Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Can't Sleep!!!

How come I can be VERY tired, but just not be able to get to sleep? I went to bed last night at 9:30 (I did try to WILD for the hell of it but gave up soon enough) and couldn't get to sleep until 3:30! The whole time I was really tired but I was also anxious because I couldn't sleep. There wasn't nesacerrily a lot of thoughts buzzing around in my head either, so I just felt empty and tortured by my very conscious state. To releive myself of boredom I stayed in bed and listened all three Linkin Park albums (the three that are actually any good) through headphones. About an hour after that I got to sleep.

That is the very worst case of insomnia I have had yet, but it often takes me 2-3 hours to get to sleep, whether I'm tired or not it makes no difference. The hours I spend in bed I could be up doing homework, but before I know it there's like four potential hours just gone out of the window. The time of day I have the most WILL power to do things is also after 9:00, which is just fucked up. I'll be tired and fed up all the time until bed. There is also little change in routine, I've had the same school routine for years and years but I just don't adapt to it, I'm so retarded! The worst part is when i go to bed at night I worry because I can never be sure if I'll be able to sleep of not.

I don't know what's causing it either, if I only knew. I think as human beings we have a right to lose consciousness whenever we want! Why can't I do that? I want to sleep so badly and I just can't... I've posted this because it's been getting worse recently. For about a year or so my sleeping problems stopped but they've come back again, is there any reason for this?

You seem to be doing everything fine. well here's something: what time u get to bed when you're NOT tired. Usually the body is tired, and you feel physicly tired but you can't fall asleep because your brain is still working. If you usually go to bed later then 9:30 (exemple 11:00) then your brain is used to 11:00. and when you go to bed earlier you can't sleep because your brain still works 'till 11:00 ( around) so all u have to do is ALWAYS get to bed at the same time( approximetly), this way the brain will get used to let you sleep when you go to bed at 9:30. And if you get to bed always around the same time even when you're not tired...well, sometimes we let our mind wonder and we also think too much. sometimes it's just "unwanted" i mean sometimes you don't wanna think of something but you still do it because the brain needs to "resume" all the things you've done during the day. (that's why sometimes we dream of what we've done during the day) . And if u get to bed early all the time, and if u don't think about anything... well, try this link http://dreamviews.com/community/showthread.php?t=42271 it helps a lot when i can't fall asleep. so...here's 3 things you can do to get some sleep. oh, and btw, music is very destracting if u want to sleep. So i don't recommand you listening to music before bed because most of the times some songs get stock in your head and you know what happens then. (you can't stop singing the same song again and again...sometimes it's really anoying)

Thanks, so I have to make a routine. I would have thought that would just come naturally. It makes me wonder what things were like in the stone age when people didn't even have clocks. Maybe they were so shattered they just dropped dead when they got home... aah, good times.

I was scared I would get ignored because I let my frustration get the better of me :lol:. The thing is I'm sure I've had more or less the same routine for ages, that night was jsut a one off. I usually get to bed at around 10:30 and surely it can't make much of a difference if you give or take half and hour. When I was younger I was also obsessed with routine, and I stilll had sleeping problems. Now that they're coming back what could be causing it, what caused it to magically disappear for over a year in the first place?

Maybe because you're entering different stages of your life. Sometimes it can be because of the stress too.