How to fall back asleep in the middle of the night

Waking up in the middle of the night can be a lonely and frustrating affair. Dr. Erich Voight of NYU walks us through some simple things to do -and things to avoid - in order to fall back asleep.

[Yikkoofficial]

Who else wakes up with their mind racing with thoughts and plans you have. So much anxiety I can’t control sometimes.

[yousefalloush]

**Wakes up in the middle of the night**

**Sleeps again 7 am the other day**

[rexdby]

As hard as it may be, avoid looking at the clock. It’s much easier to drift back off it you don’t know the time and won’t start calculating hours you’ve slept and how many more you need.

[Unforgttxble]

This did actually help because I normally go bed at 10am and wake up at 1-3 but I have woken up at 7 today using this

[izzyizzyozzy]

It's the day before school and I have gotten 3 hours of sleep

[winterleii]

I've been waking up at 3:00 or 4:00am for days already and tonight I will try do what you tell us to do

[kuuroosimptetsuro]

Its the day of school. I slept at 10:30 pm and woke at 2:30 am. For some reason, can’t go back to sleep ...

[airamae]

"Some folks jump on the internet and start searching things" whoops that's me 😅

[seancrockette]

This doctor said how I feel every time when that happens to me, so lonely!

[rocknroy]

Thank you for this brief to the point help. Thank You.

[danellegeamala]

I actually fall asleep easily at night, but almost 4 times a week, I wake up at around 4am and cant sleep again. And what im saying is that if i concentrate on thinking about nothing at all or the dream that was interrupted i fall asleep again. But, if i think about "i need to sleep again, i cant sleep" the more i cant sleep. So u have to trick ur brain into thinking about anything else other than stressing out "i cant sleep".

[cheleine]

This doctor seems like the sweetest person ever I don’t know why lol.

[zeitgeist]

For me, it's the torment of being helplessly trapped into listening to my inner monologue. Round and round it goes, relentlessly. Endless explanations about why crappy stuff happens in my life. I am not the least bit concerned about getting enough sleep. I figure that my body will take as much sleep as it needs. But gawd dammit, I don't want to listen to that internal monologue.

[lulue]

I have anxiety going to sleep without enough stimulation. I get paranoid and freak out. I need to have music, a projection overhead, and the door open. People will tell you to just relax but I need something to focus on to do that. I can’t just “relax” and that’s what no one seems to understand

[XxShade_FrostxX]

I go to sleep easily at around 9am. I wake up at around 1-3am Multiple times in a row. And I feel restless. Like when I wake, it's like I have woken up from a nightmare. My heart is racing, my stomach is tightening and my mind won't relax. I have to physically get up from my bed and breath before I can lay back down comfortably and try to get some sleep. Sometimes I just have to stay awake until the sun is up before I can get those extra hours that I lost awake.

[emaana.q]

I'm like this, no matter what time i wake up, I'd go to bed late, because i find it difficult to fall asleep and stay asleep, it takes me an hour to fall asleep, and I'm facing Soo many problems in my daily life because of all that, my routine is messed up. The reason why i think that I can't fall asleep like anyone else is because it's like a button for me, the second my head hits the pillow, the other my brain starts to overthink my entire life. I always get distracted by my thoughts cause the rest of the time I'd be focusing on overthinking not even remembering i was here (in bed) because I'm suppose to sleep.😂anywayss I'm trying my best rn to get out of all this. I'm a overthinker+ an introvert and on top of that I have so many people in my life that are always there for me to tell me that "you're not capable for this, you're not capable of that, you're kinda "selfish" or many other things..and these things are giving me a hard time tho🙂I was once even depressed, and I'm pretty sure that I do have half of that "anxiety symptoms"

[josslyn]

I tried breathing in and out and i just ended up crying from how stressed i am..

[monkeyjump]

The music in the background is actually making me sleepy. Still can't go back to sleep though..."sigh"

[AcaciusBanger]

i did the exactt same thing u literally told not to do in the video and now i cant sleep what do i do?

[johnblawn]

Lonely feeling? More worrying than anything because I know I'm gonna have a hard time falling asleep the next night lol