I saw that Alice had something against her sleep adventures, so here is a few things I do to sleep better in case I have issues to plank immediately after I see anything resembling bed.

It can be any of the things I listed here that can affect sleeping, usually it is more than just one.

Change synthetic bedding for 100% natural, check label, if cotton sucks for you try flax or hemp. These neutralize friction and if you are already electrified synthetic will just add to annoyance. If you usually spark static electricity randomly at objects, shower or take a batch before bed. No cold water, it will make it worse. Add salt to equalize your skin electric potential.

Unplug anything that creates any sort of electromagnetic noise, kick out phones and laptops out of a room where you sleep. Lamps and fluorescent objects included. Any bigger piece of electromagnetic material like steal or iron, such as pipes, figurines or even parts included into bed’s structure.

If you have a limited living space, for example you are renting a room or you keep your electronic devices at the work desk in a bedroom, leave enough space between your work station and your bed, and separate these two spaces with an obstruction, either a fake wall or just pull a wardrobe, if it’s big enough, in between.

Check your bed orientation. If you fall asleep easier in living room than in bedroom, mimic conditions - so bed position, fabrics, light. Anything you find more pleasant than in your bedroom.

Change matrass. If it’s too expensive buy a topper. In case your bed is exposed to any sort of vibrations, and it doesn’t deal well with it, a topper will absorb it.

Toss away that ancient pillow filled with chicken plumage. Your brain may not appreciate it.

Air the room hard core until icepicks form on the ceiling, cold is great for sleeping and you maybe just lack oxygen.

Medications and medical conditions can obstruct sleep. This includes ‘mental’ aka chemical imbalance conditions such as depression, anxiety and stress. This requires longer time to deal with, and usually doesn’t result in sudden occasional lack of sleep. It is happening frequently or almost every night.

Lifters such as coffee, energy drinks - but you would also need to have a high blood pressure for that to take any significant effect. People with stable low blood pressure do not go under that category. Those are nuts who drink coffee in 9pm and sleep in 10pm, like me.

Try not to gobble anything at least 2-3 hours before you crash. I stop eating around 4pm, so there is nothing in a tank anyways. If you have to eat something, add Magnesium malate, it’s good for anything including solid sleep. Magnesium malate is specially designed to relax muscles.

Booze can disturb sleep same as sugar, or a nice portion of fat. Some people drink 1dcl or less of red wine with dinner, and sleep like a pile of rocks.

For women, it can be also hormones. Progesterone surge is a total shit and it starts messing with our system even a week before the ‘overhaul’. I drink sage against that crap, but a strong dose. Plain one bag doesn’t do much. Add sweetener or sugar, taste is a livid disaster. Guys don’t need this in their diet, it contains plant estrogens, stay away from it.

Light. If you have a source of light from a street it can occasionally disturb you enough to stay awake longer than you planned. Same affect has a bright computer screen. Move to nigh mode websites and use red light on a phone/laptop for 10-20 minutes before you decide to go to sleep. It will switch your day mode off.

Some things you can’t affect.

Moon. Moon is always there, but reflection from any phase of it that is very bright at the moment and clearly visible can do the same thing as a full moon. No treatment available for that one, just binge something.

Being a night owl. Self-explanatory. There is a little you can do about it, except change your lifestyle and socialize with people who have the same bio-rhythm like you. It’s very hard to live if you are a dead plank of wood while all of your friends are hopping around in 8am. Or go to work and you just want to lie down and die. If your day starts in 2pm, it starts in 2pm. That’s it.

Growth hormone. Most of older teens, 14-15 and up, experience this phase. Wake until 4am, sleeps till 2pm. That’s normal, because of the growth hormone. But that phase in some people can last up to 25 years of age.

Sudden weather change. Atmospheric pressure changing rapidly disturbs anyone and anything. You will see it coming in meteo maps, prepare food and movies.

Bugs. If your body is getting into a fight, that metabolic skirmish has to happen, you will feel restless, and you can’t prevent it. You can make it lesser by providing a body with instant minerals, water and amino acids. Vitamin C is good during the day, but it will make you wide awake if you take it in the evening. So take some salty food, water, EAA and magnesium malate if you suspect the viral armed robbery.

If you feel you are not in shape, and at the same time you stopped sleeping well, try doing some light exercise before bed. Long term lack of activity, usually months, in some people, can result in lesser sleep.

Now a stranger things.

Empathy. You may feel a condition of your family member, friend or even a folk at work that you are attached to or maybe worried about. This is not excluded, or exclusive. If it’s combined with a recent weird dreams, call or meet with a suspect. Spends quality time, talk, have a beer, have fun.

Negatively charged energies, of whatever origin, - woolen blanket. It has to be natural raw wool. From a sheep, not yours, not from a yak, don’t sheer your cat. Wool keeps a body temperature in a thermal comfort zone, and works are a thermal and electrical insulation due to material structure. It doesn’t absorb electromagnetic waves and has a very low magnetic permeability.

There are stranger things, but that would require an additional post.