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Much to her annoyance, this is not a needed for me to fall asleep. I have to make sure I am not in an inclined position at all or I will fall asleep if she is talking or not.
Pretty much the same for me. One night a week I usually crash around 9 or 10 due to exhaustion.
If I did this, I'd fall asleep when it was time to leave for work. I have always been a night owl. Can pretty much stay awake all night. On weekends, I'll stay up to 3 or 4 am because I can read, play video games or watch TV uninterrupted. It's so peaceful and quiet. No noise from outside. It's great. I love the nighttime.
I suspect this is the source of the problem for many (most). If I knew the solution to it then I'd be a very wealthy man. It's very easy to tell someone to shut it down, but teaching them how to actually do it -
That's probably your problem right there. Don't stay up so late on the weekends and you'll have a easier time falling asleep during the week.
Yup. I love when people are like, "Just try not thinking about stuff." Oh. Wow. Why didn't I think of that?I suspect this is the source of the problem for many (most). If I knew the solution to it then I'd be a very wealthy man. It's very easy to tell someone to shut it down, but teaching them how to actually do it -
If that were true, I wouldn't have had this issue my whole life. The night owl is a byproduct of not being able to sleep. You accept who you are and embrace it.
I really don't spend a lot of time on my phone. My wife, on the other hand will be on that for 4 hours after work then plop her head down and start snoring away the day.
I don't have any trouble falling asleep when I go to bed. But I do wake up in the middle of the night and have trouble falling back to sleep for these very reasons (thoughts racing around in my head, thinking about what I have to do at work the next day, etc.). In times like this, I've found that white noise machines (crashing waves, etc.) are insufficient to push out the thoughts. Conversely, watching something on tv is too stimulating to induce sleep. The two things that help me fall asleep almost instantly are (1) listening to music through earbuds (there is a particular song that is almost an instant sleep inducer for me); and (2) listening to a YouTube ASMR video through earbuds (there are particular videos by a particular YouTuber that work for me). I don't watch the videos, just listen to the whispering. It's enough to push out all the thoughts in my head, but not so intrusive as to delay sleep. that's what works for me at least.Yup. I love when people are like, "Just try not thinking about stuff." Oh. Wow. Why didn't I think of that?
I can usually feel my eyes darting as the thoughts race through my head. One thing that helps but is hard to do (for me, anyway) is to visualize something. I notice that when I can't fall asleep it's because I'm narrating what I see instead of just visualizing it. And even when I try to just visualize it, I'll notice my brain is going, "OK. So there's a setting sun over the ocean while waves are crashing on the beach..."
I can only fall asleep to the TV if it's something I don't care about or if it's something I have seen hundreds of times. That's why I put on The Office. It's essentially white noise for me.
I have found that certain podcasts are monotone and have helped me fall asleep - the Sam Harris one is an example that comes to mind.
The worst is when you fall asleep with TV on, it wakes you up when something loud comes on and you can fall back asleep for hours.
The good thing is I'm a pretty heavy sleeper. It takes a lot to wake me up once I'm asleep. Plus, I always make sure to set the sleep timer on the TV before bed. I set it for 120 minutes and I'm golden.
According to Matthew Walker, you shouldn't. He basically says people who make the claim that they are fine getting 5-6 hours of sleep are full of it. I'm paraphrasing but he's pretty adamant that we aren't meant to function on that little sleep. His podcast on Rogan is pretty startling if you are an insomniac or a bad sleeper.
