I Can't Sleep In The Dark

   when you wake up close your eyes and imagine that you are looking straight at the sun and everything around you is flooded with light this may be some phobia caused by stress, talk to a psychologist you are not crazy

   And what happened to you when you were 17? Otherwise, no one obliges you to sleep in the dark if you can't sleep on the light bulb.

   To this day, I can't sleep in the dark and I don't consider myself crazy or, um, "obsessed." For the record - I'm 53 years old.

   I'm 16, and I was like you just a phobia of the dark, while one day in May it was July, the summer I lost my remote and I want I don't want to go to bed without a TV because the electricity was burning and they called us and after 3-4 months I found it and I don't even bother to let it go anymore, I fall asleep :) try it and you will get used to it! Success!

   I also have a similar problem that arose as a result of a depression that had plagued me some time ago and since then, in the dark, I have been afraid to fall asleep. To make my evening more peaceful, I leave my night light on and play a 30-minute series on TV. I advise you to do it too :)) just calm down, I don't think it's abnormal;)

   At the age of 14 I experienced the loss of a loved one and since then I sleep in the light - in the dark I can't, I get horrified and remember everything ... And so for almost 30 years .. I don't mind, I accepted it with time, that it is part from my life. In fact, it bothers my husband, who never understands it and often turns off the night light, and I jump as if I feel the dark, I panic and turn it on again. That doesn't change. But really, if you experienced something some time ago, it probably provoked your fear of the dark. Live like this, sleep like this and don't think for a second that you are crazy or anything like that.

   It's not just you. I'm your age and I'm also afraid to sleep in the dark when I'm alone. If I tell you why you're going to laugh - I like to watch "from the crime scene", then "criminal intentions" and then again at 00:30 they repeat "from the crime scene - Las Vegas" I watch again and when it's over and I decide to sleep I get up to I turn off my lamp and I tell you it starts with a paranoia ... I have no words and finally it gets up and lights up

   From the author. Number 6, that's right when you turn off the light and I jump! even if I sleep soundly, I get a terrible sleep and burn it again. How is it possible to feel the dark sleep?

   I don't want to scare you, but it's possible to feel a paranormal presence - to be more sensitive. I also have a fear of the dark (it's called nyctophobia), but for me it's one of the many horror movies I watched until 2 years ago. There wasn't a movie of this genre that I hadn't watched. It started to affect my psyche and I stopped. F27

   People, you have no idea what you are doing when you sleep in the light. This is a terrible blow to the hormonal system - a person must sleep in absolute darkness to produce certain hormones, even recently it has been proven that low light from street lighting is unacceptable. I want those who wrote above to honestly admit - how many of you who sleep on a lamp (and harass others around you) - so how many of you are NOT fat, nervous, old, sick and so on? Please stop the madness you put in your head and pretend that you can't protect yourself. QUOTE: Sleeping in the light leads to weight gain, scientists from the University of Ohio believe. The same group of experts made a new discovery about the harm of sleeping in the light. Neurologists say we should sleep in complete darkness, otherwise over time you will develop chronic depression. Why? Because the light in the evening affects the chemical balance of substances in the body and even the structure of the brain

   Here's a little more on the subject: If you sleep in the light, you can become short-sighted (especially probably in children), there is a risk of breast cancer. Remember that melatonin, which puts you to sleep every night, is only synthesized and flows into your blood when it is dark. This means that if you fall asleep or sleep in the light, you reduce its levels and the quality of your sleep. If you suffer from some kind of short-term stress insomnia, keep in mind that melatonin is sold in pharmacies. It is taken from 1 to several tablets about an hour before bedtime. In the early stages of reception, you will have many colorful, pleasant and memorable dreams. This is normal and is not a side effect. Do not confuse melatonin with sleeping pills or sleeping pills. Melatonin is a natural sleep hormone that you produce on a daily basis.

   I envy you! I can't sleep on a lamp, a TV, I even turn off the laptop, I turn off all kinds of lights - even the one from the Bulls. Besides, I need complete silence, and when I'm visiting my parents, I remove all the clocks because the ticking drives me crazy. Don't make movies unnecessarily. As comfortable as you are, so sleep. Who will go to turn off your lamp, who are you bothering? Ask your friend not to turn it off - it's a small night light after all, isn't it a big spotlight?

   About 10 and 11. I regularly fall asleep on the beach, where it is quite light, but I do not have an extra gram :) And once I was locked in a barrel. It was quite narrow and very dark, but I fell asleep there too :) Maybe I should go to a psychiatrist? Or someone else to go? :)

   Oh yes, don't miss it, I fall asleep easily to Hard Rock and Metal, I just fall asleep and regularly fall asleep to Horror movies, so I don't think I've watched any of them until the end :)

