[goldenbayboy]

My signal for about to have a bout of insomnia is jerking awake when nearly asleep. From something that happened one or twice a year to suddenly a major problem is the issue.  Going by the email course material and other resources, it seems to strongly suggest that the I am triggering arousal by noticing the issue and panicking. The trick now is how to change that message. I am working on moving from message “oh no, I am going to have a bad night” to “oh that good I am nearly asleep and soon will be”. The trouble is believing it. Trying repetition and avoiding any negatives but wonder if people had other tips to reset the mind.

[Martin Reed]

I love your attitude! How are you getting on?

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[goldenbayboy]

I think I am making progress. I am doing every else as well – reading in an arm chair, getting up when not falling asleep etc. Because insomnia this comes and goes, I am cautious about attributing good sleep to progress. However, I have definitely had a couple of nights where was doing the “almost asleep, suddenly awake” and got to sleep by regarding it as good sign instead of panicking. Early sleep still seems very light. I have had one night when thought I hadnt been sleeping, then glanced at clock and discovered that oh yes I had been!

Working with my wife to suppress negative, arousal-promoting attitudes to sleep. She re-phrases any sleep worry I mention into a positive (with sub-text of “you are doing this wrong”!) Also working to create better associations between bedtime and sleep.

From teenage years I have had some fascination with hypogogic imagery and I think I became good at “noticing” and worse still coming awake enough to commit to memory. Now I am wondering whether this noticing is making that transition harder but I havent really had insomnia issues till I hit my 50s and only become a real problem recently.

Anyway, I am finding the emails great and I will be interested to see how the sleep diary looks after a week or so.

[Martin Reed]

Thanks for the update — keep going! You’ve got this!

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