Despite trying to keep my mind busy with work, studying for an IT certification, learning to play the guitar as a way of releasing nervous energy, going to the gym every weekday evening to keep fit and help tire me out, I am having a real hard time sleeping at the moment.
My next court date is not until February 26th and even though I am not as affected by the lastest round of the exes obstructive games as I was when it first started at the beginning of 2022, I am getting into bed at 10pm, feeling really sleepy. I'm out like a light, then I am having weird dreams about my little boy and waking up at 23:30 and cannot get back to sleep for the rest of the night. Lying there staring at the ceiling feeling anxious. I'm nodding off again about 5am, then my alarm goes off at 7am. I am shattered.
The dreams are not helping. They have been the same dream the last three nights in a row, just in different settings, but the dream is, I am driving my car through my town and I end up seeing my boy out walking by himself and I can't get to him. The closer I try and get the further he gets away. I try to turn the car round to double back but when I do he's gone. He see's me in my car in the dream and looks right at me but the dream won't let me get near him.
It's obvious that it's just my mind missing him and having some sort of cognitive consolidation of emotions and memory. I'm hoping it's temporary as I am struggling to concentrate during the day.
I'm hoping that coming on here to write about it with a mug of hot milk helps to relieve the issue.
Does anyone have any tips for better sleep that I'm not already doing, other than bashing myself over the head with a heavy object?!
My next court date is not until February 26th and even though I am not as affected by the lastest round of the exes obstructive games as I was when it first started at the beginning of 2022, I am getting into bed at 10pm, feeling really sleepy. I'm out like a light, then I am having weird dreams about my little boy and waking up at 23:30 and cannot get back to sleep for the rest of the night. Lying there staring at the ceiling feeling anxious. I'm nodding off again about 5am, then my alarm goes off at 7am. I am shattered.
The dreams are not helping. They have been the same dream the last three nights in a row, just in different settings, but the dream is, I am driving my car through my town and I end up seeing my boy out walking by himself and I can't get to him. The closer I try and get the further he gets away. I try to turn the car round to double back but when I do he's gone. He see's me in my car in the dream and looks right at me but the dream won't let me get near him.
It's obvious that it's just my mind missing him and having some sort of cognitive consolidation of emotions and memory. I'm hoping it's temporary as I am struggling to concentrate during the day.
I'm hoping that coming on here to write about it with a mug of hot milk helps to relieve the issue.
Does anyone have any tips for better sleep that I'm not already doing, other than bashing myself over the head with a heavy object?!