[dogacan]

Hi martin I want to ask something that I am so curious about and I am sure any others may have wondering about this. I do not have sleep problem actually. I am sleeping and bed means sleep to my brain there is no problem here. I start not to care about sleep and I noticed that I had somethings to do to sleep by resting (not to sleep but sleep by resting). So my obsession is mental arousal and that prevent me from resting, It does not prevent my sleep, I am sleeping my consciousness is at sleep but my mind and body is working. I watched your video on youtube and it is so helpful but you say if we mentally aroused we can not be able to sleep. I am little bit confused here because I am sleeping but not resting sometimes, so if you are unconscious like you are in sleep, but if you are not resting is that counts as sleep or not. This counts as sleep for my consciousness but not sleep for my body. I am tooo confused please help me. I know how to stop mental arousal thank you so much for your help. But I want to know the answer of my question please see this.

[Chee2308]

Hello and welcome to the forum!
I don’t understand your question well. It appears you are confused and if I asked you, does the answer to your question really matter, or is it really that important to have an answer, what will your reply be? Even if you found an answer, will that be the end then? Or will you then start having other questions? And it goes on and on and you end up in a vicious cycle, getting nowhere.

The point is if you think you are getting the sleep and/or rest your body really needs, does it matter whether you are sleeping or resting? As an recovered insomniac, I am telling you quite point-blank that the answers to any questions your brain has about sleep is truly trivial and insignificant. The quest to seek an answer to everything about sleep is what keeps you stuck in it. Just learn to let go and live with it. Stop seeking and start living! Good luck to you.

[dogacan]

Thank you for your help my friend. So constantly thinking about sleep makes us sleep bad right ?

[Chee2308]

I answered this on the other thread. And it’s a resounding NO. Nothing you do or think about sleep can change it. It might affect a little bit and you may sleep a little less but it’s not a problem and you can still get by with whatever sleep your body is giving you at any time

[dogacan]

No this is completely wrong. İf you constantly analyzing your sleep and think about sleep things start go bad. Because these are means that your attention is on your sleep. So that cause mental arousal in your sleep.

[Chee2308]

LOL okay. You already have all the answers. Why do you still need to ask?

[Martin Reed]

The brain is always thinking as it does its job of looking out for you. Thoughts don’t stop sleep from happening — but trying to control them sure can make sleep a lot more difficult!

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