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I’ve had terrible insomnia for pretty much my entire life. I’ve done it all … the only thing that “works” is radical acceptance. I sleep, when/where/how I can sleep - time of day, place, other plans, doesn’t matter. Or I’ll just be tired, I’m used to that, I’ve stopped seeing it as a problem.

I used to sleep sitting in a chair in the kitchen for a while, because that’s just what worked. Head down on the table, like I just dropped dead. Gave my daughter a good scare a couple of times, when she was getting up in the middle of the night to get some water, lol. But usually I get the most sleep throughout the day via little naps. It is what it is, there’s worse problems one could have. :)

Pretty easy. Too easy? Pretty much, if I lay down, I fall asleep. Which is great most of the time, but sometimes, not so much.

Step 1: lay down Step 2: zzzzz

It certainly helps that my job is physically heavy which after a day is tiring enough to just sleep instantly. Getting up has an instruction of it’s own though

Not easy at all. I have a rigid sleeping routine that I don’t waver from, spend time distressing, drink camomile tea etc etc. I do everything right, it’s just how it goes

incredibly difficult.

On the scale 0(hard) to 10(easy), i would say around 6 or 7. Sometime i just lie down a bit and 10min in i’m asleep, sometime it takes 30min to an hour before i sleep. I mostly blame my screentime habit.

Used to have terrible trouble falling asleep, and sometimes do still, but having a toddler has resulted in me being tired almost all the time.

My daughter needs to be cuddled to sleep, so on my nights for it I usually can keep the warm sleepy fuzzies with me into my bed.

On mom’s nights I have a routine:

If I’m hungry or thirsty I deal with it first. Usually something with a little protein in it and water.

I have a “sleep” playlist of relaxing music where most tracks I’ve heard a ton of times and can entirely tune out. I use a feature in my music player app (PowerAmp) to play all the tracks from it using a quiet/soft EQ with the volume cut by about half, so no louder or “sharp” sections cut through me nodding off. I’ll set that up to play with a sleep timer to turn off in 30-45 minutes.

I also have a FOSS “relaxing noises” app where I’ve setup a specific mix of them that I find very soothing, and I set the volume on that to slightly drown out the music, so I have to focus a little to make out the music well. Set that on a sleep timer to stop 15 minutes after the music.

If wifey’s sharing the bed (sometimes my daughter co-sleeps with her), those sounds go through one half of some wired headphones into whichever of my ears isn’t against the pillow (side sleeper). Otherwise just low volume out of the phone speaker.

Tuck in, silky eye mask goes on, and trying to listen to the music through the noise takes just enough focus to shut up my brain and stray thoughts. Then I start tuning out the music somewhat automatically and doze off.

If I can’t tune out, then I can zone out to the relaxing ambient noises and music.

Usually out before the sleep timers stop the audio.

Depends. Sometimes it takes 30 minutes or so. Other times it can take 1 hour or more.

Going to sleep is the easiest part. Hard part is getting up.

Pretty easy. I do it five to ten times a night. Staying asleep, however…

usually takes an hour or two of boring myself laying there until I finally sleep, even if I’m tired when I lay down. In my 50’s now, and been that way my entire life. Not sure if ADHD has anything to do with it…

I almost envy those that can just pass out after a few minutes. Seems much more efficient.

I struggled getting to sleep about a decade ago. Eventually I just started making a routine out of it. Same actions, in the same order, every time I go to bed, no phone at all. Nowadays if I spend too much time in the bedroom I start getting sleepy no matter what I’m doing, but I think ensuring no phone in the bedroom is what really helped the most.

I just woke up after blissful 3h of sleep because for some reason my brain is managed by a a bunch of monkeys on speed. If waking up was as easy.

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