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Is lying down on the couch permitted during wake time?

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Hello @dutch!

The simple answer is there’s no answer! Because it can go either way. It depends on what you really want. Go with your true desire of that moment. The thing is none of this has anything to do with sleep anyways. Sleep is only based on sleep drive which depends on time spent awake and your internal body clock. Nothing else matters. It’s your obessesing with those simple actions or thoughts and then making baseless connections with your sleep that makes insomnia worse. It’s the obessesion that turns a otherwise harmless condition into this massive monstrous phobia. If people could forget about their problem, their insomnia will disappear. It’s the weirdest thing. If you don’t think there’s a problem or a connection, then it isn’t there anymore. It’s all those simple mundane things that you do to try to sleep better or those decisions that you make based on their alleged effect on sleep that’s keeping your insomnia firmly in place.

If you can’t forget or ignore your problem then at least pretend to do so. Stay away from the forums like these, the endless researching, the youtube videos on insomnia, just about everything connected to sleep, at least for a few weeks. Stop all the obessesing and just focus on sticking to a regular sleep schedule. That might work wonders because you then direct your attention elsewhere and not on your sleep, which can actually make it worse.

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