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Is Sleep Paralysis Dangerous? Myths, Facts, and How to Cope

Is Sleep Paralysis Dangerous?

We’ll explore the causes of sleep paralysis, the symptoms you might experience, and how to stop sleep paralysis using proven behavioral treatments like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-i).

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It’s almost bedtime and your brain suddenly needs It’s almost bedtime and your brain suddenly needs to share everything 🧠😵‍💫

This isn’t random. When the day slows down, there’s less distraction, and the nervous system finally has space to surface thoughts and emotions that were pushed aside earlier.

If you’ve been stressed, overwhelmed, or trying to hold it together all day, bedtime can feel like the first quiet moment. The brain fills it fast.

More effort to “clear your mind” usually makes this worse.
Gentler cues of safety help more.

You don’t need perfect sleep.
You need less pressure around it.

Follow for realistic, nervous-system-informed sleep support 🌙
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If you’re exhausted and not sleeping well, burnout If you’re exhausted and not sleeping well, burnout and insomnia often feed each other. The goal isn’t perfect sleep hygiene. It’s lowering pressure so sleep can come back naturally.

Here are some strategies I actually recommend:

1️⃣ Keep a consistent wake-up time (even after a rough night)
This helps rebuild sleep pressure and stabilizes your body clock without forcing sleep.

2️⃣ Get daylight early in the day
Natural light tells your brain when the day starts, which helps it know when night ends.

3️⃣ Stop trying to “win” bedtime
You don’t need the perfect routine. Calm, boring, and repeatable works better than ideal.

4️⃣ If sleep isn’t happening, change the environment
Getting out of bed briefly when awake or anxious prevents your brain from associating bed with stress.

5️⃣ Let sleep improve imperfectly
Better sleep comes from consistency, not control. Progress is rarely linear, and that’s okay.

Save this for later and start with just one.
Sleep gets easier when the pressure comes down 💛
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The pressure to “improve” sleep metrics is intense The pressure to “improve” sleep metrics is intense 😵‍💫

Deep sleep. REM. Sleep score. Efficiency.
Suddenly sleep becomes something to monitor, grade, and optimize 🧠⌚

For a lot of people, especially those already anxious or overtired, this kind of focus actually raises pressure at night, which can make sleep harder, not easier.

Data isn’t bad.
But when sleep turns into a performance, the nervous system stays on high alert 🌙

Better sleep often comes from:

- lowering pressure
- rebuilding trust in your body
- shifting attention away from nightly results

If sleep tracking has made you more stressed about sleep, you’re not imagining it 💛

Follow for nervous-system-friendly sleep education and check out my resources for more support.
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You can go with the flow 😅 As long as you picked t You can go with the flow 😅
As long as you picked the flow, planned the flow, researched the flow, and the flow doesn’t mess with sleep.

In sleep work, this comes up all the time:

- needing bedtime to go exactly right
- trying to control how tired you feel
- tracking every variable “just in case”
- feeling anxious when plans, routines, or sleep change

Wanting control makes sense.
An anxious, overtired nervous system is just trying to feel safe.

Part of improving sleep is learning how to tolerate uncertainty without spiraling. And yes, that’s a skill that can be practiced.

If this feels a little too familiar, you’re not alone 💛

Follow @dc.metro.therapy for sleep and nervous-system support that doesn’t require perfect control.
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