Going to bed significantly earlier than usual after a bad night's sleep can lead to spending more time awake in bed, potentially causing anxiety about falling asleep. — Whalespan
Going to bed significantly earlier than usual after a bad night's sleep can lead to spending more time awake in bed, potentially causing anxiety about falling asleep.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“But you go to bed at nine, and my body is not ready to sleep at nine o'clock. But I'm worried because I had a bad night of sleep last night so I get into bed, and now I'm tossing and turning for the first hour and a half because it's not my natural sleep window, but I just thought it was a good idea.”
“don't go to bed any earlier if you have become a customed and your brain has and your Cadian clock has become accustomed to going to bed at a certain time and hopefully you're doing it regularly then getting into bed two or 3 hours early has the danger it's not a certainty but a danger of you then getting into bed and thinking well I'm I know I had a bad night of sleep last night but I still can't fall asleep straight away so now you're spending another 90 minutes in bed at the beginning because you've gone to bed 90 minutes earlier thinking it's a good idea to compensate”