Dr. Michael Grandner

That'll help a lot of problems with your appetite.

You're going to be hungry again.

Yeah, it's part of that because you don't want to do anything in bed that is not sleep.

You want...

You want to make it so that when you get into bed, you put your head on the pillow, you're under a blanket, your eyes are closed, you're breathing through your nose.

That feeling is so predictably tied with becoming unconscious in a very short amount of time that...

Even when you get good at that, so this is the power of this.

When you get good at that, you're using the prediction, not just to solve a problem, but to create a benefit.

Imagine you're a little bit stressed.

You've got a big day tomorrow, but you've so trained yourself that that place is so predictably tied with sleep that you're stressed.

You've got a big day.

You've got stuff you're working on.

You get into bed, close your eyes, head on pillow, under blankets, start breathing.

Then all of a sudden you fall asleep.

You can train yourself to get the outcome you want, and that gives you control.

So let's say you got to wake up super early one day because you're going somewhere, you got to practice or something.

You need to go to bed an hour or so earlier than you really are used to.

If you've got yourself well-trained, you can use the environment as a condition stimulus for sleep when you want it to be.

So sex is fine.

That's usually not the problem.