After stress at work and caring for a new puppy triggers a panic attack, the first one to happen at night, Sal starts sleeping very little. Sometimes not a all. He googles his symptoms and worries that he has developed fatal insomnia and wonders what to do and what's going on.

If you want to understand how insomnia happens and how to get back to a place of sleeping well in under 10 minutes, watch this video!

If you have a tendency to worry, and those worries get in the way of you making the decisions that are best for you, this episode is for you. You will find five examples here of how to find a what if that is bigger than the what if that is standing in your way, leading you to make the choices that get you the results you desire.

Karan changes perception and sleep starts happening. Pilar has an epiphany after watching this channel for months. Audrey wonders if you can get past chronic insomnia if you also have ocd? Matt has Hypnic jerks after a radical diet change and coming off a bad drinking habit. All the women in Shannon’s family have insomnia. But now she’s not even sleeping with medications. She’s worried she has SFi. Fernando and John are also worried about this rare condition that is not actually an insomnia.

Luke asks about ACT and CBT. When is the former a good option and how has our thinking about ACT developed? Ricardo is on his second week of spending less time in bed. So far it’s been a bumpy ride and he wonders if sleeping from 8 on to 1 am would be better as this has been refreshing in the past.

Tash implemented a sleep window and other CBTi measures nearly a year ago. She saw some improvement in her sleep in the first months but has been stuck since then getting little sleep and feeling very tired. What’s going on and where should she go next?

These phenomena often seem bizarre and strange and lead you to think something must be wrong. In this video we talk about the culprit - hyperarousal. We discuss what hyperarousal is and how to have less of these experiences.

Predicting the weather is possible because whether it rains or not is not affected by your forecast. How you will sleep tonight or in three weeks is a very different story.

The only forecasting you should do is answer these two questions: Do you want to sleep better? Are you willing to do some work?

Jay is waking up much earlier than in the past and tries not to worry. Karan slept well until COVID and is wondering if just staying up until naturally feeling sleepy is a good idea? Ricardo has started CBTi. He feels really sleepy at 6 pm but at 11 pm all that sleepiness has evaporated. Why does this happen and how can he keep that sleep drive until later? Colleen is in a stretch of little sleep. She wonders, is it really important not to talk to friends? It takes Jerry longer and longer to fall asleep despite taking medications. What’s going on?

Peter is in week 9 of CBTi and is stuck after early progress. What’s wrong? Dench used to sleep with 0 effort until a few weeks ago and wonders what’s going on. Zoltan asks why doctors always talk about how little sleep is not good for your health. Mikael wakes up like clockwork 4 hours after falling asleep + has vivid dreams. What’s up?