It's frustrating because the "pros" on youtube treat this like no big deal, and just don't worry about it. Basic sleep hygiene stuff. Well I guess I have to inform you that it can be a big deal and it can even KILL. See this example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIeTkKyCfLd8h5I. I NEVER had them until I was administered anti-biotics for a UTI. One week later they started. I almost died from total sleep rejection a few times. 9 months now and I still don't know if it will kill me one day. I can't tell if it is getting better, stagnant, or worst. It is so hard to predict and understand. So please, don't act like it's always normal and not threatening when people have died from it!

i have this! waking up high pulse! almost a year

Just wanted to tell you that this is my all time favorite insomnia recovery story ever. I have it for more thn five years now and was really looking for someone else who did too. And also being grateful for the little things really touched me. I often walk to the underground from home when I go to work in the morning. Obviously exhausted. And I just love the trees in the fall and the blue sky. I love that morning walk...

I’ve always struggled with sleep normal only get 4/5 hours everyday I admit i use to over sleep on weekends but I’m now trying to wake up early and go bed early on weekends and it still ain’t helping my sleep it’s ruining my life my job performance is going down hill and I’m now taking days of due to not sleeping at all I exercise, eat healthy could be healthier I agree and I’m also cutting down on caffeine and I hardly drink my issue is I have severe anxiety my body is always tired but my brain doesn’t shut of I also have a weak bladder so I’m constantly going for a toliet

"no job, no money, no firends" ohm my god.... exactly what happened to me. Quit my job, no money of course, quit my band. Just horrible. Now I'm doing those things but I'm still a bad insomniac I think.

Getting out of bed after the first half of sleep is the worst thing you can do for your sleep issues. Its like telling your brain that each time you have a sleep lag, its time to wake. If you continue with that, sleeping would eventually feel like a purnishment, and you will eventually develop sleep phobia and anxiety. The best you can do: 1. Stay in bed 2. Don't check your phone 3. Don't check the time 4. Practice some mindfulness tips And you wld soon drift back to sleep in no time. Also, enough exposure to natural light during the day and light exercises like 30 minutes walk absolutely helps

It’s just that I’m so depressed too and anxious I crave the escape of sleep. I can’t stop my thoughts

I only get 2 or 3 hours, then up the whole rest of the night and have to work the next day. I never feel rested, just simply cannot fall asleep

Damn, now I have to go out and buy a TV

That happens to me but it’s not only when I am trying to sleep it happens out of no where during the day. I never feel like I am going to fall. It Almost feels like a nervous tic. It happens when I am stress. I also startled easily. It started happening after I had an accident and ever since my nervous system has been a mess. I go through times when I am fine but when stress is high it comes back. Deep breathing and Qigong does help. Right now I am going through a lot so I am super stress. I sold my house in Florida right before Helene then came Milton so I made it through those two hurricanes, was also looking to by a house to move out of state, just a lot of stress.

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Hi Sir; My problem is about every 3 to 4 months Never sleeps during the day or night, even if he sleeps 2-3 hours sleep is deep not thin Again the dream continues. There is no sense of sleep in the eyes. I work a lot every day. Even the body does not feel weak What is the symptom of any disease please Answer me!

I will tell you my story. I am going through a break up with my kids mother we were in a relationship for 20 years and we also have two kids together and as well lived together for 20 years we split 4 months ago. At first I could not sleep through the night I’d literally sleep hour on the hour then it changed to id say half of the night. About maybe two months ago I started sleeping through the night but I wake up now at 7am that was the time I’d get up to start getting our son ready for school. And when I do fall back asleep I will wake up at 10am that is when my kids mother would call me on here break. I work at night and need my sleep but once I wake back up at 10am I’m up and thinking about everything some stuff good and bad in our relationship plays over and over in my head and it’s different one every day. Once I get back to my mother’s house around 1:30am or 2:00am my kids mother pops to mind most nights but I don’t stay up long after I say a prayer. What can help me

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Hello Martin you helped me a lot insomnia was killing me

I have had insomnia since early childhood. I do enjoy the hallucinating after day 4 or 5 without any sleep. I have been really good for years at this but now I am failing. My body will shake and my words become slurred sometimes. I am having conversations with people who aren't there. All of this according to my family. Death will be the only time that God affords be sleep. As a believer that is the only thing that I look forward to! Rest!

