On Monday, we ran a series of articles about sleeping including Richard Wiseman's 12-step guide to getting a good night's kip[1]. Guardian readers responded online with hundreds of tips of their own. Here are some of the best.
▶ Orange peel tea! Pour hot water over some cleaned orange peel sitting in a small mug. Drink 20 minutes before bedtime (of course, just a little – so it doesn't make you wake up and go pee). Sleep like a baby guaranteed! Good for daytime anxiety, heartache as well!
heidib123[3]
▶ I use audiobooks. I have a sleep timer that turns it off after 10 or 20 minutes. I rarely make it that long.
crumit
▶ Warm feet. I won't fall asleep with cold feet. Dehydration. If you wake up during the night, drink some water. For reading, try some legal text. European Directives, for example. They are free for download.
Ralfph
▶ Each night I try starting from the front of the index of London's A-Z and reading each street name. I am usually asleep before Hornsey Rise.
galava
▶ This method saved me: when I wake in the night, I put my lamp on a timer to turn off in 30 minutes, then I read fiction. I'm asleep before the lamp turns itself off. I also avoid alcohol two hours before bedtime, and preferablly have none at all, exercise three times a week, and eat sensibly. I sleep like a baby now.
equestriancanuk
▶ Sex?
rebeccasbrain
▶ My way of relaxing is reading, a glass of whisky and I find sleep just comes to me. I always think of the desolate cold bleak moors in the rain and wind close to where I live, and I snuggle down and am safe and warm. Then I'm asleep.
Heisenberg77
▶ Switch off the TV and go to bed with a printed book and a glass of milk.
Paganview
▶ My rules: avoid light one hour before going to sleep. I just stay in darkness, seated, listening to radio classical music. Go to bed as soon as I have the first yawn and always get up at the same time.
Tomas Parra
▶ Tensing the muscles in your body and then relaxing them works a treat.
Remmie
References
- ^ Richard Wiseman's 12-step guide to getting a good night's kip (http)
- ^ Softly does it: how to choose the perfect mattress (www.theguardian.com)
- ^< /sup> Sleep (www.theguardian.com)
- ^ Facebook (www.facebook.com)
- ^ Twitter (twitter.com)
- ^ Pinterest (www.pinterest.com)
- ^ Facebook (www.facebook.com)
- ^ Twitter (twitter.com)
- ^ Pinterest (www.pinterest.com)
- ^ In search of sleep: 'I am a night owl who desperately wants to be up with the lark' (www.theguardian.com)
