my boyfriend has a significant amount of trouble falling asleep and says that it often can take him up to two hours to fall asleep. in addition, he often has rather restless sleep which may or may not include fairly vivid dreams or waking up in the middle of the night. in addition, he says that sometimes when he even does get a full night’s amount of sleep he will wake up still feeling tired. so, i was wondering what may be the cause of this inability and what if anything can be done to ease its affects (preferably through natural means, i.e. no prescriptions)?

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Does anyone else experience this symptom with the sleep aids as well? I am not sure if all sleep aids use the same ingredients but that is the ingredient I believe that produces long- drawn out, extremely vivid dreams. I usually can tell I’m dreaming but when I take a sleep aid I cannot distinguish my dream from reality while in the dream.

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I thought that the point of melatonin was to take as little as possible since it is a natural thing in your body to help you fall asleep…I know possible side effects are vivid dreams/nightmares, stomach cramps, etc. But, since it is a natural supplement and is produced in your body, is it possible to take too much/overdose on melatonin?

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All my life I have had a problem going to bed at night. It takes me ages to get to bed – I seem to get anxious about going to bed. Then when I’m in bed I can’t sleep. When I finally do sleep I have vivid dreams – often bad ones. I often wake early – about four am and can’t get back to sleep. Does any one have any advice they can give me?

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Okay, well i’m having sleeping problems. Some nights i sleep through it without waking up, others i wake up a few times, and sometimes i wake up a bunch. Last night i woke up like every 30 minutes!! sometimes i just fall right back to sleep but others it takes like an hour to get back to sleep. This started happening when school started (which was in August). I’ve also been having VERY vivid dreams. Sometimes i can’t tell if it actually happened or if it was just a dream.
Does any one know why this is happening?

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I’ve heard it takes 90 minutes to reach REM sleep. Is this true with every single person, or just the average person?
I’ve had some pretty bad insomnia for the past two months. I usually end up sleeping just four or five hours, waking up every hour or so. The thing is, usually I will have very vivid dreams in the separate hours I’m asleep. I’ve heard dreaming is usually involved with REM sleep. Is it possible to go into REM sleep in just an hour? I don’t know how else I can be having really vivid dreams in just an hours time.

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Do medications that increase remembering dreams as well as the vividness of them possibly increase our time of being in REM sleep? It is documented most vivid dreams occur in REM sleep, and I always have vivid dreams even if im asleep for only an hour. Everynight I realize how vivid they are and how real they seem, I take zoloft during the day, diphenhydramine 50 mg and 3 mg meletonin + thianine at night. I know 3 mg of meletonin is ALOT but it gives me amazing vivid dreams. Is this increasing my REM sleep at all or just causing vivid dreams in the earlier stages of my sleep?
I know REM sleep isin’t supposed to occur for at least a few hours, and it just confuses me why I have vivid dreams after only sometimes 10 minutes of sleeping.
so wouldnt it cause a better nights sleep if it came on quicker? we get the most rest out of REM sleep right?

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I’m having some horrible sleep problems lately. I’ve always been a person that either gets a little bit less sleep than I should, or a little bit more sleep than I should. But in the past year, things have just gotten worse. Last year I suffered from a horrible depression and either never slept at all, or slept pretty much ALL DAY! My dreams were always very intense and I never felt well rested. I went on antidepressants and although I feel it was on my own I overcame depression, those pills definitely helped me to sleep better and get my energy up. Before last summer I got off the pills, and about late fall/early winter my sleep patterns have been awful. Sure, I’ve been stressed, but what causes me to sleep for about 12 HOURS a day! And sometimes its not just in one lump-some, its a couple of hours here, and there. I’ve also been experiencing even more vivid dreams than usual (which really fuck with me knowing if Im awake or not-I dream about very realistic things, like waking up and being late, then I actually wake up and Im late haha) and some scary sleep paralysis. I’m also very paranoid at night. I’ve been accepted into college but worry about not graduating because of missing so much school-sleeping. I want to fix things NOW. I told my doctor and she says "its just stress, your a senior, all seniors are like that"-she wouldn’t even bother asking me more questions or doing any tests. Help?!
thanks so far guys im gonna take everything into consideration. i feel like im sleeping my life away missing out on the beauty of this world!

