I’ve tried it before. I just lay in bed rolling around staring at the ceiling and replaying all of my anxieties for hours before giving up.
Wait, don’t read? I thought I had always heard that reading is a really good choice before bed.
ALSO
What the FUCK do you mean two hours. That’s two hours I NEED in my life. 9-10h of work and work adjacent activities, 2h of sport, 8h of sleep, two hours of DOWNTIME!?
For me the most effective tip has been, don’t spend time in bed/bedroom other than for sleeping, that way your body will take the cue from your surroundings and recognize it’s sleep time.
Look at these rich people with other rooms they can be in!
Jokes aside, if want to play on my computer, and I do, room it is. I could play switch or steam deck downstairs, but that’s a shared space and my roommate uses it too.
The way I understand it, avoiding being in the same room is ideal, but the main thing is just not actually being in bed when you’re browsing the internet or whatever
It’s interesting how different people are. For me if I don’t spend time reading or gaming or browsing stuff in a place, I just won’t go there to sleep either - I ended up sleeping on the sofa for over five years because of it. But I am autistic so that messes with stuff like this
same, I’d sooner pitch a tent in the living room that go to another room just to sleep 😄
Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
I have no trouble falling asleep, even after binging screen time for hours before bed. I’m happy to be an outlier on this one.
You definitely are. I am unable to sleep without a high-THC concentrate loaded with Myrcene and/or Caryophyllene.
e: I also need YouTube to be playing in my headphones all night long. If I don’t have either of these then I can’t fucking sleep.
I think “I need a medically induced coma to rest” makes you the outlier.
Yeah I legitimately turn on YouTube videos on my phone to help me fall asleep. Works great. Key is to just not watch anything super interesting/stimulating.
Yep I don’t even filter out blue light. ZZzZ.
I found a crossword app which I can use to calm down and become tired enough to sleep. Without it I’m kinda lost :D
Sudoku for me.
Picross here, though Sudoku makes its rounds
I hate these on the phone but am an addict on PC :D
Turned out cross stitching satisfies the same itch for me, in case you need an analog option.
I totally understand that! I have pretty small hands, so it doesn’t frustrate me as much as maybe someone with bigger fingers. Cross stitching is super fun, definitely! I’ve got a whole set-up up in the ol’ hobby graveyard closet lol
Small person, small hands but delicate stuff is totally not my forte :D
I do Wordle and the other NYTimes games before sleep. Connections usually puts me to sleep. Trying to figure out all those unrelated words keeps my mind from the issues that might keep me awake.
Harm reduction approaches are useful in scenarios like this, imo. For me and my Android phone, this means using the app Twilight to filter blue light from my phone display (iOS has this feature natively. It calls this “Night shift”, and the setting is found under Display settings)
Android has also had this feature natively for a very long time. No need to use Twilight anymore
Hah, live and learn, I guess — just goes to show how long I’ve been using Twilight.
If you’re not allowed anything stimulating for two hours then what are you supposed to do during that time? Just lay down and wish you were dead? 🤨
Not stimuli, stimulating. Stimmin you know, the little sister of swimming
This advice: “If it takes you 2 hours to fall asleep, go to bed 2 hours earlier.”
Instructions unclear: never left bed. :(
I literally can’t fall asleep unless I’m reading something and simultaneously listening to the audiobook version with my headphones and noise cancelling is on.
I have broken too many. It sucks.
I think you just described a torture device personally
It’s all about the bad habits we pick along the way
For me it needs to just be less mentally stimulating things. I can’t do nothing. But if I go from playing games and talking to friends to just talking to friends, to watching boring videos then I’ll finally fall asleep.
Reruns and sudoku is the best I’ve been able to find.
Yeah wtf am I supposed to do if I have to sit still for even one minute
No thank you I’ll just keep smoking weed about it.
I sleep very badly if I don’t read before so I can’t relate.
