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Haha yes that magic trick would be great!
I also wrote Martin Reed an email and he wrote me back the text at the bottom of this post.
Sleep restrictions definitely helps for me. But when I’m nog extremely tired anymore it gets harder again and I get more aware. I asked him if there’s anything I can do at the exact moment it’s happening to stop me from waking up.
Actually even when I’m sleeping well I’m quite often aware of the moment I’m falling asleep. Sometimes I also wake up again and then fall asleep for real. But then it’s normal so I don’t get too excited that it finally happened and are able to just let it happen.
I’ll keep you posted if I get a reply!
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It sounds as though you are experiencing conditioned arousal. In other words, due to repeated experiences of sleep problems, you have associated the bed with wakefulness rather than sleep. So, you can feel very sleepy but as soon as you get into bed or as soon as you drift off to sleep you can suddenly feel very alert.Here are a couple of videos I recorded about this:
A bit more information: my main problem is being too aware of falling asleep.
I am able to relax through for instance the Headspace app and visualisation, and I actually fall asleep a few times quite soon. But the problem is that I actually realise I’m asleep or falling asleep, cause I see images or start dreaming (or hear myself snoring 😉 ). And as soon as I realise this I think ‘yay I’m asleep!’ and then wake up again. And this gets harder everytime afterwards. Any advice on how to become less aware?
