I've always feared I'd have some repercussions for my bad sleep. I suffer from night terrors and sleepwalking. I've regimented myself down to very specific sleep patterns where I turn off my lights, take a shower, and abstain from any phone or screen. I sleep about 7 hours, but if you look at a smartwatch, I end up walking around incessantly about every hour. It's super annoying.
So I knew I slept walk because I would wake up probably a few times a month just standing in a doorway or something. But after monitoring my watch, I realized I pretty much do it every night because it tracks me as walking. Sometimes I don't walk, but I am awake according to its motion sensors and my heart rate
That's wild - I'm sorry to hear that, it sounds unnerving. I wonder if there are other passive ways to prevent sleepwalking - like a weighted blanket to make it harder for your sleepy self to get out of bed? Pardon my naivete...
Don't apologize at all. I honestly don't think there's a way besides tying myself down. I did make my bedroom lock which apparently I'm unable to figure out in my sleepwalking phase
Maybe you need to put on a suit covered in bells. If you lay still it'll be quiet, but if you wake up the incessant jingling will wake you up. Lol I don't know why but I feel like there has to be some simple but clever way to deal with this. Not a cure, but something that let's you have some control over it.
Maybe if you can't sleep walk all over the place you'll naturally just go back to bed. Like I wonder if you maybe moved a dresser in front of your bedroom door after entering, if then your sleepwalking self would be trapped in your bedroom and get bored. I really have no idea how this works but I'm curious
I do think a dresser would probably stop me but mostly likely I'd just stub my toe and wake myself up. haha. My sleepwalking brain really gets out of whack when I'm traveling. I end up waking up because it gets lost unlike home where it finds its way back to my bed. lol
CPAP was too invasive for me. So the therapist prescribed a dental appliance that is nothing more complicated than forcing your lower jaw to jut out a bit. Worked great!
I know low-quality sleep is the cause of a lot of diseases and bad daytime conditions,
and still, it's difficult to have high-quality sleep.
It takes a long time to fall asleep when I go to bed,
and I'm so bored I can't stop browsing social media,
it always ends up with 2~5 hours!
Recently I bought a Kitchen Safe (time locking container) to force me to stop using my phone.
And it works!
I can't do anything other than sleep.
Still, it takes a lot of time to fall asleep, but if I continue this,
I believe I can become a good sleeper!
(It helps to reduce phone time in general, I recommend it to anyone.)
You should check out Andrew Huberman's videos about sleep on YouTube.
I found that strategies to get my core body temperature down towards the evening, combined with morning light exposure and exercising daily have made a huge difference for me. I'm tired at night and just want to go to sleep. I have a lot more tips, but most of it you can get from Huberman.
Thanks, I'll check them!
Those self-improve materials don't always work for me, but sometimes I can find some good points that resonate with my lifestyle.
I hope to find them in his videos.
Try listening to a non-exciting podcast, played at 75% speed. It works for me. Lex Fridman's voice/tempo is perfect. The Overcast app can be set to turn off after N minutes.
Meditation audio can also work, but for me, the gaps of silence are too long, and my brain starts churning/processing. (I know the point of meditation is to overcome this.)
