[marcinreal]

I had a very similar experience with insomnia. My whole life I couldn't fall asleep on time. At one point, having tried everything, I just stopped caring. If I didn't sleep much one night, then whatever, I've survived many sleep deprived days. So I totally stopped thinking about sleep. Then I just started getting sleepy around 10pm every night and falling asleep soon after. I think that insomnia is perhaps the most mental of all ailments. I also started reading by candlelight at night and that helped too.

[graphe]

This was realized by me after reading the sleep solution by Chris Winters, who also has a podcast that has the same theme.

Everyone has insomnia sometimes, it's abnormal to be able to sleep easily. Candlelight is bad for the air around you and for your eyes the flickering damages your eyes, although the higher CO2 might help with oxygen diffusion.

[marcinreal]

Didn't know that about flickering, interesting. Maintaining the candle properly by e.g. trimming the wick does help with a clean burn. Beeswax has almost no flicker and gives off light that's the most similar to sunlight, but it's quite expensive.

[graphe]

Refer to the refresh rate on your screen and make it even slower. There is a such thing as candle meditation, so the flickering not always regarded as bad. It'll definitely tire your eyes due to them fatiguing, Ikea makes LED candles if you're interested and anudril firmware flashlights have candle mode too.

[phatfish]

> I also started reading by candlelight at night and that helped too.

Ha, i wish i could read in bed without falling asleep. One or two books did something to my brain where i could read them in bed, all the rest i have to fight sleep and re-read paragraphs after 20 mins max.