If you're struggling with sleep, here's some tricks that I've learned:
- try to avoid drinking more than 400mg caffeine in a day
- stop drinking caffeine after noon
- keep a standard bed time and wake up time
- don't play the "5 more minutes" game
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2026
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#1- Have your Vitamin D levels checked with some blood work
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8912284/
It's the most common underlying cause of sleep issues. I work outside in the sun regularly. I still came up Vit D deficient.
#2 - Have your Doctor check for other underlying sleep issues. There are many and they can be very dangerous to your health.
Then do all the others.
i was vitamin d deficient too, it's horrible and ruined my life for a bit and causes aching limbs too.
+ Don't look at phone in bed, whether waking up or going to.
+ get sunlight as earlier after waking up as poasible.
My bathroom has a lot of natural light so i figure it counts, but i seem to feel best when i go for a stroll in the morning/walk to work or to a bus stop.
I can't even look at my phone when i'm laying down, it puts me straight to sleep.
really? but the blue light, so aggravating for eyes
I could set it on max nits and WB set to blue, it could be the most interesting thing ever. The aggrivating part eventually makes me close them.
I one hundred percent woke up still sleepy as a kid.
It was only years later that I got the surgery to fix my nose.
Also have a strict bedtime and not 8 cups of coffee, just saying....
Or shrug off sleep. I used to stay up til 3 AM or more and then get up a few hours later.
Like leave the house without saying where we’re going and returning after dark somehow unharmed?
What the fuck? No? I've always had a terrible sleep schedule and constantly been tired, even as a child.
Out of curiosity did your parents enforce bedtime? Mine did and it kinda worked, but in retrospect might have set me up to normalise activities in bed
Yes
God that sucks, good luck with your sleep cycle brother
Eat 5lbs of sugar in the form of gummy things and not vomit or gain 10lbs as the result.
Honestly I couldn’t even do that as a kid. Finishing a 2 pack of Reese’s cups was almost too much for me, and a 4 pack was out of the question.
having to wear helmets and kneepads and seatbelts isn't to blame.
what's to blame is perpetually being terrified of being woken up in the middle of the night by a a phone alert that your amazon prime subscription got suspended because your debit card charge was declined. maybe it won't happen, and maybe it's never happened, but it could!
and ever since smartphones came out, your brain has been trained to think of that type of shit, and nothing else, for every nanosecond of your waking (and sleeping) life. and it's killing us.
My phone is permanently on mute, any people or notifications that aren’t in my explicitly allow list get to STFU until I wake up. You don’t have to let your phone make noise while you sleep.
I also have 'sleep mode' mute. it was an abstract example. you get what I'm saying, though. our Brauns have basically been rewired to respond to smartphones as a constant form of stimulus. it's crazy.
This is how I do it too.
I don't need my phone interrupting me every 30 seconds because someone reacted to a gif or an e-mail made it through this spam filter gauntlet.
It's MY tool, not the other way around.
Easy way to avoid this is to not subscribe to Amazon Prime.
it could be any other service or notice. it was just an example
Why don't you put your phone on do not disturb mode?
Yeah, there’s even built-in sleep modes on phones. You turn it on and only your closest contacts can get hold of you. All other notifications wait until morning. This is a solved problem.
Big if true
Ride my bike a few miles to someone's house without calling.
Be locked out of my childhood home because I lost my key and either have to wait 4 hours for my mother to get home or bike 2 hours to the place she was cleaning because there were no cell phones and she would not have picked up the business phone there after hours.
Fill up 2 x 25 gallon gas tanks on giant 12mpg van working a minimum wage job paycheck
Make mix tapes by recording the radio in hopes of finding a song where they DJ didn't talk all the way to the post.
Stop on the way home to pick up a VHS movie to watch that night.
At my CPAP setup appointment right now...
Yeah, I don’t remember ever saying, “I need to go to bed,” as a kid. I say it a lot as an old person, but as a kid, sleep was pretty much always forced on me, either by parents or sheer exhaustion.
I was thinking that today, massive respect to my dad for waking up at 6 something AM to watch cartoons with me. He sleeps in until 10 or 11 nowadays on weekends
GP1s did this to me. I've always jumped out of bed in the morning. Well, I was usually going to get stoned which helped. But the combo of going on GP1s and quitting weed... now when my alarm goes off, I'm like "Nah I'll just stay here."
as a kid I almost never felt sleepy and had an incredibly difficult time recognizing when my body was tired, leading to fucking terrible sleep habits that I continue to struggle with in adulthood
Seems fake, but okay