There’s some pride I take towards getting good sleep score when I sleep and wake up the next day. I think its mostly me being proud of myself getting in a place to get good sleep, like reading, and chilling out. Getting a good night time routine going to get me asleep.
Currently this is my night time routine:
Turn off all major bright room lights and get all warm lights on
Shower for the day (cold showers preferable)
Floss and Brush teeth, maybe gargle / mouthwash.
Cool down in the bedroom, with aircon and fan on, to get my body temp lower.
Write or summarize the day in some way. It could be an app tracking the things I did today. Or this daily blog
Read a book.
I find that this sequence has worked one of the best, and got me a really good score yesterday. And it needs to be done by about 10PM, if not my brain gets kinda cranky, and I don’t get myself to sleep properly.
I also realised I really enjoy the use of soft earplugs. Last night I used the Loop earbuds, that are great to sleep with for some reason. They don’t hurt my ears like how some of the foam ones do, and they don’t roll out of my ears through the night.
I’m aiming to have really good sleep tonight again, because I’ve done all the things that I mentioned above, and I’m really ready to rest well for tomorrow’s early day.
A self reminder post for myself to have good sleep.