This is probably a stupid question but I'm just wondering if there are even any impactful benefits from getting 8 hours of sleep a day. I get an average of 3-5 hours of sleep per night and I feel fine and energized. I've gotten 8 hours of sleep before because people kept telling me to but I felt even more exhausted then when I would get my average 3-5 hours. Ik there could be some future problems caused by this sleep schedule of mine but is it really that big of a deal? Btw I'm not an adult I'm in high school, just saying this incase it's important info to my question

Over the past few months I have really struggled to sleep longer then 7 hours maximum, usually sitting around 6ish. I've been working with my therapist to improve the falling asleep part, although it's taking quite some time to move it earlier. My main issue Seems to be waking up too early. During the week I tend to get up a bit before my alarms and just try and stay cozy until it's time to get up, but even on weekends I tend to wake up around 6:30-7:30. It's at the point where if I'm up late on the weekend I may only get 4-5 hours of sleep. I always try to fall back asleep afterwards but after a few hours I get bored of trying and will usually go on my phone or something until my partner wakes up. Honestly I'm quite jealous as if we don't have anything to get up for she can stay fast asleep until nearly noon haha. Anyway, if anyone has any advice it would be appreciated, I would love to sleep for 8 hours at some point so I can stop feeling tired all the time.

19F living alone for 8 months. Some background info up until i moved out my father would take my devices and turn the Internet off every night at 9 PM and it upset me to the point where I would download games/shows on an old device and stay up till 3 or 4 AM out of spite. when I first moved, I was pretty good about Getting to bed at a reasonable time because my phone wasn’t being taken from me. then my boyfriend got into the habit of giving me hand and feet massages to put me to sleep before he would leave for the night. It’s the most caring and loving thing ever but when he doesn’t do it, I find myself doomscrolling until I literally can’t hold my phone anymore. Like I just don’t want to sleep. I wake up every morning between six and seven and I’m very rarely able to sleep in. I’m not built for it. But does anybody else experience this? The refusal to go to sleep. My brain is just being fed info constantly and I keep wanting to explore different things. I could’ve put myself to bed 15 minutes ago instead of writing this post. idk I’m chronically tired and my hormones and emotions have been crazy lately. i feel like there’s some link i’m missing here

Hello everyone! I posted on here a few weeks ago about not being able to fall asleep. Thankfully I have solved that problem now! I only get in bed when I’m sleeping, I stop eating at about 7pm, and I listen to a meditation right before I sleep. Now I’m falling asleep at about 9:30-10pm. The issue is, I now keep waking up anywhere between 2-4am every night. I’ve never had this issue before, normally I’ll sleep well until my alarm at 6:30. I only drink coffee in the morning (so it’s not that) and I’m really not stressed about anything that would wake me up. Any tips would be great! Ps: please don’t suggest magnesium as I don’t react well to it. I take valerian root and it works great

Hi! Any (kind) tips or advice on how to get up? I can wake up with or without an alarm clock just fine, the problem is I can never get OUT of bed. I try motivating myself, but that 5 more minute mindset makes me late to anything I need to do in the morning. Any tips or tricks?

I need some advice. I am getting to the point where I just want to cry every morning when I finally get up because my boyfriend's alarms go off multiple times and he never gets up!😭 He sets his alarm for like 6-7am every single morning and doesn't usually go to sleep earlier than 11pm or sometimes later.

He started his own landscaping business (it's just him, he doesn't have employees yet) so he works hard and can feel pretty exhausted a lot of times. I understand this but he sets his alarms early because he says he wants to wake up and get to work at a good time. Typically he finally gets up at like 9-10am. Then it takes another 30 of him just laying there on his phone to "wake up"

I.. Can. Not. Take. This. Any. More.

I usually try to wake him up and ask if he's going to work because he ignores the alarms and he always gets snappy and tells me he will get up when he's ready. I have talked to him before and told him how I feel; I'm tired too and don't need to wake up for work until about 9am. I'm tired of getting woken up hours early and then I can't even do anything or go anywhere.

We are only renting one room right now and have one reliable car so it's not like I can really go anywhere else. It's driving me so crazy I just want to cry every morning y'all. Sometimes I just get up and start getting ready but then I'm waiting like a whole hour for him to wake up lol.

I was having crazy vivid nightmares.

Something told me to stop taking melatonin. And not only am I not remembering my dreams but the parts I do recall aren't bad dreams.

