Bed Simple

How does only using your bed for sleeping help you sleep better?

I have read answers to people wanting help sleeping better and quite a few of them said only using your bed for sleeping helps you sleep better?They say they don't even sit on their bed. How does this help you sleep? Im just curious?

Public Comments

1. Spankie, the idea is that we're little better than Pavlov's dogs. If we associate our beds only with sleep, when we reach them we'll want to sleep--not watch TV, read, make a phone call, etc. If it helps some people, that's cool, but I don't have such a big house that I can blow off a whole room and use it only for sleep.
2. It can help because then your only focused on sleeping in your bed instead of doing anything else...
3. its all mental
4. According to the Mt Sinai Medical Center Sleep Study Treatment Program the bed should be used for 2 things only: Sleep & Intimacy. They even suggest taking your TV out of your bedroom. If the only thing you associate with your bed is sleep & intimacy, instead of TV, work, computer, talking on phone,etc.; in your mind it makes the bed a place of too much stimulation...a contradiction to sleeping. Sweet Dreams=)