Can’t Sleep? Turn On, Tune In And Drop Off | Letters

Re your article (Why do I support waking up astatine 2am – and really do I get back to sleep?, 1 October), I excessively person attraction insomnia and utilized to walk nan wee mini hours ruminating connected each kinds of existent aliases imagined worries. Then power connected request changed my life. Your encephalon simply can’t process 2 things astatine once, and I now I person a wealthiness of shows to take from that person my attraction and forestall nan worry from creeping in.

I still miss immoderate sleep, but I bask nan clip that I person listening to each nan shows I ne'er person clip to give attraction to during nan day. And I often driblet disconnected again mid‑programme without nan worry of uncovering my “page” again, as pinch an audiobook. It mightiness beryllium worthy a effort for others.
Gillian Greenfield
Haydon Bridge, Northumberland

Before artificial ray became commonplace, divided slumber patterns were normal for young adults. At times erstwhile it was basal for immoderate group to beryllium awake and watchful, adolescents would return nan early watch and spell to furniture late. Older adults would spell to slumber and get up early to return nan 3rd watch. Young adults would return nan mediate shift, waking up aft a fewer hours slumber to support watch successful nan mediate of nan night. They would past spell backmost to slumber again.

Real life is, of course, a batch much analyzable than that, but we still person earthy biorhythms that alteration arsenic we age. The reply is to travel your earthy biorhythms alternatively than conflict against them.
Michael Peel
London