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Sleeping paranoia
I live in a one storey house. My family sleeps late and wakes up early. That's bad and I don't wanna have that kind of lifestyle. So whenever I try to sleep early, my parents(who arent asleep yet) will be watching tv and talking rather loudly. And when I try to sleep after all of them have slept, I'd be unable to sleep till late morning cos they'd all be up already. The sound of my dad's car driving off and the clanging of the pots and pans in the kitchen by my mum wakes me up in no time.
I feel really very frustrated. I told them to please keep it down. They'd try to be quiet for a few days but then their old habits kick in again after some time. So when I told them to keep it down again, they told me that I'm spoilt and told me to deal with it.
My eye bags are like so darn obvious and I feel so damn frustrated at being unable to sleep.
I've tried to not sleep for a whole day so that I'd be sleepy enough to sleep the whole day but it didnt work out. Its the noise that my family makes that keeps me up almost all night. I get only like 6 hr plus of sleep and tt's definitely not enough!
I used to be a heavy sleeper but I dun know why I've become such a light sleeper and that sucks. So now, I feel so paranoid to the extent that I dont dare to sleep for fear that my family members will wake me up with their noisiness.
THere's no point telling them to keep it down cos they'd just go back to their own habits again.
I'm desperate for a good night's sleep. Someone please help me. Tell me how to shut out their noisiness and be able to sleep like a dead man.
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Are you living in a house your parents own and pay the bills for? If the answer is yes, then you have no right to expect them to change their lifestyle to accomodate you. You can try having a fan or other white noise in your room to drown out the noise or you can change your sleeping habits and sleep when they do.
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If you want to get a good nights rest then close your door and wear ear plugs so you don't hear your parents. It really helps me! I dont think you can do anything else because your parents arnt going to be quiet so you have to find ways to not hear them.
If earplugs don't work tell me and I will help you find another way.
Best of luck.
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therapists often use white noise machines to calm their patients. they remove all excess sound by covering it with "white noise", noise we can't normally hear that blocks out all other sound. I have no idea where to buy one, but I can say that they exist. there's also the music and headphones approach. This is the one I used when my parents were loud because I didn't have a white noise machine. usually, the headphones fall out of my ears before the night is through (and I am a heavy sleeper when I get going) so I can hear my alarm clock.
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I had the exact same problem, i would try so hard to fall asleep that i would be unable to relax. You could try taking benedryl an hour before you wanna fall asleep. Don't worry about when you fall asleep, worry about when you wake up. Start by waking up an hr earlier than usual. Keep waking up at that time for about the next week or untill you get used to it. Than wake up and hour earlier and so on. Overall the best thing to do is see a therapist.
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I'm the same way! I am a very light sleep and very sensitive to sound, and noone in my home seems to care. This is what I did...In the summer months I keep a window unit air conditionar in my room, it drowns out all "uneven" sounds- like music, tv, phones ringing, and talking so I drift off to sleep and stay alseep. When this is not possible (like in the winter you certainly don't want to run an air conditionar) I have a sound machine that plays ocean waves, babbling brook sounds, crickets, ect and it too drowns out the other noise. You can buy them at any department store. Ear plugs may also help, although you may not hear your alarm clock.
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Soundproofing your room would definitely help keep the noise out.
If that's not an option, wear earplugs when you sleep. (If you normally use an alarm clock to wake you up, get a vibrating alarm and put it under your pillow, otherwise you might not be able to hear it through the earplugs.)
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Well, I'd tell you to talk to them, but since you already did, & they told you to deal with it, it seems kinda pointless. Try to get a sleeping pill. It'll get you sleepy, and it'll probably make you sleep heavy. If that doesn't work, then soundproof your room.
♥TiNA
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