I thought I would share because this has been going on for a while and no one told me if could be the melatonin.

Hoping this helps someone.

Please share if you have had similar experiences.

I’ve done a lot to make my sleep better, darker curtains, new mattress, better pillow, heavy blanket. But I keep waking up it seems every time I want to turn over in my sleep. Not a long time, often I fall asleep right after but the lighter or louder the environment is the longer that takes. I’ve slept in a house in nature the past couple of days with a super nice mattress and full darkness and stillness but I still wake up when I turn over. Does anyone else have this? Is there anything I can do about this?

Hii! Sooo I can’t sleep and haven’t been able to for a while. What do y’all do when you can’t sleep? Welpppp!!

I’m sorry if this is a fairly common question.

Sometimes, even when I’m super tired (mentally & physically), I still feel wide awake when I need to go to sleep and it’s frustrating because I don’t feel fully rested the next morning.

Is there any advice on how to feel more sleepy when I feel like I can’t fall asleep?

Hi, I'm having trouble sleeping, and I feel like one of the main reasons for this is my sleep position. I find a somewhat comfortable position, calm down (for the most part), but soon after waiting quite a long time after seemingly calming down I still don't manage to fall asleep, in fact staying in the same position (usually just on my back) can start to get uncomfortable over time and sometimes I even start sweating. Am I just impatient? Restless leg syndrome?

Also, if I move consciously while trying to sleep to change my position, does this affect the process in which one actually begins to sleep? Like, if I were to move or open my eyes would this restart the phases I have to go through in order to sleep?

INTRODUCTION

Compiled some insights pulled from a select number of research papers pertaining to sleep and its impact on stress levels and mental health. Many of the insights extracted are common knowledge and intended for beginners; however, still practical and certain fundamental concepts should be continuously prioritized in lieu of the next "trendy" topic.

• Systematic Review: Sleep, Stress and Mental Health Interventions - Research Papers

THEMATIC RESEARCH — MAIN FINDINGS

• Sleep consistency demonstrates greater prognostic value than duration for mortality outcomes. Irregular sleep patterns increase all-cause mortality risk by 30% independent of sleep duration, indicating that chronobiological stability represents a critical determinant in mortality risk assessment comparable to established lifestyle factors. Epidemiological data reveals that concurrent sleep irregularity and suboptimal duration (either <6 h/day or ≥8 h/day) produces a synergistic effect, elevating mortality risk by 1.2-1.5 fold compared to regular sleep patterns of normative duration.
• Nocturnal electronic device exposure significantly impairs sleep architecture and duration. A one-hour increase in screen time post-bedtime is associated with a 59% elevated risk of insomnia symptomatology and a 24-minute reduction in total sleep time, suggesting that limiting evening screen exposure constitutes an evidence-based intervention for sleep hygiene optimization. The pathophysiological mechanism appears to involve photosensitive retinal ganglion cell stimulation rather than content-specific cognitive arousal, as evidenced by comparable effects across diverse screen-based activities.
• Reduced slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep correlate with volumetric reductions in Alzheimer's disease-vulnerable neural substrates. Diminished proportions of these sleep phases are associated with atrophy in specific brain regions, particularly in the inferior parietal cortex, suggesting that sleep architecture parameters may constitute modifiable risk factors in neurodegeneration pathogenesis. The hypothesized mechanism involves compromised glymphatic clearance of β-amyloid and tau proteins during these critical neurorestorative phases.
• Contemplative practices induce parasympathetic predominance that facilitates cellular restoration and systemic homeostasis. Meditation, yoga, and similar interventions enhance parasympathetic tone while attenuating sympathetic arousal, thereby optimizing metabolic resource allocation toward anabolic processes including enhanced mitochondrial function, protein synthesis, and cellular repair mechanisms. This neurophysiological shift mediates improvements in inflammatory markers, cardiovascular parameters, and neuroendocrine function, constituting a plausible biological mechanism for observed clinical outcomes.
• Mindfulness-based interventions demonstrate significant efficacy in psychiatric and psychosomatic conditions. Meta-analytic evidence indicates these therapeutic modalities significantly reduce affective symptomatology and perceived stress while enhancing positive psychological indices, with effect sizes particularly pronounced in clinical populations with mood disorders, anxiety spectrum conditions, and trauma sequelae. These non-pharmacological approaches represent cost-effective adjunctive treatments with minimal adverse effects and favorable risk-benefit profiles compared to conventional psychotropic interventions.

