[dbaldino]

Last night I woke up after my usual 4 hours of sleep and was wide awake. I took Benadryl and .5 mg of clonazepam and fell right back to sleep in < 10 minutes. That is a clear case of the “placebo effect.” So how do I train my brain to “placebo” itself without clonazepam? Any suggestions? Thank you so much.

[Martin Reed]

It is, of course, important not to make any changes to your medication without talking to your doctor first.

If you want to give yourself the opportunity to sleep without medication — to train your brain that it can sleep without medication — what do you feel is the only way that might be achieved?

I wonder if the medication is making sleep happen, or if it’s the resulting elimination of effort that seems to make sleep more likely to happen. Once we take something we might delegate all the effort we’d otherwise engage in to make sleep happen, to get rid of wakefulness, onto whatever we’ve taken. When we are no longer involved in the natural process of sleep, when we are no longer “trying”, it often occurs a lot easier!

Perhaps there might be a useful insight here 🙂

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