Turning off those devices!

[SunsetRunner]

When I am on the computer or watching tv, I find my mind is in overdrive and that leads to an awful nights sleep!

What do you guys do to switch off?

I find that having 30 mins away from devices helps to shut down for the night!

[SunsetRunner]

Needing to relax a while to before able to sleep.

[A_Lurker]

I'm one of those people who fall asleep with the tv going.  I put something on and I can sleep.  I start with a book and I can get too much into it that hours pass.

[DanielleinDC]

I sometimes read before bed. But I'm also trying to get into the habit of doing some light yoga (in bed) before going to sleep. A few gentle twists, a minute or so in the bound angle pose (sit with the soles of your feet touching and the tips of your fingers touching the floor behind you), 30 seconds to a minute of child's pose, 30 seconds to a minute of a reclining goddess pose (lie on your back, pull your legs into a diamond shape, and put your arms over your head), at least a minute of corpse pose.

If you have a tight groin, the reclining goddess pose will do wonders.

I cobbled together a routine from a book called Yoga in Bed and a flipbook from 2005 called Yoga to the Rescue. Sometimes I'll do a bit of aromatherapy to help me.

[SunsetRunner]

That sounds interesting - I've never done yoga or even bed yoga before! I'll check it out!

[x_Toots_x]

For some reason reading always wakes me up and I simply must keep turning the pages to find out what happens next. However listening to an audiobook eliminates this problem, I think because I'm not physically moving. It got so bad that I had to stop listening on my way to sleep because I was missing huge chunks of story.

In light of this I play white noise from my phone. I play mine from my Sleep Android app (favouring thunderstorm) but there are several thousand white noise tracks on youtube. Alternatively spoken meditation tracks can be handy if you're having trouble getting to sleep but I'm the girl that always falls asleep at the end of the yoga class so I seem to be susceptible to that sort of thing.

Moral of the story is I would have a much harder time getting to sleep if I turned off all my devices.

[SunsetRunner]

That's interesting!

I know somebody else who listens to things like white noise.

Have you ever tried ASMR - binaural videos?

Here's one I know of: https://youtu.be/xppnzlkpLzg

Some are like role play videos but some are noises and sounds.

[dragonpupps]

I think studies show that an hour away from devices are best, but for me I can sleep regardless, because if I'm tired, nothing will stop me from sleeping. I usually can go effectively from a device right to bed.

[shipo]

When it comes to getting in bed on time, the most dangerous "device" in my house is a good book.  Said another way, getting up from in front of the comuter or the TV and heading for bed on time is no problem; putting down a good book is really-REALLY difficult.  Kinda like, "Okay, to the next scene change; no wait, to the end of this chapter.  Oh okay, one more chapter after that."  

[AnnieFitbit]

I would have to agree with @shipo on this one! Every time I read before bed, the book was like "OK, you're done with the drama. Haha, kidding! Here's a good plot twist." I had to keep reading! 

What I do is that I drink chamomile tea before going to sleep, and I listen to calming music. It works amazingly, and I wake up with a lot of energy the next day! 

[Ukase]

Honestly, I've heard repeatedly that I should shut things down an hour before bed. You could also get some glasses that protect your eyes from that blue light - which allegedly tells your brain it's still daylight out. 

I just take about 2-3mg of melatonin. Seems to work. On weekends, I don't take 'em at all, I just stay up later. 

[HelenaFitbit]

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@SunsetRunner wrote:
That's interesting!

I know somebody else who listens to things like white noise.

Have you ever tried ASMR - binaural videos?

Here's one I know of: https://youtu.be/xppnzlkpLzg

Some are like role play videos but some are noises and sounds.

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I've tried them! When I was having anxiety attacks, ASMR videos were recommended to me; I decided to pick the ones I liked the most; so I now watch miniature cooking videos. 

[CookieCrumble10]

I know right! 

Moderator edit: Format. 

[GettinfitAus]

I usually listen to podcasts, mostly science or history ones and I leave them playing all night. That way when I wake up I can listen until I fall back to sleep. As a result I will generally listen to the same ones over and over because of course I usually miss the endings :).

I haven't found that using devices before bed actually impacts on my sleep to a noticable degree, so I still play cards on my ipad or read a book on there as I am settling into bed.

[Shanedurkan100]

Hi I have Fitbit charge 2 and I don't want sleep so I charge it every night and it doesn't log sleep