Getting a weighted blanket changed my life. I used to toss and turn for hours but now I’m out like a light in 15 minutes. Seriously it feels like being hugged to sleep every night.
1.5 Hz: Deep, dreamless sleep (Delta range)
2.5 Hz: Light sleep, transitioning to deep sleep
0.5 Hz: Very deep unconscious rest, used in some advanced sleep tracks
Don’t keep any electronics in your room. Your room should be for sleeping, changing clothes and fucking. Thats it. My bedroom is the smallest one in the house. I don’t have all the extra crap to distract me. Also meditation helps.
give yourself at least 2 hours after eating, try to go to bed at the same time every day, track how you feel in order to determine how many hours of sleep per night you need, get up with the first alarm – don’t snooze!
Not hanging out in my bed/bedroom (if I can help it). For a long time I would study, eat, watch tv, read, just chill in my bed. My mom always told me not to and I didn’t believe her because why would I listen to my mother who has been alive 32 years longer than me. Now I don’t get in my bed until it’s time to go to sleep and it was a game changer. I struggled with falling asleep for years and I honestly didn’t expect something simple like that to make a difference. My fiancé always wants me to hang out in our room with him while he plays video games, but he doesn’t understand that it will immediately become bedtime.
Continuously shake your foot. Don’t think about or focus on anything other than shaking your foot and listening to yourself breathe. You’ll pass out before you know it.
some sort of noise in the background. i have ADHD and my mind won’t be able to focus on going to sleep if it’s silent. i turn on my fan at night. it also helps muffle noises outside of my room since im a light sleeper
Sucks to say it, not a hack but…
Exercise, a proper low/no sugar diet, and a semi-regular bedtime and I sleep 6-7 hours wake up feeling like a million bucks, almost never tired through the day, and fall asleep rather quickly after laying a few minutes at night. Sometimes the best hacks are not hacks
One day in basic training I woke up super early and did a bunch of stuff and ever since I’ve literally always felt tired. I can fall asleep within 10 minutes easily.
Go to the doctor. I tried things first a decade and a half, and nothing worked. It was getting to the point where I was sleeping every 2 or 3 days, sometimes even longer without sleeping, to get me to go. I got prescribed 2 meds after my first visit and now I sleep 4 to 5 hrs a night every night. After the first week or so when my brain fog cleared, I broke down cry8ng because I had struggled for so long, and 100 mg of Trazadone every night and wellbutrin in the morning and it’s all fixed. I could have had this back in my early 20s I wasn’t stubborn.
Playing rain sounds on a 10-hour loop literally saved my sleep schedule. Found this old video on YouTube with just pure rainfall, no thunder or music. Been using it for 3 years straight and my insomnia’s basically gone.
Have your sleeping room well ventilated, up to the point of being “not warm”.
Drink water before going to sleep- yes, having dreams about constantly having to go to the toilet or even waking up to take a piss is better than waking up dried up like a leaf.
Try to sleep on left side, get yourself some long pillow to rest your body on it.
Get another pillow, with grains or whatever its called, that adjusts to your head and neck, don’t get some shitty foam one, they don’t work.
Don’t pig out before sleep.
Don’t oversleep, as in if you woke up and its around the time you usually wake up +1h tops, get up. The neck pain you’ll get from lying in bed for too long, will last for a day or even two.
Ideally you’d like to go to sleep when you feel like it, without strict hours, but that may be hard to achieve.
BBC. World service, just loud enough to hear properly. They have an app.
Even if you dont fall straight asleep they have some really interesting programming to listen to as you doze off.
Counting my breath, nice and slow. Breathe in on one, out on two. All the way up to ten, then repeat. I rarely make it past three iterations before I’m out.
Don’t do shift work. I do 12 hour rotating shifts (nights then days). My sleep pattern changes every week and repeats in 5 week cycles. I need to sleep during the day for a couple of days and then immediately change back to nights. I’ve been doing this for 19 years now and I generally sleep for 2 to 4 sleep cycles at a time. I usually need drugs, either melatonin or diazapam to start sleeping. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t tired.