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So ever since high school I’ve been an insomniac. On rare nights when I’m lucky I’ll get 8-9 hours total of sleep, but most of the time I get anywhere from 4-6 hours total a night. It’s lame but I’m just used to it. A lot of times it’ll be broken up too, with me waking up once or twice throughout the night, so a lot of times it won’t even be 4-6 hours straight through. Like I said though I’m used to it now, my body has learned to adapt to little sleep. Like I said, it’s lame but I just deal with it.

Anyways, on to the question. It seems that for the little sleep that I do get I spend the majority of it in REM sleep. Just about every night I have very vivid dreams. I remember back in the day when I used to sleep good that it would take me a while to start dreaming when i slept, but nowadays there have been times when I fell asleep and went straight into dreaming with no between time. If I’m asleep for, say, four hours, I could swear that I’m dreaming for just about all of the four hours. I usually wake up thinking "wow, it feels like ive been asleep for 7 hours", but then I look at the clock and it’s only been four hours. It always feels like I’ve been asleep for longer than I actually have because I have such vivid dreams. So, my question is, if you spend more time in REM sleep, does that mean you need less sleep overall? For example, if you got the equivalent of 8 hours worth of REM sleep in five hours. Would that mean you need less hours of sleep overall if you spent more of it in REM?

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Hello,

I have too much REM sleep. I will usually dream up to six different vivid dreams during the night waking up randomly. Sometimes I will go to bed and sleep for seventeen hours. I can’t get up! The little of the day I do have is spent not getting all of the things done I need to get done because I’m so tired and yawning! I know that there is a correlation between too much REM sleep and depression. My dreams are usually very emotionally intense, and sometimes quite abstract. I have dreamed of my sister dying in the Korean war, random people I know dying, a dream where a person simply exhibits an emotion (and that emotion is the subject of the dream), me peeling of stickers, climbing the Louvre "pyramides" in Paris… I know some things could help, like… getting more exercise (I try to), having a good balanced diet (I do), getting sunlight (I try to), no caffeine after dinner maybe… etc.

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I’ve been sleeping like the dead. Solid. No dreams, nothing. And it’s bothering me. I’ve always had vivid dreams, and I was wondering if there was some way to force yourself to dream. Something to think about or read or watch that triggers a wild dream.

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I have noticed that I have vivid dreams of things that are not at the present time, and are not reoccurring, and the environment is very different, and I can see a mature sequence of scenarios or settings, of which I am in and others that are around me now. It seems to be so far ahead of time. Is it possible that these dreams are things that I will do, say 15-25 years down the road? Is this so because the subconscious can attain anything, so those subconscious manifests almost shape your life, until that final moment happens?

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I mean, I sleep good, but I only go into DEEP sleep every so often. But when I do, I have very vivid dreams, and I love that, because I feel refreshed and ready to go, as opposed to not wanting to wake up if I dont go into deep sleep.
So if I take melatonin, will I get addicted to it, or will there be negative side effects?

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I like the way Benadryl makes me sleep. I have a deep sleep and very vivid dreams. I take 1 Benadryl and 1 Melatonin every night. Am I doing myself harm?
I am having trouble with sleeping because I am depressed. NO! I will not go to the Dr and take Anti-Depressants! I think they are poison. I have been doing this for 2 months now. And my age is not important.
Ahhhhhh! All you people are ****ink crazy!

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I heard somewhere that during REM sleep the body becomes immobile and does not move.
Can someone go into REM sleep and not have this happen? I’m asking this because I move a lot during sleep and I ‘act out’ my dreams.
I have very vivid dreams, and I get a good nights’ rest, but I’ve had family members tell me that they’ve seen me running or moving in my sleep; the motions correspond to the type of dream I’m having.
Is this common?

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