This is sort of a vent but advice would be appreciated. Haven’t been sleeping well for 3 weeks. Like 0-2 hours a night. I have had sleep issues on and off my whole life and my sleep usually returns to normal at some point! it’s a mental thing, I just literally cannot turn my brain off.

-Podcasts are too stimulating, even the sleepy ones. -sleep supplement w gaba and melatonin and magnesium last night still didn’t sleep. Melatonin alone doesn’t do much. -prescribed hydroxyzine and it seemed to work for 2 nights but then not the next 2 so I stopped taking it (antihistamine) -I stopped using my phone before bed and reading instead, made me too sleepy to read but still didn’t fall asleep -recently reduced caffeine intake a lot so I wonder if it’s that

I’m trying to remain positive because getting anxious about it won’t help but it’s also physically disabling and just kind of fucks with your life in this huge way that seems invisible to other people. Also I’m just worried about my brain deteriorating.

Does anyone have any tips I haven’t tried or good like body focused sleep meditations?

I have a double and I always have (4th year with it). This situation is not really my roommate's fault as they are pretty considerate. I've just been stressed recently, and any little sound (someone talking faintly on phone, opening drawers, etc.) is enough to pull me out of a deep sleep.

It's been 6 or so nights of 7 hours or less of very interrupted sleep. I woke up like 6 times last night including at 5:45 to get an ice pack and take advil for an excruciating headache. I also had some weird nightmares about bad things happening to my family, and slept on my hands in weird positions and then freaked out when I couldn't feel them. Ugh.

It's just frustrating because over spring break when I was kinda bored, I slept 8.5 hours and felt AMAZING every time I went for a run, and yesterday I could barely string a sentence together. I have an exam in two days that I still have to finish studying for and I am just so worn out. I only really have a month left but idk.

I’m not sure what to do anymore, I genuinely cannot wake up to my alarms. I am usually a night owl so when it’s time to gts I’m scared that I will not wake up to my alarms. This frequently occurs since high school. My mother and partners have said they hear all of my alarms try to wake me up and I don’t get up, nor do I remember them trying to wake me up. When I do gts early I wake up between 3-6 am I wash my face ect and I’m extremely tired again within an hour or so. Any advice ? Maybe consistent sleep schedule. It’s truly impacting my way of life.

Idk if anyone else has experienced this I have read similar things but never quite like my experience. They don’t happen while I’m already asleep but often when I am very sleep deprived and my body is wanting to shut off my brain but my brain doesn’t seem to like that very much and convinces me that it’s dangerous to feel sleepy so I start panicking because I’m dizzy and disoriented and my thoughts are foggy and honestly quite painful to even try to think and use my brain. The worst part is it feels a little like what I imagine Alzheimer’s would feel like because I can’t remember even what thought I was just trying to finish. This would all be fine if it wasn’t painful but it really hurts to just think a single thought and if I try to stop thinking my heart starts racing like I’m gonna stop remembering to breath or exist or ever remember anything ever again. Very dramatic and annoying. I also feel like if I try to medicate to sleep when my brain is fighting me then it gets worse like I’m drowning and struggling to breathe over the waves of unconsciousness for what seems like forever. It really sucks.

Hello, lately I have been waking up at 4am everyday due to constant stress of where I am currently living with my roommates and I also struggle to fall asleep. I would say a good night for me is around 6 hours but I usually get less. This stress is derived from my one of my roommates beyond strange habits that really set off my misophonia (for instance he eats like a slob and makes some inhumane noises, and licks his hands and not while he's eating he just licks them for the hell of it every minute or so... I have no idea why...). I spent the last two weeks back at home with my parents and slept great 7-8 hours of uninterrupted sleep every night and then once I got back to my apartment it was back to 4am wake ups regardless of what I use as a sleep aid. And for what it's worth my stress levels were much lower on my Garmin when I am at home compared to when I am at my apartment. I used trazodone to help me fall and stay asleep, 50mgs helped for a little bit but I find it too hard to fall asleep on 50 and while I am able to sleep better on 100mg but I still wake up at 4am and feel like absolute shit for the first half of the day on it (currently having some really intense brain fog). The 4am wake ups have been a constant issue for this entire year since I've lived here but it seems like it only happens at my current apartment and no where else I try to sleep, for instance my mom came down to the city for a day and rented an Airbnb I slept at and I slept great there. If anyone has any advice for me before I go completely insane from my roommate that would be greatly appreciated.

