1 - how do you combat this when you can’t get to sleep (for the next time this happens)
2 - best plan tonight? super early night - or power through to normal bed time to get back into a proper sleeping pattern
i think i fell asleep at about 6 am - had to get up at 7.30 - seem to be doing ok tho! maybe i don’t even NEED sleep!
I am also struggling to sleep a lot as I am finding myself waking up with a really blocked nose at around 4am every night despite the fact I’m not that bunged up during the day, bit weird no?
For just general insomnia I sometimes use these natural remedy pill things from Boots which work (almost certainly as a placebo)
If I find myself really struggling to get off to sleep because I’m stuck in the loop of worrying that I can’t get to sleep which is then stopping me from getting off to sleep I find focusing on a simple, relatively inane mental task helps me to forget about worrying and nod off.
Usually I play the alphabet game where you take a subject (animals, bands, actors…) and try to think of 4 of them starting with A, then 4 more starting with B…etc. When I do this I’ve never gotten more than half way through the alphabet before I have fallen asleep.
Had a few nights of bad sleep, bought on by staying up stupidly late on Sunday. Oh, and last night, Mrs HYG was snoring so badly I had to go sleep on the sofa
I find that reading an actual book for as long as possible is the best thing. Checking my phone and what not is definitely bad. However, at the moment I’m reading Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol and it’s so fucking exciting it’s not helping.
Usually reading does for me but if the book is good I’ll just stay up. I try to switch over to something a bit dry/hard going like a philosophy/science/history book and I don’t usually last longer than a couple of pages before I’m out.