[dogacan]

Hello everyone, I love you all and wish a wonderful life to you.

I know we should not do some behaviours to control our sleep, such as nice pillow, sleep medicines and teas etc.

I also want to know that constantly analyzing our sleep and trying to figure it out in our head what we did wrong and what we could do to sleep better counts as controlling sleep ? And are these analyzing and figuring out sleep make sleep worse actually?

Thank you for your attention have good day 🙂

[Chee2308]

Hello @dogacan!

I’ll try to answer your other question here as well because they are essentially same. It doesn’t matter what you think or do to sleep, your body will still sleep regardless. So thinking or doing
a ton of stuff OR literally nothing about it achieves next to nothing. Your body is primed to eat, breathe, remove wastes and also sleep so thinking you are bad at all all these will never stop them from happening anyway. Let’s say you become convinced you need to eat 10,000 calories per day or breathe 500x/minute or “horrible things” are going to happen to your body, and you consciously keep trying to do it, did you think these will affect your body’s functioning a single bit?? Yes, you might gain a bit of weight or look weird to everybody
else but other than that, nope your body will function like normal. You’d have wasted your time and energy which would be much better to be focused elsewhere instead. Sleeping is a core bodily function that can never be lost, thinking you are bad at it will never cause it to lose that ability. Good luck.

• This reply was modified 1 years, 7 months ago by Chee2308.

[dogacan]

Sleeping is a core bodily function that can never be lost, thinking you are bad at it will never cause it to lose that ability. Good luck.

Friend I did not say thinking about sleep causes lose the ability to sleep. I am saying that thinking about and analyzing your sleep causes mental arousal and makes it difficult to sleep.

İf you dont believe me start analyzing how did your sleep was. Analyz the quality of your sleep and your sleep routine and see what happens. That does not mean your ability to sleep will lost of course but you will be able to sleep harder.

[Chee2308]

“İf you dont believe me start analyzing how did your sleep was. Analyz the quality of your sleep and your sleep routine and see what happens. That does not mean your ability to sleep will lost of course but you will be able to sleep harder.”

Yes I do that sometimes when I wake up. I’ll wake up calculating mentally how many hours of sleep I got last night. Then come the next night, I go to bed, wondering how much I am going to get this time round. And, nope! Makes no difference whatsoever. Once I fall asleep, I completely forget all about it until I wake up 6,7 or very rarely 8 or whatever hours later. And this keeps repeating until I have lost count. Now I can’t even be bothered anymore, why should I?? It doesn’t make me sleep more nor make sleeping more difficult either! So it’s just wasting my time doing it and probably for anyone who thinks engaging in this exercise helps them, it’s probably useless as well. And if you think overanalyzing your sleep makes it more difficult, why do you keep doing it?

[dogacan]

I just wanted some reassurence I think. That may cause you to wake up unrefreshed as your mind aroused in sleep. Of course you may sleep because of your sleep pattern but it is more likely to feel unrefreshed.

You are right I will stop doing that. By the way I do not have sleep issue, I just want to stop that mental arousal at night.

[Chee2308]

You can’t stop what to think @dogacan. I think by being okay with thinking anything, you slowly start moving away from those thoughts.

[Martin Reed]

Is analyzing your sleep working for you? Is it getting you the sleep you want to get and helping you live the kind of life you want to live? If it is, no need to change anything! If it’s not, perhaps that’s not a workable behavior 🙂

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