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Tips for sober sleep? (hexbear.net)
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Trying to cut back on the booze for my health but damn I'm realizing I have a hard time getting to bed without something in my system. A few nights I've had to just say fuck it and grab a few Modelo tall boys at the gas station just to shut up my own brain long enough to get to sleep.

Thing is once I do get to sleep I sleep way better but that's after hours of laying in bed trying to let myself drift off.

I've tried weed but I'm one of those people where there's a 50/50 chance weed will actually make it worse.

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[–] mrfugu@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

When this happens to me I just go to sleep while watching youtube. My partner likes to use math or coding lectures but my personal go-to is the JustBackgroundNoise VOD channel. Something about Morrowind long plays in general just work for me.

The trick is to find a topic/presenter that can hold your attention just enough to make the voices stop but not so much that you stay up watching it. A lot of youtube channels have dedicated sleep subchannels where the videos are extra long and loud noises are edited out. Really just type in “[topic] to sleep to” and you should be able to find something.

[–] LocalAreaMan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

This. I had similar advice.