Doctor shares easy trick to fall asleep at 3am
In a video shared by Dr Khan, who routinely appears on ITV, he shared, “Guys, I shared a reel about why people wake up at 3 am in the morning, and hundreds of thousands of people have watched it, but lots of people have asked ‘well, what do you do when you wake up at 3 o’clock in the morning? How do you get back off to sleep?’ He went on explaining, “Let’s talk about a technique called cognitive shuffling. You know that I’ve talked at length about the health benefits of sleep.”
The doctor went on , “But what if you just can’t get off to sleep because your brain won’t let you? Imagine it. Everyone else is asleep, the house is quiet, you’re lying there in bed, but your mind won’t stop churning out stressful thoughts.”
He went on, “Work, money, kids, planning, scheduling, problem solving. Your brain is too active to let you sleep. In fact, the stress of all these thoughts tells the brain it’s not safe to sleep, and you have to stay on high alert.”
While some people might turn to the classic ‘counting sheep’ trick Dr Khan had another alternative he wanted to offer.
