Day 6 Sleep Restriction Therapy

I’m feeling pretty buggered today. Last night I went to bed at 1:10pm and got up at 6:00am, so I was only in bed for 4 hours and 50 minutes. I also woke up at 5:00 and took 20 minutes to fall asleep so I got a total of 3.5 hours sleep. Now my sleep drive is quite high and I’m rather tired. I’m looking forward to just hitting the pillow and falling asleep tonight. I’m struggling to find things to do to keep myself up until 12:30 (I’ve changed my sleep time to 12:30 as today I reviewed my sleep diaries and realised I’m sleeping around 3.5-4.5 hours a night so I am going to try a sleep window of 5.5 hours for a week and then I will review that in a weeks time). I guess I’ll just watch tv. In an hour from now I am going to eat a kiwi fruit and have a glass of cherry juice as suggested by research. I will also take an antihistamine tonight. Hopefully, my sleep will be a better deeper tonight without alcohol and to make up for the light sleep last night. I am so brave for doing this. I am doing it because I love myself and want future Billy to have a good quality of life.