Here’s my problem I either sleep about 0-4 hours a day then I wake up and no matter how tired I am I can’t go back to sleep AND about once a fortnight I will totally crash from like 6 am to 6 pm only to feel so much worse.
I think I have a sleeping problem bu ti don’t know what to do. I’m 16 BTW so sleeping pills aren’t a great idea plus I love the whole having the REM cycle thing.
Any ideas?
I’ll probably try most of them out, the one that works the best will get the points. If none of them work whoever wrote the nicest question will get them. (PS It’s 1.33 am here and I still aint sleep, gotta be up for school in 5 hours)
I don’t have ANY caffeine in my diet.
Seriously no coffee, no cola etc
I might eat a bit of chocolate during the DAY

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Here’s my problem I either sleep about 0-4 hours a day then I wake up and no matter how tired I am I can’t go back to sleep AND about once a fortnight I will totally crash from like 6 am to 6 pm only to feel so much worse.
I think I have a sleeping problem bu ti don’t know what to do. I’m 16 BTW so sleeping pills aren’t a great idea plus I love the whole having the REM cycle thing.
Any ideas?
I’ll probably try most of them out, the one that works the best will get the points. If none of them work whoever wrote the nicest question will get them. (PS It’s 1.33 am here and I still aint sleep, gotta be up for school in 5 hours)
don’t have ANY caffeine in my diet.
Seriously no coffee, no cola etc
I might eat a bit of chocolate during the DAY

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Myself durring a REM cycle, and woken up at the end explaining the dream (with pictures)

It would be splitscreen, filmed in ‘night mode’
THe left would be me sleeping. The right would be me reading the dream out of my dream journol (I know that the dream will courospond with the REM because I will have my cousin wake me up after I start to go into a NREM cycle.

How does that sound?
It isn’t suppoed to be a ‘movie theater’ film, or in a SUndance film festival. It is supposed to shot how dreams are in the eyes of the beholder. There shal be no plot. It is Un Chien Andalou meets Andy Warhol’s Blowjob.
Good question, but you almost always remember a dream you are awoken from.

As for the synchronization, it will not be perfect. But it is kind of the meaning, that it is all in my head and you can not make the physical and mental link if you are on the outside looking in.
Super Bad was not funny.

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Mine is that he will leave the TV on in the bedroom all night long….UGH! I’m completely understanding that he needs it to go to sleep, but he "forgets" to set the timer on the TV 98% of the time and so I wake up at about 2am to infomercials blasting through the night sky and invading my REM cycle, leading me to kick him repeatedly until he finds the remote (which has usually fallen under the bed) and turns off the TV is a huff because I had the audacity to wake him!
Animal Lover – That’s my biggest pet peeve for EVERYONE….I can’t stand to hear ANYONE chew, so in order to keep harmony in our home, the TV or radio MUST be on when any eating is being done so that I can be distracted….yeah, weird I know, but the alternative is me in a near homicidal outburst!

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I’m a fairly light sleeper. While I’m home alone I don’t have any problems whatsoever, however usually my mother is home at night as well. She gets up much earlier than I do for her job and it wakes me up every night, interrupting my REM cycle. It never fails, no matter how tired I am or how late I’ve stayed up, the noise she makes while she’s getting ready wakes me up around 6 AM
I’ve asked her before to try to be quieter in the mornings but she just doesn’t seem to be able to or she’s just ignoring my request. There are even mornings when she will stand outside my bedroom door and talk on her cellphone. It drives me crazy. I can usually fall asleep once she leaves but I rarely ever wake up feeling rested. Is there anyway I can train myself to sleep through her morning routine? I’ve tried sleeping pills on occassion and while they usually do work, I’d rather not use them. I need to get a full nights rest but I just can’t afford an apartment yet.

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I’ve tried Melatonin in different dosages over the past three years or so, but it hasn’t been any help. I’m eighteen years old now, and the doctor that my insurance covers doesn’t want to prescribe sleep aids, though I’ve suffered from only sleeping two to five hours a night since early childhood.

I tend to have trouble falling asleep, and I ALWAYS wake up after each REM cycle (rather than following the 1, 2, 3, 4, dream, 1, 2, 3, 4, dream pattern that people are supposed to, I wake up after each dream part. Also, I suffer from severe nightmares at least once every night (most times more like two or three times a night).

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Now first off, I’m not looking to be berated for sleeping in my contacts. I already know I’m not supposed to, and I’m probably going to continue doing it anyway.

I would simply like to know what causes them to dry out while one sleeps. Is it the lack of constant refreshing movement from blinking? If this is the case, would they be as uncomfortable if I were to wake up during my REM cycle?

Thanks in advance for your consideration!
Also, regarding the contacts that are made to be slept in, do you have an estimate perhaps of what those would run price-wise? Again, the information is appreciated.

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For a long time I have had the feeling that no matter what attempts I make in life to lead me to a happier existence, that its not worth searching because im so lost, but I had a very vivid dream during the rem cycle just befor waking….

In the dream, I was in a sort of walled courtyard with Aztec style constructs, but in a dry, arid, arabian terrain and desert climate….there was a sountrack in my head from a band i like called ”Sublime”….I thought ”well this musics not very appropriate for my ugly surroundings”….I decided to jump over the courtyard walls to see the surrounding landscape, which of course was dry and arid desert, but I decided to wander into the desert, but not expecting to find anything beautiful or fruitful, but thought ”well what the hell ill keep walking anyway.

