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How sleep anxiety creates the insomnia it fears

I lie awake calculating how many hours of sleep I will get if I fall asleep right now which makes falling asleep impossible.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Monitoring the process disrupts the natural flow it seeks to optimize.

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