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Thanks for sharing, @casserieev — what are you learning from your ongoing practice of the AWAKE exercise?
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It sounds like there’s an opportunity to be kind to yourself when things are difficult @Whiskers25.
As you said, you are a human being. When things feel difficult that’s because they are difficult.
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This one might be useful: Mortality risk does not significantly vary according to sleep duration.
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Hello Michael! Your experience seems to be telling you that it’s not possible to permanently delete certain thoughts from your brain. How might trying to achieve such a goal set you up for an ongoing struggle?
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Ups and downs are not unusual at all. What you’ve described is evidence that your sleep system is working perfectly — when you’ve been awake for long enough, sleep is happening.
After a better night of sleep, sleep pressure is lower and so any ongoing effort to make sleep happen, any pressure to “perform” sleep, any battling with your mind, makes sleep even more difficult — because there’s less sleep pressure to override all your efforts.
The key to effortless sleep is to move away from the effort. Then, you won’t need to be awake for as long for sleep to overcome all your efforts.
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Everyone here is the expert on themselves — and one question that might be helpful to consider is this:
If your experience tells you that sleep is out of your direct control, how does having goals related to experiencing a certain amount (or type) of sleep help you move away from an ongoing struggle with sleep?
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That jolting awake can be so frustrating — and it comes from your brain waking you up to declare victory: sleep is here!
Of course, this isn’t too helpful if your goal is to sleep! You cannot control what your brain chooses to do but you can always control your actions — how you choose to approach sleep and how you choose to respond to those jolts (and being awake when you’d rather be asleep).
With this in mind, how might you — through your actions — help train your brain that it doesn’t need to focus so much attention on sleep and that being awake isn’t a threat that requires protection?
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Hello Molly! It makes complete sense that your brain didn’t pay much attention to sleep when sleep didn’t feel like a problem or an issue.
It sounds as though you are resisting the appearance of fear. Perhaps because it’s uncomfortable to experience. Perhaps because you see it as on obstacle to sleep. Maybe both!
What does your experience tell you about your ability to:
1) Permanently delete fear from your brain so it never shows up again?
2) Permanently control sleep so it happens just as you want it to?Feeling as though you have more to lose makes sense — and you can only “lose” if you allow sleep and certain thoughts and feelings to control your actions in a way that creates more struggle, more difficulty, and pulls you away from living the life you want to live.
You have the power here. You control your actions. You get to decide how you live your life each and every day.
How do you choose to respond?
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A sleep window doesn’t make sleep happen — your body makes sleep happen all by itself 🙂
It sounds as though you are being reminded that sleep is out of your control. That you can feel sleepy and still not fall asleep as you want to.
Sleepiness is a feeling. It can mean conditions are better for sleep to happen but it’s no guarantee that sleep will happen.
As you know from experience, you cannot make sleep happen. You can only control your actions.
What’s the best way to respond when sleep isn’t happening (even when you feel sleepy) and why?
PS: The brain never switches off — not for as long as you are a living person! Therefore, trying might set you up for a bit of a struggle!
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What guidance does your experience have to offer when it comes to trying to make an extra hour of sleep happen? Where does that get you?
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A couple of questions that might help:
If you feel comfortable in bed, why would you get out of bed?
When you feel a certain type of feeling, what are you trying to achieve by getting out of bed to practice the AWAKE exercise vs staying in bed and practicing the AWAKE exercise?
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Thank you for sharing what you’ve been finding helpful! You are taking what you’ve been exploring in the course and putting it into action in a way that feels right for you. You are committing to action and you are learning from what you are doing.
For as long as you are doing that, you are going to be moving closer to where you want to be!
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Naps can reduce sleep drive — whether or not that’s a problem for you can only be answered by you! You might feel it’s worth taking a nap during the day even if it might lead to less sleep “need” and less sleep at night. Other people might not feel that way!
There are often pros and cons to activities we choose to engage in! For you, what are the advantages and benefits of napping and what are the disadvantages (if any) of napping?
Finally, I’d invite you to reflect on this question: What do you have to say “no” to when you choose to nap — and does that pull you away from the life you want to live or does that keep you moving toward the life you want to live?
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Great question — and I suspect there will be different answers for everyone.
No activity is going to make sleep happen or make thoughts and feelings permanently disappear. Your only goal — as you mentioned — is to do something other than battle away trying to control, fight, or avoid what your experience tells you cannot be controlled, fought, or avoided.
So, you might not always feel good doing that alternative activity and you might not always feel relaxed doing that alternative activity — but if it’s something better (even if only 1% better) than battling away, then it’s probably a good activity!
For me, I like to read and watch TV 😉
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Sometimes we can feel groggy when we wake — especially for the first 30 minutes to two hours. That’s something referred to as sleep inertia and isn’t always a reflection of how we slept.
If you are experiencing persistent headaches, that might be worth taking to your doctor about.
I’ll also echo @Whiskers25 — you are committing to action. That takes dedication!
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