I saw something somewhere on Reddit (I forget exactly) so I’m definitely messing this up but it’s worked so well I cannot believe I waited until I was 40. Think of a random word like toast or shoe and where those items would be found (say, pantry for toast and closet for shoe). Then try to name 3 words of things you can find in the pantry that start with a “t” then “o” then so on and so forth. I barely get through two letters every night.
Honestly? Keeping a strict wake-up time every day, even on weekends.
I used to think sleeping in would “catch me up” on rest, but it actually just made me groggier and messed up my rhythm. Once I started waking up at the same time daily — even if I went to bed late — my body started naturally getting sleepy earlier, and my sleep quality shot way up.
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Getting a weighted blanket changed my life. I used to toss and turn for hours but now I’m out like a light in 15 minutes. Seriously it feels like being hugged to sleep every night.
Not taking my phone to bed and not looking at my phone whenever I wake up in between.
Only thing that worked for me is putting my phone away for at least 1 hour before going to bed
Sleeping with an electric blanket
Workout , Hit the Gym or have some athletic activities..
Having rain sounds/snow storm playing on my laptop through the night.
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Sleeping on your side with a pillow between your knees
Exercise, being active, no napping and staying in a sleep routine.
A thing called “brown noise”. We have it play and it really helps
Melatonin
Weighted blanket
Meditation
Binaural beats!
1.5 Hz: Deep, dreamless sleep (Delta range)
2.5 Hz: Light sleep, transitioning to deep sleep
0.5 Hz: Very deep unconscious rest, used in some advanced sleep tracks
A healthy diet, regular exercise, and sticking to a sleep schedule every single day has dramatically improved my quality of sleep and life in general
The trick to falling asleep is trying to stay awake. If you actively try to fall asleep, you almost never will.
In other words, falling asleep is the opposite of doing. You can’t force yourself to fall asleep. Falling asleep is the ultimate form of letting go.
The only way to achieve it is to let it come naturally from the backdoor, and one way to do it is to try to stay awake as you lie down comfortably.
White noise.
Don’t keep any electronics in your room. Your room should be for sleeping, changing clothes and fucking. Thats it. My bedroom is the smallest one in the house. I don’t have all the extra crap to distract me. Also meditation helps.
give yourself at least 2 hours after eating, try to go to bed at the same time every day, track how you feel in order to determine how many hours of sleep per night you need, get up with the first alarm – don’t snooze!
Remove clocks from the room! Nothing keeps you up quite like staring at the time and seeing you have less and less hours to fall asleep
stop scrolling and pretend you’re just closing your eyes “for a second” — your brain falls for it every time
Keep electronics out of the bedroom
Not hanging out in my bed/bedroom (if I can help it). For a long time I would study, eat, watch tv, read, just chill in my bed. My mom always told me not to and I didn’t believe her because why would I listen to my mother who has been alive 32 years longer than me. Now I don’t get in my bed until it’s time to go to sleep and it was a game changer. I struggled with falling asleep for years and I honestly didn’t expect something simple like that to make a difference. My fiancé always wants me to hang out in our room with him while he plays video games, but he doesn’t understand that it will immediately become bedtime.
Continuously shake your foot. Don’t think about or focus on anything other than shaking your foot and listening to yourself breathe. You’ll pass out before you know it.
Wearing yourself out during the day so your tired enough to fall asleep
Ear plugs.
Began using an infrared sauna. Incredible, restful sleep and not stiff when I wake up.
Avoid alcohol
Focusing on counting numbers in my head instead of intrusive thoughts
Earplugs
some sort of noise in the background. i have ADHD and my mind won’t be able to focus on going to sleep if it’s silent. i turn on my fan at night. it also helps muffle noises outside of my room since im a light sleeper
Don’t have children!
Sucks to say it, not a hack but…
Exercise, a proper low/no sugar diet, and a semi-regular bedtime and I sleep 6-7 hours wake up feeling like a million bucks, almost never tired through the day, and fall asleep rather quickly after laying a few minutes at night. Sometimes the best hacks are not hacks
Stop drinking alcohol
One day in basic training I woke up super early and did a bunch of stuff and ever since I’ve literally always felt tired. I can fall asleep within 10 minutes easily.
Retirement.
