I didn't know until recently that cognitive behavioral therapy specifically for insomnia existed -- and when I found out it did, I couldn't quite picture what might be involved, other than perhaps meditation. But this makes so much sense, when there's no clear underlying medical cause for ongoing insomnia, but just a longstanding habit that needs to be reset. The concept that you need to re-train your brain to associate the bed with sleep (and only sleep -- as opposed to a Pavlov's dog kind of association of the bed with anxiety and wakefulness), and to allow sleep pressure to build by sleep restriction in order to effectively consolidate sleep, makes so much sense. Even better, there's a lot of data to back it up.

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