[Ines_I]

Hi,

Regarding to what Martin always says: “Sleep will win in the end”, I have a doubt: I always take a sleeping pill the second night in a row that I cannot get sleep. Let’s say that I have the courage to put myself to the limit and not to do that and trust my body, and believe in that he will indeed sleep when the sleep dive is strong enough. One of my big fears is that I got stuck forever in only being able to sleep for just a few minutes or seconds, which it’s the most I have been able to sleep on my own without medication. I want to take that leap of fate and drop pills and stop searching compulsively about insomnia, I really do, but I’m freacking scared.

Plese, regarding to the statement that sleep will win over arousal if the sleep dive is strong… Does it mean that, at some point, my body will have to sleep more than that just few minutes in order to reboot functions? Or can I got stuck in that cycle of only being able to sleep five minutes in a row forevermore?

Because if the answer is yes, that sleep dive will eventually have to make me sleep more than that, long enough to recover, I’ll try to stop taking meds and just wait until that moment.

[Martin Reed]

Your concern is completely understandable! Let me ask you this — have you ever read of someone who was able to remain awake indefinitely? If someone existed who was able to remain awake indefinitely (or with just a few minutes or seconds of sleep) I imagine they’d be a media sensation and be very famous.

If you can’t think of any examples of someone like this, perhaps this is evidence that sleep always happens once we have been awake for long enough?

To answer your second question, the body always gives us, at the very least, the bare minimum amount of sleep we need. If we are able to worry less about sleep, avoid the temptation to control sleep, and implement behaviors that build sleep drive and strengthen the body clock, we give ourselves the opportunity to get more than the bare minimum!

I hope this helps!

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[Ines_I]

Thanks a lot, Martin! I’ll take the courage to try to drop pills, trust my body and stick to my sleep window, and see what happens!

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