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Morning All,
Chee, my sleep continues to improve. I’m also enjoying having time in the early evening to do a bit of DIY after work, then still have time to settle down and watch our TV episodes. Before it felt like I could only do one or the other!
Thank you for your post and help again. It doesn’t help my wife appears to have that switch you talked about, she’d go from 10pm out like a light, until 8am. But she’s staying up to midnight now and we’re both feeling fine with it.
Nadya,
I think it started the same time I started my own business, but I don’t know why because I’m very good at working out of the office and switching completely off from work. but thats the only time I can pin point when it started really.
Largely I grew to accept it and it didn’t bother me. It was only in the recent month or so it bothered me hence reaching out, but I think it could be added pressure due to work.
Occasionally I would panic whilst awake at night thinking about long term health issues, but honestly after just this short thread, I’m no longer worried! We can worry ourselves too easily, especially when half asleep.
Something else I used to cope with it, and I do for most things in life that stress me, try and smile and find the funny side to it, I mean, its funny isn’t it, how can we not sleep? the most basic of things! this helped me deal with it.
The 12pm bedtime has made such a difference, I occasionally wake but I don’t stay awake for long. Also I feel my weighted blanked helps me a lot, because it stops me from tossing and turning, due to the amount of effort! but then my blanket does weigh 10kg.
When I go to bed now, this may be weird but this helps me …. I do a full stretch, making myself as tall as possible whilst laid down, I then visualise myself sinking into the ground, whilst imaging like an old school computer trash can, just thoughts slowly being deleted, and this helps me sleep.
I hope you get better sleep soon
Hello all,
I’ll be honest what Chee Hiung suggested has been working. I’ve been going to sleep at 12am and waking up at 8am, I’ve woken a couple of times during the night but always gone back to sleep pretty quickly. I’ve even been having dreams which I guess means I’m in a deeper sleep? but I feel more relaxed knowing I’ll fall to asleep quickly and won’t wake in an hours time
I feel a bit more tired during the morning, but I feel I’m getting a better quality of sleep, even though sometimes staying up until 12am is a struggle!
Martin, its been an on going battle for years now. I cant believe it could have been as simple as going to bed too early. I haven’t heard of CBT-I before, but I’ll have a look into it
Hello,
Thank you for your reply and apologies for those areas missed. I set an alarm for 6am but often snooze my way until 8am. I’m very skilled at picking my phone up and hitting the snooze button almost on the first note of the alarm. If I didn’t set alarm I think my natural wake up time would be 10/11am.
I haven’t tried going to bed at midnight, might be worth a shot? Often on a Friday, the wife will go to bed early and I’ll end up playing Fifa until 2am, which then I’d go to bed and get straight to sleep, and she wakes me 9am the following morning. To which I feel fine throughout the day. I’ve gone upstairs at 10am with my eyes watering, being absolutely shattered, and still woken up at 12am confused how I’ve gone from being that tired to seemingly wide awake in the space of 2 hours
So for the best part of the 3/4 years I’ve come to accept it, and during the day I feel absolutely fine. but the last two months I’ve been feeling tired and it takes me a while to get going in the mornings.
I appreciate your reply, and thanks again.
