"I'm writing this because I really need some advice from anyone who might have gone through something similar.
About 8 months ago, I went through a very intense emotional shock. The night after, I completely lost the natural urge to sleep. I stayed awake the whole night. At first, I thought it was just a one-off, but the next night the same thing happened — no sleep drive, just lying there, sometimes dozing for a few minutes but never feeling like I was truly asleep.
Weeks went by, and although my body was clearly running on less and less rest, I still didn’t feel that normal sense of being “tired.” It’s hard to explain — I was exhausted, but at the same time I didn’t even feel sleepy. And worst of all, the natural desire to sleep just didn’t come back. Out of these 8 months, I’ve only had one night where I actually felt my body want to sleep. The rest has been a nightmare.
I tried everything I could think of: magnesium, iron, B vitamins, ashwagandha, zinc, vitamin C and D, niacin, selenium, valerian root, chamomile tea, essential oils, CBD, and acupressure. At one point, acupressure with lavender oil on my wrists gave me two nights of about 5 hours of rest, but after that it stopped working. Nothing made a lasting difference. I was spending literally thousands of dollars, all for nothing to work..
For the first 6 months, my nights were mostly 1 to 3 hours of broken sleep, never more than 90 minutes in a row. Sometimes, with heavy sleep medications like Stilnox (a hypnotic) combined with Lexomil (a benzodiazepine), I could get up to 6 hours — but I had to stop because they left me feeling like a zombie. I couldn’t even walk or talk properly while on them, and even then, I never once felt truly rested, and the side effects started to kick in after a couple of weeks.
Lately, it’s gotten even worse. Instead of short blocks of 1–2 hours, I was only drifting off for 5–15 minutes at a time (my partner has stayed awake to confirm this). I’d lost all energy — though strangely, I still didn’t feel “sleepy” — and I honestly didn’t know how much longer my body could take it.
I’ve seen multiple specialists, including a sleep doctor, but all my tests came back normal. One doctor even told me to “just go for a run” — at a time when I could barely walk from exhaustion. None of them offered any real solutions.
Then, out of desperation, I came across something called the LumaLight Sleep Therapy Glasses. Honestly, I didn’t expect much. I’d already tried so many things, and the idea that wearing glasses with a special light could help me sounded strange. But after reading more about how our bodies rely on light to reset the sleep-wake cycle, I decided to give them a try. I had nothing to lose at this point.
I started using them every morning for about 20 minutes while I had my coffee. The first couple of days, nothing dramatic happened. But by the end of the first week, I noticed a small change: at night, instead of lying in bed wired, my body actually felt just a little heavier, like it was remembering what “tired” used to feel like. The next week, I started falling asleep faster — not great sleep yet, but more like 2–3 hours at a stretch instead of only 15 minutes.
Over the following weeks, things slowly got better. For the first time in months, I had several nights in a row where I slept 5–6 hours. It wasn’t perfect, but it was real rest. And most importantly, I finally felt that natural urge to sleep again — something I thought I’d completely lost forever. I was starting to get the feeling of life back, the smile in my face, and function how I was supposed to as a human, and started to feel good and even started to feel happy again, my partner even noticed a big mood and overall energy change after the first couple of weeks.
I’m not saying it was an overnight miracle, but the LumaLight glasses gave me back the one thing I’d been missing: my body’s natural rhythm. After so many failed attempts, it feels unbelievable to wake up and actually have energy, to not live in constant fear of another sleepless night.
I still have work to do, but for the first time in 8 months, I feel hopeful.
So for anyone struggling the way I was — if nothing else has worked, it might be worth trying these glasses. They’ve been the only thing that truly helped me reconnect with my body’s natural sleep again."