A video about sleep, good. I sometimes don't go home until after midnight because if she's awake in the evening, I'm going to be destroyed when she sees me. I only slept 4 hours last night. She yells at me after 2am sometimes and I have to keep begging her to stop and that it's bad for health and I work in the morning. She doesn't even care.
Yes!!! 💯 Figured this out when I was a teenager. I can sleep 9+ hours a night plus nap. I even dream during naps - I always knew the dreams were healing even when they were not nice. I sleep more when recovering from stress - it's my first line of defence. After years of trauma, I am certain that this ability to sleep properly is what saved me. It's a blessing 👍👍
@@lilinectar29 yes me too! But not anymore because I absolutely know 100% that without a lot of sleep (esp in winter) things go very wrong for me mentally and physically. If we didn't need it, we wouldn't stay asleep so long. It's not laziness.
Here's what I did to sleep.. and it helped. 1. Create a COMPLETELY dark and quite room. 2. Lay in bed staring into the darkness. No difference whatsoever between having eyes closed and having them open. 3. You relax because you don't have to force your eyes closed in order to sleep. 4. You forget about everything and fall asleep without noticing it. Takes guts to try but totally worth it. The key is total darkness and quite, so that you have absolutely nothing to focus on. Good luck!
After years of traumatic experiences at the hands of a so, l broke away and got out. I find that over the course of the last 1.5 years my sleep has been constantly improving. I was actually getting a little bit worried, as l can sleep 10+hrs and then nap midday! The best part is waking up in the morning and being SO relaxed knowing that l wasn't prepping for the shit show.
@@anotherdroid493 l suppose some blood work may be in order. l felt it might just be a reaction to the years of extreme stress. An incredible feeling to not have that greet me every morning.
Good idea Internet off at night as well am.sure EMF disrupts my sleep especially with 5G towers also smart anything if you are emf sensitive Zones are a great idea Am going to create an art craft and creative writing zone and reading corner..Structure and discipline....Am going to do an energy audit and see where my energy goes each day..
Preparing for sleep when you first rise from a good nights rest is absolutely correct. I read a good book called "Why we sleep" that goes into great detail regarding the science of sleep. I sack out early between 7 and 9 PM. I unwind slowly in a quiet space and perfect bed and room temperature ( I turn off the heat and let it fall ) Under the down I sleep well in the vicinity of 8 to 10 hours. I have found that if I suffer sleep deprivation from being on the road and my sleep schedule is off I get depressed. Good sleep is a must for remaining in a much better frame of mind. Good and great sleep in the way to a much better day.
CPTSD has totally messed up my sleep and I see myself and my life become so much worse from my lack of sleep....I used to sleep really well before....now I am inspired to prioritise my sleep again! Thanks for a great, and fun interview! :D
Ditto. Trauma had me sleeping less than 3 hrs per night for five months, when I used to sleep well before. But it's been long enough now that it's not the trauma, it's become habitual. That bit abut what we tell others hit home. Like you, this has inspired me to prioritise sleep again.
@@PetKatFizz I've been wanting to prioritize sleep for a long time but sometimes my wife makes it her objective to make sure my sleep is all screwed up. If I say I need sleep or it's important for health, she'll probably tell me it's because I'm so lazy and I want to lay back or she'll start mocking me. She really doesn't care until she cycles back to being in a happy mood again which takes usually a few weeks.
Great discussion, really helpful and funny. I’ve always heard snoozing your alarm 😴 🛌 is a big NO NO. Get your alarm so you have to get out of bed and stay out!