Bad night’s sleep? Nap.
the power of Magnesium. Literal game changer
EDIT: Magnesium GLYCINATE….my bad. Please don’t spend the next 3 days on the toilet.
EDIT 2: Woah I did not expect this to blow up. To answer some of the questions:
I take the Nature’s Own brand
I take 2 200mg capsuls about 30 min before I want to go to bed
I turn off all electronics at the same time to help my mind wind down and do some chores or something
ASMR or sleep meditation. The tingles are awesome
Blackout curtains
Wearing a mouth piece to prevent grinding my teeth.
Keeping the windows open. Cooler temps in the bedroom have made me sleep much better.
A shower to smell clean and giving myself a Foot massage with a nice foot cream before bed. Feet have pressure points that can put you to sleep.
Go to the doctor. I tried things first a decade and a half, and nothing worked. It was getting to the point where I was sleeping every 2 or 3 days, sometimes even longer without sleeping, to get me to go. I got prescribed 2 meds after my first visit and now I sleep 4 to 5 hrs a night every night. After the first week or so when my brain fog cleared, I broke down cry8ng because I had struggled for so long, and 100 mg of Trazadone every night and wellbutrin in the morning and it’s all fixed. I could have had this back in my early 20s I wasn’t stubborn.
Playing rain sounds on a 10-hour loop literally saved my sleep schedule. Found this old video on YouTube with just pure rainfall, no thunder or music. Been using it for 3 years straight and my insomnia’s basically gone.
Have your sleeping room well ventilated, up to the point of being “not warm”.
Drink water before going to sleep- yes, having dreams about constantly having to go to the toilet or even waking up to take a piss is better than waking up dried up like a leaf.
Try to sleep on left side, get yourself some long pillow to rest your body on it.
Get another pillow, with grains or whatever its called, that adjusts to your head and neck, don’t get some shitty foam one, they don’t work.
Don’t pig out before sleep.
Don’t oversleep, as in if you woke up and its around the time you usually wake up +1h tops, get up. The neck pain you’ll get from lying in bed for too long, will last for a day or even two.
Ideally you’d like to go to sleep when you feel like it, without strict hours, but that may be hard to achieve.
If you think you have sleep apnea, swallow your pride and get the study
BBC. World service, just loud enough to hear properly. They have an app.
Even if you dont fall straight asleep they have some really interesting programming to listen to as you doze off.
If you have the money, hire a night nurse to look after your newborn overnight so you can sleep.
I don’t need beer to sleep. Life is much better now that I wake up sober and well rested.
Counting my breath, nice and slow. Breathe in on one, out on two. All the way up to ten, then repeat. I rarely make it past three iterations before I’m out.
Ceiling fan + tabletop fan that’s loud for white noise and cooling. Even in the winter!
Getting sober lead me to having the best sleep of my life.
Don’t have kids 🤣
Benadryl…
Don’t do shift work. I do 12 hour rotating shifts (nights then days). My sleep pattern changes every week and repeats in 5 week cycles. I need to sleep during the day for a couple of days and then immediately change back to nights. I’ve been doing this for 19 years now and I generally sleep for 2 to 4 sleep cycles at a time. I usually need drugs, either melatonin or diazapam to start sleeping. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t tired.
Nothing beats having had fully day of physical activity.
I saw something somewhere on Reddit (I forget exactly) so I’m definitely messing this up but it’s worked so well I cannot believe I waited until I was 40. Think of a random word like toast or shoe and where those items would be found (say, pantry for toast and closet for shoe). Then try to name 3 words of things you can find in the pantry that start with a “t” then “o” then so on and so forth. I barely get through two letters every night.
Me reading this at 1:20am, trying to fall asleep.
Turning off all screens at least 30 minutes before bed. I thought it was a dumb tip — turns out, it’s life-changing.
Honestly? Keeping a strict wake-up time every day, even on weekends.
I used to think sleeping in would “catch me up” on rest, but it actually just made me groggier and messed up my rhythm. Once I started waking up at the same time daily — even if I went to bed late — my body started naturally getting sleepy earlier, and my sleep quality shot way up.
It felt like a cheat code for energy and mood.