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Sleep hygiene is crucial

literally can change your life. A sleep mask or blackout curtains are kind of a must — any light is detrimental to the body finding its natural sleep rhythm. a slightly cooler temperature also helps, as does (and this is controversial!) wearing socks. socks help regulate the body’s temperature as you sleep, if you can stand them. developing a routine can really improve sleep quality. try to go to bed at the same time (+/- 30 mins) every day of the week. same thing with waking up. try to stop consuming food, content, blue light, and music with words at least an hour before bed. your parasympathetic nervous system is a slow roller — let her take her time! I really recommend an analog alarm clock that runs on batteries and a sunrise alarm during the winter — allows me to leave my phone plugged in away from my nightstand. keeping a small dry brush on your nightstand can help you wake up better, too. counting backwards from 100 helps me turn down the noise in my brain when I’m in bed if falling asleep is an issue.

@its_just_kate

Dec 9, 2024

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Sleep hygiene is critical

take a bath or warm shower with low lights/candles. a sleep mask or blackout curtains are kind of a must — any light is detrimental to the body finding its natural sleep rhythm. a slightly cooler temperature also helps, as does (and this is controversial!) wearing socks. developing a routine can really improve sleep quality. try to go to bed at the same time (+/- 30 mins) every day of the week. same thing with waking up. try to stop consuming food, content, blue light, and music with words at least an hour before bed. your parasympathetic nervous system is a slow roller — let her take her time! I really recommend an analog alarm clock that runs on batteries and a sunrise alarm during the winter — allows me to leave my phone plugged in away from my nightstand. counting backwards from 100 helps me turn down the noise in my brain when I’m in bed if falling asleep is an issue.

@its_just_kate

Jan 13, 2025

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make your room as clean, comfortable, and cool as possible

I clear my desk off and place every article of clothing I can into the hamper. Remove any food, plates, bowls, utensils, paper towels, garbage lining in your wastebin that may or may not have a week or two old clif bar wrapper inside of it. Anything food related in my sleeping space, even if I’ve not eaten & my stomach is totally empty and has been for hours or for the whole day or days on end— will inevitably signal to my digestive system that there is work to be done & that digestion must happen. I can’t sleep if I’m digesting. I also to sit on my couch with a pen & notebook & vomit or diarrhea whatever thoughts have been haranguing me over the evening onto page. If I’m digesting things in my brain especially I find it impossible to sleep. Open a window, as many as possible to allow fresh air in. Turn on your fans: ceiling, desk, windowsill-mounted box fan, whatever you have. Circulate the air as much as possible. I cannot sleep in a stale bedroom. Have a glass of water at your bedside. If your situation is really hopeless, maybe even fashion a receptacle to urinate into so you don’t have to walk into the bathroom all bleary eyed in the middle of the night. I’ll admit that this is something that I myself don’t have the courage to do yet, but one day when I’m older & even less continent I doubt courage will have very little to do with it & I will piss right by my bedside before yawning & curling up back under my two duvets. Tao Lin recommends this. Have a bedtime & even if it’s hopeless & youre prone to tossing & turning all the way from 11 PM to 11 AM, stick to it. If I really can’t sleep, I resign myself to about an hour of wordy reading. I’ve been reading the first chapter of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams for the better part of 3 months now. That helps too. I am a total stiff & stretching is a total ordeal for me (trying to stretch my hamstrings makes me as red in the face as running a 5K [this is probably cope on my end, and my reluctance to stretch is likely a testament to a deeper, psychological inflexibility that I’m not willing to tackle at this time]) , so much like urinating into a bedside jar, glass, or other such receptacle I can’t personally recommend it based off my “””experience””” but I’ve read that stretching does go a long way before bed. I’ve heard good things about magnesium. I take glycine because it gives me wild dreams.

@steelyfan1998

Aug 5, 2024

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apply to odd Part time jobs, choose the weirdest ones possible

I’ve done this every time I’ve found myself between full time jobs and it really makes the whole time better. You have a little money coming in and you can collect material for your future memoir. Some odd jobs from my past: Axe throwing coach Closet designer Lunch catering delivery Balloon bouquet maker Background extra i found them on big job boards like indeed and also Craigslist (Searching “part time” gets you less garbage results). If you hate it after you start you can just quit! Also if you like pets, signing up for dog walking or petsitting will keep you active and you get to hang out with pets.

@lilsolano

Apr 19, 2024

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Going to the movies during the day

I love doing this, it’s wonderfully disorienting. Theres still so much day left afterwards it’s basically a whole new day, like an optical illusion, but of time.

@lilsolano

Jun 16, 2024

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Enduring little tortures

Shopping cart with a bad wheel. Sock slipping down your shoe. The day after you burn your tongue when it’s still all sensitive. An eye twitch. bad toilet paper (thin, scratchy). clothing tag that itches. Really strong static shock that makes you jump. getting perfume in your mouth.

@lilsolano

Apr 17, 2024