Below have been my strategies to improve my sleep over the years:
* No coffee after 12.00 - No black tea after this time on most days either
* Peppermint tea a few hours before bed
* Magnesium before bed
* No alarm (I naturally wake up between 7 and 8am, though sometimes stay in bed for longer)
* Ereader in bed - reading helps put me to sleep
* Blackout curtains (a must in Swedish summer)
* Sometimes, visualizing scenes from whatever story I'm writing as I fall asleep. This can both help me get ideas for the story and help me fall asleep.
I am very bad with controlling screen time before bed and have pretty much given up on doing that at this point... For now. I still find myself waking up at 4am sometimes and then going back to sleep. It doesn't take long to get back, but it takes a lot of effort not to grab my phone and start scrolling in these times. If I must put my eyes on _something_, I try to make it my Kobo reader.
>Sometimes, visualizing scenes from whatever story I'm writing as I fall asleep. This can both help me get ideas for the story and help me fall asleep.
This is how I would fall asleep as a kid (when I had a flip phone). My mind was so active yet I fell into some amazing sleep.
* No coffee after 12.00 - No black tea after this time on most days either
* Peppermint tea a few hours before bed
* Magnesium before bed
* No alarm (I naturally wake up between 7 and 8am, though sometimes stay in bed for longer)
* Ereader in bed - reading helps put me to sleep
* Blackout curtains (a must in Swedish summer)
* Sometimes, visualizing scenes from whatever story I'm writing as I fall asleep. This can both help me get ideas for the story and help me fall asleep.
I am very bad with controlling screen time before bed and have pretty much given up on doing that at this point... For now. I still find myself waking up at 4am sometimes and then going back to sleep. It doesn't take long to get back, but it takes a lot of effort not to grab my phone and start scrolling in these times. If I must put my eyes on _something_, I try to make it my Kobo reader.