This is just an idea that popped in to my head, from someone else's comment about staying in bed all day.
I was always a good sleeper, right up until 3 years ago when a doctor prescribed me some SSRIs. That completely destroyed more than 50 years of good sleep habits and for a very long time I was only able to sleep for 2 or 3 hours at a time. I still had no trouble getting to sleep but would wake up and be wide awake far too soon afterwards. My sleep patterns are finally becoming more normalised again now and I sleep for 8 hours straight on most nights.
The comment about staying in bed all day made me look at my own habits. How many of you eat in bed? Or sit in bed to read a book? Or do other activities in bed besides sleep or sex. I never do any of those things. If I want to eat or read or have a smoke I get up to do those things, I never do anything like that in bed.
I wonder if this has a psychological effect on us. Because I only use my bed for sleep and nothing else (been single for a while) is it a psychological trigger for me? The simple fact of lying down telling my body it's time to sleep now.
I was always a good sleeper, right up until 3 years ago when a doctor prescribed me some SSRIs. That completely destroyed more than 50 years of good sleep habits and for a very long time I was only able to sleep for 2 or 3 hours at a time. I still had no trouble getting to sleep but would wake up and be wide awake far too soon afterwards. My sleep patterns are finally becoming more normalised again now and I sleep for 8 hours straight on most nights.
The comment about staying in bed all day made me look at my own habits. How many of you eat in bed? Or sit in bed to read a book? Or do other activities in bed besides sleep or sex. I never do any of those things. If I want to eat or read or have a smoke I get up to do those things, I never do anything like that in bed.
I wonder if this has a psychological effect on us. Because I only use my bed for sleep and nothing else (been single for a while) is it a psychological trigger for me? The simple fact of lying down telling my body it's time to sleep now.