[Lesdeuxanes]

Hello everyone, has anyone ever retaught themselves how to sleep in their beds?

I totally cannot do it to save my life. I will be sitting on a couch or one of my chairs until I start involuntarily nodding off. I will then go to my bed and then at best get to stage one sleep for a couple of hours which I think throws off my entire association of the bed and sleep. I have started to sleep on the couch which seems to allow me to get deep sleep at least a few hours.

Considering what I’ve learned I’ve started to think I shouldn’t even try to sleep in the bed until we get a new one considering how stuck my brain seems to be. Either that or not get in it until I’m literally blacking out from sleep pressure.

Let me know what you think.

[Martin Reed]

If you browse the insomnia success stories forum, the case studies page, and listen to a few of the podcast episodes, you will see that many people have been able to retrain themselves to see the bed as a place for sleep, and now sleep well in their own bed.

What makes you think that you are spending a couple of hours in stage one sleep when you get into bed? What makes you think that you are getting deep sleep when you sleep on the couch?

The good news is that the fact you are sleeping on the couch proves that you can sleep — and that you are finding it hard to sleep in bed because you have repeatedly struggled to sleep in bed.

The key to retraining yourself to see the bed as a place for sleep is to make sure that the only thing you do in bed is sleep — and the only place you sleep is in bed.

This means that you use your bed only for sleep, and that when you are awake and anxious, you get out of bed until you feel calm and sleepy. You then get back into bed and repeat this process as necessary.

Since sleep drive builds with every minute of wakefulness, if you stay committed and consistent, you will eventually sleep in your own bed. And, every minute you spend asleep in your own bed, the more you relearn that your bed is a place for sleep rather than wakefulness.

You might find the page on stimulus control for insomnia helpful.

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