I know I’m tired, I feel tired, yet if I try to fall asleep, my body wakes itself up.
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Anxiety is essentially your fight/flight reaction getting triggered. This floods your brain and body with many different chemicals and hormones.
You’re then basically on the edge of running away or getting in a fight. This was incredibly useful when we were in the food chain or in competition.
We still have these instincts even though they do us more harm than good for the most part nowadays.
Because you are wired to be anxious about immediate life-or-death issues, like rustling in the grass caused by a large predator. You don’t want to fall asleep, that is how you get eaten.
Now, you are most likely anxious about less existential threats, such as giving a good presentation for your work team.
Unfortunately, your body is not good at dialing down on unresolved anxiety about modern issues. So, you’re wide awake at 3 am due to work jitters.
Your body and brain don’t want to fall asleep when you’re scared, because that would make you more vulnerable to dangers
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