Len there's good news and bad news, what you are experiencing sucks,but it does get better , the distortions you experience are because of not sleeping , your brain does more things when you are asleep then when you are awake,when you sleep your brain processes all the information it gets from all of your senses, it process memories and puts them where they need to go so you can recall them later, damn where did I put my keys ? Take a power nap yes it sounds strange but it's true before you ransack the house and get no where fast take a break , and you are more likely to remember spontaneously, of course if you rip the couch apart you'll find money you did not know you had but finding all that change isn't worth it ,because you found all those quarters that fell out of your pocket , but guess what still no keys your back to square one .
Most people think insomnia and go call a shrink to get some sleeping pills, wrong answer go to someone who is trained to do the job a sleep pathologist, sounds simple but it's really not because these experts in sleep are a real small crowd as in in the entire United states there are 6000 licensed but some of these guys don't see patients on a regular basis they do research , then there are those that for some reason are not practicing , but don't despair there is another group who have some of the needed skills alot of Pulmonologists also cross train because sleep apnea is a silent killer , now in the good old days they would put you in a sleep lab ,but if you can't sleep at home ,how are you going to sleep in a strange bed with wires attached all over your head and body, we've come along way baby ! You can can one to go, with tachonology and miniaturized electronics you can go home and not sleep in your own bed ,now alot of us used to go to the lab and get wired up and go to bed only to be told they don't know anything because you did not sleep,but that's were the get one to go is awesome because you can take it home and study the ceiling day and night until you do sleep and it gets a whole bunch of data a all your Brain waves muscle activity ,oxygen saturation level, pulse, blood pressure, how much light sleep, how much deep sleep, ah there I bored you to sleep and your gonna hate me when you wake up,because with alot of us insomnia sucks but a little sleep will make you feel worse. Balancing your mood has alot to do with your sleep, and in case you missed it going to a Psychiatrist will likely get you miss diagnosed as bipolar and given a script for an atypical antipsychotic, this is bad those things tear up you sleep cycle even more and Psychiatrist have been told stop using those things as first line therapy for insomnia, it has something to do with the oath that Doctors newly minted from those institutions of higher learning used to take ( alot of places skip it these days) but "First do no harm" is in there and they are supposed to know it, even though said school did not teach it , oh and just so you know a sleep study is Polysomnography so when you hear it again it does not make you Humm, I am not a doctor ,I did not play one on TV, but I did NOT sleep at a certain hotel last night, now I won't give you the whole sleep hygiene Speach unless you want me to , I will say people have been doing battle with not getting enough or any sleep since we discovered fire and brought it into those nice dark caves we used to call home, and then they invention of the light bulb was the shot heard around the world and has been bringing circadian rhythm disorders to a place near you ever since, and here's the really bad news that cell phone ,tablet, or computer monitor your starring into the evidence is piling up that LED is even worse than the original light bulb ,now I can't tell you concretely what to do but that evidence is starting to say put that thing to bed a good two hours before you try not to Sleep! Sad but true oh and this also applyies to those video game consoles and we won't even talk about those refresh rates and crazy strobing lighting that cause some of us with epilepsy to have seizures, I remember getting a refund for my admission price when "Saving Private Ryan" premiered had the popcorn, the soda, Gummi bears and milk duds and the film started going and those damn little holes at the edge of the screen set me off, and then the nurses at the hospital reassuring me I was alright because theres nothing worse then kicking someone's butt because your really confused and cranky post ictal .if you ever need a friend or more info on something I'll be there just post or PM me, if something gives you the feeling I am an idiot,I plead auto correct.

Card carrying member of the not sleeping club since about 1975, membership has its privileges in the club you never wanted to Join!

If you learned something great, if it made you smile even better ,if your just waking up yes I am just shutting up now.

Misterpain