I have lately gotten better sleep than I have for quite awhile. Combining a focus on sleep hygiene, including a more or less consistent bedtime, and doing Sudoku puzzles on paper in bed until my sleep medication kicks in (and which seems to be helping me to not surface from sleep very often now) has yielded some good results. I will also put on some gentle music in the background (for about 40 minutes, on a timer) to also help me drift off to sleep.
I take the medication at bedtime and not before so that as soon as it starts to work I can just turn off the light and close my eyes.
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