Sometimes I lay down and spend hours simply thinking. Sometimes I sleep almost instantly. My biological clock is a mess (for reference, it’s 4:50 now), and my work doesn’t help with it.
I woke up to go pee but now I can’t sleep back :(
Depends on the neighbors’ screams and stomping, stray dogs barking and Russian bombardments. If all is quiet (happens a few times per month) – I sleep well.
I’m a bit particular:
Between 22.30 and 23.00 I get very sleepy, if I go to bed at that time, I fall asleep in less than 5 minutes, literal. And will stay asleep until 5.45 in the morning, my wake up time.
If after 23.00 I’m still awake, unless I’m extremely tired that day, I won’t sleep until late in the night (well past midnight). In these cases, I won’t wake up by myself at 5.45 but will need an alarm because I can oversleep.
My sleep routine is extremely strict even on weekends or holidays. And best part is I haven’t actively trained it. My biological clock seems to be swiss.
Adults have aproximately 1.5hour sleep cycles, which i think also affects fall-asleep windows. I get the same as you, miss my window and thats it, I loose almost 2 hours sleep that night.
Step 1: lay down Step 2: zzzzz
It certainly helps that my job is physically heavy which after a day is tiring enough to just sleep instantly. Getting up has an instruction of it’s own though
It was hard at my previous house, where lights automatically turned on that shone in our bedroom window when anything moved outside. Where I am now, with a bedroom on the second floor, it’s usually easy, as long as I’m feeling well.
Pretty easy. Too easy? Pretty much, if I lay down, I fall asleep. Which is great most of the time, but sometimes, not so much.
I’ve had terrible insomnia for pretty much my entire life. I’ve done it all … the only thing that “works” is radical acceptance. I sleep, when/where/how I can sleep - time of day, place, other plans, doesn’t matter. Or I’ll just be tired, I’m used to that, I’ve stopped seeing it as a problem.
I used to sleep sitting in a chair in the kitchen for a while, because that’s just what worked. Head down on the table, like I just dropped dead. Gave my daughter a good scare a couple of times, when she was getting up in the middle of the night to get some water, lol. But usually I get the most sleep throughout the day via little naps. It is what it is, there’s worse problems one could have. :)
Not easy at all. I have a rigid sleeping routine that I don’t waver from, spend time distressing, drink camomile tea etc etc. I do everything right, it’s just how it goes
Depends. Sometimes it takes 30 minutes or so. Other times it can take 1 hour or more.
I can sometimes fall asleep on the couch. Others I couldn’t fall asleep on my bed to save my life.
Used to have terrible trouble falling asleep, and sometimes do still, but having a toddler has resulted in me being tired almost all the time.
My daughter needs to be cuddled to sleep, so on my nights for it I usually can keep the warm sleepy fuzzies with me into my bed.
On mom’s nights I have a routine:
If I’m hungry or thirsty I deal with it first. Usually something with a little protein in it and water.
I have a “sleep” playlist of relaxing music where most tracks I’ve heard a ton of times and can entirely tune out. I use a feature in my music player app (PowerAmp) to play all the tracks from it using a quiet/soft EQ with the volume cut by about half, so no louder or “sharp” sections cut through me nodding off. I’ll set that up to play with a sleep timer to turn off in 30-45 minutes.
I also have a FOSS “relaxing noises” app where I’ve setup a specific mix of them that I find very soothing, and I set the volume on that to slightly drown out the music, so I have to focus a little to make out the music well. Set that on a sleep timer to stop 15 minutes after the music.
If wifey’s sharing the bed (sometimes my daughter co-sleeps with her), those sounds go through one half of some wired headphones into whichever of my ears isn’t against the pillow (side sleeper). Otherwise just low volume out of the phone speaker.
Tuck in, silky eye mask goes on, and trying to listen to the music through the noise takes just enough focus to shut up my brain and stray thoughts. Then I start tuning out the music somewhat automatically and doze off.
If I can’t tune out, then I can zone out to the relaxing ambient noises and music.
Usually out before the sleep timers stop the audio.
I can fall asleep anytime and in any position. I am older now and have neuropathy so I wake up every couple of hours to go ouch and/or pee and then go back to sleep.
Going to sleep is super easy for me. It’s staying asleep that is the difficult part.
Going to sleep is the easiest part. Hard part is getting up.
On the scale 0(hard) to 10(easy), i would say around 6 or 7. Sometime i just lie down a bit and 10min in i’m asleep, sometime it takes 30min to an hour before i sleep. I mostly blame my screentime habit.
