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Sleeping tricks (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by olafurp@lemmy.world to c/autism@lemmy.world
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I'm looking for sleeping tricks and thought some other people here might have similar issues or good tricks. Can be anything from getting the motivation to go to sleep to actually tricks to falling asleep.

My current trickbook is basically this:

Podcasts, but it has to be in some goldilocks zone of interesting to enough to keep attention but not too good so it gets exciting.

I've also done meditation in bed when falling asleep that tends to work.

Consistent routine is good. Shower, brush teeth, lights off, episode, sleep.

I'm curious to see what other autistic people are working with here.

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[-] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My partner and I have recently started a new routine. We take an evening shower, then no electronics or tv until we get into bed usually about an hour later. We also stopped eating 3 hours before bed.

We are barely a week in, but it has made a huge difference in our sleep already! I’ve been sleeping better and more relaxed before bed, which makes sleeping easier.

As for actually falling asleep, I count backwards from 100,000. It really helps quiet me down and let things go. I rarely get past 99,950 :)

HTH!

Edit: words are hard

this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2024
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