Try this one crazy trick to get a good nights sleep.
I’m pretty good at sleeping. Unless I have a couple of adult beverages on board I’ll normally get 7-8 hours. Wine or whisky will fuck that up, so that’s my one crazy tip to get better sleep. Stay off the piss.
But I’m curious about other people’s sleep routines, so a Reader’s Digest bit on seven weird sleeping cues from ‘other’ cultures caught my eye. Honestly, I didn’t imagine they’d be that weird, but straight off the bat the Chinese proved me wrong.
Automatic foot spas are ubiquitous in Chinese households. Every night, people soak their feet in hot water; many machines have exfoliating and massage functions, too. The routine is done right before bed, so that after you dry your feet, they are still warm when you tuck in.
Putting your feet in a warm basin and massaging them can stimulate blood circulation by dilating your vessels. Having warmer feet may lower your core body temperature, helping you fall asleep faster.
I won’t be doing this, because it seems like a lot of wet bother to me. Also, with 38º days at the moment, I don’t need to be heating up any part of my body.
a good hard days work (whether mental or physical or both) and no alcohol. Instant sleep. Drives my partner crazy. And if i'm inside a better weight range the snoring tends to bugger off as well. I have some adjusting to do though - about to move from our rural ideal into town. With people and all that entails. Ergh.
But i reckon it all boils down to routine. Whatever your brain is trained for, whether its a walk every morning, to set food times, or unloading all your problems onto a doll that you put under your pillow to stop it escaping and killing everyone from the madness so you can get a good nights sleep. Stuff up that routine with a few drinks necessitating a trip or two to the john or you forget where you put your worry doll and then have issues sleeping with the feeling its hiding in that dark spot just over there in the corner and was that the sound of a knife being pulled out of the knife block? . . . . and the routine goes out the window
One crazy trick- lock the toddler's bedroom door (speaking on behalf of a concerned citizen who wishes they'd done this last night)