[daisho]

I suffer from insomnia. At night, I lie on the bed and I just keep thinking and thinking non-stop, and I’m awake all the way til morning. It feels horrible. Hope we can all share our experiences. Good luck to everybody

[Scott]

@Daisho,

Welcome and thanks for posting! If you don’t fall asleep right away, what is going through your mind? If you’re not able to fall asleep, have you considered getting out of bed and engaging in something that is more enjoyable – listen to a podcast, watch tv, craft, etc – and only returning to bed when you’re sleepy (yawning, dozing off, etc)?

Scott J

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[daisho]

Hello Scott and thanks for the welcome

The things that is going through my mind is thinking about everything in these uncertain times. I get very stressed.

And I haven’t really thought of that. I don’t know how it would affect the daily routine

[Chee2308]

Hi daisho!
This is a common problem which happens when people go to bed with a weak or no sleep drive, aka, not sleepy. Sleepiness depends on quite many things, but the most important is sufficient time being awake. This is the single most important factor which determines how sleepy you get. Normal people usually feel sufficiently sleepy after 16 hours of continuous wakefulness, but to get really sleepy, 17-18 hours are even better. You also may have disrupted your sleep cycle by sleeping at irregular hours. But this can be remedied quite easily, just pick a time you want to wake up by, every day, and by subtracting 7 hours from it, you arrive at your bedtime. Keep to this timetable as much as you can to really anchor your sleep-wake cycle! Your body should respond quite nicely within a few weeks. Try not to stress over poor sleep too, learn to trust your own body, this really helps in recovery. Be patient, compassionate and kind to yourself, stay away from medications and fast cure gimmicks, adopting these steps, you should very well. Good luck!

[daisho]

Sorry, what you mean exactly by ‘subtracting’ 7 hours? Suppose I wanna wake up at 8 AM. Does that mean I should instead wake up at 1 AM?

[Chee2308]

Hi daisho!
If you want to wake at 8 am, and by allowing a 7 hour sleep window, that means you should go to bed around 1 am. Or you can go to bed earlier but accept that you might not fall sleep fast. The idea is not to be stressed over being awake, and to be okay with that wakefulness. Makes any sense? Nothing can make you sleep except your own body and that, as I’ve said, depends on how long you’ve been awake. Best wishes to you!

[Angeli]

Hi daisho!
Once an obsessive mood sets in, it’s hard to stop. Obsessive thoughts are feeding on themselves. Fighting it is a complete waste of time. And if the mind doesn’t stop, anxiety sets in and sleep doesn’t come. I lived like this for many years, and used many drugs (medicines) to stop this obsession. He woke up in the middle of the night looking like his head was plugged into an outlet. What worked for me was accepting all thoughts and letting them in. I imagine a file with several drawers and every thought that comes I file and place each one in a named drawer. That is, I don’t send them away. I don’t fight anymore, I just accept them. If I start fighting and rejecting them, my mind sends them out faster. I also apply the following technique: “Oh, my mind is thinking about it…” As if I were a spectator, just labeling and filing the thoughts. . This quickly disarms my brain. In other words, acceptance is the magic word for this entire process that involves sleep. If I am in a state of acceptance there is no longer my mind to fight. The war ends. (Sorry for the English, using translator.)

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