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Hello Acat and welcome to the forum. Your experience isn’t unique or unusual — difficult, but not unique or unusual!
In the past when you traveled for work and sleep wasn’t an issue, was your approach to sleep different compared to now? If so, what were the main differences, and do you feel there might be any helpful insights there?
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Welcome to the forum and thanks for posting those questions — they’re common concerns for people struggling with sleep!
When you wake during the night (which is a normal part of sleep) how do you usually respond?
When you wake up tired, does that feeling stay exactly the same for the rest of the day or does how you feel tend to vary as the day progresses and in response to what you’re doing or what’s happening to you?
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Thoughts themselves don’t usually consume a lot of energy. Some energy, yes — but not a great deal!
What can definitely consume A LOT of energy is trying to fight, avoid, or otherwise control our thoughts. Then we get tangled up in a battle with our minds, a battle our minds will always win. So, the battle continues until we are out of energy (and then the thoughts show up again).
How do you usually respond to the appearance of unwanted or unhelpful thoughts when they show up? Are you trying to battle them? Are you trying to get rid of them?
If so, have you tried practicing acknowledging them and allowing them to come and go as they choose instead? This is obviously easier said than done, but it’s an approach that might require less energy!
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Hello Olivia and welcome to the forum! What time do you usually go to bed at night, what time do you usually get out of bed to start your day in the morning and — over the past couple of weeks or so — what would you say your average nightly sleep duration is, if you had to guess?
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In my experience, people who say they fall asleep as soon as their head hits the pillow might be exaggerating a little (if we fall asleep instantly that suggests we might be sleep deprived). Most people without any issues with sleep take around 10-30 minutes to fall asleep, on “average”.
You raise an interesting question — do people fall asleep quickly because they accept it as a gift? And, why are they not acknowledging the appearance of difficult nights when they show up?
I think that, generally speaking, we tend to fall asleep effortlessly when we don’t get involved in the process of sleep. So, perhaps people fall asleep (or don’t get tangled up in long stretches of difficult nights) because of a lack of effort to make sleep happen?
Perhaps, even when difficult nights happen, they might be less likely to intervene and, as a result, sleep is able to recover relatively quickly?
Perhaps it’s not so much that they’re not acknowledging what’s going on (the appearance of insomnia) but that they are not acknowledging it as (or perceiving it to be) a problem that needs to be addressed or fixed?
Of course, when we’re faced with a problem most of us are hard-wired to try to fix that problem — and that’s where it’s so easy to get stuck because with sleep, the more we try to fix it the more tangled up we can get in a struggle with it.
Thanks for posting this topic — it’s an interesting area of discussion, that’s for sure!
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Is your approach toward sleep different now compared to how it was a few weeks ago when it seemed to happen so effortlessly and so naturally? If so, what might that mean? Are there any insights there?
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Welcome to the forum! Can you share your goals with us? What are you trying to achieve and what would be different in your life if you were able to achieve those goals?
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It can be very difficult — you’re right! Have the alternative approaches of not getting out of bed and/or not implementing any kind of sleep schedule proven to be more effective at getting you where you want to be?
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That sounds really tough. What kind of things is your mind telling you when that fear of sleep shows up and how do you usually respond?
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Hello and welcome to the forum! Have you talked to your doctor about your desire to move away from the medication? If so, what did they suggest?
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Do you think you might find it helpful to move away from trying to fight or avoid nighttime wakefulness and trying to make sleep happen at night? Do you think there’s any chance all the trying and all the effort (if it exists) might be making things more difficult?
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It sounds as though you’re responding in a way that’s less likely to get you tangled up in a struggle — which is good! Wakefulness itself is something we all experience when we’re in bed, for varying amounts of time. It’s when we struggle with it that it tends to become more difficult!
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You got it! Thanks for letting me know that was helpful!
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Thank you so much for sharing these insights with us!
It sounds as though you have been finding it helpful to commit to doing things that matter to you (even if difficult nights and difficult thoughts and feelings show up), that you are feeling more comfortable with wakefulness (and being in bed regardless of whether you are awake or asleep), and that you are moving away from trying to fight or avoid difficult thoughts and feelings.
As a result, it sounds as though you are finding that you’re better able to live the kind of life you want to live, independently of sleep!
Great stuff — and it’s all down to your own ongoing practice!
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Welcome! As you have found, it can sometimes be hard to avoid the time — it’s everywhere, right?!
I think this comes down to intent. If you’re actively seeking out the time and repeatedly checking the time, that might not be helpful. If you’re simply noticing the time, that’s probably less of an issue!
Does this help?
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