It seems very hard for me to get to sleep when I'm in my own bed. When I'm in another bed, I usually can fall asleep fairly quickly. The problem is that I just think way too much. Sometimes I'll think about things I'll say the next day, like asking teachers questions, or things like a post I think of making. It wasn't really bad, but last night I pretty much just was thinking for two hours straight. I'm not sure if it was more drifting into and out of consciousness, but I didn't think I fell asleep. I have been sleeping backwards for a while (opposite ends of the bed) and it worked a little, but last night it definitely didn't. Any suggestions on how to fix this?
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I wish I knew. I find it helps not to do things that I might think about straight before bed. Reading helps me.
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Maybe a quick workout, stretch, or meditation before bed would help.
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Maybe your room is too familiar to you and rest-like and reminds your mind of the next day and your own life but something unfamiliar like someone else's bed is new and doesn't give your mind a perception of certain aspects of your life because there's nothing there to constantly remind you of it. Try adding new things to your room maybe? I don't know. That's how I would guess my mind would work. But there's a million possibilities, I'm sure, to the answer of your question. My answer shouldn't be taken too seriously, really. It's just something to think about.
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I've thought about that as well, which is the reason I switched my head to the end of the bed. But now my brain actually thinks my head is where it used to be when I go to sleep. The ironic thing is that sometimes when I go to sleep I'm thinking about the fact that I think too much when I go to sleep, which causes me to think even more about why >.>
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I used to think a lot, too. I don't know if it's the same kind of thinking too much as you, but it really got out of hand. I thought too much about things such as philosophy and the meaning of life, which are basically unanswerable questions and kept that up for 14 years or so until I went through a constant Mind Storm phase, and then a "Believe Everything Is Just Not Real and I'm Going To Wake Up in a Whole Different World Because I've Been Deluding Myself" phase as well. Too much, too much, too much. It may not have kept me up at night but it bothered me during the day and my state of mind's stability.I'd actually rather not talk about it.But since then I've decided to get more down to earth and distract msyelf from thoughts with other things like worrying if I don't get enough sleep, I won't be up and ready to do the things I may have thought about. (Actually this would apply more to you than me, since I really don't think that much about things going on in the next day. I'm more of a passive person when it comes to thinking about the next day).