Howdy, just found the site today and since the sleep/nightmares are starting to bother me to the point I want to see a doctor I figured here would be a good place to start. (yeah im one of the guys who does not go unless im dieing)

I rarely on occasion can sleep more than 3 hours strait without remembering waking up. Usually I sleep between 1 and 2 hours wake up and usually go back to bed within 5 minutes or so. Sometimes I cannot go back to bed sometimes I sit there for an hour trying to go back to sleep. Part of my main issue is I have not slept more than 5 hours strait in probably 6 years.

A normal work week is coming home from work, sleeping for a few hours. Stay up until 4 hours before work and sleep another hour or 2 again before work. Its been this way for years. I used to go many days without sleeping sometimes but thats gone away, its just staying asleep I cant manage now.

The nightmares. Horrible, usually people are dieing, whether its me killing them, someone else killing them in front of me or me just seeing many people dieing all over from either a war, some kind of killer or myself as someone else who is the killer or I am myself but the above still applies. Sometimes people I know sometimes random people. Sometimes I am being tortured either by being cut up or by things that they say they will do while hurting me other ways. Not much of it makes sense. When I was younger (20s) I used to have more torture dreams as opposed to the ones I do now and I ground my teeth at night and ended up breaking 4 or 5 of my teeth.
Nightmares do not repeat usually, I have alot of trouble remembering them when I wake up, sometimes I remember quite a bit of it other times just little bits here and there. Whether I remember alot or a little generally I do not remember the dream at all within an hour.

Generally I can remember maybe 1 or 2 dreams a year and not forget them. Otherwise its gone within an hour or I dont remember anything at all. So for awhile its been nothing or nightmares.

Any input would be appreciated where I should start. Any questions I should be able to answer pretty quick.

Thanks!