Fear of death before sleep
Hello everyone!
My name is Alex and i am 21 years old.
From some weeks after i heared from a friend that one of her friend died in sleep i get pretty scared everytime i go to sleep and lately i fall asleep very hard than before. Right now i am trying and trying to sleep, but thoughts that maybe i will not wake up really scare me and i get weird sensations în my chest and back area. After a while my friend explained me that her friend that died had some heart problems and he didnt respect medication because he didnt care life that much. As i know i dont have any heart problems. So after i heared why he died i got much calm, but then same friend told me that another of her friend that îs similar age as me died în sleep recently with no explications at this moment and anxiety came stronger again..... I studied a lot about death and i know there îs nothing to fear, but these feelsings are obsesive în my mind....I try to do guided meditations, but when my body get a bit calm, thoughts that my heart could simply stop start to stress my body again and i just cant relax and sleep....
I have no idea what else to do, i get pretty tierd to get these feelings every night and i wisH i could be like before....
Thank you!
@BAlex09
Those weird sensations in your chest and back are very coincided with anxiety. It's understandable to fear death, especially in the sense that you would not have control over it/you would not realize that it happened.
Know that it's very few and far between that this happens, and that every single day so far, you've woken up without passing away. That's over 7,600 days that you've waken up successfully; I'd say that's a pretty good track record.
What do you find normally helps you when you're anxious? Have you tried some form of distraction to fall asleep? Also, I know that sometimes people can feel a bit better having the TV on in the background as they sleep; gives 'em something to fixate on other than the thoughts that seem most invasive at night.
@Cadence
Hello and thank you very much for your answer!
What really helps me îs when i find that death have an explication and don't just come like that on healthy people. If there îs an explication on why it happened, then magic happens to me and i start to feel better. Tv sometimes help too yes. I got an explication on the first friend of my friend that died and i really started to feel better with myself and sleep a little better, but I didnt get any explication with her 2nd friend and that mentain the anxiety. My friend told me that her friend worked nights in club and taked a lot of energy drinks, so maybe that why the heart stopped, but she was only 22 tho...
I had a good day but I'm feeling anxious now. I'm hoping I can get some sleep tonight.