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EMDR training is very intense -- both from the didactic material which is complex and packed solid in 2.5 days, and from the two practicum experiences in which clinicians experience EMDR for themselves from the clinician and/or client points of view. Most everybody is exhausted by it.

Additionally, some people aim to do small work in the practicum and end up doing deep work. Exhausting for days maybe.

Finally, sleepiness during EMDR can occur for several reasons. 1) it can be a defense against accessing something that needs to come to conscious mind, i.e., a dissociative defense. If so it can only pass when the internal defenses have been accepted and oriented to the present time and situation, or 2) it can be like sawdust from processing through material. It generally passes quickly; 3) it can be a body sensation residual from the memory being processed. Example: a bad acid trip from 20 years ago may have had a sleepy hangover as part of the memory. The individual processing will pass through that material as well as other phases of the memory.

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