Tips to help with a good night's sleep

[Marjo]

Happy Friday all!

World Sleep Day is a celebration of sleep and takes place this week on Saturday around the world! It also aims to grow the awareness of sleep-related issues. It's organised by World Sleep Society (you can check their website here). Their goal also includes better prevention and management of sleep disorders.

Related to this, I wanted to ask if you have any great tips for how you get a good night's sleep? For myself I've found that using my mobile phone while I'm already in bed is a no-no (something about the light from it disturbing sleep) and also, no caffeine 6 hours before bedtime!

Do you have any other tips for sleep that you've heard of?

[Anonymous]

I seem to be of the lucky minority who have never suffered with sleep.....after 2 minutes of laying on my front i'm in the land of slumber!!!

It really annoys my misses as she takes hours to drop off to sleep!!!

[Marjo]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I seem to be of the lucky minority who have never suffered with sleep.....after 2 minutes of laying on my front i'm in the land of slumber!!!

It really annoys my misses as she takes hours to drop off to sleep!!!

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I'm also one of those that take a long time to fall asleep! Are you able to sleep in the plane too if you're travelling?

[Anonymous]

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Marjo wrote

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I'm also one of those that take a long time to fall asleep! Are you able to sleep in the plane too if you're travelling?

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Unfortunately not......I would LOVE to be able to do this!

I have to be on my front to fall asleep quickly. Also, i can't abide background noise when getting to sleep....it has to be dead silent

[Cleoriff]

I can fall asleep on a plane and usually do. It makes the flight go more quickly.

Normal sleep for me always involves reading in bed before I get into sleep mode. I then just drop the book, bedside light out and I'm gone. If I wake up in the night I can uually drop off again....

Mind you as the mornings are getting lighter I will get up earlier. (I was up at 6.15am this morning)

[Anonymous]

I really wish i could sleep on a plane.....i'm not the best flyer but like to go away a couple times a year money permitting!!

[Anonymous]

Best sleep I ever had was when camping ...= ... out in the air all the time

Now it's a routine of listening to Radio4 whilst snuggled up in bed, taking night-time tablets which includes a sleeping tablet then falling asleep to the radio, which shuts down after 59 minutes

[Marjo]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Best sleep I ever had was when camping ...= ... out in the air all the time

Now it's a routine of listening to Radio4 whilst snuggled up in bed, taking night-time tablets which includes a sleeping tablet then falling asleep to the radio, which shuts down after 59 minutes

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That's so handy that your radio shuts off by itself after a specific period of time! I wish all my electronic devices did that, would be so useful.

Oh @Anonymous was it a bivouac shelter you used when camping? I've done that and it was super exciting. However, I was about 5 years old. Later I heard there are bears in that forest...

[Anonymous]

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@Marjo wrote:

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That's so handy that your radio shuts off by itself after a specific period of time! I wish all my electronic devices did that, would be so useful.

Oh @Anonymous was it a bivouac shelter you used when camping? I've done that and it was super exciting. However, I was about 5 years old. Later I heard there are bears in that forest...

My clock radio is quite old, the alarm doesn't work any more, I use my mobile for that now

A large frame tent when married ... then a nylon tent the colour of army green, shaped like a stealth bomber  when on my own, all the stuff carried by me ... happy days 

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