“So when you go to sleep at night, if you're someone who hasn't had any sleep deprivation, you have a very normal sleep pattern, what we tend to see is that, in adults, they go to bed and they start off by going into the deeper stages sleep.” IfsNightSleepStageBedNormalAdultsPatternsDeeperGoing To SleepDeprivationSleep Deprivation Author:Shelby Harris
“People tend to remember their dreams in the morning a little bit better and if earlier in the night, when you're in a lot of deep sleep, if someone wakes you, or the phone rings or something, you're really confused.” PeopleIfsLittlesDreamRememberNightBitsSleepMorningLittle BitPhonesRingsConfusedWakes YouDeep Sleep Author:Shelby Harris
“Really if it's an hour or two after you've fallen asleep because you're in such a deep sleep at that point.” IfsTwoHoursSleepFallenDeep Sleep Author:Shelby Harris
“There's a new line of research showing that people who don't get enough sleep, they're body doesn't metabolize as well. And so they actually - it leads to weight gain. So if you're not getting enough sleep, you might have difficulty losing weight.” PeopleIfsWellsEnoughBodyMightLinesSleepLosingResearchGainsWeightDifficultyEnough Sleep Author:Shelby Harris
“Some patients are still having insomnia, but it's seems worse to them than actually it is. So, if they say they're sleep deprived, they haven't slept at all in three days; if we actually take them into a lab, most of the time we actually do see they're sleeping on and off here and there.” IfsStillsSeemsThreeSleepHavensPatientDeprivedInsomniaHere And ThereLabsAnd OffSleep Deprived Author:Shelby Harris
“When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely sleep tomorrow, and if not tomorrow then definitely the third" because our body has a way of naturally catching up.” PeopleIfsWayBodySleepWorryTomorrowThirdsTonightInsomniaCatchingMantrasCatching UpNot Sleeping Author:Shelby Harris
“So if somebody has chronic pain, we want to manage the pain, but we still want to treat the insomnia separately. So what we'll tend to do in our sleep lab is we'll do a thorough evaluation and we usually have myself, who is a Psychologist and a Sleep Behavioral Sleep Specialist, I treat the patients first.” IfsWantFirstsStillsPainSleepTreatsPatientManageInsomniaPsychologistThoroughLabsSpecialistsEvaluationChronic Pain Author:Shelby Harris
“So when it comes to circadian rhythms, it's a clock that's basically programmed in our body. So if you think back to times when people lived on farms and we didn't have electricity.” PeopleIfsThinkingBodyRhythmClockFarmsElectricityCircadian Rhythm Author:Shelby Harris
“Jet lag depends on which direction you're going and it can be a little complicated, but there are a few different treatments. So one would be if you're going somewhere - sorry it's hard to think about it.” IfsThinkingLittlesDifferentHardWould BeDependsSorryComplicatedTreatmentJetLagJet Lag Author:Shelby Harris
“If you're going somewhere East from here, generally what you want to do is you want to try to have your bed time earlier and earlier so what we'll do is I'll have someone adjust for a week or two by going to be 15 minutes earlier and getting up 15 minutes earlier every night. So that can be a really simple thing.” IfsWantTryingTwoNightSimpleWeekMinutesBedEastWhat You WantEvery NightSimple ThingsBed Time Author:Shelby Harris
“If there's a lot of fear that's going on, if there's a lot of anxiety, it's manifesting itself in your nocturnal world so that analyzing it can help open up basically thoughts about what you need to do during the day. So a lot of people who subscribe to the psychoanalysis, the Jungian thought will really focus a lot on dreams, the meaning, and how it can be used to help you during the day.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsHelpingDreamUsedFocusAnxietyManifestPsychoanalysisAnalyzingNocturnal Author:Shelby Harris
“So it's like your brain has a large filing cabinet and it's opening up each drawer and it's taking in various images and memories from the day, consolidating what it needs to and puts in whatever file. And then if there's something that doesn't fit in any of the files and doesn't really belong, you'll forget about it. So it's a way of really getting a succinct way of storing things in your brain.” IfsWayNeedsMemoriesForgetBrainLike YouFitVariousOpeningFilesCabinetsDrawersOpening UpFilingFiling Cabinet Author:Shelby Harris
“There are people who have repetitive nightmares. And what happens is their brain is trying to process the stress and help their brain actually deal with what happens if this stress happens again, so their brain's preparing them to deal with it in case the stress happens again, but it's so scary that they awaken from it.” PeopleIfsTryingHelpingHappensProcessDealsBrainCasesStressScaryNightmarePreparingRepetitive Author:Shelby Harris
“Now there's some night terrors that happen in adults. And if it starts as an adult and you've never had them before, then there might be other things that are happening; it might be anxiety, depression, stress. And that's when you might have more of a thorough psychological evaluation.” IfsMightHappensNightAnxietyHappeningsAdultsStressTerrorPsychologicalThoroughEvaluationNight TerrorsAnxiety Depression Author:Shelby Harris
“Some patients will report that they have sleep paralysis. If we see sleep paralysis alone and nothing else, we don't really think all that much of it, but if we see other symptoms, then it might be a red flag for something else that's going on.” IfsThinkingMightSleepRedPatientReportsFlagsSymptomsParalysisRed Flags Author:Shelby Harris
