Sleep/Insomnia Question...

[usernamenumber]

I remember realizing in... I think it was high school, that this was a pattern. It's always Spring when I get this particular kind of insomnia the worst. It's not just that I don't sleep, I'm wired, at least physically, all night, no matter how much sleep I've gotten and how tired I should be. This week I've had about 14 hours of sleep since Monday morning.

I always have occasional bouts of not being able to sleep when I try to go to bed, but they always seem to become the most chronic during the springtime.

So my question is: has anyone else experienced this? Anyone have insights into what could be the cause? My diet doesn't change much throughout the year, and I've experienced this while living all over the country... the only thing unique to Spring that M and I could think of was the extra sunlight, like some kind of reverse seasonal affective disorder (which I've sometimes thought of myself as having, since eventually the insomnia makes me more prone to depression). Idunno. Thoughts?

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[sandrylene.livejournal.com]

So I've had pretty much this exact experience for the past three or four days, except I know what's causing it, kind of - my throat has swollen, which means I really particularly can't breathe well when lying down. All my "sleep" pretty much has involved very high energy dreams incorporating real world movement a whole bunch and semi-constant panic and fixation on my breathing. It seems like my body is too panicked to allow itself to go into any sort of deep sleep at all. On Wednesday morning at 5 am after not falling asleep at all the entire night I was definitely mentally fatigued to a point where I was beginning to question if I was hallucinating, but it wasn't until some drugs kicked in that decreased swelling in my throat about an hour later that I was able to get past my body's extreme unwillingness to head for unconsciousness.

So uh. Not sure if allergies have any sort of effect on you that might lead to that sort of thing, or in fact if it should all be irrelevant due to CPAP, but my two cents on how that's looked in my life this week.