So I've been having a lot of trouble with my sleep lately, I can't seem to find twenty minutes without waking up for some strange reason. I've always had an irregular sleep pattern in that one night I'll sleep three hours, the next I'll sleep five and the night after I just won't sleep, that'd be followed by something obscene like twenty hours and than back to five and twenty after that. So I'd sleep quite hectically and very randomly and no one really knows why

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But lately it's just been too difficult to get to sleep at all, when I finally escape the ruminating of my mind, that I'm so used to, and I actually get to sleep, I'll find myself waking up in twenty minutes, somtimes just by opening my eyes and other times by jerking up right, but always very suddenly. According to my girlfriend, I've been twitching a lot in my sleep and it's been waking me up.
So I'm just wondering if anyone has had any problems or experiences with irregular sleep patterns or twitching in your sleep. If you don't mind, I'm curious as to what it was like for you and what you find helps?