[reneegavin]

 

I noticed that I am similar to another poster in that sleep scheduling only seems to have caused me to lose the ability to sleep in as well.  No matter what time I get up, I still can’t fall asleep until very late. My problem is that it takes me a LONG time to fall asleep once in bed, and aside of a few brief periods in my life, it always has.  I then have household factors that wake me up after that.  I start to panic once it gets to be around midnight-1am because I have to get up at 6:30ish, and I will be woken up before that.  If I don’t get into bed until 11:30-12:30, I start off more stressed than if I am relaxing in bed earlier.  I’m not sure how to counteract this in order to make the sleep restriction work.

 

[Martin Reed]

Remember that the goal of sleep restriction isn’t for you to get more sleep that night. The intention is to make sure that you spend more time in bed asleep rather than awake. The goal of sleep restriction is to re-establish the bed as a cue for sleep. This is achieved by reducing the amount of time you spend in bed so more time is spent asleep rather than awake.

If you are going to bed at around midnight and getting up at 6.30am, I would assume that you are typically getting between 6 and 6.5 hours of sleep. If that’s not the case, you are still allotting a bit too much time for sleep and this may be one reason why sleep restriction isn’t currently working out for you.

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