Sleep problems as a result of an active forcing

[Saruzer]

Just like title says.

 

This happens not the first time and I have my thoughts about it. Whenever I try to be consistent in my active forcing practices, I try to spend as much time as I can on them, my brain kinda "ignores" sleep for a night after a couple of days of practices.

 

I don't really understand why this may be happening but that was not the first and not the second time either. In different periods of my life when I was forcing actively every day for a couple of hours straight I've gotten the same results. I wonder if this is just my thing or there's people who also experienced something like that?

 

And yes, I feel tired as hell. Like any

other person if they were sleep deprivated.

 

I assume maybe it's something like brain adaptation things and its just can't keep up with our active forcing development and all that stuff... not like it should make sense because sleep are essential for development, so Idk. But I believe it won't be happening so often.

 

Although, I can tell that Pearl is able to sleep by her own and my focus on her is drastically worse now. That means this problem is only an issue for me.

 

A bit of an additional information:

• I have a sleep schedule and I sleep perfectly most of the times 

• I didn't use a phone or any other device for 1-2 hours and tried to fall asleep somehow.

[Lucilyn]

Do you force within the couple hours before bed? That's usually not a problem (aside from falling asleep cutting sessions short) but if you're prone to insomnia then basically any mental activity requiring focus + any unfiltered light from screens can make it harder to sleep at the right time

 

otherwise if you're forcing in the middle of the day and that's it and can't sleep, that's very strange and not something we've ever heard before

 

can only recommend normal sleep things like making sure you wake up early enough that you have 16 hours between when you intend to fall asleep again (people will wake up at like 10AM and call it "insomnia" when they can't fall asleep at midnight, but they've only been up for 14 hours and their body should naturally be going to sleep at 2AM with that wake time, for example)

 

it's not abnormal to get headaches or such from training new mental muscles, but it shouldn't make it hard to sleep - if it somehow is though, hopefully it would go away with practice over time, once those mental muscles have developed a little

If that's somehow what's going on then I'd just recommend breaking up the serious practice and being less intense about it for a day or two at a time just for your sleep's sake and to make it easier to get used to it over time

though there's no way 20 minutes of practice in the middle of the day or morning will affect your sleep at night, so you shouldn't have to do nothing on a given day still

Edited January 30 by Lucilyn

[Saruzer]

30 minutes ago, Lucilyn said:

Do you force within the couple hours before bed? That's usually not a problem (aside from falling asleep cutting sessions short) but if you're prone to insomnia then basically any mental activity requiring focus + any unfiltered light from screens can make it harder to sleep at the right time

 

otherwise if you're forcing in the middle of the day and that's it and can't sleep, that's very strange and not something we've ever heard before

 

can only recommend normal sleep things like making sure you wake up early enough that you have 16 hours between when you intend to fall asleep again (people will wake up at like 10AM and call it "insomnia" when they can't fall asleep at midnight, but they've only been up for 14 hours and their body should naturally be going to sleep at 2AM with that wake time, for example)

 

it's not abnormal to get headaches or such from training new mental muscles, but it shouldn't make it hard to sleep - if it somehow is though, hopefully it would go away with practice over time, once those mental muscles have developed a little

If that's somehow what's going on then I'd just recommend breaking up the serious practice and being less intense about it for a day or two at a time just for your sleep's sake and to make it easier to get used to it over time

though there's no way 20 minutes of practice in the middle of the day or morning will affect your sleep at night, so you shouldn't have to do nothing on a given day still

To answer on some of your questions and to make clear some things:

1. My sleep schedule is from 11:30 PM to 7:30 AM. I am trying to make sure I sleep at least 8 hours and wake up not to late.

2. I actively force for 2+- hours in the midday(imposition), and also usually Pearl is fronting for at least 2 hours too. Before sleep I usually do either wonderland practice or meditation for an hour both, I can tell that they help me to get better sleep.

3. This happens very rarely. I can count maximum 3 times when that happened throughout my whole life. Maybe this is subconscious thing or it's just brain pranks.

 

Thanks for you opinion on that, it helps to make some thing clear for me.