For some peculiar reason, unknown at the moment, I stayed up until 1:45am last night playing sudoku online. Why?
1. Habit.
2. I was a little wired from having a pretty active day, and did not start the unwinding process early enough - was tired at 10pm, but stayed up because I was hyped up on doing my taxes. Obsessive brain needs an off switch.
Prevention?
Well, I think ultimately, it's the process of habit building. One mistake does not a habit make or break. So, we slough it off, get on with the day, and plan tonight to wind down early.
Some tips gleaned from various sources for winding down:
- write down your schedule for the next day
- take a warm shower before bed. Help set up good sleep body temperature.
- write down whatever might be bothering you (I don't think this one would work for me.)
- meditate.
- keep weekend and weekday wake times the same. Changing things on the weekends resets, or more correctly, upsets your internal clock.
- Dim the lights at least 30 minutes to bedtime. (Reading in dim light usually gets me. However, my obsessiveness doesn't enjoy reading stuff without getting engrossed. That's a cue to tell my obsessiveness to take a long walk off a short bridge.)
- white noise. Perhaps.
writing a scheudle actually wakes me up mroe where Is tart worrying about what I didn't do today and then I get up and start doing more things.. so I wish that worked for me.
ReplyDeleteI've been having huge problems sleeping.. I dont' know what I'm going to do about it.
I've tried mediation it helps sometimes and not others don'tknow why really.
probably 5 and 6 are the best for me, except my life doens't lend itself to 4 and 6 at the moment so I just suffer. It's making me nuts, but there has to be more answers.. well we'll see. hope it works out.