Oh thank you thank you thank you Lu.. I have never know anyone to have the same problem as me...

i have done alot of the saem things to avoid slep. some not for years.. I too hid in the closet.. usually with a light of some sort.. even candles....whatever I could find.

I have always had to have it completely silent too... can't handle any noise at all. I only just realized that was so I could hear if someone was coming.

I have been on medications for it too because I do have fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue... trazadone did help but I was so afraid of that deep sleep i was going to that I stopped taking it.
What I am taking now for the fibro is making me sleep .. I have been going back to that deep sleep....

Thanks for your suggestions... Faith