Porn can destroy your sleep. In this video, Dr. Trish Leigh will explain to you how porn messes with your sleep and what you can do to bring your brain back online and heal it so that you can get a great night’s sleep for the rest of your life. We’re going to discuss three things. Number one what happens to your brain when you watch pornography and how does that disrupt your sleep so massively for so many people? Number two what is the sleep cycle, how should it work in general if your brain is working well? Something to look forward to right? And then number three is your brain tip on how we’re going to get you from where you are, not sleeping well to getting a great night’s sleep forever and ever and ever.   

What does porn do to your brain?

I’m going to give you the short version, and then I’ll give you a little bit of a longer version so you can really understand. When you watch pornography especially if you watch it before bed what happens is there’s a release of three major neural chemicals in the perfect Kool-aid as I call it or the cocktail that your brain wants. Especially what your brain wants to feel relaxed and it will make you more tired so you can magically go to sleep but of course, it’s trashing your brain. 

What’s happening?

There is a dopamine release when you consume pornography especially if you’re masturbating to it. Therefore, your brain gets this dump of dopamine that makes it feel good. The reason your brain is not able to sleep very well is that it’s running hot, it is using too much of that fast speed called hyperarousal. High Beta fast brain waves that keep you awake. However, we know from science that a major reason that someone would go back to pornography is that their brain is running hot in this hyperarousal mode. So it might have feelings of anxiety, worry, and rumination, and you might be thinking about the day you just had especially worried about things you have to deal with for tomorrow. Your brain is going and it needs something to bring it into hyperarousal quickly. Dopamine will do that for you. It will give you the feelings of pleasure that offset the feelings of pain, distress, worry, or discomfort that your brain is feeling when you get in bed. Dopamine is the first neural chemical.

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The second neural chemical is called oxytocin. Oxytocin is going to relax your brain. So now not only is the worry gone and you feeling pleasure, but you are also feeling relaxed. It’s going to bring that high fast energy down along with the dopamine but oxytocin is the neurochemical of coupling. We call oxytocin the neurochemical of love, lust, and labor. Giving birth to a child, love, lust, and labor. You are accidentally coupling your brain to the screen, especially at bedtime and you’re making it so that that’s the way that your brain relaxes. Your pairing your brain to the screen and masturbation to be able to come down from your day. Now especially if you do this every day your brain’s learned that it can’t fall asleep unless it watches porn and masturbates. The last chemical, the third neurochemical is called prolactin. Prolactin literally makes your muscles looser loosey-goosey. It brings the energy down and it can transform your ridged mind, your ridged body into this loose feeling puddle that can now magically go to sleep. Therefore, if you’re engaged in this habit frequently, consistently, and with intensity, you will have this perfect Kool-Aid cocktail of pleasure to offset pain and stress, and relaxation to bring the brain down from the go-go going of the day. Then especially defusing that out throughout the body to the muscles so you can actually fall asleep. However, it’s fake it’s artificial and it’s trashing your brain.

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What do I mean by fake and artificial?

We’re moving into number two, what happens to your brain in the sleep cycle when your brain is healthy something to look forward to. So what you are accidentally doing is regulating your brain and your nervous system from outside of your body. It is absolutely possible to regulate your brain from within your brain and body. That’s what I mean when I say control your brain or it’ll control you. Your brain is controlling you if you need anything to be able to fall asleep especially this supernormal stimulus of pornography coupled with masturbation. Now regulated from within means you can bring that fast energy down before you get in bed so that you can fall asleep and in a healthy brain it should take 15 to 20 minutes to fall asleep. So if you get in bed and read a book, your brain comes down, you turn the light off and you fall asleep. If your brain and body crash the second that you get into bed you are exhausted and that is a product of hyperarousal that fast energy growth across the day if you’re absolutely exhausted or you can’t fall asleep when you get in bed. You usually need to find something to regulate that brain from outside your body and that something can be pornography, masturbation, alcohol, marijuana, or a variety of other drugs or behaviors. But it’s because of hyperarousal that go-go-go fast speed which is coupled with that super slow speed of exhaustion and overwhelms.

More Information

If you’re interested in learning more about how porn messes with your sleep, then click the video linked above. However, if you’re ready to quit porn for good and get the support you need visit my 90-Day Comprehensive program HERE or YouTube channel, Porn Brain Rewire.