Learn what experts say you should do if you wake up in the middle of the night thinking about death, like Nicole Kidman does.
had been at that iconic Dream House party, Barbie’s existential misery would have definitely had some company. In the actress reveals that thoughts about mortality—the “devastating and beautiful and extraordinary” nature of our finite lives—frequently occupy her thoughts. So much so that she’ll startle awake in the middle of the night reeling from it all—something that is actually more common than you might think, for reasons we’ll get to in the blink of an eye.
This is certainly the case for Kidman. The 57-year-old has never shied away from big thoughts and emotions. However, after the “Mortality. Connection. Life coming and hitting you. And loss of parents and raising children and marriage and all of the things that go into making you a fully sentient human. I’m in all of those places. So life is, whew. It’s definitely a journey. And it hits you as you get older,” Kidman says.
You could also be using sleep as a way to avoid these thoughts, rather than dealing with them. So if you get ever so slightly stirred awake, the thoughts waiting for you might easily bloom back into life.While thoughts about death are an esoteric form of stress, you should deal with them in a similar manner as anything else that keeps you awake in the middle of the night. Good sleep hygiene, intentional relaxation, and limiting rumination are your first lines of defense.
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