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Before you go to bed do a little meditation, empty your mind repeat a mantra every 3 or 4 seconds or do the relaxing breathing they use in the forces...it's a technique where you take slow, deep breaths while counting to four while you breathe in, hold for four, breathe out for four, hold for four and repeat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZSe6N_BXs
When you wake up, go back to playing games
Y1N9's guide on how to fall asleep:
-Make sure you put in enough physical effort. Maybe buy weights if this is a recurring problem. You can tire yourself out with those if you didn't do anything but sit all day, be it on a seat or a toilet.
-Your feet! Are they cold? Keep them warm! Warm them up if necessary, you can use your legs for that.
-Yawning helps! Even fake yawning helps, to prep the body and mind for sleep.
-Roll around, change sides a few times. Again, helps with prepping the body and mind.
-Stop worrying, seriously. Just think constructive thoughts, fantasize about something even.
-Have sex or go masturbate. yeah really. Good luck on figuring that one out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCzsEgUcWfU
Stay away from social media and TV and online news. It's filled with people who are trying to steal every single ounce of joy from other people.
Go for walks, get fresh air, talk to people face to face along the way.
They are skilled in practical methods to address some of these things, including sleep problems, how to unwind your mind, relaxation techniques, focus, depression, worries, stresses, finding direction, understanding yourself and others.... and more. It's worth making the effort to get on top of these difficulties.
In the meantime, google ''sleep hygiene'' which is all about preparing for sleep especially when your sleep is difficult to achieve or otherwise disturbed.
There are also some sleep meditations you can listen to or follow, which may be helpful but the ones that help will be specific to yourself and they will connect with you so that will be trial and error on your part
Sleep is an issue for me too, work in progress. I have physical contributors and also mental contributors, so I try to ease the impact of them on my sleeping.
The hardest bit can be trying to not get worked up about not being able to sleep - it's a vicious trap there - One thing that helps in that particular is, if I have been laying there trying for an hour, I get up, maintaining my sleep hygiene (so no blue screens!) and do something else relaxing until the next sleep cycle comes around. That helps not just stew in sleepless stress
Learn about sleep cycles and circadian rhythm - and work out what your own is. Maybe you are built to sleep in different hours!
Anyway, there's a few thoughts...
And this stuff here, which SPG said, is also quite good advice. Even just limiting your exposure to toxic stuff like that will help. There are whole weeks I do not view any ''news'' stories and my mind is better for it. I can get through tomorrow without ''knowing'' those particular chosen presentations...
And actual human contact is a biggie, too
just go out and have fun or start lifting