It makes depression so much worse with insomnia

I’ve been diagnosed with idiopathic insomnia after decades of seeking help with great effort. I’ve been to every Sleep experts in Eugene, Albany and Portland. I tried earnestly to follow all their “ fixes” { all common sense practices I already did on my own} I cannot initiate sleep since I was around 7. It’s never gotten better except for a few years with meds. I need to see a Neurological sleep expert. After thousands of hours of research it’s very clear that like a birth defect I must have an abnormality in my gaba receptors, a lack of or too much of certain brain chemicals in the sleep center of brain. Perhaps I don’t make the melanin hormone or enough of it. Taking it never helped. Despite my body and mind being exhausted, physically hard labor all day in the elements I will practice my sleep hygiene rules, not sure why I even bother anymore, a glimpse of hope maybe. I seem very young but I just turned 50. I’ve been battling ideopathic/primary insomnia for 43 years of real misery. To end up awake 24 hours a day for 5-6 days at a time, then I can barely function but I try very hard for my family to act like I’m good. I’m dying inside. Anyway after a week or more I’ll finally sleep eventually but never for more than 3-5 hours then it starts all over again. Insomnia has ruined so many opportunities for me, made the desire for my masters in Architecture disappear. Missed tons of nice parties, missed out on every trip ( not sleeping a wink away from home with people that feel energized and want to explore the area is impossible for me so I never go) when my baby was born I was divorcing his father. I was alone but his crying never bothered me at night. I’m always up so he never tired me out. Also up until about 40, I had the energy of youth to cling to and I did some hard stuff very demanding stuff. But I’ve hit a wall. After menopause any energy I naturally possess, dissipated…Now I’m like a sloth that can barely muster the energy to get out of bed. I have zero drive to do anything. Nothing is fun to me anymore, I just don’t care. I just want it to stop and sometimes I have intrusive thoughts to end it all, I’m in such misery like a real zombie. I can’t regulate my mood, my speech, my coping skills dissolve, my imagination is all but dead, my creativity is gone, my hope; the only thing after A fear of God that has kept me here. Some nights I become so sick feeling, migraines, burning eyes, always thirsty, weakness, I just sob in the dark begging God to let me sleep normally for the second half of life I’m entering. He hasn’t answered nor has a single Doctor, therapist, Psychiatrist, sleep specialist, psychiatric nurse practitioner, NP, 3 hypnotists, psychologist,natural path, cupping, acupuncture, massage, stem-machine, neurologist can figure out just one single cause to treat. I can’t live like this any more. I pray this finds someone who knows an excellent neurologist sleep specialist. Thanks

I've been having this problem for about a month now. I recently decided to get clean after doing some really bad cocaine, and since then, I've been having these mini panic attacks when I try falling asleep. It's actually starting to scare me because it won't stop.

I’m going days with little or no sleep but never feel sleepy . Surely my sleep drive would be strong when I spend consecutive nights with no sleep. I feel desperate to get a few hours sleep

I am often scared to sleep because I have these intense dreams where it looks like I am looking through a strong magnifying glass and my brain hurts even when I am dreaming, during the day it make my vision funky and I have trouble walking in a straight line. I used to have normal dreams almost like a long story in a movie, but now my brain works way too hard that it hurts.

I have sleeping problems, thanks for your advice am watching your videos

That worry you mention does exactly what you say . I worry I won't get enough etc. I often don't get any sleep never mind half a night. It's made my life miserable. I saw something called a sleep sleep psychologist. I'm trying to find it

Am watching from jamaica and I experienced the same thing that you are talking about, thanks for your advice am gonna tried it.

Hello Martin, I've made a window from 1 am to 6:30... And increased my sleep efficiency to 90%. But each time I widen the window by 15 min, everything collapse and I'm back to ground zero, sleeping less than 4 hrs of fragmented sleep. Should I prolong the previous window indefinitely?

Didn't go over what medications can contribute to this??????

Great video, very very needed for people with anxiety! Thanks so much! ❤

What do you say to folks who are too sleepy/unaware to get out of bed when they aren’t sleeping well? Is there some kind of alarm that could aid this which detects when you are awake- to help you wake fully and get out of bed?

