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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Yes it’s a learned skill
For me it helped a lot to remember the sensations your body when your absolutely tired. And to replay this sensation of heaviness and falling through the bed when I need to fall asleep.

It doesn’t help when I’m agitated or anxious but works on a normal day when I’m just not sleepy enough.

Saying with ELI5: you need to tell your brain this in a language it can understand and its somatic feeling rather than verbal.

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