Improve Your Sleep When You’re Wide Awake

Sound a bit weird? Who sleeps with their eyes open? Well, getting a regular, quality night’s rest does depend on your daytime behaviours, when you’re wide awake. If you’re not feeling soundly awake during the day, perhaps that’s telling you something. You’re not getting the right type of sleep. Or perhaps you’re lying wide awake getting hardly any sleep at all. Insomnia is almost always an issue with what’s going on with your day. Let’s take a closer look.

Even light, interrupted sleep is a form of insomnia. You don’t have to be wide-eyed, staring at the ceiling. But if that’s the case, night after night, then you really are suffering a bout of insomnia. With light, interrupted sleep, you’ll feel it in the morning and throughout the day. You simply won’t be your wide-awake self.

Typical symptoms of interrupted sleep or insomnia are moodiness, or being unnecessarily snappy. You might struggle with concentration and completing work projects. You keep making silly mistakes. There are unintended mishaps or accidents. 

If you’re just forever exhausted, you will probably be gulping mugs of coffee. You’ll down a few energy drinks. You’ll have bags of snacks, biscuits and greasy food on hand to give you that late afternoon boost. And it’s only making it worse. Come the evening, you’ll be buzzing with caffeine and sugar. A vicious circle begins. You just won’t get your best sleep, yet again.

More than the symptoms of poor sleep, you want to consider the causes. Is it work pressure or personal stress? Are you constantly worried about something? You might have had a bad experience or a sudden, unexpected event. Life has its ups and downs.

The first thing you want to avoid is the binge eating and drinking we’ve just mentioned. Take a healthier approach to the challenges you’re facing. Eat healthily. Release some of the tension or frustration through exercise, getting out on a long walk, or losing yourself in a good movie or book. Give your head a break. Approach the evening with a calmer end to your day. 

Everyone occasionally has something that keeps them up at night. That is the very time you need to be more mindful about putting your sleep first. Sleep is a purposeful activity. A hard challenge will feel even just a little easier to manage when you wake up with a well-rested, clearer head.

Before you become completely shattered, start focusing on what will help to improve your sleep. You probably already know the reason you’re not sleeping. Everyone usually does. Now it’s about regaining the right frame of mind to get on top of things. Eat your evening meal earlier. Cut out any alcohol, coffee or comfort treats. Step away from the cigarettes. Don’t spend idle hours on your device or channel surfing like couch potato.

Find ways to calm things down. Put on some cool background tunes you haven’t listened to in a while. Even find some private space to think about things head on. Hopefully, by the time you really, really need your bed, those are the very thoughts that your clever brain will sift through while you’re deep asleep. With each night, you’ll start waking up a little sharper

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Do your lack of sleep a favour. Spend some drowsy time on www.thebedstore.co.za and consider what you could be sleeping on.

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