Whats your method for sleeping when your brain is hyper but your body is tired?

[TheSpaceGnome]

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Thanks everyone for the suggestions 🙂, I ended up playing jungle sounds on a loop and it worked.

[DaBiggestBird]

I listen to one of these

https://www.youtube.com/embed/p8yxV5eDF44https://www.youtube.com/embed/rrMg8oKuoOg

They work basically every time. There are also different man’s if you want to check those ones out, there’s the Snack Man, The Candy Man, all kinds of them.

[mitch-ghber]

The army method, progressively relax, your face. This means relax, your eyes, then your forehead and your ears in your mouth, etc then move onto your arms, relaxing, your biceps, triceps forearms, then every finger on both hands, then move over to your chest focus on your breathing. relax, stop tensing your butt. Relax your thighs. Relax, your calves, relax your feet and remain in that state for a good five minutes.

[TheSpaceGnome]

I don't have that level of individualized/compartmentalized control over my musculature, and focusing on individual muscles would make me tense up because I tense up in general when I focus on anything. I am able to relax everything at once auto, atocally just by being exausted though.

[TheSpaceGnome]

automatically*

[SomeRandomFrenchGirl]

Please tell me once you find out, I can't sleep when I do sports in the evening 🥹

[Flatmanlewis]

I turn on some white noise. A fan in the room. A sleep mask which, once your used to it, is an absolute game changer. I slowly repeat to myself ‘don’t think’ over and over drowning out intrusive thoughts until I drift asleep. Also, no caffeine or blue light (TVs, iPads, phones, etc) for at least one hour before bedtime.
I work in a high stress field and often find myself having drastically different sleep/wake hours in a single week and this technique has worked well for me.