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Last night I tried the sleep restriction concept. I was considerably sleepy while staying awake reading, awaiting my time for bed. I would feel my eyelids get heavy and notice that I would start to doze for a second or 2. So I was stoked about transitioning that to the bed and let sleep happen. The only problem is sleep didn’t happen. As I laid down I felt relaxed but sleep just wouldn’t come. I didn’t feel anxious or agitated in any way. In fact I hadn’t realized I had been lying there for over an hour before getting up to use the bathroom. I definitely wasn’t fully asleep though as I turned over several times in that hour. I tried to go downstairs to read but found it extremely hard to concentrate on anything so I went back to bed hoping it was because I was still sleepy. I am pretty sure I never got into a deep sleep but might have been in a super light sleep for a part of the rest of the night because I don’t remember much but when I got up at my wake up time I felt pretty lousy. Like I hadn’t slept at all.
I didn’t experience my jolting awake or breathing issues I mentioned in my first post last night. I’m not sure if that was because of how sleepy I was or because my brain didn’t try to transition to sleeping at all. Also last night was the first in 7 nights where I hadn’t taken Ambien to try and fall sleep. I’m not sure if that contributed to not sleeping well.
How long does restricting sleep take to make a noticeable difference? And is there anything I can be doing to help my sleep transition once I am in bed? And any ideas on what to do when getting out of bed when you can’t fall asleep? Reading seemed to work before I went to sleep the first time of the night but not the other time I tried to get up to increase my sleep drive.
