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Old Oct 07, 2023, 11:43 PM
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Look at any webpage giving sleep advice and this stuff will be there. I find it irritating, as a person for whom this is not enough.

Maybe I have not worked hard enough at establishing them.

OK, I observe some sleep hygiene rules:

- I sleep in the bedroom. I do not watch big screen there. I do not have my computer there. The computer is in the second bedroom which I use as an office. I do however use my phone in the bedroom. How bad is that?

- It is dark in my bedroom.

- My bedroom window is always open.

- I am fairly consistent with bedtime, with some deviations of course (staying late cost me dearly next day).

- I listen to quiet stories to fall asleep. I stopped listening to detective stories since they were activating to me and at times even scary.


But that is about it. I do not have an evolved bedtime ritual. How about you? What have you tried and what is working well if anything?
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