Can't sleep and depressed

I managed to get almost 7 hours sleep, although I kept waking up several times from nightmares.  Tonight was better because I was tired from under 4 hours sleep from previous nights and tired from moving all my furniture around.

The good news is that after several sleepless nights you get a better one from shear exhaustion.

Been up since 1:30am     Bored, agitated.    Sleeping pills don't work.

put rubber coasters under each foot if its coming from below  -  or 4 argos catalogues as an experiment

I have moved my bed at right angles to it's original position, moved all the other furniture and the rugs. The humming noise is quieter in this position.  Hopefully it will not keep me awake.

the second youtube sound track --- i have a similar link to a soundcloud.com  track called "white celestial space sound"

i require total silence also.......but i live in a house, so no direct neighbors. often i loop back recordings i've copied off youtube... things that soothe me... crinkly sounds, mellow voice, someone doing something really methodically and soothing... i may do this most of the night. such as this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hNHQo7_TC8&t=1131s

others seem to like ambient noise... i assume folks' choices are idiosyncrantic to themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTdQvLR6r2g

i need to get the volume just right, so it's there, but not too loud. and it has to be sounds i like; i resent having to listen to crap to drown out........well, outside crap. i use a medium quality speaker to do this; the smart phone audio quality is.............. crap. hope i don't get banned for profanity.

move your bed. yes i would mention. it to the police it may be the ventilation system

Another of my sleeping problems is an on/off buzzing or humming noise coming from my neighbours flat.

I live in a first floor flat, so I suspect the noise could be coming from one of five flats, above, below or directly opposite.

It's been going on for several months, I've complained to the letting agent, my complaints have been ignored.  Because of the virus the letting agent has not carried out any of his quarterly inspections since March.

The noise could be mechanical or electronic.  The best way to describe it is that it's like trying to sleep next to a fridge or a freezer switching on and off.

It's not from outside because when I open the window I cannot hear it outside.

Another strange fact about the noise is that it never occurs during daylight, just at night.  My sister has suggested that it could be some kind of artificial light that is off during daylight.  And only needs to on  at night.  One of my mental health employment advisors has suggested that the neighbours could be growing drugs.

I don't know any of my neighbours from that side of the flat because they have a separate entrance.

I'm at a loss what to do.  Complain? To who? The neighbours? Which one? Council? Police?

I thinking of moving my bed around, away from the wall.

8:40am and the sun is coming out.  The humming noise has stopped and I am writing this in total silence.  Now I can sleep.

I finally got to sleep again at 5am.

I browsed both mobile and computer.

I ate fresh oranges and cleaned my teeth.

Then slept 

So now?

Mobile phone browsing,

Computer,

Watching TV

Reading,

Eating.

With you there. I know why, they ran a 24-hour EEG on me. I only have vestigial beta-phase sleep, because my brain runs with an at-rest load of 30%. Neurotypicals, 10%. I'm processing my experience live-time, making me very fast indeed - a complex situational problem takes me a quick drop into meditation to fix. Not saying it's the same for anyone else, I need 4-5 hours alpha phase for body maintenance.

3:15am. Wide awake and cannot sleep

i read comedy books ( collections of short comedy stories put together by e.g. alan coren ), if I wake up in a dark mood

depression is horrible