Thank you for this great Q and A, very helpful.

Your first question is exactly what I experienced by try to use paradoxical intension to face my fear of being awake. And your suggestion is great! But usually in those moments, it’s quite hard to find a n enjoyable occupation to do. Could you suggest any passive thing that I can do to get the same effect that you suggest? Thanks

Hello Alina. First of all thanks for all the useful content you post. It's really helpful. After watching your content and Daniel's I feel I can safely say I am decently educated on the topic. Much more than when this whole insomnia started. The thing is even with all this knowledge, I still find myself having palpitations and awful nights. Even if I am calmed and not fearful of having a sleepless night. My brain understand these concepts but It is like my body needs a lot of time to catch up with my brain. How time did it take for you to start feeling what your brain had already learned after watching videos and educating yourself? I understand it can't be right away, but if this goes on too long, it's a bit discouraging. Thanks a lot :)

Thank you for answering my question about sleeping next to my snoring husband. For me the idea alone is triggering and I know that it will take some time getting my brain to understand that there is no threat. Last week I tried it for an hour and got very frustrated and moved to the spare bed. But that is oke. Now I don't want to try it again but I also know that it would be good to do and show courrage. I slept next to him a couple of years with some frustrstion. I will get there. Thank you your such a great help to us all!

Hello Alina, sleep has shifted for me since the last time I commented (I feel less Hyperaroused). But i still wake up several times in the night. Most of the time I can lull myself back to sleep other times I’m up for a few hours. The change is that I’m not fighting it anymore which made sleep even worse believe it or (cause it’s still poor). My question is, I still have fear of this situation, mostly because I don’t like it.and fear it is ruining my health. i don’t like that I feel terrible everyday because of it and I miss the old days of sleeping like a metaphoric log. I do take medicine (anti histamine every night) my husband has been helping me by giving me the dose so I don’t see how large or small it is. What I have found is a bit of a psychological dependence where I fear not taking the meds but simultaneously don’t want to take them because I don’t like how they make me feel either. The goal is one day he will say you literally had barely any of the pill and I can snap myself out of needing to take medicine to sleep. Cause i will have the proof. I also just find that I can’t just sleep on cue. When someone says go take a nap it’s very triggering to me because it feels Iike pressure the only time I can fall asleep is when I know it’s bedtime. How do i disentangle all these silly rules i made for myself? It feels impossible to go back to the ay things were where if i wanted sleep, I slept. What are your thoughts?

Hi Alina, thank you so much for your work. I especially struggle with insomnia on nights when I get home later than I usually do, which is not even that late at all. But the knowledge that I have increasingly limited amount of hours to sleep results in a lot of panic and a whole night of being awake. How do I overcome this? I’ve developed a real fear that kicks in if I am not in bed by a certain time. Please help!

Hi Alina, When I try to practice awake fullness, I experienced something that I wonder if you had the same: In the beginning I’m fully awake (my eyes open). Then somehow I feel dosing out (not sleepy but want to close my eyes). Now my question: should I force myself to be fully awake (by open my eyes) or by letting 6:46 my feeling Togo on (dose out). In that instance I know I’m still awake! Thanks

Hi alina ,, its been 5 months now i still wakeup in the middle of night,, i got the knowledge to what to do when we wakeup and all,, but is just not working for me i guess 😭😢,,, what to do