I've stopped worrying about insomnia and just enjoy life. These podcasts really help me realise I'm not the only one

I have been suffering from this for 18 years. The doctors have no idea what it is. It seems to come on in cycles that last for weeks, progressively getting worse each night, similar to a feedback loop. Every time it happens it makes it harder to fall asleep so some nights it happens repeatedly unit 5 or 6am. This year it changed however, accompanying the panic attack came a bright white light, high pitched sound and a blunt force pressure on top of my head, only lasting a split second as I am jerked up in bed sub consciously. I am currently prescribed Pregabalin at 75mg before bed and although they reduce the leg jerks they don't effect the panic attacks.

What if the person has bipolar disorder?

Today I woke up becuase I felt like my heart was stopping while sleeping I felt like a pressure spreading through the left side of my chest felt so scary man I don’t know what is I do have anxiety tho and always struggle do fall asleep

I really want to know the answer to one question. Will I ever be able to sleep a sufficient amount? You may say well sufficient is different to anybody but it's not. I sleep 4-5 hours only. I can never fall back asleep. If I could sleep for at least 6 hours it would be much better I know it. Before insomnia when I slept only 6 hours I was okay. And most people sleep around 8 hours. So will I ever in my life sleep enough hours so that I'm not exhausted all day, everyday, each day. This question might be important to any insomniac. But the reason it's very important to me, is because I did get my life back together. I have a job, I'm working out, in a band again. I'm not struggling to fall back asleep. It's just not happening. I fear this is the best I can get. But this is not very good.

I do something else in bed too beside sleeping...

I have problems sleeping, but I have PTSD, borderline DID....

Thank you for this session. There is something I am confused about . I keep saying that I have had insomnia for 4'years because I wake in the middle of the night but get up to clear my head of thoughts or disturbing dreams ,usually only awake for20 minutes. Is this not insomnia because I have been catastrophising about for the past 4 years!!

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Is there any way to do this without leaving the bed? I really don't wanna do it

What an ass for blaming the patient for this horrible experience especially since it has lasted for years and I get sicker each day

The thing with me is i can fall a sleep.. The problem is staying in the sleep. I keep waking up between 3 pm and 05 pm - since Marts. Before that i could stay in sleep for 7-8 hours.

I have a sound insomnia.. sound trigger my insomnia.. outside whehicles.. even burd chattring ..

Martin, they say insomnia and lack of sleep releases inflammation? If so , is it something that is harmful in the short term? Also, does drinking a glass of wine impact sleep?

Hi Martin I been so worried ? How rare is FFI and SFI ? FFI is in inherited a parent has to have it ? It’s so rare that it doesn’t exist right ??

Hey martin how are you doing, thinking about getting inside your course, just curious, how many people get the diy course without email support per month? thanks for all the work you do! really helpful

Same. I think waking up at 2-3am is normal and very common for a lot of ppl. Something to do with our cortisol level fluctuating or core temperature rising etc i guess. Recently also saw about non sleep deep rest, so after i'm awake and go to the bathroom, i'll still go back to bed and lie down and do that, and just contemplate even if i'm not asleep, just to make sure the brain goes into rest state. Getting up off bed to do stuff won't work for me coz if i get up and do things, the next thing i realise it will be morning already

Somtimes is loose breathe for 10 seconds

Why does the title say it’s for sleep when you’re clear that it’s not.

I constantly wake up every night. I can not say when exactly but it’s always after the 1st wake up which is just to go to the toilet. overall i feel that i am lacking deep sleep. I lay down in bed only when i feel tired and very sleepy. Then i fall asleep and wake up after couple of hours to go to bathroom. I cannot say when exactly. But when i lay in bed again, i have trouble to fall asleep in the deep sleep. I am sleeping definitively, because time is quicker and i dont hear anything, which i should if woke up. But i guess its around 2 - 3 am. And I dont know if isnt better to dont go to bed for light sleep and instead doing something else to be wake up and get really sleep again. I didn’t have this issue when I started to restrict my bed time (10pm to 4am which is my desired wake up time) But now as I’ve progressed after 2 weeks in at 8:30am till 4am, it has started to come back Heck even the first few days of sleeping at 10pm I didn’t even wake up for the toilet Sometimes i lay like 10 - 20 min after 4am alarm in bed. Did you encounter the same issue in the past, How you solve it? Do you know what it’s called? I will be thankful for any advice. Thanks 🙂