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(please boost to help me gather more good tips)

So, Mastadon, please tell as one (or more) of your best sleeping advice. It could be about how you fall asleep faster, how you manage to sleep through the night without waking up, how you make the most of the time you have to sleep, what you do to help yourself feel better first thing in the morning. Anything you've tried and believe to be helpful that has to do with sleep.

Let's work together and help each other seep and feel better.
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a35c9965... 2y ago

nostr:npub13jdgzuwpwpsstpg03js8kp473wxek9ds6uff4vfv64rlv43pm5kss3uun7 Best advice from someone with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and pre-existing insomnia and depression (so I dreaded going to be and being alone with my thoughts):

1. Buy a heart rate monitor. I got one for the CFS to stop going into post-exertional malaise, but soon realised that my heart rate monitor thought I was asleep at 11pm when I was downstairs on the sofa on the internet.

I didn't think I was ready to sleep, but my body was getting ready - heart rate slowing, moving less.>

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a35c9965... 2y ago

nostr:npub13jdgzuwpwpsstpg03js8kp473wxek9ds6uff4vfv64rlv43pm5kss3uun7 >which is how the HR monitor judges whether you're asleep.

Sleep goes in 1.5 hour cycles, so if you miss the point when your body is ready and go to bed after midnight (say) you may be in the phase where your body is ramping back up again instead of winding down, making it harder to go to sleep.

I switched to going to be when my HR monitor thought I was already asleep, and within days I was going to sleep minutes after going to bed. Completely blown away.

HR monitor are better>