Not wanting to go to sleep

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Does anyone else here ever have nights where they just don't want to go to sleep? Sometimes frequently, sometimes not, I just get this nagging feeling that I shouldn't go to sleep, and I don't know why. Like I feel like something bad is going to happen if I go to sleep, but not even a vague idea of what, just something.

Is anyone else like that?

Very occasionally i get episodes where i have extreme anxiety and depression and i get this weird feeling of impending doom that lasts from hours to days to weeks... since i finished school last year i havent had one of these episodes and i hope it doesnt come back because its a spontaneous thing...
But yes i had that same feeling that kept me up each and every night i had these episodes... its weird

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Yes, mostly at my previous college a few years back.
Often it would seem like an unaccountable feeling,
and then upon inventorying my prior consumption,
I would attribute it to caffeine, or a change in exercise routine or eating habits.
Sometimes I could never find the cause, so I would lie awake as dreaded worries tumbled
and churned thru my head like so much dirty laundry misappropriated to a reciprocating dryer.

Tonight is such a night ... except that I'm standing up right now.

Sometimes I have bad dreams and I`m afraid I`m gonna die in my sleep and I`m not ready for that! I love to stay up all night anyway though! I hate sleeping all day but I love staying up all night!

I get like that a lot. I don't want to sleep because I'm afraid that I'm going to have an incubus nightmare and lose control of my bodily functions. There are nights that I'm up until 11, even on work nights when I have to get up early the next day. I finally give in and go to bed because I know I need my sleep. Nothing happens after I go to bed. I just sleep until my alarm goes off. I haven't had a night terror since the summer of 2009 anyways.

It happens when I am really anxious. I will only sleep after 8 or 9, if at all.
And I have really intense sleep paralysis issues so that is something I always start to dread when I am really tired but can not fall asleep.

Yes it happens to me. Some times my nightmares are so intense .I can't get back to sleep it's been happening almost. Every night

I have that issue as well, however for me it's clearly linked to depression. I get the vague feeling that "things aren't OK yet, I have to fix this first, before I can allow myself to let go."
It used to be mostly anxiety / sadness related, nowadays it's more the numb feeling of depression.

Yes, but then I exercise so I become tired enough because I know that I NEED sleep.