[jonifico]

In addition to what you mention:

- If you have sleep apnea that might explain why you wake up in the middle of the night, and there are treatments you could try.

- Wearing ear plugs (the ones that look like a screw) has helped me a lot, but I have to cut them to be able to sleep with them, since they do protrude from the ear and are uncomfortable.

- There's a simple trick to fall sleep again in the middle of the night: Set a specific time in the morning to write down the thoughts that worried you the most, with possible solutions. When you wake up in the night, think that you will attend your thoughts only the morning at the time you have specified, with some time you will see how you can fall sleep easier. (This is part of the solutions to attend the rumination thoughts)

- I highly recommend you watching this podcast with Matthew Walker, which is one of the most important scientist in this matter: https://youtu.be/gbQFSMayJxk

- As I have suffered insomnia for 20 years, but have improved a lot in the latest years, this thread is based in my own research: https://twitter.com/JuanPabloSarmi/status/168856844920991744...

[wink]

You do realize that a twitter thread is about as useful to many people as posting an internal Facebook link these days? To my surprise I can see the post and not a login window as most days, but there are no replies.

[jonifico]

Twitter or FB are not the best channel, but it's not easy to gain traction in any medium without a well stablished community, haven't tried other social networks yet, which one do you think could be better ?

[huijzer]

I understand the appeal and get myself pulled into it from time to time, but most people probably don't need social media. I'm typing this in the hope that I'll remember it myself too. The social media sites show people with millions of followers which appears appealing because they usually don't do much work for those followers. Basically free sales right? They just type a bit from their toilet. However, it's a power law. Getting to the number 1 inside some niche is extremely hard and requires hard work and some luck.

[wink]

Can't help you, in this age of current flux I'm just pointing out that what had worked easily for 10+ years is now not so great, and if you are still an active logged-in Twitter user you might not notice. (Sorry for the aside, but I clicked and would have read it, but actually can't anymore after closing my account.)