For me, five hours laying in bed and three hours of sleep is much closer to eight hours sleep than it is three hours. There have been some studies on how much sleep you can replace with meditation and I don’t remember the exact conversation rate, but you did say low barrier to entry on comments. When I’m stressing at being unable to sleep, as long as I relax everything and meditate I wake up feeling as good as if I didn’t have insomnia issues. Note that it took me a lot of practice to be able to relax everything, you often don’t notice some of your muscle tension. It’s also an interesting thing to note that I sometimes have rapid involuntary eye movements while doing things which makes me think something sleep like is happening.
For me, five hours laying in bed and three hours of sleep is much closer to eight hours sleep than it is three hours. There have been some studies on how much sleep you can replace with meditation and I don’t remember the exact conversation rate, but you did say low barrier to entry on comments. When I’m stressing at being unable to sleep, as long as I relax everything and meditate I wake up feeling as good as if I didn’t have insomnia issues. Note that it took me a lot of practice to be able to relax everything, you often don’t notice some of your muscle tension. It’s also an interesting thing to note that I sometimes have rapid involuntary eye movements while doing things which makes me think something sleep like is happening.
I’m thinking of looking into meditation this summer! Thanks for sharing :)