After a while, to my surprise I eventually found something beautiful, it was a wall of different coloured blocks, like on those puzzel computer games where you hit a block and it falls….I started pushing these multicoloured blocks and like on the games they disapeared or dropped to replace the previous one, there was a feeling of joy while doing it, like it was a kind of Oasis of sorts, I then woke up.

I have my ideas of what the dream meant, but would like to hear your take to see if its similar to my take on it….would really appreciate your input here guys, thanks.

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Well my dream itself isn’t overly strange or anything, but it was one of those dreams that is SO vivid and visually intense. I don’t remember my dreams very often at all, so when dreams stay with me like this I always find it very interesting. Maybe it has to do with what part of the REM cycle I wake up in that makes it seem so much more intense/memorable. I’m not sure, but anyways…

I had a dream that I was looking up at the stars, trying to recognize constellations (I do this often in real life) and a shape really stuck out right in front of me, it was an absolutely perfect triangle. I was staring at the triangle in awe of how perfect it was, then it became more and more clear to me that the stars around it were forming my zodiac sign, the scales (Libra). I was still staring in amazement of how perfect of a constellation it was, like someone drew it out. Then I said to myself "well it makes sense, the sign is about perfect balance" and I came out of my dream still being able to see the constellation.

Like I said, nothing super weird, but it was just so vivid to me that I was wondering if anyone had any personal interpretations of it. I’m not taking this too seriously btw, just asking for fun
forgot to say, going by the general descriptions you always hear of Libras I fit perfectly, but other than that I don’t know much about zodiac signs

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Does anyone else use the Johnson&Johsnon bedtime bath and lotion and believe it does indeed help baby sleep better? I used it when my baby was first born and he was always a great sleeper. When I ran out of that stuff, i just bought some normal baby bath because I thought it was just a marketing ploy and a load of crock.
My baby is now 8 months old and wakes up at night – ALL THE TIME. he is easy to put back to sleep but it just seems to me that he is nevr getting into a good REM cycle because he wakes so often.
Anyway, last night, for no particular reason I decided to use the tiny bit of the Bedtime Bath that I had left in the bottle, and my baby slept 11 hours straight, in his own cot for the first time in months.
I think it may actually work!!!!
Anyone else think so?

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Me and my sister have to share a room, and I noticed that every night, during the same time, she starts moving her arms in the air, all slow. It’s not a spasm. She continues to move her arms in the air like she’s stretching her arms, and touching her elbows. They are the SAME EXACT motions each time. I’ve even filmed it to show her, but she refuses to see them. Anyways, I wonder what could be causing this? Is it a repetative dream she’s acting out each time? Is it a degenerative brain thing like I read? She’s 22, I don’t think it’s PD, but it creeps me out. Same exact motions, same time in her REM cycle.

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Here’s my problem I either sleep about 0-4 hours a day then I wake up and no matter how tired I am I can’t go back to sleep AND about once a fortnight I will totally crash from like 6 am to 6 pm only to feel so much worse.
I think I have a sleeping problem bu ti don’t know what to do. I’m 16 BTW so sleeping pills aren’t a great idea plus I love the whole having the REM cycle thing.
Any ideas?
I’ll probably try most of them out, the one that works the best will get the points. If none of them work whoever wrote the nicest question will get them. (PS It’s 1.49 am here and I still aint sleep, gotta be up for school in 5 hours)
don’t have ANY caffeine in my diet.
Seriously no coffee, no cola etc
I might eat a bit of chocolate during the DAY
Also I am posting this here because I’ve posted it in the medical area but to no avail, AND this board always gives good answers.

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This was waking him up (I now realise). Does anyone else’s child do this? What do you do? I feel sure it is when he goes back into a REM cycle since it runs so predictably. He has been learning lots of new things lately and I know that can cause nightmares. I’ve been standing right outside the door (after he cries for 2 minutes) and peeking in to figure out if he is asleep.
Teething? He has all of his baby teeth. He’s had those for months. They didn’t start coming in until late (12 months), but then they all came in one after the other. Poor kid was teething for about 6 months straight.
Sometimes, he cries like he’s hurt, Sometimes, he says, "NO! No! MINE!". Sometimes, it is just a whine. Sometimes, he calls out for Daddy (they are very close), sometimes, he talks about "Bass." They are fishermen, too. LOL
The fishing thing is what tipped me off that he is learning new things and could be just having night mares. The first night after his dad took him fishing on the boat (not the bank) just the two of them, he had a rough night and called out in his sleep. I noticed the same thing after we got him his t-ball stand and he played with it all day.

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I absolutely LOVE lucid dreams! I’ve only had 3 of them in my whole life…But they’re so cool! anyway, i looked up stuff trying to find out how to get them easier..And I read about the sleep cycles and stuff…Like REM and NREM. I don’t totally understand them, but I read about sleep paralysis. So from what i understand, when you’re going through the REM cycle, you can’t move anything but your eyes, and sometimes hear voices or see dark figures? I’ve read about some peoples experiences with sleep paralysis and they sound awful. Lucid dreams are great and all, but if i go through the steps to force one, am i taking the risk of experiencing these freaky episodes? sorry if my question was confusing, i am a bit confused myself. thanks in advance for answers.

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I don’t like to wake up early but frequently I open my eyes early in the morning before the sun’s up and lay there for a couple minutes before going back to sleep and waking up at my normal time. Is this part of my REM cycle? Or is this hurting my REM cycle? I don’t usually remember my dreams when this happens if they were late at night, but usually they happen in the time between me waking up and then waking up "for real".

What’s going on?!

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