Thread: Add And Sleep/dreams

I have "diagnosed" ADHD, and I no longer take medication for it. But two things...

A) EVERYONE has trouble concentrating. If having trouble concentrating means ADD, then every teenager on the planet would have ADD.

B) I have ADHD, and I sleep very easily.

The "symptoms" you mentioned are incredible general and can be fixed without being "diagnosed." First of all, as I said, everyone has trouble concentrating. It's really not that rare, especially if you're a teenager.

Secondly, get some more exercise/more active lifestyle. This will help you fall asleep easier. Get a good sleep schedule, and do not sleep too little or too much each day.

I know everybody has some trouble concentrating, and I'd be able to deal with that, no question. It's just that I'm having a great deal of trouble sleeping, and I don't think it's due to lack of physical tiredness. It feels like my mind just won't shut off! I've tried meditation, but meditation isn't really meant for inducing sleep at all. When I do sleep, I feel it's not healthy, and even though MANY many people have told me that everybody enters REM and dreams every night, I'm starting to doubt it, honestly. If I DO have dreams, certainly nothing is working to recall them, and I've tried every method in the book to improve recall.

Still, you said you sleep fine AND have ADD. I also know you dream and LD often; you said so. So, if it's not ADD, what might it be? I get an average amount of exercise already, but I guess I can try more. Yet, as I said, it's not my body not being tired enough that is the problem; it seems like a mental thing.

I'm not trying to be a whiner, but I've tried a LOT of stuff. It's not like I'm a noob just arriving at DV with no knowledge or experience. I could probably write a 30-page essay from memory on EWOLD alone! Seriously, it just seems like there's an "X" factor here that's keeping me from sleeping well/remembering dreams. Hell if I know what it is.

I'd say go to the doctor...

Ok. I will. Hehe.

I have ADD mostly only gives me 2 problems
1: Bad grades
2: I can't focus one thing at a time at all

Have you been meditating? This helps me a lot. Meditation is really just an advanced concentration exercise.

Also, if you do begin having lucid dreams, meditating DURING the dream helps me concentrate by leaps and bounds the next day.