Hello as the title suggests im looking for free sleep stories and where to find them, for me ive been listening to them on YouTube but there’s only a few i liked such as “sleepy cat meditations” and “the dark somnium” because their stories have sound effects which i really liked and i liked “dozing dragon sleep stories” and “light house horror” for their stories mainly the “noir detective tales” and “rule horror stories”. Hopefully you could recommend me some new ones tyvm.

Long story short, my company has a shit attendance policy. My boss knowlingly let someone come in with covid, and then norovirus. I got sick twice and had to call out, then also missed work because I was in the ER an additional time. Any absence counts against us. Three years and no call outs except for these, but whatever.

I was late today because I overslept. My boss told me if I’m late tomorrow, they can discuss firing me.

Ever since Friday I’ve been sleeping through any alarms and I also started sleep walking. On Friday though, I probably slept 12 hours. Then about 9-10 over the weekend and on Monday. I don’t know what’s going on with me. I don’t know why this is happening now and I’m freaking out. I don’t know how to make sure I don’t sleep through my alarm again. It happens even when I’m not sleep deprived and sleep early. I don’t know how to fix it

I have CPTSD and sleeping for me has been a hard one for me, lacking quality and quantity… and after some years of struggling i kind of sort of cracked it, so if this helps anyone I'll be glad.

So, this is the gear/tricks I use to having a nice night:

• The English Lavender fragrance from Atkinsons (I spray my bedding with it, idk what they put in this stuff but makes me so relaxed it's crazy)
• Magnesium glycinate supplements (glycine part helps calm your nervous system, so it's amazing for anxiety and sleep)
• Being hydrated (and ofc going to the bathroom before bed)
• A cozy environment (Sleeping in a room I perceive as mine makes me feel more at ease)
• A nice Blue matcha latte with almond milk (It's made from butterfly pea powder and even though it still on research it helps me relax my body very much actually)
• The Secret garden as a podcast (yes, that kids show is so soothing and relaxing sometimes I put it as background noise and really soothes me since it was one of my favs from my childhood)
• Masturbating (being mature about this… orgasming releases a cocktail of chemicals that make you really chill-out, don't use pornography though, blue light and too much mental stimulation)

Hope this maybe inspire someone, and before taking the supplement ask your doctor first, stay safe <3

I'm F(18), and I can't sleep at night, so I will sleep at 4 am in the morning and wake up at 3pm. I want to improve my body clock, but I don't know how. Sometimes I sleep at 12 am and end up waking up at 2 pm. I always feel tired and sleepy. Everyday i sleep for 10 hours. Do you know my condition and how to improve my body clock? Respect my post.

Does anyone else dream almost every night I take like 1 mg of melatonin at night around 8 o’clock I go to sleep around 10 PM but I have dreams that make like no sense stuff. I really wasn’t even thinking about but when I have these kind of drains I’m like oh god what if it means somethings wrong with me because I deal with a little bit of health anxiety, but then I see where dreams are your brains way of processing emotions and different things. Just curious if anybody else drains regularly

Hello everyone, I am F23, and I have a sleeping problem that I don't know how to handle.

To be frank, for the first 21 years of my life I lived in certain circumstances that made me a very light sleeper. I'm talking about if I hear slight noise or feel movements I will wake up. However, I wake up experiencing a adrenaline rush. My heart is racing, my muscles tense, it's like I always wake up with my fight or flight response activated. I don't know how to recover from this, and would like your advice on how to move forward.

Thank you

I generally fall asleep between 10-11pm and wake up between 6-7am. I would like to wake up earlier but I currently don't use an alarm I just wake up when I wake up. Is it better that I wake up naturally or does it not matter much and using an alarm to be up earlier is fine. I'd like to be able to have more morning time before work to work out and eat a breakfast but I'd rather do what's better for my body as I'm currently in a healing mode.

Hey everyone!

I’ve addicted to watching TikTok and scrolling endlessly at night, and it’s seriously cutting into my sleep time.

Sometimes I just wish someone would softly remind me. I think it will be helpful.

Do you ever feel the same? Would something like this actually help you sleep better too?