Sleep Tips

Chris,

When do you go to sleep and how many hours do you get each night? From your twitter posts, it looks like you go to bed around 2 am and only sleep 5 hours.

Todd

Interesting, that looks a lot like the list I saw on Good Morning America the other morning. It’s in this month’s Lady’s Home Journal or Redbook or one of those.

[..YouTube..] I have night terrors… anyone know how to help me?

[..YouTube..] who said a geek only talks about tech…. ffs…

stereotypical much?

Sleeping more than what is required is a really bad habit and this leads us to have a lot many problems in our body. This one of the biggest reason of gaining weight. We should improve our sleeping habits some that we can make ourselves healthy.

[..YouTube..] insomnia

[..YouTube..] wow sleeping at 12o clock is early?>!?!?!??!?!!

[..YouTube..] we are not geeks we are sleep adicts! ;)

I was told that having a TV in your room is one of the worst things you can do while trying to fall asleep. For years I did this - listening to it as I fell asleep, but I found my quality of sleep was very low. I also heard that scientists have found that sounds you hear during sleep can raise your blood pressure up to 13% - even planes flying over your house could trigger it, so I’m not sleeping with my tv on anymore, lol.

You should also avoid smoking before you get to sleep. This is a bad habit, and it is hard to get to sleep after that.

[..YouTube..] Lucid Dreaming is total 100% WIN.

[..YouTube..] ive been watching your vids for quite some time now chris and there pretty damn awesome and btw some nice tips as usault :D see you

lol i hate school sometimes u know and my friends stay in the bed for an extra hour cause they’re too tired lol

[..YouTube..] i go 2 bed at 11:30 and wake up at 4:40 to get up i just start walking around

[..YouTube..] A friend of mine, his mother would use a frozen can of OJ to get him up. Because no matter where he would roll, it would follow.

Ugh i have so many things around my house to keep me up my built in clock is all messed up. i have found that the best way to get too sleep is leave the room your in that has all the stuff keeping you up and just relax in a room where you have nothing but peace and no noise only use sleeping pills if all else fails cause you can get addicted to them if you are not careful..

Adam Stryker..

[..YouTube..] I use my cell phone.

[..YouTube..] i think how much sleep a person needs depends on the individual! i tend to get around 6 hours a night…and that works for me. i have a friend who gets by on 3 hours.. just depends.

Hey Chris. I like this video. I actually now have made some changes in my sleep schedule. I always eat before I go to bed, not anymore and I sleep with my tv on, not anymore. My number 1 prob. I still can’t fix though, soda. I can’t seem to ditch the caffeine I guess. Well, no I take that back my number 1 prob. is the broken leg….can’t get comfortable no matter what. Maybe I should make some tips for getting a decent night’s rest with a broken leg. Anyways, really digged this simple video and digg your live chat also. Thank you for all the tips and advise. Nerdgirl is here forever! e-ya later!

There were some good tips i do agree i do get immuned to the sound of my alarm clock its pretty bad though. I try to adjust the sound as i can or i just ditch my alarm clock and use my phone. There are a lot of cool and weird alarm sounds for my phone and i usually get up feeling “What was that.”

[..YouTube..] I work overnights… so I appreciate the tips! I heard that some people call eating a big meal and sleeping right away as the “sumo wrestler diet” due to the tendency to gain weight by doing that.

ZZZZZzzzzzzz……….huh…ok i am awake and oh yeah…..i have to leave good comment for Chris about sleep tips.

Well since i was a little kid sleep has been my worst and best friend mainly becuase i had always trouble sleeping. but i found out that drinking water before i go to sleep has been the best thing for me. I agree on most most of the tips that where on your blog and video and i found them very useful. I sleep in complete darkness when i go to sleep and i sleep under my covers to boot ^_^ but that usually makes me fall asleep faster. Thanks Chris for the sleep tips and thx to the one who sent the tips into Chris.

