put phone down
sleep
fall asleep
wake up from sound of phone hitting the floor
I do screens off 2 hours before and when I start to feel tired I do the front door checks and make camomile tea. I then watch sitcoms till I start to nod off, then go to bed.
Honest question, what’s the point of screens off if your game plan is nodding off in front of your TV?
I guess it’s more passive for them. I’m the opposite as I get engrossed in good TV, don’t care much for filler streaming slop.
It doesn’t require attention and I can’t see the time, plus blue light
Your TV emits just as much blue light as your phone… It’s literally a screen, you’re not doing screens off
Yep for the 40 minutes I’m not, but I find it helps me to avoid it before then
Lately, I have been using a ‘night sky’ projector, on a timer, paired with a Bluetooth speaker playing DS9 promenade ambience. Sometimes, I try Subnautica ambience, but I require white noise of some kind. Very magical and it’s kind of hard to sleep without it now
Love it. I use TNG engineering night shift ambience. I might have to try Subnautica, that’s a good idea.
Take 2 Ambien, and a lorazepam and wait for the walrus to tell me what to do.
My full routine:
- clean my glasses
- shower
- water floss & brush teeth
- moisturize
- take nightly meds
- reading a book somewhere other than my bed (this is when I begin to avoid blue light), usually for an hour
- put hair up in a night cap
- put mouth guard in (I have bruxism)
- turn noise machine on
- in bed I try to gently redirect thoughts that are too intense, but otherwise let my thoughts drift
- Brush teeth
- Lie down in bed
- Put in earplugs
- Read a book on e-reader until falling asleep
- Put away e-reader and sleep
I used to use my phone in bed and watch videos until falling asleep until fairly recently, when I decided to try to switch it for reading books instead. I’m seeing great results so far, falling asleep earlier and staying asleep more consistently
Brush my teeth. Read a little bit. Fall asleep.
Child in bed by 8pm. Game as partner cooks. We watch a movie. They go to bed 10-11pm. I then go game for 1-2 hours. Then tv or journal and go to bed. I’m always under seven hours of sleep.
This schedule sucks sleep wise but I get to do what I want. I really need 2-3 hours of cooldown after work and baby.
complete evening task, hit the shower or not, this depends if i showered earlier in the evening or not. Then it’s one of the following viz: a. Netflix and snooze
b. watch documentary on youtube till i fall asleep
c. Listen to erotica podcast (slept to a lot of We gotta thing podcast and Accidental swinger).
Make sure my alarm is on, plug in phone and iPad, lay down in my hammock and wrap up.
I play Astrum (a calming YouTube channel about space) and watch it till I fall asleep (~5min)
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None at the moment. Hammer away at job application til I realize it’s an hour after bedtime and I need to eat dinner.
