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Posted by mt55 on December 16, 2008, at 13:15:48
I had insomnia for a good year and a half. Like most people I tried every herb, tea and drug out there to find some relief. Nothing really helped at all. I had extreme anxiety from not sleeping and my insomnia went from onset insomnia to being able to fall a sleep but waking up 5 times a night.
I started seeing a sleep specialist who specialized in sleep resrtiction. I had very limited success with the sleep restriction alone. I was so worked up that I could only stay in bed for six hours that I would only get 2-3 hours of sleep. I was willing to try anything..
I stumbled on the sleeps-tracks website and went for it. Its a bit pricey but after 2 months of using it, worth every penny.
So what I did was use the sleep tracks in conjunction with the sleep restriction. Sleep tracks is a program that uses binural beats. I was really skepticle at first but It really works..in about 1 week I was sleeping a solid 5 1/2 hours strait. I am in my second month and sleep about 6 1/2 hours a night. I am a little tired still but nothing like before.
I normally dont post on boards but when I was trying to find some reviews on the sleep-tracks I could not find any information. I figured I would let everyone know about it. I definately would give it a try.
MT55
Posted by Sigismund on December 16, 2008, at 15:17:26
In reply to Insomnia sleep-tracks review, posted by mt55 on December 16, 2008, at 13:15:48
At Adelaide University there was a program where people with severe trouble maintaining sleep through the night were wakened every 10 minutes for something like 36 hours.
They were allowed to go back to sleep for the duration, until the 10 minutes was up, at which point they were wakened again.
This was pretty stressful, but, after it was over, sleep was restored to something like a normal pattern.
Posted by Sigismund on December 16, 2008, at 15:21:53
In reply to Insomnia sleep-tracks review, posted by mt55 on December 16, 2008, at 13:15:48
This is probably it...
>FAST
A behavioral sleep therapy has been developed by psychologists at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. They have branded it Flinders Accelerated Sleep Therapy (FAST), but it might also be called Extreme Sleep Restriction. At 8 on a Saturday night, patients come to a sleep laboratory, where they go to bed wired to an EEG machine that tracks their brain waves. For 27 hours, until 11 p.m. Sunday, they are awakened every time the EEG reading indicates that theyre falling asleep sometimes 50 times or more. In a preliminary study of patients with severe chronic insomnia, just one round of FAST reduced sleep latency (the time it took to fall asleep) by nearly 50%, from an hour and 10 minutes to 40 minutes, and increased total sleep time from five to six hours when measured six weeks later. The therapy is still experimental, and there are no controlled studies.
Posted by Sigismund on December 16, 2008, at 15:22:46
In reply to Re: Insomnia sleep-tracks review, posted by Sigismund on December 16, 2008, at 15:21:53
You'd need to be practicing detachment.
Posted by Nadezda on December 17, 2008, at 14:13:54
In reply to Re: Insomnia sleep-tracks review » Sigismund, posted by Sigismund on December 16, 2008, at 15:22:46
You'd need to be practicing, I"m willing to go through h*ll in order to improve my sleep from terrible to pretty terrible. That's a tough proposition.
Maybe for some people six hours is really different, but it wouldn't be for me.
I wouldn't be up to it.
Nadezda
Posted by Sigismund on December 17, 2008, at 20:01:27
In reply to Re: Insomnia sleep-tracks review, posted by Nadezda on December 17, 2008, at 14:13:54
>terrible to pretty terrible.
Yeah, what was it?
5 hours to 6?
Posted by TimeLord on January 19, 2009, at 14:44:32
In reply to Re: Insomnia sleep-tracks review » Nadezda, posted by Sigismund on December 17, 2008, at 20:01:27
I'd GLADLY take 5 hours of sleep over what I get now...
Are these binaural beats safe?
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