I have sound machines or white noise machines but because I wear earplugs I don’t use them at night. My neighbor is so bad that I can hear him even with earplugs so I give up on that. I’ve tried the machine and the plugs and it’s hopeless. I curse the day he was born, laminate flooring up there and he has no rugs at all. The sound machine can be just a competing noise of its own.

Sometimes I say out loud or think breathe in through the nose, out through the mouth. I never knew why they say that, why not the nose both times.

So it depends on what’s keeping me up, my thoughts or my neighbor. The weather matters too, sometimes it’s too hot to sleep or it’s too cold to get out of bed….. I have to adjust what I do depending on various factors.

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