Insomnia and the Inability to Sleep

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When people who have insomnia really start to struggle they really start to try to sleep if I'm sitting out watching television. Give yourself a task that's not trying to sleep and you're kind of giving yourself a sort of a complicated task. There's a really cool device called muse which is a little headband or it's a pair of sunglasses that measures your brain activity and feeds it back to you so when you sit there at lunch time you finish up your lunch you put your little muse thing on your little meditation session. You can learn what it takes to make the sound of the ocean get really quiet and when you think about your mother-in-law it's really loud again so you

Have you listened to Part 1 yet? No? Go on, git. Here's a link to it! Go do that.

Now if you have, this Part 2 is a bonanza of problem solving from neurologist and somnologist Dr. W. Chris Winter. He'll cover: if you should be taking sleep supplements or pills, sleep talking, apnea, why sleepiness makes us hungry, narcolepsy, the difference between insomnia and sleep deprivation, how to lucid dream, the dangers of shift work and some tactics to lull yourself to dreamland without any medications. ALSO: I share a family secret: my mom's insomnia buster -- newly dubbed the "Sleepy Fancy Nancy" -- that has literally never failed me.

And I am currently spending time with my family after my dad’s emergency brain surgery a few weeks back, but put a few extra notes and updates on how we’re doing. Thanks for all the thoughts, friends.

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