Realizing when im starting to sleep and waking up instead

[Gonken]

As the title says, sometimes when i try to sleep while very tired - while i'm almost falling asleep I realize that i am almost sleeping and my mind wakes me up. It takes a long time to get to sleep again when it wakes me up all the time. After a while i'm too tired to realise it and just fall asleep for real. Did this happen for any of you? And what should I do to just keep falling asleep instead of having my mind making me stay awake. Yea I know it's hard to explain.

[Darkmatters]

This sounds like something that happens to me if I got no sleep the night before, or only like an hour or two. I'm so tired I feel almost feverish the next night - and I'll be ready to go to sleep really early. But when I lay down I start to fall asleep and then, like you said, suddenly I wake up. And it's weird - I feel kind of panicky or something. I call that part burning off the sleep fever. Then yeah, it takes a while before I can fall asleep again. But when I do , this time I sleep normally. I suspect it's pretty common for people who are in sleep deprivation from the night before. Although I think I'm more sensitive to it than a lot of people - my friend for instance doesn't seem to be bothered by it at all. When we were teenagers we used to sleep over at each others houses sometimes and stay up all night, and around about 4 am or so I'd always start feeling a little nauseous and get back pains and maybe a headache (just slight), and it wouldn't bother him at all. So I guess some people are just more sensitive to this kind of stuff and some aren't.

[Gonken]

Well I guess it happened because I was up to 3-4 in the morning instead of the usual 23:00 to 1:00

[Cacophony]

Hmm, if your mind wakes up while you are falling asleep that can actually be a really great thing for lucid dreaming! If this happens again, try not moving a muscle and staying very still. Allow hypnogogic imagery to overtake your minds eye, and if you're lucky you will fall into a dream while still conscious, and since you will still be conscious you will easily be able to recognize you are in a dream, thus becoming lucid! Oh, and welcome to DV!

[Gonken]

Maybe I should try that, but I really want to sleep and when I realize that i'm falling asleep my mind just interrupts it and It's pretty hard to lay still afterwards but I should try.

[Arch]

Welcome! Yeah I jolt awake sometimes, pretty annoying but I find it easy to get back to sleep after! Go to sleep at the same time every night if you don't already, that really helps!