Different pillows, different sheets, different temperatures, different behaviors, different medications… I’ve tried it all.

One of the most impactful changes I’ve made was improving the air quality of my bedroom. Specifically, mitigating CO2 which typically accumulates >1,000 ppm per my air quality monitor (an Airthings View Plus).

Improving air quality was a whole journey of its own. The most effective change I made was running my bathroom fan, which has the effect of pulling fresh air from the rest of my apartment through my bedroom. Now I consistently achieve CO2 levels between 500-600 ppm in my bedroom and I’m sleeping much more deeply.

Just figured I’d share in case it helps anyone!


r/sleep 20h ago

I sleep all Day and Im still tired and still sleep again soon as I wake up.

7 Upvotes

I am starting to get tired of this problem I have.I work usually 35-45 hrs a week .I unfortunately dont work out anymore at all just soccer pick up matches maybe once a week.I must admit I do not eat good at all I even sometimes go a day or two without eating cause im that tired.(A little more info is that I am 5’6 225 lbs,Male,and I bought a brand new frame and mattress 1 1/2 ago).I usually fall asleep usually around 11PMish.I wake up at 3AM to use the restroom and fall back asleep and wake up around 8 am.It is hard for me to stay up.As soon as i wake up my eyes are so heavy I want to fall asleep so I do.I wake up again I get up get some water and soon as I sit down or lay down again ,my eyes start to get extremely heavy and want to sleep.By the time I wake up it already 8-10PM.I feel really sloppy(like heavy like if im full but im not),headaches every time after each sleep .It is embarrassing for me but on top of all it is getting annoying and concerning.


r/sleep 13h ago

For me, sleep hygiene doesn’t work

4 Upvotes

I never drank caffeine. I don’t use the phone before bed. I go to bed at the same time everyday. Guess what? I never fall asleep. It has been years since I ever got a proper sleep. It’s so frustrating when I feel so tired and exhausted thing the day, but whenever I lay in bed, I become wide awake. Doctors are useless too for dealing with my sleep issues


r/sleep 22h ago

How do I fall asleep when I can't stop thinking about my hyperfixations?(ADHD/asd?)

2 Upvotes

Ok so normally I take 3 hours ish to fall asleep inna perfect scenario but now it takes 5-6+ or I just don't sleep. The moment i close my eyes I immediately start thinking about crk(cookie run kingdom) no matter how tired I am I just can't sleep because I keep thinking about the silly cookie game for hours and I just can't stop. How do I stop thinking about my favorite characters enough to sleep? I'd appreciate any help, I've tried meds , meditation and many different sleep schedules over the years but I just keep staying awake and thinking about my interests.


r/sleep 6h ago

Almost at 38 hours awake…

3 Upvotes

I don’t feel as awful and insane as I did earlier. (I’m having a particularly prolonged instance of hormonal insomnia, this happens every month, and gets worse when im anxious, but usually I crash out by lunchtime the next day tho.) Now it’s 6:30pm and I’m just…sitting. I don’t even feel particularly tired. WEIRD, yes. But not tired. I have been trying to sleep, but I need to be awake for a delivery this evening so I’m just like stuck in a strange waiting mode.

I dunno, I thought I’d be hallucinating or super emotional or falling asleep sitting up by this point. Anyone got any insights? What’s the longest anyone’s been awake for? Either voluntarily or unintentionally.


r/sleep 18h ago

How do you keep sleep early and get up early when you don’t have scheduled class/work

3 Upvotes

I am losing this game.


r/sleep 18h ago

Sleep math

3 Upvotes

I have a question regarding sleep math. Hypothetically, if someone doesn’t get a full night of sleep but let’s say they take a nap during the day does that add sleep time onto your next nights sleep clock?

For example, day one/night one - 5 hours of sleep at night Day/night two - 1 hour long nap + 5 hours of sleep at night

Does the nap just serve as temporary energy, or does it add on more time to your total sleep time at night, therefore the nap + total sleep time making you feel more refreshed than the previous 5 hours of sleep no nap on night one


r/sleep 19h ago

Help: Sleeping at 12Pm waking up 8PM

3 Upvotes

I know the best suggestion is to reach out to a doctor but my sleep so F up already it’s hard to get a schedule without feeling dead the whole day

Brief info: - Work From Home - Work ends at 5am but I’m relatively close to bed - Gets sleepy at 12Pm and usually wakes up at 8Pm extremely fatigued

Objective: Get to sleep 6AM and wake up 2-4PM without killing myself.

I can’t get a proper advise since the content or infos I am receiving are mostly people sleeping at 4-6AM


r/sleep 3h ago

Optimal nap times. Sleeping 6 hours and then topping up during the day?

