[Sinking Feeling]

I know many of us have trouble with sleep and staying asleep. But some times it gets almost impossible for me to fall asleep and stay asleep for even a matter of minutes. I will hear background noises, people talking, game show ramble, loud enough to wake me up or keep me from falling asleep. And when I do manage to fall asleep I will feel some one touching me, or poking me to wake me up. But of course there is no one there.

This seems to come and go and can be gone for months! Then starts up again. Even on a good nite without all that BS it's hard for me to sleep.

Anyone else relate to this at all and what do you make out of it?

Originally Posted by Sinking Feeling

I know many of us have trouble with sleep and staying asleep. But some times it gets almost impossible for me to fall asleep and stay asleep for even a matter of minutes. I will hear background noises, people talking, game show ramble, loud enough to wake me up or keep me from falling asleep. And when I do manage to fall asleep I will feel some one touching me, or poking me to wake me up. But of course there is no one there.

This seems to come and go and can be gone for months! Then starts up again. Even on a good nite without all that BS it's hard for me to sleep.

Anyone else relate to this at all and what do you make out of it?

know what you mean

it used to really bother me (because i'd be really depressed and anxious during the day too), so the night would have been, in theory, a chance for me to relax- and when i couldn't, it did bother me.

but now i'm not bothered by it.
well, it's still really difficult, and i try every night without much success.

but you learn to live with it

like you do the anxiety and depression

[Sinking Feeling]

I am bumping this to see if I can get any more responses because it is crossing over to my wake period during work, driving. I don't want to go back on anti-psychotics because they make me feel too bland or zombie-fied.

[BeyondtheRainbow]

This is a weird suggestion but do you have anything near your bedroom that makes noise? At my old house the AC unit was right outside my bedroom and for a couple of years I would hear voices periodically but not in any pattern.

Then one night I was in the basement when the unit came on and the different perspective made me realize that the voices I"d come to take for granted were simply the AC unit running.

Is there anything like that which could translate into voices in your tired, bipolar brain?

[Sinking Feeling]

not weird suggestion at all! In fact motor and wind noise will some times sound like voices to me at any time. I have bad hearing. About 48% loss in both ears. I wear hearing aides which I remove at bed time. The sounds and noises I hear then are as loud as if I had good hearing. This is how I can eliminate background noises some times. By turning my hearing aides off or taking them off. Things really get very quite

Bedtime hallucinations are relatively normal and not specifically a BP thing.

I've had it happen quite a few times in times of stress, I find the waking hallucinations much harder to deal with because they leave me with anxiety for the day, where as night time ones end in sleep.

Ignore them, meditate, drink some calming tea before bed and have a good bedtime routine. It might help you fall asleep easier.