Yes, I can completely relate to only having bad nightmares (I don’t think I’ve ever in my life had a happy or even neutral dream!) while I sleep, and feeling even more tired when I wake up! It’s also really hard for me to get out of bed everyday. I often feel like spirits/entities have been messing with me all night, giving me restless and un-refreshing sleep.

I thinks it’s interesting you wake up with tinnitus too, by any chance do you have TMJ? I’ve been suffering from tinnitus, dizziness, mild hearing loss, pulsatile tinnitus, headaches and general fatigue for awhile now and saw both an ENT and TMJ specialist. The ENT ruled out a brain tumor, and the TMJ specialist said that my TMJ is causing all my symptoms AND indirectly the reason why I’m sleeping poorly (I have a tongue tie and recessed jaw, along with a narrow breathing tube, so I am actually suffering from oxygen deprivation while I sleep). I’m getting fitted for oral appliances soon and am very hopeful to start sleeping better soon. In any event, I just wanted to mention it in case it could be something that is also affecting you (especially because you feel better when staying up vs. sleeping - perhaps you are also oxygen deprived while you sleep?).