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When I wake during the night I lie awake for a while, and often start to feel anxious about getting back to sleep. I get up to avoid this and break the association between bed and anxious rumination. I go downstairs and read. I find it difficult to work out when to go back to bed. I feel tired but not sleepy, and morning and my scheduled time for getting up are approaching. I guess I am still anxious about this, ie about getting through the next day on so little sleep. I go back to bed but usually don’t get back to sleep. I know I can get through the next day, I have been managing on around 4 hours sleep for a while now. But I also know I feel much better if I’ve had 5 or 6 hours sleep. So I guess I want that, and probably wanting more sleep isn’t helping. I find this whole thing paradoxical. I know that making an effort to sleep is a waste of time, but of course everybody who’s taking part in a sleep program is putting lots of effort into getting more sleep.
