{"id":36408,"date":"2025-07-30T17:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/difficulty-falling-asleep\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:58:14","slug":"difficulty-falling-asleep","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/difficulty-falling-asleep\/","title":{"rendered":"difficulty falling asleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a 27-year-old male and in the past year or so I have had trouble falling asleep and staying asleep.<\/p>\n<p>When I first lay down to fall asleep everything is fine, and then as soon as I doze off it\u2019s like an electric shock goes through my body and I wake up. Usually this happens 2 or 3 times before I can fall asleep. Sometimes it seems to generate from my thoughts and sometimes it generates from my sinuses. Could this be Sleep Apnea?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014 Paul, Age 27, Single, Male, Berkley, MI, USA<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the Dream Dctor&#8217;s response, click<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/difficulty-falling-asleep-2\/\" id=\"1443\" option=\"com_content\">here<\/a><br \/> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Back to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/snoring-sleep-apnea\/\" id=\"81\" option=\"com_content\">Snoring &amp; Sleep Apnea page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[3224,3232],"class_list":["post-36408","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","category-better-sleep-question","category-sleep-apnea"],"acf":{"article_id":"1431"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/36408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articles"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}