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r/insomnia↗

Posts and discussion about insomnia and sleep disorders.

200k subscribers1,241 posts / mo in Sep 2026989 authors / mosince 2008

r/insomnia has 200k members (+19% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,241 posts a month from 989 people. Top topics: Moonlit Poetry, Night Shift Sleep Issues and Studying Late Nights.

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Size and growth

How r/insomnia has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+19%in 12 months · +3.7% in 3 months · +0.9% in 1 month
Oct 2026200k
Growing200k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−5.0%vs Sep 2025 · −0.5% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20261.2k
QuieterPeaked at 1.5k in Jan 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/insomnia

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Moonlit Poetry0.4%
  2. Night Shift Sleep Issues0.3%
  3. Studying Late Nights0.2%
  4. Sleep and School Schedules0.2%
  5. Sleeping Issues0.2%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. ScienceDirect
  2. Drugs
  3. Spotify
  4. Frontiers Media S.A
  5. Wiley

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research