need someone to talk to, im F20 from the philippines and im just kinda having troubles with my course (overthinking if this is the right choice) so i need someone to talk to about this 😓 or lets just talk about anything, im having a bad day today so i just want to vent this out to someone
I’m currently in Boracay and I’ve been struggling a bit with sleep in a way that feels different and kind of confusing.
The past few nights, my sleep has been fragmented. I do fall asleep sometimes, but it doesn’t feel continuous or stable. The bigger issue is what happens when I try to fall asleep.
I feel very hyperaroused (my body feels tired but my mind is very alert), and something really strange keeps happening:
I start having those usual “pre-sleep scenarios” or imagined thoughts that normally help me drift off. But just as they start becoming more automatic or dream-like, I suddenly become aware of it and I kind of “flinch” or snap back into awareness.
Then the whole process resets again:
- I start imagining scenarios
- they begin to feel like I’m about to fall asleep
- I notice it and get startled
- I become awake again
- repeat
It feels like I’m stuck in a loop where I can almost fall asleep but keep interrupting it without meaning to.
Because of this, I end up feeling both exhausted and frustrated, like I’m constantly on the edge of sleep but unable to fully cross into it.
I think it might be related to sleep anxiety and hyperarousal, but I’m still trying to understand it.
Has anyone experienced something similar, like getting “stuck” in that almost-dream state where you keep snapping back into awareness before actually falling asleep?
im crying so bad of how anxious I am that I can’t fall asleep it’s 7 PM where I am right now and I feel so tired and exhausted but I can’t sleep. maybe because also of my body clock? also another factor of this is because i am anxious we will go to vacation tomorrow early morning. if anyone ever experienced this or relates to this just hmu. i need someone to talk to about this.