Sleep is very important, especially when you’re trying to do your best in life and school.
Here are some things to consider when wanting to get a good night’s sleep.
You don’t need the same amount of sleep as your friend does.
Some nights you could need ten hours of sleep, but some nights even just five is enough.
You’ll need to find the best amount or avoid the worst amount.
Despite the suggestion to turn all electronics off about an hour before sleep, bet I know that most of you don’t. You should at least turn off most of your lights and lower the brightness of your screen of the device you’re using.
Apparently you should sleep an amount that is 1.5 fold, so 7.5 hours or 9, but it isn’t necessary that this will work for you.
Get a sleeping app, preferably something that doesn’t record you or is limited to just your snoring. Anyway, what you should look for in that app is that it wakes you up in the span of a certain time, but at the time you’re most awake.
Avoid snoozing in the morning. It just makes it harder to get up.
But if you want to sleep as much as you can, prepare everything the night before so you don’t have to rush.
Try not to eat for at least an hour before you go to bed, it might make you feel a little sick.
Drink water before bed, but also go to the bathroom if you don’t want to have to get up in the middle of the night.
Apparently, if you sleep on your side, it’s better to sleep on your left side, because otherwise due to your stomach’s acid you’ll feel uneasy.
If you can, try and make sure that the room temperature is on the cold side, because it’ll let you fall asleep faster and better.
If you want to try and fall asleep faster, there are always a few methods that can help.
One I found helpful is blinking rapidly for a minute, because then if your eyes are tired, your brain will think you’re exhausted and let you rest sooner.
Another one is going over what you did during the day to find a certain closure.
And another one is making a to do list in your mind for the next day or the whole week.
If you’re uneasy or maybe even excited about something the next day, try one of these two: plan out how it’ll go, how successful it will be and things like that, or start making up scenarios or something similar that is completely unrelated to that thing that’s keeping you up.
Sometimes making stories in your mind wears you out and makes you fall asleep sooner.
Keep water and other essentials by your bed.
If you’re woken up by a nightmare, try to calm yourself as much as you can and drink some water.
Sometimes to fall asleep all you have to do is be completely still.
Have a small pillow or teddy bear or anything to hug for comfort if necessary.
Unless you’re using the sleeping app, don’t have any electronics on head level in a two meter radius and if you have to have a phone close, preferably keep it lower or completely on the floor.
Try not to do too many things on your bed because your brain will think you’re supposed to do something when you actually want to sleep.
Use silk sheets if you can, your skin will thank you, as will you in the summer.
In winter, if you don’t usually, try not to sleep with socks on, instead have more blankets.
In summer, if you sleep without a blanket and can’t fall asleep, try putting it just over your hips.
You can’t actually catch up on sleep, so try and sleep as much as you can.
And finally, track how much you sleep when you don’t have an alarm to wake you, and try to achieve that when it does have to wake you.
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