[Momup]

Hello Scott,

thank you very much! To me it feels a bit like cheating because of having taken the medication. But on the other hand I have just experienced what it feels like to be well-rested during exam period which I’ve never had in my life so far and since you guys said that it was mostly due to me believing in the pill I call this a partial success because it has shown me that it’s possible to be well-rested even during more challenging times. I’ll just to try to have the same carelessness I had when I have taken the meds and I will report once in a while about my progress or ask here if I should have questions/problems.

Best regards,
Momoup

[Momup]

Hey, it’s me again. I thought I’d just give a brief update about my sleep pattern. I must say that the last few months have been quite good sleep-wise. I just try to not care too much about sleep and I try to not really regulate this area of life. This does not only make my life simpler because I can shift my focus on other things. It also helps to not care. The only things I actually pay attention to are that I always wake up at the same time and that I always go to sleep at the same time. If I don’t manage to go to sleep at the desired time then I just try to still wake up at the same time and I must say that I have never had such a consistent sleeping pattern like the last few months. So thank you very much for your advise to try to let go of the desire to “control” the sleep and to stick to a constent sleep pattern!

I must say that writing this post right now I am afraid that I might experience sleeping problems again just because it’s going quite well and because I guess I am afraid of losing this. But I try to not pay too much attention to these doubts because more in the past more often than not I have proven to myself that these doubts of not being able to sleep are nothing more than doubts.

Best regards,
Momup

[Chee2308]

Hello momup!
That’s great news and you have finally “got it”. Sleep is something nobody ever has any control over. So it is pointless to worry about it or do stuffs to make you go to sleep, it is this pressure that makes sleeping so hard! Going forward, as you sleep better and letting go of control, you care less about it and hopefully never struggle with sleeplessness again, even if it happens, you just don’t struggle like before and the difficult night just comes and passes. This is normal! Sometimes you look back and might even laugh at yourself! You may think ” Wow, did I use to do all those stuffs just to sleep?? Man, that’s crazy!”. Eventually, the realization sinks in that you CAN sleep, it doesn’t matter where or under what circumstances, your body just takes care of sleep all by itself.

[Momup]

Thank you for your post. Yeah, sleep isn’t something that can be really regulated which is good and bad at the same time because there is no certainty but that’s fine. The good aspect of it is that it’s nothing I have to “take care of”.

Best regards,
Momup

[Martin Reed]

Thanks for taking the time to return with an update, Momup!

I think the key insight you shared was how you shifted attention away from sleep and onto things that are within your control and help you live the kind of life you want to live! We can always make moves toward a rich and meaningful life, regardless of how we sleep, no matter how small those moves might be!

The more often we do things that truly matter, the less we might try to control sleep and the less importance we might place on sleep.

Having a consistent out of bed time in the morning can be helpful, too — as can only going to bed when truly sleepy enough for sleep!

Thanks again for sharing!

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