The other face of insomnia

By Adelaide

Your body knows when to sleep and it knows exactly how much rest it wants. Yet, many of us have stopped relying on our inner clocks. Consequently, you may sleep too much for lack of knowing how to fill your waking hours.

Oversleeping is insomnia in which your body is kept in bed for more hours of the day than it wants to. Because of this your sleep is inadequate and your body rebels and disrupts what sleep you do get. It takes twice as much time to get half the rest.

Many people feel that they don’t get enough sleep when in actuality it is the opposite. A lot of us spend more time sleeping or trying to than we need to. When you oversleep your body reacts in grogginess, stiffness and even dizziness.

Many of us force ourselves into an artificial routine by insisting to go bed at a specific time every night and waking up regularly at another every morning. You may remember your parents putting you down at exactly 8:00pm every night in order to get you into a sleep regime, perhaps you do it to your own children. If you are, you are not helping your children just as your parents didn’t help you. By creating an artificial sleep pattern you interfere with your natural sleep habits.

The vast majority of us have a tendency to spend too much time trying to sleep. This is the result of inertia in our lives. Busy people who are excited about their lives don’t seem to oversleep it’s the people who feel bored towards their lives that do.

You are tired, not sleepy. Being tired has nothing to do with being naturally sleepy. Have you ever noticed how tired you get when you have something unpleasant to do? Tiredness generally comes from boredom, impatience or anxiety rather than physical exhaustion. In order to cure oversleep insomnia begin by learning to distinguish between fatigue with worrying and when you are ready to shut down for the night.

A number of us use sleep to try to escape from our concerns. If the source of your insomnia is the dread of unpleasant tasks don’t go to sleep, instead attack the tasks. I get agitated and tired whenever I have to do any sort of paper work. The only way to lift the aggravation is to tackle the chore.

The same applies to when I am in pain. I’ll force myself to go to sleep but then when I wake up I am eager to go back to sleep. The cycle continues for the entire day and when evening comes I can’t sleep. But when I occupy my mind with a book or listen to my favorite songs I can ease the pain and not force an unhealthy sleep pattern on myself. This does not mean that if your inner clock is ready to shut down that you shouldn’t listen to it.

Listening to our bodies is the best way to reintegrate proper sleep habits into our lives.



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