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I have struggled with insomnia myself and know how painful it can be. That's why I like to get to the root cause of what's keeping someone awake and fix it quickly so you can go back to enjoying your life again.
Get free access to my training library that will help you overcome insomnia permanently without any medications.
https://www.sridhar.coach/free-trainings
Book a free strategy call and let's chat.
https://calendly.com/sridhar-coach/intro-call
#sleeptips #sleephelp #sleepingtips #sleepexpert #sleephealth #sleepcoach #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters
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00:00Is it possible to sleep without feeling like you actually slept?
00:06The answer is yes.
00:08It is called as paradoxical insomnia.
00:11It is a sleep disorder where a person actually gets enough sleep but then feels or thinks
00:19that they didn't get enough sleep.
00:21So what could be some of the reasons for this?
00:25So one of the common reason is if you have been struggling with insomnia then there
00:31is a sense of hyper awareness which is going on in your mind.
00:36So you tend to be very aware of you know like what time am I sleeping, what time am I waking
00:41up, how many times in a night did I wake up.
00:45So when you are hyper aware about multiple things so you might think that oh I woke up
00:51three times so maybe because of which I did not get enough sleep.
00:55So that is one of the reasons, the hyper awareness.
00:58The second reason could be you know using any of these sleep trackers.
01:03I am not a fan of any of the wearable sleep trackers because none of them are accurate.
01:09Only if you go to a sleep study and they have proper setup only those are accurate.
01:16Only those can effectively say how many hours of sleep you have gotten and what is the quality
01:21of sleep and all those parameters.
01:24So when you wear an incorrect apparatus and if you are already anxious about sleep and
01:30that you know Apple watch or whatever it is then says that you have gotten only four hours
01:36of sleep or five hours of sleep that it adds more fuel to the fire.
01:41So my request and suggestion is please stop tracking your sleep.
01:46You can maintain a sleep diary to write down what time you went to sleep, what time you
01:52woke up on a piece of paper or you know take a digital note but do not track your sleep.
01:59That's the worst thing that you can do to yourself and your mental health.
02:05So what is the other reason which can you know like make you feel like you did not sleep.
02:12So one of the thing is you know like during sleep we go through different stages and during
02:19REM sleep we have all the dreams because that's where memory consolidation happen and majority
02:25of our dreams happen during REM sleep and during the dreams we don't you know like lose
02:32track of time.
02:34We think you know it may be the dream lasted just for a few seconds or minutes but we tend
02:40to think it lasted for hours and during the early morning phase you know when you're about
02:46to wake up we spend most of the time in the REM sleep stage.
02:51That is why you tend to have more and more dreams you know and you typically tend to
02:56remember the dreams which happened a few hours or minutes before you woke up.
03:02So because we are unable to have a good sense of time in the dream state and you're you
03:09know having a lot of dreams as well and because of all of this there is a misperception about
03:16your sleep quality.
03:18In fact in one of the studies which was done the researchers found you know there were
03:24people who actually got poor sleep but did not even realize or felt that they had you
03:30know like bad sleep and then they were like people who actually got seven to eight hours
03:35of good sleep and they had sufficient deep sleep as well but you know felt like they
03:41didn't sleep well.
03:42So the researchers called them as you know complaining good sleepers and non-complaining
03:47bad sleepers.
03:48So this kind of misperception about sleep, sleep duration, sleep quality can happen very
03:55easily especially if you have a history of anxiety, mental health illness or struggled
04:01with insomnia in the past.
04:04So what is one suggestion which I can give for you is like if you feel like this is a
04:09question like you know did I sleep really or not I would say pay attention to your energy
04:15levels and mood the following day.
04:18If you have really you know gotten good sleep regardless of whether or not you feel it and
04:25think so, you will be able to do all your activities in a proper manner, you'll be able
04:31to focus, your productivity will be good and all of those things.
04:35So that's a very simple thing which you can do and if you still you know find it you know
04:40difficult to accept it then I would suggest that you visit a sleep specialist and get
04:46a sleep study so that we can rule out that any other you know disorders or issues could
04:53be there affecting you and your sleep.
04:56I hope this was helpful for you.