How do you sleep through the night?

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1. Physically exhaust yourself more.

   After kids only exercise stabilized my sleeping.

2. I make sure i thought through my concerns from the day before i go to bed. And i dont go to bed if im not tired. Stuff that lingers in your mind when you go to bed can have a nasty habit to keep you from sleeping.

3. Luckily I have great sleep, try taking magnesium, it helped me a lot with sleep when I graduated last year and was nervous a lot

4. You might have low T, you might have an electrolyte deficiency, you might be getting too much blue light or food too close to bed, you might have depression.

5. Treated my sleep apnea. Now I just get up once, maybe twice, to pee. I have a hard time sleeping if there’s any pee in my bladder. It’s not that the need to pee is urgent. It’s the mild pressure signals my brain to stay awake.

6. I take my antidepressants

7. I significantly decreased my caffeine intake and that helped. I turn off my electronics an hour before bed so I can unwind. You could also try melatonin but probably not the best to get into a habit with that regularly.

8. Sounds like me in my 40s. You’re no longer a teenage but a man with responsibilities.

9. Without taking insomnia medications, weed.

10. might need to get a sleep study done. Signs of Apnea 🙂

11. Here is what works for me.

    L-theanine.
    L tryptophan.
    Magnesium.

12. Is your sleep schedule pretty regular, if not, try getting to bed around the same time each night.

    If you don’t exercise, try to get some in, tire yourself off.

13. Don’t be in your bedroom if you’re not sleeping. We’re creatures of habit. You can train yourself to fall asleep in your room if you only use it for sleeping.

    Have no anticipation for the next day. When I have a flight to catch for the next day, or something important I need to wake up for, I wake up nonstop during the night to check the time.

    Don’t hot shower at night before bed, I’m pretty sure a cool/lukewarm shower is better for sleep but don’t quote me on that.

    Eat healthy and not too much before bedtime.

14. Manage your sleep environment better. Limit caffeine after a certain hour. Use blue filters on screens near bed time. Have a sleep environment that is devoted to sleep.

15. Man this sounds exactly like me. I found out underlying stress was causing me to get crappy sleep quality. I was sleeping through the night but again stress was causing shitty sleep quality. I didn’t want to go the pharmaceutical route so I got some CBD gummies and that for the most part fixed it. Hope this helps

16. Sometimes wake up from a nightmare. But apart from that.. I usually sleep well. Even if I do wake up, I quickly fall back asleep.

17. With melatonin and a CPAP.

18. > Relatively healthy.

    You sure? Is this some kind of medical thing like having to pee or massive leg cramps or heartburn? That stuff’s not “normal” even if you’ve gotten used to it.

    Maybe that’s all the sleep you need. The amount of time people need to sleep seems to decrease over their entire life. Babies sleep like 18 hours per day all the way to my MiL who seems to only need like 5 hours in her old age. I’m about your age and find 6 hours “adequate” and 7 hours to be “very refreshing could not sleep an additional minute”. Its possible you’re just done sleeping.

19. Melatonin and masturbation.

20. Pretty typical,started in my 30s and still going on in my 60s

21. I had this same question and my doctor prescribed an anxiety medicine for me. It doesn’t cause drowsiness or help you go to sleep, but your mind doesn’t race when you wake up in the middle of the night so you go straight back to sleep almost immediately when you do wake up. 19 nights out of 20, I don’t even know if I woke up during the middle of the night at all anymore. Changed my life…

22. On my back. Naked. The breeze feels nice.

23. Sex works way better than any of the chemical shit. A few rounds with my gf and I go down like someone hit me with a tranquilizer dart.

24. Phone and tv out of the bedroom and no electronics, food, or water hour before bed.

25. I’m over 40, I’m up two or three times in the night generally. It’s rare that I sleep over three hours in a single go.

26. Delta-8 gummies

27. Usually lying down on my back with my eyes closed.

    In all seriousness, you might have sleep apnea. I did the same, waking up randomly at night and I apparently snored a lot.

    Now I got a CPAP and manage to sleep all night long without waking up randomly.

    Worst part was getting used to the CPAP basically blowing air in which slightly felt like suffocating while being way too conscious of my breathing.

    You can test for it and see if it is the case either at an hospital or specialized clinic.

28. Sleepy time tea. Works wonders for insomnia. Can get it at most grocery stores.

29. – Don’t eat after Xpm. (2hrs before)
    – Melatonin 0.5mg
    – Maybe it’s time to change the ol mattress out.

30. I agree with the guy that said “physically exhaust yourself more.”

31. Ask your wife you snore. Regardless of the answer, go get a sleep study. Either A. you have to do nothing, or B. you may need a CPAP or something. You don’t get any prizes for not using your health insurance.

32. Late 30s for reference. I have a strained relationship with sleep in general.

    1. Find a way to release stress. This was the real game changer. It doesn’t matter what the activity is (e.g., exercise, video games, meditation/breathing exercises, other hobbies), just do that stress release activity each and every day. Consistency is key, just like for any healthy practice.
    2. Regular sleep schedule. Get up at the same time each morning no matter when you went to bed (though going to bed at the same time each night is pretty helpful). Weekdays and weekends.
    3. Talk with a doctor. Maybe there is a medical reason that is influencing your sleep that they can help you diagnose.