DD when you should be sleeping

[Windy City Day Dreamer]

I have daydreamed when I should be sleeping. Sometimes I dd the whole night. Unbelievable. Then, I am tired the next day. Sometimes which is often, I wake up and want to start dd. I choose tonight to get some sleep and when I wake up tomorrow I want the first thing that I want to do is to hug my son.

[Iris]

Daydreaming never kept me away from sleeping. On the contrary, I think I need more sleep than most people. But daydreams are my good-night-stories. I fall asleep while daydreaming. In the morning I enjoy waking up without the urge to daydream. This lasts for about 20 minutes, where my mind feels healthy, with normal thoughts, plans what I want to do today. After these 20 minutes my daydreams start and I know it is time to get out of bed and get ready for work, help my daughter to prepare for school and so on.

This pattern is everyday the same.

[Natalie]

At this point in my life I have almost completely conquered my daydreaming problem. However, when daydreaming had a stronger influence in my life it kept me a wake at night all the time. On a few occasions when I was able to get to sleep while daydreaming at night (perhaps because I was too tired to stay awake) my daydream would carry out into my dreams and on two or three occasions turned into a lucid dream. However, the majority of the time daydreaming at night just left me sleep deprived. Fortunately I can get by with out a whole lot of sleep on a few nights at a time as long as I sleep well the in between my phases of insomnia. 

[Cordellia Amethyste Rose]

Daydreaming used to keep me up all night, for most of my life.........daydreaming and fear of intruders would keep me up.  It got really bad.  I would be sick all day.  I tried natural methods, but nothing work.  After resisting for many years, I finally gave in and tried sleeping pills.  I have a high tolerance, so it takes 4 prescriptions to get me to sleep every night, but I feel a lot better.