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Hi Martin, things are pretty much the same – I haven’t made any further progress, but I haven’t regressed either. I’m happy with the way things are though because I’m sleeping better and feeling better during the day and that was my goal when I signed up for the free sleep training course.
I smiled when I read your post. I have a similar except that it is summer where I live and I only have air-conditioning in my bedroom. So if I have to get up in the night, I have to leave a nice cool room and go into the stinking hot house!
I chose to do the same thing as you (stay in bed) when I woke up in the early hours one night last week and couldn’t go back to sleep.
Maybe you could leave a lamp on and have a blanket ready for you to use if you have to get up at night.Hi there,
All I can say is try Martin’s free sleep training. I completed it about a month ago and have been sleeping much better.Hi everyone, have just been reading through all the posts and have been very encouraged by them. I’ve been having sleep problems for about 25 years now – battling to go to sleep, waking in the early hours and taking about two hours to go back to sleep and waking up too early. I stumbled onto Martin’s website after seeing a program on TV about sleep restriction and doing some searching on the internet. I signed up for his free course and am now in the fourth week of implementing the strategies. I didn’t have enough courage to set the sleep window that I should have (I made it longer) but I did start to see improvements – falling asleep very quickly, getting a much better quality sleep and going back to sleep quickly after waking up during the night. Friday, Sunday and Monday nights had great sleep and felt fantastic yesterday and was starting to get very excited about my progress and last night woke at 2.40 am and couldn’t go back to sleep (I have a clock because if I wake and don’t know the time it causes me too much stress). Felt a bit despondent this morning but after reading the posts and realising that I will still have bad nights in amongst the good ones I am happier. I didn’t practise SC because it would have meant going from an airconditioned room to a stinking hot lounge (I live in the southern hemisphere) and that might have kept me awake. I will definitely keep on persevering though because I now know that I CAN sleep.
I am now in the 4th week since completing the free sleep training course. I do not take my antihistamine at night any more “to help me sleep”, I fall asleep very quickly when I go to bed, when I wake up during the night I think I’m going back to sleep within half an hour – I’m certainly not aware of being awake for any length of time, so I haven’t had to practice stimulus control since 14 Dec. Physically and mentally I am feeling much better even though not getting more than six and a half hours sleep on a good night. I’m still struggling to stay awake until my bedtime, but now only start struggling with that about an hour later than I used to. I am hoping that as time goes by, the time I spend asleep will get longer. So all in all I’m very happy with my progress 🙂
Hi chronsombch,
You should really try Martin’s free sleep training course. It has helped me sooo much. I’m in the third week of implementing the CBTI strategies and am sleeping better than I was before I did his course.
Regards
Glynis