   Number 13 how did you sleep in a barrel? hahahahahahahahaha, sorry, but it sounds very funny. I can't in the light, it irritates me a lot, even a night light irritates me. I can fall asleep, but not fall asleep. I had a friend who was like you, and when we were together for the first time on vacation, I went crazy - I couldn't sleep from her night light. In general, the light irritates me - it strains my eyes, my head. When I'm alone, it's always dark everywhere - I just turn on the TV or light candles. The light just annoys me, I could be a vampire. I think I'll move on to that other topic lol. By the way, what he wrote number 11 about melatonin is true. Author, that is changing. My mother was like that for over 10 years, but on a rather long vacation this changed. I also told her not to compromise with this and to save herself - she woke up a few nights, suffocated, muttered, whatever, he finally got used to it. Now the light irritates her too. Maybe that will change for you too, I don't know. PP: I also fall asleep in horror :) Bad

   Show a little will ... people are paralyzed and told that they will never walk and despite everything they manage and walk with their strong will ... please, I don't see this as a serious thing to be so old and to you can't sleep in the dark. To be more comfortable with a lamp is okay, but not being able to sleep in the dark is too much for me ... try and impose your will, use this power that is given to us - perseverance.

   I got sleep paralysis last year and it was a very scary experience and then I slept on the light bulb for 4.5 months, that there were nights when I waited for it to get light and then I went to bed. After a while I went to a friend of my mother's to fuck me and since then it has not happened to me, but I still turn on the TV for about 2 hours. and so I fall asleep.

   From number 6, I don't mind sleeping in the light at all. I fall asleep around 11-11 and 30, get up around 7, sleep soundly and I'm OK. In the morning I am most able to work. I sleep in the light not because I like it, but because I experienced stress as a child. I don't struggle to start sleeping in the dark just because it doesn't bother me anymore. I have been short-sighted since I was a child, long before the experience of 14 years old, when I slept in the dark. Recently I had to sleep almost in the dark for 2-3 days, well, I couldn't sleep or I woke up 2-3 at night, and when I open my eyes - dark, fear .. And I watched a little scarier movies in the evening, such as Criminal Intentions and Meeting with Jordan - put me to sleep for 15 minutes .. no paranoia, but a sweet, deep sleep :)) Luckily for me with these technologies it is no longer completely dark - there is no TV, no laptop, something will always light up somewhere :) I can't sleep on noise either. Something can be said,

   Number 15, bad - Yes, it was a big joke when I was pushed into the barrel :) It was a test to see how long a person can last in the dark. I confused their statistics, I just fell asleep inside :) And yes, once I fell asleep on the boom of a crane, 60 meters high. And the arrow moves and swings and it's very sleepy. They also took pictures of me standing there :) I can't sleep only when there is a woman next to me. And next to me, she is driven by insomnia :) YD

   Number 19, made me laugh! However, I would not confuse any statistics - knowing what a fur coat I am, I will have a heart attack in the dark and narrow ... If three men are inside, they will resuscitate me rather than be able to do something with me. . :)) Otherwise, if I'm really tired, I can doze off anywhere and anyway, leaning, leaning, in a car, train, flight, all the same ... From all the sleep in the light in those years, I've obviously learned to adapt and I can sleep / nap everywhere .. Once I fell asleep in the trolley of the Military Hospital and woke up only in Hadji Dimitar .. :) / I was after a night shift, however .. / From number 6/18

   Yes, a similar case, once I fell asleep on the night train from Hamburg and woke up all the way to Munich, that's about 800 km. I slept and my trip was very cheap :) YD

   You have to overcome this fear, it is not natural to sleep in the light (except maybe owls and others, but humans are not nocturnal birds). There's nothing scary in the dark, damn it, it's the same as during the day, but without light. What happened when you were 17? A goblin jumped out from under your bed? It's hard for me to sleep when there's something glowing or making a sound, not that I can't, but it annoys me. As I said, this is not normal and useful for the body. Well, years ago, when there was no electricity, all people slept without confusing them that there is no night light. And now "I can't sleep without a night light." And also, if it is dark you will not suffocate. Everything rests on the psyche and can be fixed as long as there is time.

   number 22 come to my place and you will see

   And so am I, not that I can't, but I don't like sleeping in the dark when I'm alone in the house. Otherwise, if there is someone else in the next room I sleep in the dark without a problem. I'm scared, I just can't sleep. I tried once, but I didn't succeed, just if I'm scared, I can turn around all night and not fall asleep. I find very funny the comments of the people above, who "strictly" advise the author to stop the nonsense and start sleeping in the dark. And of course, most of these people say that the light bothers them. It is very easy to give advice on someone else's back. Well, let me see you, if I tell you to start sleeping in the light, how will you react? If you can't sleep in the light, you just won't sleep and you'll struggle all night. So it is with those who do not like to sleep in the dark. Oh, and I say too, that I can't sleep if there's a live cockroach in my room. Once I dropped one, hid behind the wardrobe, where I can't reach it, and then I stayed up all night because I was afraid it would creep up on me :)

