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I was about to sign up for the online course and then noticed the small check box that says “that you have to be over 18 and not uses sleeping pills in the last 12 months”.
That part about sleeping pills makes no sense. It’s the very reason people want to sign up. We can’t sleep are stuck and want to get off sleeping pills. I only use them sparingly….very frustrating!
I have one other question regarding sleep window. What exactly does one use when one can’t fall asleep at all?
I normally automatically wake up at 6:30-7am on my own. Do I count back 5 hrs and make that my window? So go to bed at 1:30am..ish..Since I can’t sleep at all, do I perhaps go to bed earlier say 11:30pm and then if I can’t sleep, get up after 20min, do something relaxing such as reading, then go back to bed. Then if I still can’t sleep get out of bed again and just continue the practice all night for a couple of nights or a week until I can maybe fall asleep? So in this case, is it better to go to bed earlier so I have more chances of falling asleep during the night?
I’m really confused on this aspect. What time should I be going to bed at for my window when I can’t fall asleep at all.
Chee2308, there’s one other concern. Last night I went to bed again feeling sleeping. Got into bed and could not sleep. Got out of bed and came back and could not sleep. I ended up taking half a sleeping pill to get some sleep. My concern is it would have been 4 day/nights with zero minutes of sleep. How long can I go like this without it causing harm?
One thing I’ve been doing over the last 2 days is jump into my bed a few times a day and just lie there for 2 min or so and roll around as if I’m loving being in my bed. Sounds silly, but I figured my brain has an association of getting nervous in bed when it’s time to go to sleep, so I’m trying to condition it to seeing my bed as … non threatening in a sense. I’m also writing in a journal about wanting enjoying being in my bed and visualizing going to bed and having a good night’s rest.
We’ll see what happens!
Hard to say if the glasses work since I can’t sleep. I bought them figuring every little bit helps. Also some nights I don’t feel like reading and instead would rather watch tv. Knowing that blue light can make sleep more difficult, I figured I could watch tv until it’s time to go to bed without worrying about it.
I think tonight if I feel I can’t keep my eyes open any longer at say 12:45am, I’ll just go to sleep. Then wake up earlier. For me the issue is not how much sleep I get but just falling asleep.
So last night I tried the sleep restriction. Didn’t go well. Here’s my problem and perhaps someone can chime in.
I told myself I would go to bed at 1:30am and get out of bed around 6:30am. While I was watching tv last night, wearing anti blue glasses, I started to get really sleepy at about 12:45am. Could barely keep my eyes open. But, I forced myself to stay awake until 1:30. Well by 1:30 the feeling of barely keeping my eyes open was gone and so when I went to bed, I couldn’t sleep.
If in the case, should I have gone to bed then when I could barely keep my eyes open and then just got out of bed earlier rather?
Thanks for the reply. I’m going to try it starting tonight. Go to bed at 2am and get up at 7am. By bed has always been used only for sleep. I don’t really read in bed or watch tv or anything else. I think perhaps my issue is my dogs used to sleep in my bed next to me and now there’s a void I’m feeling. Hard to say really.
I have yet to decide if I should sign up for the paid course. I’m on day 3 of the free one. I’m off work next week so thought I’d start tonight so that maybe the worst of it is done by the time I go back to work.
