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How do you fight the temptation to not look at your phone or other electronic devices after going to bed? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Fml the sun's about to come up and I still can't fall asleep. Dear Brain, please shut up.

(side thought: was that basically my brain telling itself to shut up? Useless things like this keep me up at night lol...)

Edit: well hello Mr. Sun. Seems like a lot of people leave their phones outside but I feel like it'd add to my insomnia, having me wonder if family might try to contact me with an emergency. Saw some good suggestions so I will definitely give those a try, thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've built a pavlovian response to my phone while I'm in bed that instantly puts me to sleep. I started laying down on my side with one headphone on and put a calm show, like an animal documentary or find science channels on YouTube. Turn autoplay off. Lights off. Set up do not disturb, and set so your preferred contacts can reach you if they call twice. This will mute all notifications while giving piece of mind in case is emergency. I also set DND to turn off at 8am.

Eventually I would dose off in say 30 min of watching. After years of routine I dose off in like 10 minutes. In fact if I lay down and try to browse on my phone I get sleepy regardless.

Hardest part is looking for the headphone the morning when I wake up lol.