How many of us have sleeping problems?

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I have been having sleeping issues again. I am tired and I try and get to sleep but can't but yet I sleep through my husband getting up for work so that means I did fall asleep right before he got up. Now my eyes are sore because I am still tired but it's day time so I am up, plus so is my baby. But at least he sleeps through the night now and I am still up on the computer while he is sleeping. I need to have better willpower to get off and go to sleep so I don't get so over tired or be tired the next day. When I have gone to bed early, I end up waking up not too long later or I have issues getting to sleep so I have gotten up and use my ebook for the internet as I lie down hoping I will get too tired to use it I will sleep.

My sleep issues come and go.

I hate sleep. Sleep is the enemy.

My sleep issues started when I was a kid. My parents used to keep me out late (sometimes until 1 or 2am even on school nights. I got yelled at for being sleepy the following mornings. I wanted sleep & was deprived on a regular basis. I would also have nightmares & had a difficult time returning to sleep because of them. I lay there staring at the ceiling wondering what horrible thing would happen next. I'd also lay awake going over stuff that happened during the day....mosty dealing with bullies & abusive parents or teachers who had it in for me & trying to figure out a way to not piss off the world around me.

Now I take forever to fall asleep, if/when I fall asleep, the slightest thing will wake me up. I have 2 big dogs (NOT mine!) who love barking right outside my bedroom window (tried talking to the neighbor about (it's not *my* dog blah blah blah)...right, he sleeps on the other side of his house, no where near where the dogs bark. I have a dog too...he is as quiet as a church mouse most nights (sleeps beside me). I also wake up with anxiety attacks now...fun fun fun. I can't remember the last time I actually had a decent night's sleep, & I'm getting crankier by the day. Doesn't take much to put me in a bad mood. I have seen my doc multiple times & all they want to do is give me anti-depressants which have yet to work. I cannot help it if I am sensitive to noise & have a difficult time sleeping because of them.

I've had sleeping problems most of my life.

I have never slept well. I am told that when I was a baby, I would stay up all night talking to myself (I spoke at around 8 months) and playing with socks. I can remember watching the sun come up most days before I fell asleep when I was four and then having nightmares and waking up or being woken up by my mom vacuuming (she did that almost compulsively every day until a few years ago) not long after.

When I was five I would mute my television and watch TV with the subtitles on all night. This went on until I was 10 (on the bright side, I saw some cool shows like Gundam Wing).

By middle school, I would stay up for days at a time, crash, sleep 12 hours, and then repeat the cycle. This went on until The Great Crash of 11th grade. At some point that year I began to sleep excessively. I think the Prozac may have been a factor. Shortly after I quit Prozac, I had a "normal" sleep cycle for the rest of the year and I have been back to the normal one (trying to sleep for 2 to 3 hours, getting bored, and staying up all night for a few days and then crashing).

I'm one ..............(who has sleeping problems)!

I've got problems with falling asleep. I rarely feel tired in the evening and can't get rid of all those thoughts.

I often have sleeping problems, it can be very hard for me to fall asleep and it´s really annoying.

yes. I do have sleeping problems. I stay up most of the night watching television. Now that I'm adopting a little girl with Angleman Syndrome she also have sleep issues so we be watching cartoons all night long together. Of course days she don't have school. I don't believe in medicating children so i try to put her to sleep the best I can.

I don't. I usually do not have problems getting to sleep, although at 6AM I'm never ready to get out of bed.

I have problems shutting off at night and booting up in the morning. Left to my own devices, I'll go to sleep around 4 AM, get up around noon, do whatever chores or errands I have to do, and then work from around 4 PM to midnight. Unfortunately, even working for myself, I usually have to stick to the client's schedule.

I'm just about to toddle off to bed now. Hopefully I'll sleep right through 'til the morning.

Im opposite of what everyone else says.....

I can fall asleep whenever I have the oppertunity, actually I can induce my own sleep, any place, any time. I require 10 or more hours of sleep a day, and if not, ill be sleeping in the afternoon for 2-3 hrs. I had a EEG brainscan, showing that my brain was permanently in a low conscious state.

Really strange, I haven't had less than 8 hours of sleep a night in over a year.

only because of the a**holes next door that like to bang around all day and night.