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This is me yesterday… And other days… And then I can’t fall asleep because I am too worried that I should be asleep already and that I have to wake up early. This causes my absolute favourite feedback loop.
Sometimes I just love being a human being :')
OMG me last night. I was tired at 8 pm but kept myself up so that I’d get up at a reasonable time. 10 pm rolls around and I go to bed. Queue being on the phone until almost 2 am and my wife saying ‘go to sleep’ (in a helpful but stern way). Finally put my sleep book on and drift away. 8 am came way too early. 😭
I’m looking at this at 4:31 AM. 🥲
Telling from my own experience, looking at your phone is not going to be helpful.
My advice would be to do something entertaining, but tiring. Like solving a sudoku if that floats your boat. Or reading. At least that’s what sometimes does the trick for me.But dopamine🥺
I try to go to sleep, lay there with nothing but brain noise to distract me and come up with ideas I am compelled to do something with right when I get them. And the worst part is that I can do something with them. I can’t just lie to myself and say I cant because all the tools I need to do something with them (eg. Computer, notepad etc.) are right there and easily accessible. So I end up spending an hour or more working on something instead of sleeping and only manage to sleep when I am too physically exhausted to remain awake. Rinse repeat forever.
This is why i listen to audiobooks or radio plays to fall asleep to.
They are engaging enough to stop the noise but i can still fall asleep listening.
Works good for me, atleast most of the time*.
*Damn you Will Patton for reading Stephen King novells in such a gripping way, you are banned from bedtime listening!
+1 to this. I started out trying to visualize things and play music in my head, but actually listening to something as I go to sleep is so much better.
It’s like it occupies my attention on something external, rather than letting my attention latch on to random internal things. Then I can fall asleep and not even notice. It also helps if it’s something familiar and not novel.
Mine tells me to go to sleep to early and then wake up at 5am
I hate it
This is an odd one. I know I used to have trouble sleeping as a kid but have completely grown out of that. Nowadays I harness the power of my brain being half shut down already to fall asleep quite easily. Considering that it’s 4:23 a.m. here, the same is obviously not true for me staying asleep. But that’s okay. I will just go for another round in a minute. Good night everyone!
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My trick is melatonin and PBS YouTube videos, audio only. Ones I’ve seen before.
The audio is enough to keep my mind from running on it’s own and eventually the melatonin kicks in to take it down while it’s distracted by dinosaurs or whatever.
Melatonin on it’s own will just make me suffer being tired but not able to rest my mind enough to fall asleep.
Listening to something interesting like an audiobook will do the same.
It needs to be something that will catch my attention but also not be something I really want to hear more of.
Music doesn’t keep my mind from wandering like speech does.
Futurama sleepers works similarly for the first part.
