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Sleep Restriction Therapy Planner

Sleep restriction is the load-bearing piece of CBT-I. Tell us how much you actually sleep and your fixed wake time — we generate your prescribed window plus the standard 4-week ramp.

Week 1 prescription

Optimistic 4-week ramp

Assumes you hit ≥90% efficiency each week and the window extends by 15 min. Real ramps are slower; treat this as the best-case curve.

    Three rules to make this work

    1. Wake time is non-negotiable. The protocol works because the alarm is fixed; the bedtime walks back over weeks.
    2. No napping. Daytime naps blow up the sleep pressure that makes the short window land.
    3. If you can't fall asleep within 20 min, get up and follow the can't-sleep sequence. Don't lie there.
    4. Re-check efficiency every Sunday. ≥90% → window grows 15 min next week. 85–89% → hold. <85% → shrink 15 min.
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