This includes delaying her bedtime (which helps build up extra sleep pressure) so she only spends a total of 6 hours (her average sleep time) in bed each night. This brings us to restriction therapy before bed (which is commonly referred to as sleep restriction therapy). It’s important to work with a good sleep therapist in person or over the Internet,6 by using a service like Sleepstation to get the best results. This brings us to restriction therapy before bed (which is commonly referred to as sleep restriction therapy).
It is perhaps not surprising that brain scans of some people with sleep disorders who have undergone sleep restriction therapy show brain activity closer to that of good sleepers in deep sleep, 13 which suggests that the duration of the improved sleep effects may be due to some physiological changes.