AIBU can't sleep and feel like I'm going mad

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I feel like I will go mad. I'm desperately trying to get to sleep but I feel like I am sleeping under a jet engine. Upstairs neighbours I assume have some sort of mobile AC unit on. It's a non stop engine sound above my head. I have a series of really critical meetings tomorrow. I feel like my brain is on fire. Can't sleep in the living room as my settee has got cat wee smell activated by the heat (I'll save that for another thread). I've listened to 2 hours of podcasts and have had the pillow over my head for the last 30 minutes. Help.

In the no sleep brigade too. My partner is in the spare room as it's so warm. I've slept for about two hours. Fan on. First day back at work tomorrow after a week off and dreading it. Tried really hard to have a good sleep routine but heat disrupted it.

Do you have a bathtub or car you can sleep in?

Earplugs?. 4-3-7 breathing or something like that. Have a google. Add up the letters in your name so D=4 E=5 B=2 etc?
You have my sympathy. It’s awful when you absolutely need sleep and can’t.

I in the club too. I been booked to work this week, but there is no way I can go tomorrow. Back to the doctors for me and this recurring health issue. Sick of pain and uncertainty. Hope things improve for us all

For another night but magnesium really helps. Foam earplugs and sleep mask that plays white noise.

Can't sleep either, every time I start to nod off my little one's heart rate/O2 monitor goes off.

Have you tried boxed breathing?

I am on the sofa now. There's a smell of cat wee but it's better than the jet engine noise. I've had a midnight snack of crisps and orange juice. Considering putting the TV on so I'll fall asleep but now extra anxious that the neighbours will continue basking in their AC overnight every night this week.

@BuffetTheDietSlayer Yes I could sleep in the bathtub but likely to get stuck in it!

WIBU to ask the neighbours in the morning whether they were also kept awake by a loud electrical noise all night long?

I hope everyone can get some rest tonight, sorry for those suffering from illness and or worries. Like a truly sleepless night, the hours are flying by and getting closer to my alarm time😬

TV is going on now. Because of course I can now hear the noise from the living room!

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