I am a firm believer in sleep hygiene especially the rule “reserve the bedroom for sleep”.
I have had conversations with friends when they complain about not enough sleep and one common theme is they use electronics in the bedroom before sleep.
When I share similar recommendations as this article about not using tv or phone in the bed and to leave the bedroom and meditate if you can’t sleep after 20min I get a lot of pushback.
The most common is that they can’t fall asleep without watching a show or movie on. This is right after they complained about not being able to sleep. The second one is around not wanting to change anything about their weed or alcohol use to improve their sleep.
I think a lot of it has to do with trying to avoid other anxieties which makes their sleep worse which increases anxiety in a cycle.
This is just anecdotal without much else to say other than in people in general seem pretty skeptical about sleep hygiene. And almost seem reluctant to experiment. But I’m a firm believer.
I have had conversations with friends when they complain about not enough sleep and one common theme is they use electronics in the bedroom before sleep.
When I share similar recommendations as this article about not using tv or phone in the bed and to leave the bedroom and meditate if you can’t sleep after 20min I get a lot of pushback.
The most common is that they can’t fall asleep without watching a show or movie on. This is right after they complained about not being able to sleep. The second one is around not wanting to change anything about their weed or alcohol use to improve their sleep.
I think a lot of it has to do with trying to avoid other anxieties which makes their sleep worse which increases anxiety in a cycle.
This is just anecdotal without much else to say other than in people in general seem pretty skeptical about sleep hygiene. And almost seem reluctant to experiment. But I’m a firm believer.