Ehh…that doesn’t necessarily pan out either. If I have no stimulation at all, my mind can swirl to 10001 different thoughts. What often works for me, personally, is to put on a YouTube video on my phone to help fall asleep. The trick is you want to find a long, relatively boring and not engaging one to sort of lull you to sleep. Make the mistake of putting on something too interesting and you’re fucked.
That’s me, anyway. I don’t always need thought distractions to sleep but often I do.
No phone use in bed.
Might not help with the getting into bed part, but it’s cognitive behavioral therapy to associate bed with sleep.
Ehh…that doesn’t necessarily pan out either. If I have no stimulation at all, my mind can swirl to 10001 different thoughts. What often works for me, personally, is to put on a YouTube video on my phone to help fall asleep. The trick is you want to find a long, relatively boring and not engaging one to sort of lull you to sleep. Make the mistake of putting on something too interesting and you’re fucked.
That’s me, anyway. I don’t always need thought distractions to sleep but often I do.
I find podcasts are even better, you can listen to them with your eyes closed.
I put on MKBHD
Me who is literally bedridden and hasn’t had the physical capacity to leave my bed in two years:
Guess I’ll just throw my phone away then…