Eli5: Why cant we just signal to our brain when we want to fall asleep?

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When we lay down at night why our brain does not recognize it and make us fall asleep much easier? Interesting that we have control over so much things but not our own body.

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you can, its why having a rhythm is so important. if you have a certain ritual before you go to sleep, that signals your brain its time to go sleep. for example, drinking a glass of water while reading the news paper in a dimly lit room for 30 minutes and then brushing your teeth and going to bed will signal your brain that its sleepy time ones it becomes a rhythm. same thing with lowering blue light during the evening more and more until its bedtime.

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