How to Fall Asleep Fast
Make sure that your room is comfortable. If there is too much noise getting into your bedroom consider getting a white noise machine or earplugs. If you can, make your bedroom a bedroom by having a room with a bed and nothing else in it. If possible make your bedroom your bedroom. Preferably, you want a room, which does not have any television or computer. If you have an office/bedroom you may sneak yourself into your computer to get “a few things done”. Before you know it, you’re spending hours not sleeping. Having a bedroom “sanctuary” also keeps your minds off of things.
Make your alarm clock invisible by turning it away from you. Not only will this make the room more dark, it will keep you from being anxious about how fast you are going to fall asleep. Forcing yourself to fall asleep will actually make the problem worse. This is why it is recommended that if you are lying awake, to get up and then go back to bad once you are feeling tired.
It’s better that your room is a little too cold rather than a little too hot.
Don’t gorge or have a big meal right before your bedtime. Have some nice warm milk and some cookies instead! If you absolutely must have something to eat before bed, avoid food with lots of carbohydrates.
Exercise, but not right before your bedtime. The key to falling asleep fast is to put your mind and body into a relaxed state. Going for a jog an hour before you go to sleep is not going to make you more relaxed. Using up energy during the day will make you more tired at night. Just make sure that you are not doing it close to your bedtime.
If you are thinking about things you need to do tomorrow and don’t want to forget, get up and write them down on a piece of paper so that you don’t have to go over them in your mind.
Do not take caffeine, alcohol, or nicotine. Don’t drink caffeine for around 10 hours before you go to sleep. It’s hard to get asleep when you’re all buzzed up. If you must have a soda, make sure that it’s decaffeinated. Speaking from experience, I once drank 2 cups of Pepsi before I “went to sleep”. Needless to stay, I had a very long night.
Try not to get into arguments with family members of friends before you go to bed. This is pretty self explanatory.
Try taking a nice warm bath before you go to sleep. This will relax you. Just make sure that when you do it not to close to your bed time because your heart rate goes up in warm water.
Drink a warm cup of milk, maybe with some honey added in. Just make sure that you still brush your teeth before you go to bed or else the milk and/or honey will start rotting your teeth away.
How to fall asleep fast and easy with sleeping pills…
Okay. So what if you tried these things and you still can’t fall asleep fast. Benzodiazepines are recommended for insomniacs who have tried everything else. What they will do is give you light sleep, not the “deep” sleep that you want. Non-benzodiazepines drugs are sleeping pills, which work incredibly well. You just have to make sure that you take them as described because they can be addictive.