A lot of people think insomnia means, “My mind won’t shut off,” or “I’m just wired this way.” But what I see over and over is something simpler.
Your brain learned a program.
At some point, sleep got linked to danger, or stress, or hyper-awareness, or waiting for something bad to happen. Sometimes you remember the reason. Sometimes you don’t. Either way, the body responds the same: your nervous system stays on duty, and you lay there while your brain runs the old routine.
So you do what any smart person would do: you try harder. You take something. You distract yourself. You push through the next day exhausted and tell yourself you’ll “catch up” later.
And then later becomes… your life.