I wake up at 3am to 4am daily as a neighbor makes noise walking their dog. This cannot be helped. Once I am awake, my mind won’t stop going over details about everything from the mundane to the critical. Often, I am able to fall asleep again after three or more hours of wakefulness, but only minutes before I have to wake for the day.

Does anyone have success with quieting the mind without substances so that they can fall back to sleep?

Edit: I want to thank you all for the helpful comments. I’m reading through them now and wioo be internalizing some of the suggestions.

To provide more context for those who asked:

I do have ADHD and OCD and Anxiety.
I sleep with a fan and a white noise track (10hrs of non-repeating noise I d/l’d with newpipe). My apartment building has a fire escape that the neighbor uses as their front door. This path means using a heavy steel door on a power hinge. (Slam!) The door is against the wall that my headboard is on. They have every right to use whichever door they like, and I don’t know them well enough yet to ask them to change for me. They are trying to be as quiet as they can, other than using the loudest path possible. They seem very nice, and their dog is quiet and well trained.
I’m in the middle of a long period of unemployment and I am beginning to worry about finances, as my savings are about half gone in a year.

Thanks again for all the suggestions! I’ll report back with my results in a few days.

  • Herbal Gamer
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    1010 months ago

    Do you have ADHD or something similar?
    I always need to have something playing in the background to stop my mind from overworking.

    • @bighatchester
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      310 months ago

      Me too . Lately I put on it’s always Sunny in Philadelphia since I’ve seen every episode many times and set the tv with a sleep timer . I’m also very nerdy so I like to imagine cool PC setups or electronic projects I would make if I had no budget . Somehow that helps me fall asleep.

      • Herbal Gamer
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        110 months ago

        so I like to imagine cool PC setups or electronic projects I would make if I had no budget

        Combine the two without a big budget; I have a dresser with drawers at the foot of my bed, with a laptop on a cooling stand in the middle one (open for ventilation), and a cheap projector in the top one that shines onto the ceiling. Cables all tuck away around the back.

    • @arin
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      010 months ago

      No, they have thin walls

      • Herbal Gamer
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        210 months ago

        That doesn’t mean they can’t go back to sleep when the neighbour is done walking their dog.