Re:Ask HN: Are you ok?
by arikr on Thursday September 12, 2019 @04:04PM
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For others reading this thread with sleep struggles, I highly recommend the book "The Sleep Book" by Meadows.
It solved my insomnia where nothing (black out curtains, eye masks, ear plugs, sleeping pills, room temperature, CBT, etc) did.
It's based on the premise that anxious thoughts about falling asleep make our brain scared of danger and our brain doesn't want to fall asleep when we could be in danger. So it has techniques for allowing those anxious thoughts to relax, and then your brain feels it's safe, and then you fall asleep.
It solved my insomnia where nothing (black out curtains, eye masks, ear plugs, sleeping pills, room temperature, CBT, etc) did.
It's based on the premise that anxious thoughts about falling asleep make our brain scared of danger and our brain doesn't want to fall asleep when we could be in danger. So it has techniques for allowing those anxious thoughts to relax, and then your brain feels it's safe, and then you fall asleep.