Telling yourself to stop being anxious when you're feeling anxious is a bit like telling yourself to fall asleep when you have insomnia—it doesn't work.

当你感到焦虑时，告诉自己不要焦虑，这有点像当你失眠时，告诉自己要入睡一样——是行不通的。

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Surely everyone reading this has had times when you lie in bed for hours, unable to fall asleep, because your brain is thinking about work.

所有读到这篇文章的人肯定都有过这样的经历：因为脑子在想着工作，躺在床上好几个小时都无法入睡。

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The 5-year-old boy was just about to fall asleep when he heard a loud noise from the bathroom he hurried to have a look.

5岁的小男孩正要睡着，这时他听到从浴室传来一声巨响，他急忙去看。

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This manual press on the Up helps the app to know when you first lie down in bed, so it can measure how long it takes for you to fall asleep.

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When I fall asleep at night, I turn away from gazing at my husband beside me to gaze upon the faces of our children, in plain silver frames on our bedside table (that is, unless one of the three of them has decided to invade our bed, in which case I am gazing at their faces from far too close up).

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He is also developing light-delivering goggles that are supposed to help people reset the circadian rhythms that govern when they nod off and wake up, so they fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer.

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