[Turbidus]

This may be a bit odd, but I thought I'd see if anyone experienced this. Like many of you I've dealt with insomnia all my life. But what makes it even worse for me is I don't have a desire to sleep. Yes, I get tired. But I have to force myself to lay down, I don't look forward to it like most people I've known. And I procrastinate when I know I need to, I just don't want to sleep. I've been like this for a very long time. Anyone else experience this?

[honeybee777]

yes i do, alot actually, i hate sleeping, Im always up lol

[Turbidus]

Originally Posted by honeybee777

yes i do, alot actually, i hate sleeping, Im always up lol

Hmmm, any thoughts on what it's about.

[avlady]

I know I love my sleep and I'll do anything to get time in for sleep!!I have sleep apnea and sleep with a machine. When I get insomnia I hate it and know what you're going through, as I do get it sometimes, one of the worst feelings in the world. Counting sheep does not help either!!!I think we all know that!!!

[Lamia_13]

Yes, I too have difficulty sleeping but I've discovered it to be more cyclical in a pattern than sufacing motivation. In my case I believed it to be symptomatic of the epilepsy - my brain just would not shut down. Patternistic with 11- to 13-days in a row with sleeping difficulty, then 3-nights of "sleeping" ...but only four hours straight sleep, three hours awake, two hours straight sleep again.

My go-to approaches to motivate or entice the activity of sleeping are soft relaxing music, reading, and most often prayer. Meditating on visiting a place I could never ever afford is most effective, 30-40 minutes and 7 out of 10 times I drop off, but like I said sleeping comes in bursts. This has been going on for decades.

Whenever I dismiss epilepsy as boss cause of lacking motivation toward sleep, I consider that my body's functional needs do not demand the conventional eight hours every night, routinely.

Thank you for this post, very insightful question.