Interesting info: a few years ago I developed reverse sleep paralysis A.k.a. “cataplexy”, which my neurologist told me could be related to other (undiagnosed) neurological symptoms I was experiencing. The reality of the situation was that it was medically induced by a medication (gabapentin/Neurontin) I had been prescribed for nerve pain. So for anyone who doesn’t know, sleep paralysis is when your body turns off your motor function, so you don’t act out your dreams (as is mentioned here), but as you are coming out of sleep your body continues the body paralysis, but your consciousness is awakened (hence why you are awake, but can’t move). Cataplexy a.k.a. reverse sleep paralysis is when during the day & “waking” hours, you are living your life and all of a sudden your brain turns off your motor function (out of nowhere), because it thinks it needs to protect you from dreaming. Your consciousness remains aware that you are not sleeping, but you will no longer have control of your body. It’s scary AF! This also caused a sort of “mental paralysis” for me, & for the first time I became afraid to do normal every day things, not knowing when I would have an attack or lose control of my body. Luckily for me I was able to correlate the attacks I was having due to the medication I was taking (which isn’t always possible), and although I still have nerve pain, I would rather not have cataplexy on top of it, so I got off the gabapentin. I was lucky I could stop it… I have noticed a major increase in medications being prescribed, like gabapentin, and others that treat “nerve pain” in recent years, and in my experience it seems to be due to major increase in diagnoses of fibromyalgia, depression combined with nerve pain, & neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis, etc… I am choosing to share this because it might help someone out there like me, who would’ve been grateful to hear the medication could’ve been causing my problem, because my doctor didn’t tell me that, despite the fact that he prescribed the gabapentin, and diagnosed me with cataplexy! People need to be aware that if you start experiencing sleep paralysis or cataplexy it could be related to your medication, and you would need to discuss with your doctor what to do. In my humble opinion we all need to be more aware that any new “medication” we introduced to our complex bodily systems could cause countless numbers of problems. This also includes vaccines! For me personally with my medical history, I do NOT produce the antibodies after being vaccinated like most people do, yet I would be taking all of the neurological and other bodily systems risk, yet I am expected to get in line for the jab like everyone else! We seriously need to have medical exemptions, because this idea that “one size fits all” is not based in “science”!!! After this experience I am much more leery to take prescription medication than ever, for good reason! I literally could’ve died, or killed someone else, God for bid I had been behind the wheel of a car! Thank god that was not my fate! 🙌🏻💞🙏🏻 Your bodily autonomy is everything, and I suggest you don’t give it up for anything!!! I’m making an edit because I want to make it clear that I believe in exemptions for any and all reasons! That includes things like I just don’t want to, to my religious or spiritual beliefs won’t allow me to participate, & the right to freedom of bodily autonomy My Body = My Choice…
This was Great! I absolutely & totally see the wisdom in this! I will make quality sleep a top priority. You guys are delightful together. BTW I never eat breakfast until 10:00 a.m. And no coffee after noon. Nor food after 5:00 p.m. Two meals a day is plenty for me. And I sleep when it's dark. GREAT idea to write down things before sleep so we don't stress about forgetting things at 3 a.m. Thanks guys!!
You guys are lovely. Aside from the useful content, this lets me experience a 'guy chat' (which normally never happens by virtue of being a woman). It's really touching. Thank you.
My mother was always in bed at 10pm and never got up till about 9a,m we never saw her in the mornings and then she always napped in the afternoon as an adult she never rushed or looked stressed ... She lived to 92..... and never used the internet... She walked around all day long and ate regular meals and always looked after herself she was never oerweight.. How the internet has ruined our lives on so many levels.. I had 40 years without it . LIfe used to be simple OOh now I sound really old lol I bet the next generations will tear down the towers and go back to basics....We are vibratory beings everything is energy
Magnesium cream on the inner wrist is brilliant for relaxation, sleep, de-stressing, nerves and focus. It absorbs best on the inner wrist better than tablets. (Have read the studies, they’re available.) Combined with Vitamin D oral stray, so very good. People who are stressed, drink alcohol or caffeine, or eat sweet food need more.
Awweee I was supposed to be at the sleep seminar in Harpa 22. November but it got cancelled until next year. This is awesome to see. Thank you Richard to make this interview happen.