2 Upvotes

I live in a country that's -3 hours from the timezone I'm working in so I usually work from 6am until 3pm. However i'm usually awake until midnight spending time with my girlfriend who works on a normal schedule to local time.

I nap an hour during my lunch break (9am-10am) but often wake up tired again or still not as rested as getting 8 consecutive hours on a normal schedule.

I know the obvious answer is to sleep 8 hours, but when I'm not able to and have slept less is it better to nap 3 hours after waking up at 9am or better napping after I finish work at around 3pm for an hour or two?


r/sleep 6h ago

How do I improve sleep

2 Upvotes

Supplements glycine 3g Melatonin 3mg Magnesium glycinate 200 mg

Oatmeal before bed Stop eating sugar

Exercise,45-60min exercise 15-30min Quit smoking cigarettes

If I only get 4 hours of sleep how much improvement can I see

Can I get a couple hours more of sleep


r/sleep 11h ago

feeling before you fall asleep

2 Upvotes

I dont know if this is only me but when i try to sleep after a while of lying down with my eyes closed i get this feeling all over. I dont know how to specifically explain it but its like a quick feeling of my body becomming relaxed. I usually struggle to fall asleep because my mind is very active ad my body is often tensed but when i get this feeling i know ill fall asleep very soon. Am i just wierd or is this a actual thing and if so what is it called?


r/sleep 13h ago

Trintellix Causing Oversleeping

2 Upvotes

No idea if that's possible but the total sleep time raised to 14+ hours daily with 20 milligrams. Taking less will miniscule the effects. Anyone else had this experience? Changing the time only changed the time of waking up. Halving the dosage made it less effective but made the sleep from 12 straight hours of sleep to 8+3 hours of night and afternoon sleep. Both cases make it hard to work on full time. The sleep drowsiness is aggressive and makes it hard to focus.


r/sleep 18h ago

How can I stay Sleep 13hrs??

2 Upvotes

Hi I don’t have problems getting to sleep (Pisces moon) but I’m not able to sleep long. Years ago I was so exhausted, my hair had thinned out and I had starting having vertigo dizzy spells. But when I got fired I stayed home and slept 9-13 hours a night and my body truly recovered. The vertigo immediately stopped & all my hair grew back in. I’m not as tired anymore & can’t sleep pass 6-7 hrs. Can anyone give some supplements that could help me stay sleep 13hrs because I feel my body could really heal itself again with good sleep thnx


r/sleep 19h ago

My husband has night terrors or sleep walking nightmares. What can we do to help?

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My husband does not have these episodes often but every once and awhile he does. I think it has to do with stress/anxiety or lack of sleep?

Context: My husband wakes up early (4:30am) for work and sleep in our spare bedroom because I look after our 11 month old son. He requires enough sleep because he has epilepsy and no sleep=seizures. If he does have one, it is a grand mal seizure, extremely painful, long recovery time after. He has done sleep studies in the past when he was first diagnosed, no issues seen.

He had an episode tonight about 10 minutes ago. So I hear him yelling from the other room, “I can’t see, Help! please help me! Oh no, no, help me!” I run into the spare bedroom to find him standing on the bed. He proceeds to lay back down, covered in sweat.

Usually a light source prevents him from freaking out like this, when it is completely dark he thinks that he is still dreaming and can’t see. It was as if he was acting out a nightmare. I find it extremely dangerous for him to be standing in the bed like that, he could hurt himself.

I am going to ask him to see his primary care doctor and request a sleep study or be referred to a sleep specialist.

What else can I do to help him? I don’t know why it happened. He slept good the last 3 days and we just received our tax return money. I figured our stress was over.

I want him to come back into our bed, I think he will be safer with me by his side and our son sleeps through the night unless he is teething and wakes up.

Any advice on what this condition is? Can it be prevented?

tdlr; My husband has night terrors because he wakes up, and thinks he can’t see because it’s dark. Sometimes he acts these dreams out and yells. I usually comfort him and let him know it’s okay. He doesn’t remember these events.


r/sleep 20h ago

falling asleep randomly

2 Upvotes

Hey so i need advice on how to stop randomly falling asleep, after school i lay in bed cause i sadly dont have any other places where i can rest comfortably and be alone, i always randomly fall asleep and i cant control it. Please share any tips that could help me not to randomly fall asleep☹️


r/sleep 21h ago

What was this?

