Can't Sleep...Please Read!

All of my life, I've always been afraid to fall asleep. I could honestly not tell you why, but I could never relax and fall asleep. If I did in fact fall asleep, I wake up to the littlest sound. Sometimes, or usually, when I'm sleeping I am still aware of things going on around me. For example, I have to go to sleep with backround noise (a fan) to help me fall asleep, and if that fan shuts off I will jolt up, and be awake. Then, it is almost impossible to go back to sleep, but if I do, it'd usually take about 2 or 3 hours. Another thing about sleep that upsets me, is that even when I can feel myself being mentally or physically exhausted, it seems as though every thought in my mind runs through my head when I'm ready to go to sleep. This causes me to have to stress out about everything, and worry, and over think every little thing. Then, I can't fall asleep at all. On a regular day of sleep, on average I usually get about 6-7 hours, not including about two or three hours of me tossing and turning, worrying, crying about loss of family members or things around that...Also, I forgot to mention that if I dont have background noise, I will then hear things in the night that aren't really there, and then this wierd noise always comes in my head when my heart beats faster, it's weird, I can't fully explain. It's almost like a tiny dryer is in side my head, but then it fades away... I also always have dreams about drepressing things, myself dying, or being chased, getting hurt, falling off of cliffs in my grandpa's back yard, etc. I just dont what to do anymore, because I'm 15, and I belive thats way too young to have a problem(s) like thiss.
_Alessia

omg .. I feel like im reading a entry from my diary 15 years ago , im 30 . And i have this almost same problem except my dreams are about this house down a lingish drive way and its my stepfamily , and i get chased by some one/thing i didn think any one had the same problem ,,
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hi dnt worry i have my fan going tryn to sleep now , and playin on my phone lol .. I guess ur not alone

If the fan helps you sleep then keep it on. Before bedtime, I would listen to relaxing sounds videos and then I would fall to sleep. I use my ipod in bed to listen to them.

I have had problem sleeping specially at night all my life as well. I cam across this article which was helpful. What it says is there are two type of people, biologically, night people and morning people. So if you are a night person by nature, and try to follow the schedule of the morning people, which that is the schedule of our society, then you will suffer since you are fighting your nature.

Read the article in sciencedaily website.