Thank you. Bless you. Healthy Sleep is my new focus. Perfect timing for this wise information.🌓💗 May we all be blessed with the wisdom and motivation to Heal ourselves for the benefit of all 🙏🏼🌎🌈
Great discussion thx much!!! I didnt sleep at all last night...recovering from an abusive relationship...this will be a process.. never struggled with sleep a day in my life till the first assault...I really appreciate the info on stopping eating early because the depression has left me with no appetite and im eating a meal at 11 pm or so. So much to heal❤ whistle while I work😊
Great talk!!! I suffer from CPTSD, autoimmune disease, and a horrible insomnia. I wasn't able to maintain a healthy sleep pattern for the last 15 year. Yes, fifteen. What you were discussing makes perfect sense. Now I'm eating low-glycemic index food (that's recommended by my endocrynologist) and try to wake up early (1 month of diet and 3rd. day of waking up so far and going for a long walk in the morning). My body loves this way of eating. It's amazing how much it helps to limit my panic attacks and weird bodily sensations. I'm going to follow all the advices given in this interview!!! They are amazing and soooo worth to try! I wonder if there's ANY way to deal with reoccuring nightmares. They are the worst.
I have made a lot of progress thanks to Richards educational videos. I have come to a point where his voice calms me because I connect it to a positive outcome. Thank you a lot for all the videos!
I’ve watched quite a few sleep themed interviews and this has to be the best one, some really useful information which makes sense, 100% logical useful information and I relate to the colloquialisms “of your brain is up, givin it the big un” 😂😂
Thanks guys for a funny informative chat that made me laugh and laugh especially that nightcap comment. Anyhow I so have a better understanding now of some things like why I crave to live in an apartment/house with all windows no shades or curtains in the daytime. I really dislike any artificial light at all in the day. my biggest issue my whole life is getting in bed before midnight, even when I used to have to get up at 5:30 am to teach. Aren't there different rules for nightowls ??
We sabotage ourselves with all of the things we "know better" but do anyway for our own dumb reasons...and then wonder why life is so difficult😂🤪🤦♀️...simple reasons, simple changes, simple re-regulation of what used to work just fine...balance perhaps...funny how we seem to need the 21st century to tell us to look back the 19th in some very basic ways! Thank you both for this❤
This was really interesting. Laughed hard though when you talked about the ideal temp for sleep being 18 degrees, that's what my thermostat is set to for morning and evening, any higher and our bill would be astronomical! I must be a masochist though, I like my bedroom on the chilly side, I like very cold sheets but my husband has to have several hot water bottles. I'm lying there through gritted teeth hissing "get them away from me!" I like the duvet all tucked up around my neck and for my face to be out in the cold. I hate the summer when our bedroom resembles a bread oven.
Sleep Hack I found recently (counter intuitive) - take Vitamin D spray 3-10 sprays of 1000 IU 3 hours pre-sleep. It’ll help produce melatonin. Loads of studies on how much this helps the current “thing” going around as a bonus (lots). Both melatonin and Vitamin D. Also helps chilled out mood, calm. Nice.
Conversation full of useful info. Struggling with bad sleep the past year, I did many of these tricks what I called sleeping rituals the 2-3 hours before sleeping: yoga, deep breathing and candela light and writing to do list on my Mobile, mobile away the last hour before sleep, dry intermittent fasting from 7pm to 12pm.consuming only decaffeinated coffee from midday... Must important for me: evening time free of drama and sad stories and bad news...
Just starting to watch. I experience sleep disturbances related to CPTSD. I am now prescribed a medication for it, which (a) knocks me out , (b) I believe leaves me with the residual effects of a now repressed nightmare. Without the medication, smoke weed, eat, and have obsessive ruminations. You guys are a wet dream for me, so I may have to listen to this as a podcast. Thanks!
Two magnesium tablets, two potassium tablets, one 3 mg melatonin tablet, two capsules of milk Thistle, one capsule of Ox Bile salt. Guaranteed to sleep in till at least after 6 AM where as most of us repeatedly wake up at 3 AM and can’t go back to sleep. Take it or leave it.
