What gets you to sleep!?

[Stick]

Recently I've been listening to rainforest music for about 15 minutes as I go to bed, to help me clear my mind and relax to go to sleep. It's worked like wonders.

[Will T]

Every night 30 minutes of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX_xgkv9MT8.

[CaiTheHuman]

Well I watch this video on the internet. I'm sure everyone does it, I mean who doesn't. It's like very interesting. Helps me relax as well as entertain me well. Makes go to sleep too.

Its a video of sheep jumping across a gate. should get on it.

[Bhootnike]

I talk to a lizard.

[paulsterio]

Also, don't use a computer or your phone in the hour before you go to sleep

Any reason why?

I just use my computer/tablet until I'm not physically able to keep my eyes open anymore and then I just fall asleep :\

[Russ]

Light hitting your eye isn't just for vision, it also regulates your internal body clock proteins in your SCN and the levels of melatonin you have. Evolutionarily it was to keep us to a diurnal cycle, but with technology we spend hours after dark looking at bright screens, which is very likely just not a good idea

eg

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22850476

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21552190

[emxrang]

just have a regular sleeping pattern and not going to sleep when you feel like it. it not only helps your body to maintain a good routine but you also sleep faster. TRUST ME it works. no need for the fapping.

[paulsterio]

just have a regular sleeping pattern and not going to sleep when you feel like it. it not only helps your body to maintain a good routine but you also sleep faster. TRUST ME it works. no need for the fapping.

Why should I trust that it works, do you have any sort of scientific backup for this claim? I find it odd to not go to sleep when you feel like it.

[Mr Keshy]

just have a regular sleeping pattern and not going to sleep when you feel like it. it not only helps your body to maintain a good routine but you also sleep faster. TRUST ME it works. no need for the fapping.

Why should I trust that it works, do you have any sort of scientific backup for this claim? I find it odd to not go to sleep when you feel like it.

There are plenty of arguments that work for and against it. I did follow a strict routine and it definitely worked.

People say that as you develop a routine, your body knows this and starts preparing your body for sleep, however, I find that if your exercise and energy consumption varies significantly, it goes out of the window.

Point is, developing a routine will help you fall asleep "when you feel like it" at the right time. Sure if we were like actual animals it would work, get up, hunt and do what ever we would've done.. But we have to wake up and do stuff now... So it helps to keep a routine.

[Bhootnike]

Killing Ninwa and Russ in counterstrike.