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I Can't Fall Asleep Easily Anymore

So every night I would always go on my phone to watch videos or read some manga, but recently I couldn't fall asleep as easily as I used to.


While I watched the videos I would usually fall asleep in the middle of them like around 10-11 o'clock ish, until now, where I only sleep when I want to, but even then I have so much trouble falling asleep.

I know anything with lights such as your electronics or watching TV doesn't help sleeping but that wasn't really much of a problem until now. Although it may be the electronics disturbing my sleep, I also believe that it may be my room temperature seeing that it's summer and it's always 80 degrees in Cali.

But can there also be a possibility of it being my bed? Because my bed has a sort of dip in the middle of it causing my body to sort of dip as well.

As I said before I always fell asleep while watching videos around 10-11 o'clock ish but the time I sleep changed to 12-1 o'clock. Should I change my mattress or should I like leave the AC on to lower the room temperature? Please help!

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Jun 24, 2018
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by: Anonymous

I use to get tired easily but since school ended i started staying up late and playing on my phone.At first i just stayed up around 9 and rarely 11 but after about 3 weeks i started not getting tired.I get worse and i started sleeping around 1 am to 4 am.I started setting limits for my phone usage and only played on it for an hour or less and i cant be able to use it after.At first it took a while but now i can fall asleep much faster.Even tho i still have this problem its not that bad.Yesturday i went overboard and fell asleep at 5am.You should get your bed fixed since my bed also has like a dip position when you lay on it but i got use to it really fast.Try to get at least 5 hours of sleep since its actually better for people to get that much amount instead of 8 hours of bad sleep.Well good luck to you and really, get that bed fixed or set some limits.

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