Someone I worked with had a Naturopath for a mom....a sleep technique she shared was relaxing your neck muscles slowly. Sleep come in almost immediately. Try it.
Thank you for the tips. Having nightmares that wake me up but just before that I can feel my mind filing things, if that makes sense. I may be pushing the info a bit too hard. I will implement these tips.
Chinese Medicine aligns organs with 2 hour increments and when we wake during the night they see it as a particular organ not functioning properly, Monks of all denominations see 3AM as 'God's hour" and will purpsely wake to meditate for one to two hours, followed by a meal to begin their work day. By the way, Chinese medical practitioners use the blood pulse to identitfy what organs are doing what, and the severity of pain being experienced. What does Western medicine know about blood pulse in comparison... you know the anser.
Strangely similar, can tell you're friends 😁 Had no idea the first half of rem is like a workout but it makes perfect sense if you've ever experienced sleep paralysis! Scary shit, your heart races!
Writing down the TODO list is essential for having a peace of mind while in a leader position. Keeping track of so many things going on purely using one's memory would make my head explode after a while (or start forgetting stuff, or both).
Gerrard and Carragher talking about sleep. Sorry, I am just a Liverpool FC supporter who is also into Richard Grannon’s psychology 😀 Love scousers accent 😀
Richard is helping my silly ass navigate this world, has been for a few years now. When I slip back into toxic habits or I'm having endless weeks of emotional turmoil from trauma I come back to help remind myself that I'm not completely crazy or broken and that I just need to understand and cope for the time being, but I'm finding it hard to get past how damn attractive this man is emotionally, intellectually and physically. God damn.🤣🤯 Never seen anything like him.
True words. Dream interpretation is good for emotional health too, we all speak the same dream language cross culturally so besides some cultural and individual differences dreams are a universal language! That's why lucid dreaming is such a good practise as you strengthen the link between the conscious and unconscious minds, the more attention you pay to dreams the clearer they get as long as you're physically healthy..
Me ex very cruel husband would have me worried sick about our finances i would hardly sleep... when i speak to other people in cruel relationships there is also alot of disrupted sleep. no wonder we are all making the worst mistakes of our lives in staying
Sleep? who needs sleep? I'll sleep when I'm dead, says the guy(Me) who has been conditioned to never let anyone know that I have issues and can't sleep. I like Terrance Popp's term..... "I don't have a drinking problem.... I have problems, so I drink." That is me in a nutshell.
1. Light in the morning. Less light as the day goes on. Very low light for two hours before bed. 2. Hot bath for 10 minutes before bed. 3. Not eating for three hours before bed. 4. 7-9 hours is the ideal amount of sleep. 5. Get ready for bed physically, mentally, emotionally for bed 3-hour routine. 6. Do a mind dump in a journal one hour before bed. Write a to-do list. 7. Avoid caffeine for 90 minutes in the morning. Drink water instead. Stop caffeine before midday. 8.18 degree Celsius air temperature at night. 65 degree Fahrenheit.
The great majority of our purchases have been on physical shops. We got things immediately. Buying from a catalogue were for very few items. If they are turning shipping info an online experience they have to deliver it NOW. I can't function without sleeping and sometimes it's just like I was having a hangover. PS this comment was made online. 😂 PS 2 it was Tesla, not Edison who... 😂😂 PS 3 You could be brothers. PS 4 Two handsome men Great accents! 😎
My sleep study revealed that I get 6 hours of rem sleep in an eight hour span. I've been a semi-lucid dreamer since I was young. My dream time is like a whole other life. Anyone else?
Fantastic video! Finding this after upping caffeine eating crap and sleeping less and wondering why I’m one whiff away from the Incredible Hulk! Hahaha
My sleep problems started when I became very self-conscious about my snoring which people I slept beside kept waking me up for. I struggle with falling asleep now because my nose snorts really loudly before I even drift off.
Raised with dinner at 6. Then married and cooked for someone that ate at 7:00-7:30. I did it but I got done with that tooooo. I’m back to feeding me when I want to eat. Minus the that other part :)
