Sleep issues

[dore]

All good tips in here. One thing that I noticed for me:

I switched between listening to music and not all through my life while sleeping. I've mostly settled on not listening to music and just trying to be really tired before I go to sleep and it usually works. Sometimes, however, I still want to listen to something as I fall asleep, and that's OK. However, contrary to what may seem right and what you mentioned you do, listen to the music semi-loud. This may seem counter-intuitive and I found it kinda annoys me in the morning, but as long as you don't thump da bass it works better for me. You actually more actively listen to music at softer levels because your ears have to work harder to actually hear what's going on. If you play it louder, you don't have to work so hard at it, and that helps me shut my brain up and get the fuck to sleep, because I have had some of the same issues you have with sleeping.

Also, instead of music, I find talk radio or a podcast or something like that to be effective as well. Make it so you're listening to someone else instead of holding a conversation with yourself.