How do you fight the temptation to not look at your phone or other electronic devices after going to bed? (lemmy.world)

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Fml the sun's about to come up and I still can't fall asleep. Dear Brain, please shut up.

(side thought: was that basically my brain telling itself to shut up? Useless things like this keep me up at night lol...)

Edit: well hello Mr. Sun. Seems like a lot of people leave their phones outside but I feel like it'd add to my insomnia, having me wonder if family might try to contact me with an emergency. Saw some good suggestions so I will definitely give those a try, thank you!

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[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

One way to help your brain know it's time for sleep is to make "awake time" and "sleep time" VERY different from each other.

If you are laying in your bed with the lights out from 5-11, and then at 11:00 you decide you want to go to sleep, you're still just laying in bed with the lights out.

If you don't have other spaces to be awake in, at least make sure your "awake space" is different from your "sleep space". When you want to be awake, keep the lights on, and maybe have a little background music. I'd recommend staying out of your bed entirely until it's time to sleep, but if you must, try to lay differently. Lay across side ways, or keep your head at the foot of the bed.

When it's time to sleep, those stimuli change/disappear and your brain thinks "Things have changed, it's time to adapt to this new scenario"

And after a while, it will know: Lights out, head on pillow = sleep.

I used to have a lot of trouble falling asleep, AND staying awake, but creating very different scenarios for each had helped a LOT!

Good luck to you!

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