Living with Sleep Disorders

I am 60 years old. Have had insomnia since age 34. I’ve taken numerous sleep medications since that time. The medication every couple of months, has a paradoxical affect on me. I’ve taken several pills at one time and absolutely nothing has happened. It’s like my stystem locks up and doesn’t produce what it is to make me sleepy.

I stay awake for days at a time with almost no sleep. I reason I say almost is because my brain falls asleep for a few seconds a time.

Also, family says that I do sleep because I shnore. I am wide awake. If they talk to me I immediately respond. sometimes I hear myself snoring.

What i really wanted to write about is when I finally fall asleep, my body shakes to wake me up each time I fall asleep. I am exhaused and I know I can sleep, but my body keep jerking me awake. My husband says this occurs countless times throughout the night and he stays awake because it scares him.

Secondly, When I am in a deep sleep my brain start doing some major repair. If I am awakened during this process, I feel the work stopped. I hear like files slamming or stuff being stacked on top on each other. Almost as if they were quickly putting everything away quickly. Is there anyone out there that has experienced this. I personally know what is going on. I fell asleep and my brain had an opportunity to do the repair it had to do and was awakened in the middle of their work and had to reverse everything it was doing.