Joshua{XP}

These tips are good, but like for some reason, like i cannot sleep without a sound of a fan, or a tv is on. I guess sound when i’m tired helps me go to sleep better, because i tried sleeping one night without a fan or tv on, it took me nearly a hour and a half just to fall asleep. I know you may be saying, maybe your not tired, but i really needed the sleep, but i was not falling asleep. Alot of times in my family when they cook big meals, they can’t help but go to sleep because they’re too tired to even get up once they sit down after eating. But What i really need to work on is set a solid sleep time, i tend to fall asleep one night at 12AM and the next 4am, which is not good for the body, as i heard. But good tips and hope to read more good ones in the future.

♫Harlan

One thing I do in the winter is turn the temperature down lower than usual before I go to sleep. Then I sleep with several blankets on around me like a cocoon. For me, sleeping that way is very relaxing and helps be get a good night sleep. The down side of that however is it is hard to get up in the morning.

Thanks Chris for sharing these tips, because I try to keep good sleeping habits, but sometimes it’s not that simple. These tips are gonna help me, especially the “light” tip. I got a little confused on the “drinking” tip, because the 2 top 5 list contradict themselves, but ill try both, and ill e-mail you to tell you which worked best.

These are good tips, I have been having little sleep now for the past week (4 to 5 hours a night) and its showing. It is mainly because of the hot room, and its been in the 60s at night time with no wind, so it was hard to keep cool. Not to mention the PC running all the time. I found if you are too hot in bed, is to get a window box air conditioner, a good one is around $99 and ive yet to install mine after the winter, but it works wonderfully in Summers, keeping your room to a crisp 66 degrees.

Would the caffeine apply to Diet Cola or not?

Well I guess I got owned there. I always eat and drink then go to bed about 5 minutes later, sleep with lights on, and never have a light on when I get up. These tips have made it easier for me to see what I have done wrong now and will try to correct this over a long period of time,

i need better sleep im up till like 2 in the morning watching the live streem thanks for the tips!

it’s all about coming into a familiar pattern, it always so much easier to get good night sleep that way.

i cant listen to half a song before i go to bed or ill have it stuck in my head all night and wont be able to go to sleep

I just watched this and i totally agree with with all the tips but unfortunately i seem to break most of the tips my Body clock is on its last legs, i have atleast 3 alarm Clocks next to my bed but im the living dead so nothing works. My Average bed time has gone from about Midnight to nearly 4AM this is not good as i need to be awake the following day for 7:30am (which i am failing at badly). The ONLY effective method of waking up in the morning i have found yet, is a nice cool can of Redbull, the down side is i end up Hyper for the rest of the day.

Stuzilla \m/

i only dream of being able to sleep.i find having alittle light on but nut not having it too dark helps

I normally dont get too much sleep….go to bed at 2 normally. i try to get more when i can.

There were some good tips i do agree you do get immuned to the sound of a alarm clock its pretty bad though. I try to adjust the sound as i can or i just ditch my alarm clock and use my phone. There are a lot of alarm sounds for my phone and i usually get up thinking that i missed a important call.

Quote from Stuzilla:
“The ONLY effective method of waking up in the morning i have found yet, is a nice cool can of Redbull, the down side is i end up Hyper for the rest of the day.
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i do this also hahahaha.

Hide your alarm clock. Sometimes I have a tendency to keep looking at my alarm clock because I cant go to sleep. This only keeps me awake even longer. Also it helps if you have a comfortable bed.

I have so many problems sleeping… I can’t fall asleep without turning my TV on. Without the TV I usually lay there and suddenly my head explodes into a carnival and I can’t stop it. When I wake up in the morning I can’t get my day started without taking a shower, it just wakes me up. My number one problem sleeping though is trying to get away from chris’s stream.

I find some of the tips to be really good. When I feel really stressed out I find it good to sleep in the dark, and close my eyes. I also try to meditate when I can’t go to sleep. It makes me feel calm, and relaxed. If the bed feels to hard to sleep on, then use mattress pads to help give you support when you sleep. Thanks Tom.

thank you so much for the tips, i will keep them in mine

i will become a great sleeper

Sleep by 10pm, up by 7am. Drink water, eat right, go outside in the sun or rain don’t stress out at work.. All good ideas to stay alive.

