Im somewhat afraid of sleep

[dreamsinmymynd]

Well a couple weeks ago I had a panic attack after waking up. I used to enjoy sleep, it was when i could rest and when I could dream. But now every night of sleep seems horrible. I feel dreadfull when night approaches, and when I have to go to bed, it is one of the worst feelings ever. I have so many problems, whether its my body hurting, or my head spinning, or If i simply feel like I might have another panic attack in my sleep. the worst part is that I feel trapped by sleep. There is no way I can avoid it, I have to get 8 hours of sleep or else I am tired and my daytime is also ruined. There are many times where I wake up at 3 or 4 in the morning and wish I could stay up, but I have to force myself to go back to sleep and end up waking again at 5. I need a way to make my nights better, whether its to help me get to sleep or to help me stay asleep.

[captain ahab]

Yeah, I can totally relate to you here. I dunno why it's happening, but sleep now seems like something I want to avoid. Fearing sleep is entirely new to me, and I'm perplexed about why it's happening. The only thing I can think of is that I've been having some kind of really unpleasant dreams and not remembering them. So, no help for you, but I can sympathize.

[Kanano]

Are you afraid of sleeping itself or dreams? I had really bad nightmares before, and hated going to sleep. To get over it, I told myself I didn't HAVE to dream that night, and remember it. I eventually got over it, and now I'm dreaming again. If you're afraid of actually sleeping, you probably have Hypnophobia. Here's a link about it: http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/p...?SDID=223:1614

[Mes Tarrant]

Are you experiencing a lot of stress or trauma or something during waking life?

[dreamsinmymynd]

Right now I am going to therapy for anxiety and sleep is one of the things I have anxiety about. It just seems like the later it gets the more depressed I get, then by the time I go to sleep im feeling horrible. It is simply sleeping, and not dreams. It takes a long time for me to get to sleep, but when I have gotten to sleep the feeling goes away completely until the next night. (even when I wake up in the middle of the night. I usually just go back to sleep like normal)

[MartinB]

I've had similar feelings recently; not every night though. Sometimes I take a little melatonin, which sometimes helps me relax and sleep easier (I find that it actually makes me want to sleep, rather than forcefully making me sleep).

[MagicMatt]

Yes, I was really scared to go to sleep a few years back. I stayed up late and watched this program about things like ghosts, alien abductions stuff like that and there was this bit on it where someone was having bad sp experiences and it had a reconstruction of one of their night terrors and it was a typical 'hag' one but that image of her walking really slowly towards the persons bed in silence with the person completely helpless and unable to move it just really really freaked me out and for the next week or two right before I was about to go to sleep each time I had to really try hard to wake myself up, which wasn't easy and most night's eventually I just think my body was so tired that I just fell asleep and collapsed in any position and I didn't even remember going off to sleep or what I did before I went to sleep not nice

[Snowblind]

Has anything happened to you or a loved one lately that might have caused this? Are you stressed about something? My Advice is to tell your self nothing will happen to you while you'r sleeping

[MagicMatt]

don't know if you were referring to my post snowy but if you were then nothing has happened to me or a loved one at all nothing major like that. It was a good few years ago and I'am fine now no sleep troubles at all. I guess the program just spooked me and since I had experience my first few SP's (didn't see anything just couldn't move) not long before I was just scared of seeing it for myself. I think collapsed is a bit to violent word I was just lying on the bed and couldn't stay awake any longer so my body just shut down naturally for sleep I guess. Im cool now though

[silicovolcaniosis]

panic attacks bite, i used to have them in the middle of the night accompanied with sp, you probably have a very stressful life