Help! I can't sleep! I am just tossing and turning. My eyes are burning and my vision is blurry, but my brain won't shut off. I have been struggling since 2 am. I am so miserable. I just want to go to sleep. I am on the verge of tears. This is getting ridiculous. I haven't suffered this bad in many years. And it is just getting worst. It's now 5:30 in the morning and the sun is getting ready to come up and I have not had one wink of sleep. I don't know what to do anymore. I just want to go to sleep.

-Dare

language-of-souls:

Hm… the best I can offer here is some sleep medicine to help you fall and stay asleep. If not, just try to do something that relaxes you when you’re tossing and turning. Read, write, do a few sketches, maybe find some noise things that you like.

I’m scared to take sleep aids. Though I may have to try some over the counter ones, cause this is really starting to get out of hand. I am exhausted and this strange sleeping pattern is starting to affect other parts of my life. And right now, I am getting a second wind, which means sleep ain’t coming anytime soon. I can’t remember the last time it was this bad. I have always been like this since I can remember, but this is to the point where I am about to go insane.

But thank you, Hun for the suggestions. I have tried them all, well except the sleep aids, but my brain just won’t shut off. 

language-of-souls:

Just something like the Nightquil Z, nothing super heavy or anything but I know where you’re coming from, I don’t take any for the same reason but… sometimes I suppose it’s an option if you really can’t fall asleep. I’m sorry I can’t offer a lot of advice here dear, I don’t run into sleep problems unless I’m ill or having an anxiety fit. 

Going to suggest telling a story to yourself as you lay in bed, all in your mind. Just imagine yourself as someone as and go through a story of where you fall asleep, get knocked out, or something that’ll keep your eyes closed for a while. That helps me at least, so thought I’d suggest that.

Ironically that is the reason I can’t sleep…lol I think I am going to have to go and get something. I can’t keep doing this. I can only hope something over the counter is not to strong. My fear is the fact I am alone and have a house full of animals. I don’t want to become a sleep walker or something of that nature. I already sleep deep enough and have been known to do things in my sleep. So far never out of bed, just mainly sat up and had conversations or screamed. So that is why I am afraid of sleep aids. I know what has happened to other people. I don’t want open doors  put myself and my babies in danger. 

language-of-souls:

Ah… I’m similar to that as well. I talk and converse in my sleep but I’ve never gotten out of bed. Hit someone with a pillow once actually. It is scary sleeping alone like that and thinking something could happen though… I can’t help there. Just try something on the lighter side to be safe and see where things go from there. Maybe keep your bedroom door shut or something to, if you do get up, maybe keep you more in a more contained area?

I think the worst I ever did in my sleep was accidentally kick my ex-husband in the nuts… though he probably deserved it. According to him I was tossing and turning, dead to the world and landed my knee into his groin. I never woke up. Had no idea….lol Now that I think of it, I am kind of glad I did that. 

language-of-souls:

Oh my. *snickers a bit* I’ve asked my ex for money in my sleep once, hit my aunt with the pillow, and I toss about to so I’m sure I’ve hit and/or kicked someone before. And hey, no regrets right? Can’t be all that bad then lol

No, it isn’t all that bad once I am asleep…lol Apparently you don’t want me to beat you to bed either. You won’t get in once I am asleep. I sleep catacorner and I won’t budge, because you can’t wake me. And usually I am spread out too, which is interesting cause when I first climb into bed, I am curled up in a ball or in passe position. I am a side sleeper and a stomach sleeper for the most part. Also I require a fan. I must have air moving over my body. I can’t stand to be an ounce warm and that is another problem I sleep with my door closed now and it gets warm in there easily. But I am directly under a huge ceiling fan, that is on high. 

fangirlapocalypse:

I'm starting to know how you feel but I take medication one for ADHD and the other for anxiety i just started back up on my ADHD meds again and i told my doctor that i haven’t been sleeping to well so he wants to prescribe me some thing for it…I'm a little afraid my self.

I am sorry to hear you suffer from sleep loss. While I have yet to be officially diagnosed, I believe mine could be linked to ADD. I have been told repeatedly for years that some believe that I have that. And after doing research it would make a shit load of sense. That could be the leading reason why my brain does not shut off. I will literally talk to myself, in bed, till I crash and when I crash, I sleep like the dead. As soon as I can get this insurance thing sorted, I plan on talking to someone. I need to know why I am the way I am after all these years and try to fix or learn how to deal with some things. 

fangirlapocalypse:

I wish you the best of luck on that, let me tell you this I went to bed at midnight last night woke up at 5 this morning when my alarm was set for 7

That happens to me occasionally as well. I am just miserable right now and want my bed and sleep. Where is the sand man when I need him?

sweetlittlevampire:

My mother was actually diagnosed with ADD just a year ago, after making her own research on why she could not sleep longer than three hours per night since early childhood, and talking to the right doctors/psychologists afterwards.. Music does help her, but what helps her most is a technique called Progressive Muscle Relaxation. Maybe you could find a few useful tips by doing some research? It helped her to get between 6 and 8 hours of sleep per night, without any medication.

I go through fazes on what helps… Use to be soft music and Christmas lights in my bedroom. Then there was a time I had to have a very tiny, low night light. I cannot sleep in complete darkness. I sleep better when someone is with me, especially if some part of my body is touching them. Sometimes I have to have the TV on and sometimes not. I try to read for bed, but I usually stay up even later if I do that, cause I get engrossed. Another that use to help was moving my bed around. I can’t do that any longer, my bed is to big and there is no where else it can go. Sometimes I have switched rooms or slept on the floor. Which currently is out of the question. Once I sleep. I typically sleep exactly 8 hours, unless I am exceptionally tired or I had to much rest the day before and wake up sooner than desired. The list goes on. I am in rut. And now days, music seems to keep me awake. I feel like I am rowing against a current.

“Wow! I actually have a piece of mail awaiting my return.” The blond smiles as he reads the missive.

“First off let me apologize for not getting back to you sooner. I was away on a reap case and yeah, jus’ got back today. So, you wanna know how a mortal becomes a reaper. Hmm…?” He grips his chin in thought as he ponders the question and how best to explain.

“Well one has to die first. In my case I was murdered when I was only  twenty. I was preparing to graduate from University too. Sucks really bad to be young and die, but to be murdered and not know who did you in…” He shook his head, “I’d give anything to know. I feel horrible for my family. But getting back to your question. Umm… I am not really sure what all I can reveal. The process it is a bit secret, but what I can say, there is a unique way. One, you have to be selected by the higher-ups. If after your soul’s review they feel you are worthy, they set the process in motion to reincarnate you into a reaper.”

Awe… I am terribly sorry to hear that.  And two jobs? Damn! Not going to lie that sounds rough.

lol… I am sorry Hun. If you are directing that question to my better half. You will have to visit his blog. He is taking mail there now. But as for me. Mine was simply lovely and a bit nippy. How was yours?

P.S.

Why hello. Long time no hear from you. How are you? Grell and I are doing just fine. He is actually working on his own blog as we speak and hopes to have it up and running this weekend. As well as some of his friends. So we have been all a little inactive on here this week. Not to mention Grell and I have a birthday coming up next week and Halloween. So things have just been a bit hectic around here.

Dare: Mine has always been pizza. I love it and could eat is almost all the time. My favorite brand is Dominos, pepperoni and sausage.