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Just started sleep restriction, go to sleep 12.30 but awake again at 3.30 and unable to get back to sleep, up for work at 6.30 any advice would be appreciated
Thanks for sharing that you just got started with sleep restriction! When you wake around 3:30 AM, why do you think you find it hard to get back to sleep?
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Just don’t feel as sleepy, and probably start to panic abit. Only been on sleep restriction for about a week so know it’s early days yet. Before sleep restriction i just couldn’t fall asleep and be up all night. now with my chosen sleep window which is 12.30-6.30 I am able to fall asleep again only because I’m only getting 3 to 4hrs sleep, so my sleep drive will be quite high. Is this quite normal when you first start sleep restriction to be even getting Less sleep when you first start?
It’s not unusual in the short-term, Chewy! Sometimes it can be a lot harder to fall back to sleep when we wake during the night because we might be putting pressure on ourselves to fall back to sleep, we might be putting effort into falling back to sleep, or we might be getting tangled up in a struggle with the difficult thoughts and feelings that can show up — trying to fight or avoid them. How are you getting on since you posted?
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Hi Martin still struggling to be honest. It’s like my body thinks it only needs 3 to 4hrs sleep , I’ve even tried changing my sleep window abit by going to bed abit earlier, but getting up abit earlier but still only the same amount of hours sleep.
If your body thinks it only needs three to four hours of sleep, what makes you think that it should be getting more? Do you think there’s any possibility that all the (understandable!) effort to make more sleep happen might be making it difficult for more sleep to happen?
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