Coaching practices for How to Track Sleep

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• When someone asks how I slept I genuinely can’t say
• I lie in bed for eight or nine hours and only actually sleep five of them, and the rest is just me staring at the ceiling
• If you asked me where my week actually went I’d just guess
• Every time I wake in the night I check the clock and immediately start the math
• I lie there checking every few minutes whether I’m asleep yet, and the monitoring keeps me wired

Practices that may help

1. Keep a daily sleep diary
   Track sleep and wake times daily to reveal patterns and benchmark treatment progress.
   CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I), Made Practical
2. Calculate your sleep efficiency before starting
   Track your actual sleep time versus time in bed for one week — the gap is the starting point for restriction.
   Sleep Restriction Therapy
3. Run a one-week time log
   Track every activity in 30-minute intervals for seven consecutive days.
   The Time Audit
4. Stop watching the clock during the night
   Remove or hide the clock to stop the "calculating how much sleep I have left" loop that activates the brain.
   Stimulus Control for Sleep
5. Apply dereflection to insomnia and sleep anxiety
   When you cannot sleep, stop trying to sleep and redirect attention to something you are genuinely curious about instead.
   Logotherapy: Dereflection
6. Build homeostatic sleep pressure by staying awake
   Resist napping late or sleeping in when you want to fix your sleep — consistent waking builds the pressure that makes sleep arrive.
   The Two-Process Model of Sleep
7. Separate the science from the overstatement
   Keep the reliable sleep practices; hold the scariest popular claims loosely.
   Why We Sleep, Translated Into Practice
8. Use the two-process model to diagnose your specific sleep problem
   Identify whether your sleep issue is a Process S problem, a Process C problem, or both — because the fixes are different.
   The Two-Process Model of Sleep
9. Review the data to adjust the system
   Use the tracker as diagnostic input, not just a scoreboard.
   Habit Tracking
10. Sleep restriction therapy
    Temporarily compress your time in bed to match how much you actually sleep, then expand it as efficiency improves.
    CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I), Made Practical

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