Restless nights once a month - Sleep Disorders Message Board

Dark Stranger · 04-24-2006, 12:33 PM

This has been happening for about a year now, give or take a couple of months. At least once a month, I will have a restless night. What I mean by that is there will be one night each month when I will be unable to fall asleep for unknown reasons. I'll toss and turn all night, completely unable to stay still and pass out. The odd thing is that I am wide awake the next day, despite little or no actual sleep.

Does this sound normal? I'm not worried, but I'm annoyed by it; I hate not being able to sleep, even if I don't feel tired when I "wake up". I had my restless night for April last night, and it was awful because I have a bad cold and was forced to breathe through my mouth. Last night, for some reason I kept thinking about an assignment I finished. I wasn't worrying about finishing it, but just thinking about it. I couldn't stop thinking about it - the image was just in my head, and as much as I tried, I couldn't think of anything different.

Sifufor · 04-24-2006, 09:45 PM

"The odd thing is that I am wide awake the next day, despite little or no actual sleep."

In college I used to stay up all night before an exam, studying or not studying. In the morning I would be more alert than usual and perform better in the exams. Later, I found out that it's the survival mode, the animal instinct in us. We become more alert and aware of our surroundings and activities as we find ourselves to be at a disadvantage. Like an injured wilderbeast looking out for hungry lions. After the first day, however, the mind will begin to hallucinate.