A short YouTube advice segment (by LARRUZ) about waking in the night and how checking the time worsens anxiety and sleep. The speaker recommends removing all clock faces and phones from the bedroom because knowing the time can trigger worry and make it harder to return to sleep.
Every night, for some Strange reason, at 2:45am I wake up and it happens three or four nights a week. My first question to them is, how do you know it's 2:45? And they say, well, I look at the clock or I look at my phone. Best piece of advice next? Remove all clock faces from the bedroom. No matter how bad your sleep is going to be that night, knowing what time it is is only going to make matters worse. It is not going to make matters any better. And that can create an anxiety trigger that you think it's 2:45 and then you're tossing and turning, you look back at the clock and now it's 3:14am and you think, I've got to be awake at 6. I've got that big meeting, and now it's 5:25. Don't do that to yourself.
