Dr. Sue McCurry

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632 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2 Jul

Dr. Sue McCurry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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They approached the bedroom and bed with the anticipation that
The prediction I'm not gonna sleep tonight, 'cause of course I can remember I haven't slept for three years.
And I can also remember when I don't sleep tomorrow's a terrible day and
I feel bad, I'm cranky with my spouse, I'm not as good on my game at work.
And that's a that's a threat.
That's a an actual physical psychological threat, as real as
I'm being chased by a tiger.
It's it's a danger.
And so what we humans wanna do when we're in a threat situation, if we can predict it ahead of time, we wanna control the environment, change it to keep ourselves safe.
And ergo, that means I have to try to make myself come asleep.
But the problem is I cannot
So I get all in a lather, m cognitively, physically hyper aroused.
I'm I'm
Checking my min am I falling asleep yet?
Oops, no, I am I falling asleep yet?
And getting very upset.
I'm checking the clock, looking at it, seeing the minutes, the hours, tick by, thinking how tired I'm gonna be tomorrow.
All of these are compounding that sympathetic nervous system stress response.
And it is not under those conditions that the sleep waves are likely to come in.
The sleep waves will come in when we are
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