Sweet Dreams Are Made From Screens
Working through our bedtime dependence on devices.
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Here, their answers.
… Or podcasts youve already listened to
I usually listen to old episodes ofLas Culturistasto fall asleep.
Shark propaganda
For the last four months, Ive been watching exclusively shark and oceanic documentaries.
Honey, Im obsessed with the exquisite colors of the coral reef.
The sounds of the ocean waves are so peaceful and calming.
I know it sounds cray cray, but sharks are my jam.
They are such an intelligent, fascinating, and complex species.
I get so invested in their stories and backgrounds.
The sheer diversity of sharks is incredible.
Like, can you imagine?
This is likeThe Color Purplefor sharks.
I need to have a one-leg-out situation.
I like a fan above.
I have a serious routine.
White noise is my best friend.
Trinity Rodman, athlete
Im all about that couch nod-off.
To be honest, sometimes I just fully commit to the couch sleepover.
I break out the blanket, the pillow, the bonnet, and the laptop and just embrace it!
I intentionally dont have a TV in my bedroom (you know, for the good sleep hygiene!
Now that Im saying all of this out loud, it sounds … borderline problematic?
But for getting through the new season ofAtlanta,it works great!
But you gotta be careful.
Sometimes you move in your sleep and you knock the computer off the bed.
Ive broken a laptop this way.Jack Quaid, actor,The Boys
6.
ASMR (because numbers dont lie)
Has anybody saidASMR?
Thats what I like.
I decided to raise the armrests and lie out on the seats like a makeshift bed.
Ive since rewatched that movie and I dig it.Paul Walter Hauser, actor,Black Bird
8.
My husband is now asleep.
I would not nod off anywhere; people who can do this are a mockery of me.
If I sit up in bed, Im fine.
and hits me too hard and I wont be able to sleep.
Or maybe I thought,Well, Im going to be scared anyway.
Might as well maximize the experience.
TikTok and Colleen Hoover
This is gonna sound like the most Gen-Z, basic answer, but TikTok.
And Ive been really into the Colleen Hoover books.
So Ill read that.
I go through her books so fast.
Bridget Everett
13.
That made it much easier to relax.
With preferred audio equipment
Always AirPods.
I have a special set just for this purpose.
Fall asleep next to your laptop.
I have special earbuds dedicated to sleeping.
I use AirPods during the day, but at night I like the soft, squishy kind.
Sometimes theres a nice vista; sometimes theres a random scene with people with blurred-out faces.
Jackson McHenry
17.
The show is apparently part of a biggerMightyuniverse of Canadian docuseries includingMighty PlanesandMighty Ships, butMighty Trainsis special.
MightyTrainsisnt an instant-fall-asleep show so much as an I-need-to-wind-down show.
Also, trains are just relaxing.
At least the really expensive ones are.Megh Wright
18.
Murder, She Wrote?
I woke up in the middle of the night to Anthony Hopkins monologuing.
Unexpected creature features
Just last week, I woke up around 3 a.m. to the Hulu horror movieGrimcutty.
Its kind of a white-noise machine.
Works great for me.
Its like rereading a novel that you like chapter by chapter.
Sometimes he would put them on repeat.
Near the end of his life, I asked him when and why he had adopted this ritual.
