Dr. Michael Grandner

Sometimes it's untreated sleep apnea, super common.

You have a respiratory event that you don't know you had.

If you ever wake up suddenly for no reason, and you don't know why and can't get back to sleep, um,

We'll talk a little bit later about sleep apnea, but that can cause these awakenings.

And when you have something that causes this awakening that arose from inside you, it wasn't under your control.

And what ends up happening is that physical activation escalates.

And just like a snow globe, you shake up the snow globe, it takes a little bit of time for it to come back down.

And when your snow globe got shaken up while you were asleep and you're awake, you can't make it fall back down faster.

There's nothing you can do.

You can poke at it, make it go slower, but you can't make it go faster.

You just have to wait till everything settles back down.

And it often doesn't take as long as people think.

But what ends up happening is as your snow globe is settling, then your stress starts rising again, slowly rising.

Because like, why can't I sleep?

What if I can't fall asleep?

What if I'm up the rest of the night?

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And then you start stressing and freaking out about it.

So now your body is ready, but your mind isn't anymore.

And I got to wait for that to come down.