I find that eating something be for bed usually makes me fall a sleep faster.

I’ve been following pretty much the same sleep advice given to me by my doctor about a year ago to reduce stress and can say it has helped considerably.

I used to work overnights and the first, second and fourth points made here were emphasized by my doc when I was on that schedule with the first and last ones mixed.

Keeping a schedule that allowed a minimum of 8 hours sleep with my windows completely blacked out allowed me to get the relaxing sleep I needed to do my night job and reduced the stress working those odd hours created. Kind of glad It’s pretty quiet where I live.

I now work for myself but I still pretty much keep to a sleep schedule as I remember how terrible I felt when I slept whenever and was stressed out because of being tired all the time

I’ve been having trouble sleeping the past few days, so I’ll definetly be trying these out. Thanks Chris!

hey chris great tips. I wish that i could folow these tips but i often find myself staying up to late and sleeping in to late. I often miss my ride to school because i sleep so late. I have found that if i rely on the snooz button everyday for a extended period time i become compltly dependent on it and it is torcohr to have to wake up any earlyer. So i recamend NEVER using the snooz and just getting up. Is it really worth 20 extra minutes when your just going to have to wake up anyway.

~thanks afro

Also if you have to sleep during the day don’t sleep more then 1 hour. And sometimes if you are really off on your sleep schedule try and stay up for about 24 hours and go to bed around 8 or 9, Do this on the weekend, but don’t stay home! go out and do something to keep you awake.

For those times when I feel sleepy, I find that taking a short nap helps me feel more awake.

but when you have nothing else to do you just really cant sleep :( and i just watch ur show lol..

Great Tips, I use to always never get any sleep thats because I would always play Xbox Live. Which would keep my brain active, so thankfully I’ve stopped. Also when I was younger I would always sneak a bowl of cereal before I went to bed which kept me very much awake. Thanks for the tips Tom now I’ve stopped falling asleep in class my grades have improved.

Conor-9004

These are really good tips. Most of the time I only get 6 to 7 hours of sleep on school nights because I’m on the computer until 11pm or so. By the time I have to get up at 6am for school in the morning, I’m really tired. Now every once in awhile I fall asleep at 9PM when I’m really tired and I feel refreshed in the morning. I wish that happened more often. But none the less I do use those tips and always have to fall asleep.

Thanks for the tips Chris. I haven’t been getting nearly enough sleep for this school year. It’s tough because I wake up so early and to get a correct amount of sleep I would have to go sleep pretty early.

These are great tips and will undoubtedly lead to better performance in one’s job or at school, and lead to one feeling better overall every day. These are great tips for anyone who is feeling tired or stressed!

Good Tips, Tom.
Thanks, Chris!

–Curran in Chilly Michigan

[..YouTube..] man i can really use these

hi,

i have trouble getting to sleep. a lot of times it takes me more than an hour to fall asleep. i’m going to try these tips and see if they help.

thanks chris.

siamese27

[..YouTube..] I like sleep too. But I can only get 5 hours, no more and no less, or else I’ll get sick.

I try to make myself go to sleep every night at 11 pm, occasionally I’ll break that rule if there’s a party or something my friends are having on the weekends.

[..YouTube..] sleep for me is completely rediculous. Sometimes i get a good full 8 hours or more of sleep,and i’m still very tired. Then at random times i’ll take a 4 hour power nap(actually i just go to bead late), and wake up fully refreshed.

These tips are really good. I would also add to sleep in a very comfortable place and if you have trouble sleeping, a good tips is to clear your mind to only think of things that are soothing and easy. Do NOT think of stresses or problems in your life or things that put your brain into overdrive. Thats not what you went when trying to sleep!

this is great!! i have a lot of problems getting sleep and this will surely help me :D

Thats one thing I need to get more of, sleep. Usually I stay on late because I am a geek and I lose track of time when I’m on the computer (or watching Chris Pirillo)
Anyway, great tips, I should consider using them. :) See you on the live stream Chris.

