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Stimulus Control for Insomnia

Stimulus control is a set of rules that rebuild the association between the bed and sleep — chiefly, getting out of bed when you have been awake a while, and returning only when sleepy.

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How it works

Long stretches of lying awake teach the bed a second meaning: the place where you wait. The core instruction is counter-intuitive but specific — when you have been awake long enough to notice, get up, do something dull and dim elsewhere, come back when sleepy. The point is not the time out of bed; it is that the bed stops hosting the waiting.

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stimulus control, Bootzin, a component of CBT-I.

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