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Hi Martin, after some analysis what I noticed is that I perhaps haven’t been able to follow a strict sleep window during this vacation. I continue to experience light sleep. Am I not able to leverage the “sleep pressure” well? Because back at home I would at least be able to get 3-4 hours of deep sleep followed by light sleep. Some nights shorter than that but I would still experience deep sleep. Here on the vacation, it’s just light sleep. And when I wake up in the middle of the night, I am quite sleepy so I am not really doing any AWAKE exercise or anything else that’s “pleasant”. Should I get out of bed and do something else? Would that be more helpful? I’m a bit confused now!
Hi Martin,
Thanks for your response. I don’t feel sleepy when I wake up in the morning because I think I’m pretty used to staying active and my energy levels are back (thanks to this course). But because I haven’t had a good, deep, restful sleep for the past 3-4 nights, today by 4-5pm I started to feel quite tired and groggy. My head and eyes have been quite heavy (the typical feelings associated with being sleep deprived). Even though I’m very sleepy (following my sleep window almost every night), my sleep remains quite light. And in the night in bed, if I wake up, I tend to be very drowsy and sleepy (not like earlier where I would simply be wide awake and not able to get back to sleep). Now I do go back to sleep but again it remains very light. I know that because I can sense everything happening around me. Maybe I get some micro-doses of sleep here & there but I don’t think it’s fully restful.
Will this also eventually improve? And will I start getting more restful nights? Considering that I have overall seen some improvements?
Btw my struggle with sleep started with similar situation – I wasn’t getting a restful night. Just very light sleep for nights after nights and then it eventually became a huge worry for me.This was very helpful, Kendra. I don’t feel alone anymore in this journey and it really helps. Thank you for taking out time for this detailed response. It really helps! I’m able to live the life I want to live and that has been a great improvement in itself. Being able to see it as a temporary bump in life rather than being “stuck” feels better and more positive. All the best to you too! Lots of love!
Hi Kendra,
How are you sleeping now?
I am discovering now that I seem to have health anxiety which also gets triggered and interferes with my sleep. I have had consistent nights of sleep and one evening I got anxiety over a very small health issue and my entire week’s work, it felt, related to sleep went out of the window. So I think along with this, I also need to manage my anxiety issues that may not be directly linked to not getting sleep.
Is anything helping you with your health anxiety issues? Any tips that you could spare?And by the way a little side note: nowhere in this supplement it said “sleep inducing”. It just relaxed my body a little bit and I was quite uncomfortable with that “relaxation”. It’s almost laughable and sounds ridiculous that I got anxious about being “relaxed”!!!
Oh wow! And you have been able to follow the time restriction? And do you go through anxiety while hitting the bed? If yes, what did you do about it? I understand acceptance but did you get out of bed? Or read something?
It was my first night last night. It wasn’t that great. But I understand why this restriction is needed so we stop chasing sleep and I’m ok to follow this, but just curious to understand how to handle being in bed with anxiety.. thanks for your response btw 🙂Also I do get terribly sleepy around 12-12:30 pm because that’s my usually go-to bed time. I may or may not sleep but I want to be in bed – giving myself an opportunity to sleep. Because at times I do sleep and wake up after some time and that’s when shallow sleep/wakefulness starts. Most times I find myself quite drowsy and yet can’t sleep at night, stopping me from getting out of bed. Just in case I fall asleep. How do I handle this with regards to sleep window?
