Sleep Program Main PageSo, you’re a great sleeper and can’t understand why you fall asleep all the time during the day? Or you think you never get any sleep, yet people remark how during the day you manage to get your work done on time and some exercise besides?
Both of these ideas of sleeping could be misguided. Many times people who have what are known as Sleep Disorders (such as Sleep Apnea, Narcolepsy, or Movement Disorders) think they sleep just fine. In fact, their sleep is highly disrupted by little awakenings during the night or other physiological events that interfere with normal sleep rhythms.
Other people may think they never sleep and yet show few real signs of sleep deprivation. There may be some kind of ability to perceive sleep that is slightly off-kilter for some people. These people actually sleep, but they tend not to think they have slept upon waking. There hasn’t been enough research done with compassion towards this group. Perhaps we’ll discover that there is a monitoring system just below consciousness that judges whether the sleep has been present in a good enough form or not. And, that that monitoring system can get out of adjustment and need to be recalibrated.
So, when you are exploring a sleep problem, keep your mind open that your sleep might not be what you think.
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