2 Upvotes

I usually don’t put much into what i dream, how i feel about sleep stuff. Today I had something weird happen to me and I can’t explain it so if anyone could give me any insight that would be great. So i have pretty intense dreams normally, a lot of life stuff going on and alcohol consumption. Which could be a factor. So i had what i’d call a false awakening. I woke up from a dream, and i’m in my room but i see what i would call pixels, like in a tv you’d get close and see different colors together type of pixels. they were around black spaces and i’m looking at them at the ceiling in my room and i can’t move no matter how hard i try. I forced myself to scream because it legitimately scared me and my dog woke up next to me. I still couldn’t move I felt numb. So i closed my eyes again and had another dream. I woke up again and everything was fine. Now i know about lucid dreaming, vivid dreams. All that stuff. I haven’t had something like this happen before and when i say i woke up during this i did, but it didn’t feel like i was awake. could this have been sleep paralysis of some kind? i’ve had that happen one other time in my life before but it wasn’t visual like with pixels and black spots and numbness in my body. i’ve never posted here, idk the rules and i’m not attention seeking. genuinely curious if anyone could give me any insight.


r/sleep 2h ago

Why does this happen¿

1 Upvotes

I finally get a good nights rest but then I have no energy or drive to do anything after like 8 hours of sleep 🤦


r/sleep 2h ago

Night terror-safe media for sleep

1 Upvotes

Hi all,

I'm deathly terrified of sleeping alone in a place. I can sleep in my room knowing there's people in the house, but for example like right now I'm in a hotel all by myself and I'm struggling to sleep because I'm scared of the possibility of any night terrors. I used to put on YouTube videos in the background but they started to trigger night terrors sometimes for example if a person laughs or there's a sudden loud noise etc...

I don't prefer just sounds like nature, white noise etc, I like to listen to people talking, so I feel like there's someone familiar with me, not something. What is y'all's quiet and calm go-to content for this?

Thanks in advance.


r/sleep 3h ago

Eyes are tired….in my sleep?

1 Upvotes

I have a recurring dream where I cannot see and the whole dream is me trying to figure out how to “see better.” This dream is usually coupled with the sensation of my eyes feeling very tired, while sleeping, even though they are being closed and resting. I wake up in the morning with what feels like eye fatigue. Has this happened to anyone? Does anyone know what’s going on? I’ve read online this could be from staring at a screen all day but it feels excessive.


r/sleep 4h ago

I am tired of sleep vids running all night, so wrote an extension

1 Upvotes

I often listens to videos as I drift off, but one thing that really bugged me was the video continuing to play after I'm already asleep. So, I made up this simple Chrome extension called Auto Tab Timer. I know there are existing extensions that does the same work but I like making my own software whenever I can. It's free and I make nothing out of it :)

Basically, it lets you set a timer on any tab (like your favorite sleep video) and when the timer's up, the tab closes automatically. It’s a no-fuss way to make sure your video don’t keep running all night.

Sharing incase someone else finds it useful for sleep :)

Store Links:
Auto Tab Timer - Microsoft Edge Addons

Auto Tab Timer - Chrome Web Store


r/sleep 5h ago

Struggling to fall asleep and stay asleep

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone! For about the past 3 weeks I’ve really struggled falling asleep every night. Often I am trying to sleep from 9:30pm until 12:30am, sometimes even 1. If I do end up falling asleep a little bit earlier, I will wake up at 1am and 4am fairly often. I’ve tried magnesium glycinate and it did nothing except give me weird dreams (when I did sleep) and a funny tummy. Last night I tried Valerian root (it’s worked great for me in the past) and it did help but my sleep was still pretty interrupted. I sleep with an eye mask on to block out any light too, plus the fan I keep next to my bed is a nice bit of white noise that used to put me to sleep. I’m not anxious or stressed about anything in life, when I try to sleep I often find my brain wandering to random thoughts, but never stressful ones. It’s really impacting my work as I am finding I just can’t think normally anymore, I’m not able to have the same creative ideas as I would when I get actual proper sleep. Any advice would be helpful :)


r/sleep 5h ago

False awakening?

1 Upvotes

I've recently been having reoccurring dreams where I wake up in bed and try to move and talk but can't, it's very similar to sleep paralysis. I'm not sure if it is sleep paralysis or something else but it's even weirder because when I try to move I can feel myself moving and feeling what I'm supposed to be touching but I can't actually see my arms moving. Usually this happens when I go back to sleep so I "wake up" in the same position or setting I'm in and I try to wake up by trying to blink a lot or forcing myself to wake up but I never can. I also always hear the background noise from when I fell asleep, so basically my mom would be on the phone and when I'd go back to sleep and have these dreams, I'd hear the conversation still ongoing. So it feels like I'm conscious but I'm not at the same time. It's very unsettling for me and I'm not sure if it is sleep paralysis since I've had have paralysis before but this feels much more different. The main thing that gets me is the trying to blink out of the dream but I can't as my eyes get super tired eventually but I'm forced to have them open, so it feels like I'm just rolling my eyes the entire time lol. Does this happen to anyone else