{"id":138054,"date":"2021-03-23T08:19:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=138054"},"modified":"2021-03-23T08:19:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:19:35","slug":"wsj-cant-sleep-here-are-some-surprising-strategies-that-actually-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=138054","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Can\u2019t Sleep? Here Are Some Surprising Strategies That Actually Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the WSJ<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Ironically, insomnia is also driven by the things we do to try to solve it, experts say. We start to chase sleep\u2014waking up later, taking naps, going to bed too early. This diminishes our sleep drive, which is our body\u2019s need for sleep. It makes it harder to sleep when we\u2019re supposed to. And it creates a vicious cycle: More time in bed means more opportunity for frustration and failure. Before long, we\u2019ve taught our brain to associate our bed with the negative emotions we feel lying there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s Pavlovian,\u201d says Philip Cheng, a clinical psychologist and sleep researcher at the Henry Ford Sleep Disorders and Research Center. \u201cIf you spend a lot of time in bed worried and frustrated and miserable, in time your brain learns that your bed is a place to do all of these things but sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the WSJ: Ironically, insomnia is also driven by the things we do to try to solve it, experts say. We start to chase sleep\u2014waking up later, taking naps, going to bed too early. This diminishes our sleep drive, which … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sleep-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t