Well the end has been and gone,
overall it wasn't a complete failure, I had more nights where I went to bed
before midnight, and a few that were after. Compared to before, this is a vast
improvement. I intend to keep trying and aiming for a 10pm bed time.
The National Sleep Foundation ten top tips, which are
mostly common sense when you really think about it.
My tips are
Get rid of electronics from the
bedroom.
- No TV,
- No p.c.,
- No laptop,
- No tablet,
- No smartphone, in fact no phones at all.
Have your bedroom at a
comfortable temperature.
- I prefer cool,
- my son needs warm as he doesn't sleep with covers; ever. Even when it is minus 12* outside and cold inside.
Make it nice and dark
- invest in blackout blinds if necessary
Don’t eat after dinner and try
and have dinner before 7pm.
Don’t get sucked in with TV time
schedules. Most people have some sort of record facility on their TV’s. Record
and watch when you have time during the day.
Well thank you for following me
on my mission to get more better quality sleep. Oh and I purchased a Lumie BodyClock. Tried it today
for the first time and it sort of worked. When the beep beep of the alarm part came on and woke me up, the sun was
shining, I hit the snooze and the light and sound went off, I was not expecting
that. I would have liked the noise to stop but the light to continue, it
snoozed for 9 minutes and this time the beep
beep woke up Lyle and he got up and came into my room.
The verdict is still out but I have
not written it off after one day.
Next mission is DeBloAdMo, otherwise known as December Blogging Advent
Month to tie in with our Activities Advent Calendar and Elf on the Shelf
That's kind of lame that the light goes off. That defeats the purpose! I wonder if there is a setting to keep it on... probably not. I hope it ends up working for you, but that pretty much turns me off wanting to get one. Boo.
ReplyDeleteI had figured it out a few mornings ago, but tried this morningand i couldnt stop the rooster (Lyle wanted to try it as he has *always* wanted a rooster to wake us all up in the mornings haha). So there is a way, I just havn't mastered it in my fuzzy-just woken up state yet.
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