[..YouTube..] 2 words: Bob Ross

I have so much trouble sleeping, but it’s my own fault. I think the most important tip is watching what you eat in the late hours of the day. I tend to stay up late because I have a habit of eating dessert an hour or so after I’ve eaten my supper meal. So, what I did was just made a decision: Dessert at the end of the meal, or no dessert. Period. That has helped some. I get to bed about an hour and a half earlier because of that.

Thanks for the tips Chris!

When I used to play xbox live, I only got like 4 hours a sleep a night for weeks. I kept falling asleep in class. Tv does the same to keep me awake. I’ll find something to watch no matter what. I’ll watch someone sell a vacuum cleaner even though i dont care about it. lol.

I failed big time!! I have insomnia, I have been taking Ambien every night for the last 3 years. I do not have a sleep schedule and I sleep during the day so the sun keeps me up alot. I get up eat snacks and get something to drink all threw the night. Only thing that I passed on this is I love to sleep in a cold room. Im going to try this and hope I can get off the sleep meds.

-=Blake=-

hey thanks to you and the people leaving the tips. it helped alot i have alot of things from school to sports to other family members schedules to work around, so this helped alot i found the water thing works great if you drink it just before bed a pretty good amount, also makes the taste in your mouth not so bad in the morning and helps get me up as well. love the show thaks again

~NiW~

Those are good tips, but at the same time not everybody is the same and everybody has to come up with their own ways of getting of good nights sleep. Reading tips and articles helps you get started. Also, it takes a lot of time to figure it out and get adjusted too.

yeah i always have to turn off every single like, even the light on keyboard to sleep. And i turn the clock to the side

I only need 3-4 hours of sleep to function the whole day. 8 hours of sleep is way to much for me as i have things to get done every day. People think im crazy when i say i get 4 hours of sleep.

I so need this.My sleeping habits have been bad lately, going to sleep late and waking up late. I have to change this habit. i also read about the “darkness” thing, your body needs the darkness, or it wont perform certain normal processes, my mom told me about this, she read it some science journal. sleep is very important. hmmm, I should take my own advice :P

I agree Chris. I didn’t know that a full stomach isn’t good for sleep. But, I do know that people should sleep to be happy and ready for the next day and not watch Chris all night long, even though it’s very tempting… ;-)

I’ve really had a hard time sleeping, in fact my sched has just been horrid. I will try my best to get everything sorted out, because it has just taken a toll on my body.

You should also avoid using your bedroom for watching TV or movies!!

These tips couldn’t have come at a better time. I have been having trouble sleeping lately and hopefully these tips will help. The problem for me is that I keep saying to myself that since I didn’t get enough sleep for the past couple of days then it just doesn’t matter how much I sleep. I will still be tired. It is a bad habit I have gotten into.

My friends mother would use a can of frozen OJ to wake him up because no matter where he would roll in the bed, it would roll with him.

I 100% agree. I myself am a student and use all theese tips.Very Very helpfull. The best tip I think is the one by setting your clock 10 mins earlier. (Late Sleeper) :)

Chris this is a set of helpful tips. I usually have a bad time sleeping in the bed that I have. I actually prefer sleeping on the flat-hard floor. These will help prolong my life i’m sure. Thanks again!

Oooo, thanks for the tips Chris. :)

I can’t sleep in total darkness I have to have a nightlight!

[..YouTube..] This is the same for me. I go to bed at 1am get up at 7am: I’m really tired. I go to bed at 2am: I’m awake & raring to go.

WEIRD!!!

[..YouTube..] thank you. thank you thank youu! you read my email! im so happy:) yey (^-^)

[..YouTube..] lol what a sad cunt

[..YouTube..] watch the Cure for Insomnia, or any poet for that matter.

[..YouTube..] I have the hardest time falling asleep. I hate it. I just lay in my bed and not fall asleep until 4 am.

[..YouTube..] You could try not using your computer an hour before laying in bed. Try reading a book.

[..YouTube..] me too =(

[..YouTube..] Notice how he said all TV’s and monitors etc. should be switched off - his monitors went to screensaver :P

[..YouTube..] *goes back to bed*