Sleep Issues & Solutions

Woke up feeling tired and 😔...I fell asleep around 12pm and that's just a bit too late for me. Especially if I have a busy week! 1/10! I honestly just want to stay in bed all day and relax with my sloths😴🦥. But I CAN'T. Cuz I have stuff to do and yeah...I'll just have to deal with it I guess..😭😫

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Can't sleep due to stress and boredom. 😫🫤Anything I can do to help get myself to sleep or calm myself down?🤞😴

Not saying purposefully awake knowing you’ll see everything the next day. 잘 자 !!😴💤🌙

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Gotta take out trash so I can’t rly sleep Time to be awake for lil more 🐙🫩🙏🏻💙

And here’s the Google family: 3. Google Family Link (The Ultimate Free Bypass Prevention) If you find that you easily bypass both iOS and Android built-in settings by just clicking "turn off," you can use a cross-platform strategy for free. How it works: Download the free Google Family Link app. The trick: Set yourself up as a "managed" account and have a partner or family member act as the manager on their phone. The result: They can set a hard bedtime lock on your Android device remotely. You will be physically locked out of the device when the clock strikes your bedtime, and only they can unlock it.

Here’s the Android: Android's built-in digital wellness suite offers flexible, native blocking features. Option A: Digital Wellbeing Bedtime Mode This is Google's native system for shifting your phone into a resting state. How to set it up: Open Settings > Digital Wellbeing & Parental Controls > Bedtime Mode. Enforce the lock: Set your bedtime hours. You can trigger it by time or automatically when you plug your phone in to charge after a certain hour. Visual cues: Turn on Grayscale and Dark Theme. Turning the screen black-and-white strips away the psychological reward of colorful app feeds, making your phone instantly boring to look at. Option B: Focus Mode Schedules If you do not want to change your entire screen to grayscale but want specific apps completely blocked, use Focus Mode. How to set it up: Open Settings > Digital Wellbeing > Focus Mode. Select the targets: Check the boxes next to your most distracting apps (social media, games, news). Automate it: Tap Set a Schedule to turn Focus Mode on automatically during your evening wind-down hours. While active, you cannot open those apps, and their notifications are paused

Here’s the iOS app blocker info: 1.Options (iPhone & iPad) Apple provides two built-in methods to enforce a wind-down routine without paying a cent. Option A: Screen Time Downtime (The Strictest Free Option) This feature schedules a blanket lock on your phone, darkening all app icons except the ones you explicitly permit. How to set it up: Open Settings > Screen Time > Downtime. Turn it on and set your nightly schedule (e.g., 10:00 PM to 7:00 AM). Customize allowed apps: Go back to Screen Time > Always Allowed to pick essential tools (like Phone, Messages, or your daily Tibetan yogic practice and meditation apps). The "Save Money" Lockdown: To prevent yourself from just clicking "Ignore Limit" when tempted, ask a trusted friend or partner to open Screen Time, tap Use Screen Time Passcode, and enter a 4-digit PIN that you do not know. Option B: Sleep Focus & Wind Down This method minimizes visual clutter and silences notifications to help your brain prepare for sleep. How to set it up: Open Settings > Focus > Sleep. Set the schedule: Customize your sleep hours and set a "Wind Down" buffer (e.g., starting 45 minutes before sleep). What it does: It dims your lock screen, hides notification badges, and silences non-urgent alerts so your phone stops demanding your attention.

I’ve come across some really interesting doomscrolling blockers built into both iOS and Android phones. Worth a read. Of course you need to exercise some behavioral control -and I contend that sleep practices, relaxation exercises, bio and Neurofeedback tools etc are available. I haven’t attempted these processes (yet) but since I take my own medicine I haven’t really needed to do this. It’s a long post so I’ll start another with the info.