I’ve tried it before. I just lay in bed rolling around staring at the ceiling and replaying all of my anxieties for hours before giving up.
Wait, don’t read? I thought I had always heard that reading is a really good choice before bed.
Reading is better than the flashing lights of a TV which are better than doing physical activity for most people. Reading is still mentally stimulating, and can keep someone’s mind going when they are trying to relax. For neurotypical people, nothing is better than any of those things, which is the audience for those websites.
For neurodivergent people those activities have very different impacts on our ability to be able to sleep, and nothing often opens the floodgates of random thoughts. For me, a movie I have seen a lot of times before is the best way to fall asleep because it doesn’t keep me paying a lot of attention and keeps my mind from wandering to other things. That’s why I have shows like Futurama to wind down with.
For me it’s gotta be a documentary that’s interesting but not toooooo interesting, you know? Something with a bit of intrigue to get my attention while I’m watching it, but my interest isn’t high enough to keep me awake watching it.
Ancient history, history of languages, paleontology, true crime, fromsoftware lore videos, that kind of stuff will do it. Or, randomly, TomatoGaming vod streams will do it? He’s not soothing at all, but it conks me right out, I don’t get it.
What’s your go-to movie that you’ve seen a million times, when you need something to watch and fall asleep with?
I haven’t used TV/Movies for sleep but I think I’d go with The Office for TV (how original I know) and maybe something from the MCU for a Movie.
Not the person you replied to, but “How It’s Made” has really been fitting the bill for me lately. It’s just interesting enough to somewhat hold my attention, but the narrator and music are low energy and don’t keep me awake.
That narrator is so good, and I can see that show being perfect for going to sleep. Ideal blend of interesting and dry.
Don’t really have a go to movie. Pretty much anything I’ve seen a bunch of time like the original Star Wars trilogy, Constantine, Lord of the Rings, any of the Alien movies, Predator, any Mel Brooks movie, MCU movies, and a whole lot more.
I’ve accidentally read until like 3am before, so I imagine the content/interestingness is important.
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What the FUCK do you mean two hours. That’s two hours I NEED in my life. 9-10h of work and work adjacent activities, 2h of sport, 8h of sleep, two hours of DOWNTIME!?
I have no trouble falling asleep, even after binging screen time for hours before bed. I’m happy to be an outlier on this one.
You definitely are. I am unable to sleep without a high-THC concentrate loaded with Myrcene and/or Caryophyllene.
e: I also need YouTube to be playing in my headphones all night long. If I don’t have either of these then I can’t fucking sleep.
I think “I need a medically induced coma to rest” makes you the outlier.
Yeah I legitimately turn on YouTube videos on my phone to help me fall asleep. Works great. Key is to just not watch anything super interesting/stimulating.
Yep I don’t even filter out blue light. ZZzZ.
If you’re not allowed anything stimulating for two hours then what are you supposed to do during that time? Just lay down and wish you were dead? 🤨
Not stimuli, stimulating. Stimmin you know, the little sister of swimming
This advice: “If it takes you 2 hours to fall asleep, go to bed 2 hours earlier.”
Instructions unclear: never left bed. :(
I literally can’t fall asleep unless I’m reading something and simultaneously listening to the audiobook version with my headphones and noise cancelling is on.
I have broken too many. It sucks.
I think you just described a torture device personally
It’s all about the bad habits we pick along the way
Reruns and sudoku is the best I’ve been able to find.
Yeah wtf am I supposed to do if I have to sit still for even one minute
I sleep very badly if I don’t read before so I can’t relate.