   First of all, let me say that I am now opening this forum and I am grateful. I have the same problem as the Author. It is reassuring that I am not the only one, but I am determined to overcome it. This is just my personal decision and who does not intend to take this path just do not read below. Everyone chooses whether to sleep on a lamp, TV, radio, etc. or not. There is nothing wrong with any of these. I can't sleep alone in the dark only in certain places, including at home. Today, on the day of forgiveness - Sirni Zagovezni, I am determined to forgive myself and get rid of this annoying fear forever. I hope I succeed. I have also experienced insomnia paralysis, hallucinations, voices, etc. which are not to be told, from a very young age. I agree that maybe my parents didn't take the right time to help me. I wonder if professional hypnosis will work, but I think I'll try it myself first. Somehow I don't want to believe that I'm so weak I can't handle it. Until now, I didn't pay attention to this, only if I was left alone I always turned on a very dim night light. I have been in the habit since I was a child. However, I no longer want that to be the case. I just set it as another challenge - like a bar I want to jump over ... but it's so hard especially with my over-sensitivity and imagination. I read about Sedona's method of overcoming negative emotions by asking myself questions: 1. Finding: eg I feel fear caused by my need for safety (needs: for love and approval; for control; for recognition; for safety); 2. Can I live with this fear caused by ... (need) Answer: YES or NO (it is important to ask the question) I can live with this fear caused by ... (need) ...; 3. Can I release this fear .... 4. Do I want to release this fear .... 5. Will I release this fear .... 6. When will I release this fear .... 7. Now I will release this fear .... and visualize how it is released, etc. the negative flows into the ground like muddy water ... positive feelings fly to the sky like pink smoke for example (here the will is not applied - it happens by itself). With this practice we get rid of the negative and sublimate the positive to a higher level. I hope this helps someone else even if it doesn't happen to me. I also asked myself what was dark about me. Uncertainty, uncertainty perhaps. But in reality it is just nothing on which our consciousness paints the most terrible nightmares and fears or the most wonderful dreams ... It all depends on my own attitude towards this nothing. I also realized that I could feel grateful for the dark, because it ultimately gives me the freedom to create on it like a blank drawing sheet. I am an artist by profession ... what better way for an artist to fall asleep with beautiful unpainted paintings in his mind. Good night! Squeeze my thumbs, and don't take it too seriously ... I mean life! PS: I read the comments above. And I am short-sighted - it is possible that this fear of mine has contributed. But in general, short-sightedness itself, according to Norbekov, is a fear of looking into the unknown, forward into your distant future. Yes, there may be a psychosomatic connection, because in fact the fear of the dark is the fear of the unknown. Good night everyone and THANK YOU for sharing! I also realized that I could feel grateful for the dark, because it ultimately gives me the freedom to create on it like a blank drawing sheet. I am an artist by profession ... what better way for an artist to fall asleep with beautiful unpainted paintings in his mind. Good night! Squeeze my thumbs, and don't take it too seriously ... I mean life! PS: I read the comments above. And I am short-sighted - it is possible that this fear of mine has contributed. But in general, short-sightedness itself, according to Norbekov, is a fear of looking into the unknown, forward into your distant future. Yes, there may be a psychosomatic connection, because in fact the fear of the dark is the fear of the unknown. Good night everyone and THANK YOU for sharing! I also realized that I could feel grateful for the dark, because it ultimately gives me the freedom to create on it like a blank drawing sheet. I am an artist by profession ... what better way for an artist to fall asleep with beautiful unpainted paintings in his mind. Good night! Squeeze my thumbs, and don't take it too seriously ... I mean life! PS: I read the comments above. And I am short-sighted - it is possible that this fear of mine has contributed. But in general, short-sightedness itself, according to Norbekov, is a fear of looking into the unknown, forward into your distant future. Yes, there may be a psychosomatic connection, because in fact the fear of the dark is the fear of the unknown. Good night everyone and THANK YOU for sharing! I am an artist by profession ... what better way for an artist to fall asleep with beautiful unpainted paintings in his mind. Good night! Squeeze my thumbs, and don't take it too seriously ... I mean life! PS: I read the comments above. And I am short-sighted - it is possible that this fear of mine has contributed. But in general, short-sightedness itself, according to Norbekov, is a fear of looking into the unknown, forward into your distant future. Yes, there may be a psychosomatic connection, because in fact the fear of the dark is the fear of the unknown. Good night everyone and THANK YOU for sharing! I am an artist by profession ... what better way for an artist to fall asleep with beautiful unpainted paintings in his mind. Good night! Squeeze my thumbs, and don't take it too seriously ... I mean life! PS: I read the comments above. And I am short-sighted - it is possible that this fear of mine has contributed. But in general, short-sightedness itself, according to Norbekov, is a fear of looking into the unknown, forward into your distant future. Yes, there may be a psychosomatic connection, because in fact the fear of the dark is the fear of the unknown. Good night everyone and THANK YOU for sharing! And I am short-sighted - it is possible that this fear of mine has contributed. But in general, short-sightedness itself, according to Norbekov, is a fear of looking into the unknown, forward into your distant future. Yes, there may be a psychosomatic connection, because in fact the fear of the dark is the fear of the unknown. Good night everyone and THANK YOU for sharing! And I am short-sighted - it is possible that this fear of mine has contributed. But in general, short-sightedness itself, according to Norbekov, is a fear of looking into the unknown, forward into your distant future. Yes, there may be a psychosomatic connection, because in fact the fear of the dark is the fear of the unknown. Good night everyone and THANK YOU for sharing!

   The light irritates me too !!! And the ticking of a clock too