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[I'm going to use this section to talk about some tips I've found with sleep]
Improving sleep quality
Minimizing noise:
Move your bed away from noise sources (and change where on the bed you rest and which side you lay your head); even if it doesn't do a lot on it's own, we're wanting to minimize the noise thoroughly, so little things like this do add up.
Weather stripping around your door (this has been a big one for me)
Find gaps by shining a light (or turning a light on in the room and closing the door and looking at it from outside);
wherever light appears, that's also where sound can leak through the door.
Please, I beg you, make a complaint if you need to. I have pretty severe social anxiety, so it's hard for me,
but if you can, please do it for your sake. Sleep is so important to your health.
Consistent sleep:
Going to bed and waking up at consistent times is a really good way to improve your sleep quality because it doesn't take any time, and it takes much less effort in my experience than changing the average time you go to sleep
If you're trying to get through a day without much sleep, here are some things that might make things more bearable:
hydration - in my experience, trying to keep hydrate helps a lot both with having something to focus on and minimizing tiredness symptoms (pinching the top middle bit of a finger and seeing how fast it pulls back can help you know how hydrated you are; when you have more water, your skin is generally more elastic)
Variables to consider tweaking
ASMR, temperature, whether your window is open (which can influence air quality, humidity)
Light therapy
If you find yourself being tired all the time in the morning, one thing you might want to try is light therapy (or some informal version of it, such as staring at/near a bright light you already have or the sky (don't directly stare at the sun though, that's bad for your eyes)); there's psychology things I could say (and probably will add to some extent later), but this is something that's helped me a lot in my life, especially when I was younger and had very poor sleep and would wake up every morning with my head aching something terribly.
Don't know if this works, but one thing I've heard is
The thing about when waking up in the middle of the night and biphasic sleep in order to reassure yourself that you'll probably be able to fall asleep again
Sometimes I find myself waking up in the middle of the night, and it used to make me anxious trying to fall asleep after that, which is in fact pretty not great™ for trying to fall asleep. One way I use now though to minimize that anxiety is to think about it like this: humans used to sleep in biphasic sleep (
this is a whole fascinating thing), and so it may just be a remnant of that that you're experiencing, which means that eventually, you'll naturally get tired again (though probably don't turn on any bright lights or light-emitting devices), and you can now have a little bit of time to yourself to think to yourself, maybe walk around, try and come up with a game in your mind (or play one, if you already have one), things like that :)
note to self: mention the ballerina trick
Resetting sleep through sleeping less and building up pressure to sleep (which helps to get regular sleep)
Another variable to consider/tweak is whether your window is open or not (can influence air quality, temp/humidity, etc.)
ASMR
for waking up immediately - eat something spicy, music, moving around, light therapy (look near a bright light)