1) How about I try to be in my room by 9:00 every night and go through my bathroom routine and be in bed by 9:30? Then I can spend 30 minutes reading or flipping through a magazine before bed. Reading at night always makes me sleepy. Then lights off at 10! That should get me around 7 hours of sleep. I need to ask my family to leave me alone after I go to bed. Finish asking me things, turn in phones, don't come in. Since sleep deprivation impairs memory, contributes to weight gain, and weakens the immune system, slows metabolish, I need to point these things out to my family so they can understand why my sleep is so important.2) Make the room dark and cover up all those little lights. Maybe close the curtains.
3) Don't read in bed if I can't sleep. Read in my chair and then return to bed when I feel sleepy.
4) No t.v! or computer.
5) Watch the news in the morning.
6) Adhere to a bathroom bedtime routine (more on that later), so I feel clean and refreshed before I go to bed
7) Don't do any thinking tasks after 8pm so I can start to calm my mind.
8) Stretch my body so I can relax and not be all tensed up
9) Keep my room kind of chilly
10) Make a list of to do items for the next day so I can empty my mind. Keep paper and pen on my nightstand in case I can't sleep because I'm afraid I'll forget something.
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