• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Me using phones : wow, I can sleep at 1am, great.
    Me “just going to bed” : great, it’s 4am and I’m still overthinking my shortcomings!

    • weariedfae@sh.itjust.works
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      22 hours ago

      Yep. Numbing the thoughts away with constant input helps the body gain the upper hand and let me go to sleep.

    • sparkles@piefed.zip
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      19 hours ago

      Yeah this is me as well. I just overthink for hours without a distraction. Give me a phone or something to watch and I’m out in 15 minutes honestly. I feel bad because I know I’m probably degrading my sleep but…as least I’m sleeping.

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        17 hours ago

        I recently tried audio books and they worked surprisingly well for me. I tried some of those “bedtime stories for adults” at first but they were kind of lame. Stephen King’s short story collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes did the trick. Just speaker on my phone and set to read one chapter, ~1 hour in this case.

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          17 hours ago

          I feel a little scared imagining that lol. I gotta have my bob ross everything is fine scritch scritch happy clouds.

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            16 hours ago

            Yea I’m a weirdo! My dad owns pretty much every Stephen King book, so I started reading them in middle school