Insomnia

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Well, I've just come off the tail end of a 42 hour insomnia spell. I tried to sleep but I just lay there awake staring at the ceiling. Useless. So I'd get up and sit at my laptop at 2am, 3am, 4am...

6am comes around and I think, "This is the time I'd normally be waking up to go to work." but I'd been awake all night.

After 42 hours, I still wasn't hallucinating but I've had periods of insomnia sleeplessness where I've been awake for more than 72 hours and I was hallucinating like a son of a b***h. I was getting auditory hallucinations on Thursday like crazy. I could hear music when there was no external source and it was coming from a room that had no radio. I couldn't quite locate the point or direction of the sound source (hallucination). It was just in the air all around me.

Has anyone ever been so sleep deprived to the point where you start to hallucinate? I have

Insomnia is not fun though. I now feel like I've been dragged under a tractor whilst it was being smashed into by another tractor. Tragic. But, after these long insomnia periods, I get the BEST night's sleep and I'm off again.

The longest I've gone without sleep is 82 hours (3½ days without sleep). THAT was crazy. My God! The hallucinations!! !

Sleep is the drug that prevents us from finding out the reality - and you can't do without it. Try! If you manage to stay awake long enough to break the restraints, well then you'll see what life REALLY is! And you don't want to see that!! !! !! !! !! !

I once didn't sleep for 8 days, but I didn't have any hallucinations.
Then, I took a 2-hour nap on a mountainside road turnout.
Then, I went to sleep that night and slept a normal night and was normal afterwards.
Once, I heard music without a source too, but that seemed random, not during an insomnia period.

82 hours!

The longest I've gone was 36 hours, years ago when I was younger and minus the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and POTS that makes me conk out now.

Issue I have now is Delayed Sleep Phase - I'm up all night and sleep 2/3 of my day away and I hate it. Trying everything to fix it but my body's made up it's own mind when it wants to sleep

I once went roughly 4 days, 21 hours without sleep.
Normally I go 1-2 days without sleep every two to three weeks.

It's a cycle, cause I logged all my sleeping in my iPhone 5s last month to chart it.

Though my new pill makes sleep better.

Oddly enough, it doesn't get rid of my fatigue (It's not as bad on this pill).
I also have trouble waking up now...

My mind tends to get restless at night.

I've been going through a spell of insomnia. I've only been getting three hours of sleep for the past week. I hope I have a good sleep tonight. If I wake up in the wee hours of the morning, I'll try going back to bed. If that doesn't work, I'll order Z-Quill off of Points2Shop.

I didnt sleep for a few days and started hallucinating. read on the net this is what insomnia does to people, that it's common to have hallucinations when sleep deprived. I'm hopelessly insomniac, but it's not a good thing because it affects my physical and mental abilities. I feel horrible today because I didnt get enough sleep. I suffer because of it.

I kept trying and fail. I never made it past 60 hours.

I've only done about past 52 hours more or less so far... Still plans on breaking it sooner or later hopefully on the right opportunity. The fatigue is rather painful, and afterwards turns over my sleeping schedule into "about over 12 hours per night" sleeps so I have to be careful when to attempt to.

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Insomnia is not a physical condition
It is not an emotional condition

It is a mental condition

When the mind is abuzz it flitters from tree to tree seeking flowers and nectar
it's a buzy little bee
and it never stops

even when it gets home it dances around and shows all the other bees where the flowers are


Your mind is a busy little bee

Take your self to a still spot
somewhere where there is silence and stillness
then think about silence and stillness
then imagine stillness and silence as your whole world
then go there

I've had insomnia a few times, but not to the point of hallucinations.

My first experience with insomnia (To my memory) was sometime last year. I suffered a week-long spell that rendered me unable to sleep until a bit after 4 AM.

There were also two or three times that I couldn't even get a bit of shuteye thanks to drinking beverages with caffeine.