Why is it that it is when I am sleeping that I worry the most?

Question

Why is it that it is when I am sleeping that I worry the most?

When I somewhat asleep, unconscious, that is when I worry. Worry to the point that it makes my stomach churn. The feeling that you did something wrong and that your life is over. I think that when I get these intense feelings, I am in a dream-like state.

Answer 1

deal with the problems when you are awake and they wont haunt you in your sleep

Answer 2

You need to compile some objective data on yourself. Are you in a high stress (not necessarily exciting but pressured) job?
Are you exercising to a sweat several times a week?
Are you eating properly?
Do you have any unresolved issues you need to work out but aren't working on?
Do you have some self-esteem problem you need to get over, or are the intense nighttime feelings that you did wrong totally unrelated to your life? You need to fix this or look for a physical problem.
Just as people start drifting off to sleep, they experience a few minutes of alpha waves, the same ones that meditators produce. Incidentally, most people who start in on an ice cream cone on a hot day experience a few moments of alpha waves, too. Drifting towards sleep should be one of the delights of life. If it isn't for you, you need to pinpoint and fix whatever is wrecking it for you.
There are medications to help, but you really want to fix the source of the problem first if possible. If you exercise heavily just before sleeping, you'll be too rev'd up to drift into a relaxing sleep. If you don't exercise enough, your muscles won't have released the tension built up during the day and can give you problems. Likewise when you drink too much, or don't eat enough nutrients and water. PTSD or generalized anxiety can be cured with cognitive behavior therapy and sometimes helped with medication. Shaving off your sleep time can leave you overtired and 'wired". Not going to sleep at usually the same times of day can also throw you off.
As you can see, there are many different possibilities and you have to figure out just what it is that is going on with you. Charting your sleep and dread for a couple or more months can help you figure it out and talk more intelligently to your doctor or clinic. Sleep apnea can also actually wake you up, full of panic neurotransmittors.
The good news is that as you study what's going on, and make a little progress, you start to feel real satisfaction with your efforts. That alone can ease the problem. Good luck

Answer 3

I have this problem, I worry the most when I stop and have a chance to think. Due mostly to going and going all day. I learned it could be anxiety. I have seen a couple of different doctors that has told me to go on meds, but I am not sure if that is the route for me. Try writing down problems or thoughts every night before bed. It sort of works for me, but I then worry about things I didn't put on the list of things. So I still write stuff down, and I sleep a little better, but it will not work for everyone. Good luck. The person above is very right, it could jsut be your diet.

Answer 4

Because your brain has nothing else to think about. During the day you have all sorts of input. At night, it's just you and your thoughts. If it continues talk to your doctor, there are several new drugs for sleeping that carry little chance for becoming addicted. Ambien and lunesta are the two best known. I take Ambien and it works great.

Answer 5

This also happens to me too sometimes. I find that when I'm in bed trying to get to bed I tend to think about things that stress me, and I don't rest well. I think that writing down what you are thinking about on a piece of paper, put it somewhere you will see it in the morning and go to sleep thinking of things that are happy, like things that you have always wanted baddly or sing a happy song to yourself.

Answer 6

It could be your mind wondering to the things that you tend to repress in your day to day activities. You tend to lose most inhabitions when you are this sort of state you aren't able to block out what it is that is bothering you.

Answer 7

when you are sleeping you imagine things..because your conciousness is not on when your sleeping, your brain imagines wild and crazy things. it may also be because sleeping is the only time you have to just sit relax and think. you dont have that time when your running around during the day

Answer 8

It's part of you sub conscious. Whatever you think about during your day gets put in your sleep.

Answer 9

when you think about things in the day they stay in the back of your head, until you dream about them.....you cant really control what you dream about.....sometimes it's what you eat...like sugar gives you nightmares.....you know?

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Chelsea

Answer 10

BECAUSE THATS WHEN YOU THINK THA MOST