Ask HN: How do you sleep on time? Hello fellow HN guys,
My work mostly ends around 9 to 10:00 PM. I have this hangover of spending a few hours after dinner so it ends up me being able to sleep around 12:00PM-1:00 AM which is very late.
What can I do to get to sleep early? Thanks! |
- S *Shape Tomorrow:* Make a mental note of 1-3 major things to do tomorrow during work hours.
- L *Love & Gratitude:* 5 minutes on bed: acknowledge one positive thing from today about d2d life, family, and work & feel love and gratitude, and be thankful for this day.
- Y *Your Daily Movie:* Recall everything throughout your day, EVERYTHING, recall as many details as you can remember (audio, video, emotions, feelings). Play the daily movie forward & backward, slow or in a flash.
- P *Prayer & Sleep:* Pray for peace & have a deep sleep (by the time you reach this step you're already flat asleep.)
I wanted to have better sleep and created the SLYP steps and followed them ritually for about a year but nowadays I am flat as soon as I reach my bed.
More importantly I think the key to managing sleep is managing the night before. It's WAY too easy to be randomly distracted by Netflix, Insta, TikTok, dating apps, messenger, whatever else that keep your mind racing until the point where you're expected to put your device down and just fall asleep.
You gotta get proactive about managing this. For me, I go to bed at 9:30 to fall asleep at 10:30. I use an app called Jomo that bans me from using any apps that could distract me unless I enter a long random code, which is enough to dissuade me in 90% of cases. I also have room mates who stay up late and watch TV, so I set an alarm at 9:30 that acts as a circuit breaker otherwise I stay up chatting to them all night.
How do you usually structure your day to get to bed earlier, I can't answer that one.
So, I work until 10 or so and just head to bed. I’m almost always out in less than 10 minutes.
You can do this in the morning when you wake up as well. It's a great way to start your day.
But like others have mentioned, your work schedule makes this problem particularly tough.
It probably has not-healthy side effects so I'd not recommend this day-to-day for anyone, try to avoid this myself as well.
You brain, in response, build more of those. That's why coffee is less efficient over time, and why you feel more tired without coffee when you are used to drink some'
2. Focus on sleep quality not only the duration
3. Do power naps during the day
Everyone needs time after work to process the day and wind down.
more intellectual stuff, more physical stuff.