[Sleep hunter]

It started gradually, but now happens every night. I’m at the point where I now dread bedtime.

I’d close my eyes to sleep, start feeling myself drift off, then suddenly the fear hits and wakes me up. It’s awful.

Anyone else experience anything like this?

[Chee2308]

Yes, it’s a condition called somniphobia. Which is an irrational fear of sleeping. So why do you fear going to bed? Have you evaluated the reasons behind this irrationality? Sleep is something you expect to do everyday for the rest of your life, so does it make any sense to keep fearing it going forward? What’s the fear really all about? Deeply self-reflect on these questions and find the solutions yourself, in your own way. It often helps when you stop placing so much pressure on yourself and just allow things to take its own natural course. After all, nobody taught how to eat or breathe at the moment of birth either! Sleep is like that too. It happens without pressure or effort and everybody can sleep regardless of how badly they think they are at it. Your own body is fail-safe and there’s just no way it can do it wrong regardless of how hard you try to break it.

[Martin Reed]

If you haven’t seen it yet, you might find this video (and many of the comments that come with it) helpful: Why you jerk yourself awake every time you try to fall asleep (and what to do about it).

If you are describing more of a sense of mental alertness when you go to bed rather than physical sleep starts as you drift off to sleep, this video might be more useful: What to do when you feel sleepy early in the evening but don’t feel sleepy when it’s time for bed.

Is there anything helpful here?

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