[Bodie]

Hi, I was wondering if it’s ok to fall asleep during the day if I feel sleepy ? I am 74 and retired and have a lot of free time. I’m having trouble with sleeping at night. I can get to sleep but wake up a few hours later, unable to get back to sleep. It’s lunchtime and I was feeling sleepy just now, but stopped myself from falling asleep.
Thanks a lot
Tony

[Bronte]

Hi Tony

As you may have learnt from this course and forum sleep is out of our control and will happen naturally. However, if you are currently waking up in the night and not going back to sleep it is a good idea to try and use what we can to enhance sleep. One of those things is to create good sleep drive. This means having a sleep window of about 6 hours, say from 12-6am and then not giving yourself any other opportunity to sleep during the day. This means that the drive to sleep when you go to bed is greater and increases the likelihood of it happening.
Once you are back in the habit of sleeping at night (this takes time) then naps in the day are probably ok. I do know how hard it is to stay awake during the day when you haven’t slept the night before so my advice is to keep the naps to a minimum as much as you can.
Hope that all makes sense and good luck.

[Martin Reed]

If you want to sleep during the day, you can sleep during the day — nobody here is going to tell you what you can (or can’t do)! You are the expert on you 🙂

Daytime sleep will reduce sleep drive and that means less sleep will be needed at night. Whether or not that’s an issue or a problem for you, can only be answered by you!

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