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only two things happen in your bed and if you can make sure those are the only two things you do in your bed the problems of falling sleeper insomnia tend to go down those two things are you have sex and you sleep and nothing else goes down in your bed and so you can make that environment very special and that can help quite effectively improve your ability to fall asleep and then not wake up early
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And this tool is where basically bed is reserved for sex and sleep. And you literally do nothing in your bed except for have sex and go to sleep. Like those are the only things. And this allows you to sort of train your brain to realize what bed is for. And this can be beneficial for anyone, not just people with insomnia, but actually like creating a a relationship between all I do in this position in this place is either sleep or have sex and that's it. And that can be really helpful for a lot of people.
One of the hallmarks of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia is your bed is only for sleep
Stimulus control is going back to basics with the bed. Nothing in bed except for sleep or sex, that's it.
And what we know from studies that have been termed "dismantling studies," where they've taken this whole intervention, and they've taken it apart, and they've seen, well, which pieces are most important for good outcomes, we know that the pieces that are really important are the sleep restriction part, matching the amount of time that you're in bed to the amount of time that you can actually sleep. And also the stimulus control, don't do anything in bed that isn't sleep or sex.
So, so stimulus control was first published in 1972. This isn't new stuff. Um, and it was this it was under this idea. The idea of stimulus control is if you're in a place where only a very limited number of things could possibly occur there, you will predict that they will occur and you get yourself in the zone.