Earplugs, cold room, thick blanked and a pillow under my knees/between my legs depending on wether I'm on my back or side. If on top of all this I don't fall asleep/wake up in the middle of the night anxious about unfinished tasks that would be great.
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There is a good fix for the tasks thing. Keep a notepad near your bed. As you get into bed, anything on your todo list you are worried about gets written on the notepad. Get in the habit of looking at the pad every morning. Then once you write it down, you should be able to let it go. And if you wake up because you remember something, just grab the notepad and scribble it down (doesn't need to be elaborate, just a word or two to trigger your memory in the morning.)
Don't get in bed until I'm sleepy.
Count backwards from 100 in my head, if I lose track start back at 100, if I actually get to zero I do it again in Spanish but usually I fall asleep.
If really wound up, put on relaxing ambient music and actually listen to it, do yin yoga poses for awhile then try again.
My computer goes into night mode a few hours before bed (reduces the blue and dims). Then I dim my light about an hour before.
Watching tv and fall asleep or download ASMR of your choice, I prefer taping nails, whispering or ears stuff, put the auto close timer at 30 minutes and sleep.
Drink sufficient alcohol, lay around in bed until I notice I fell asleep and dropped my phone. Then I can go to sleep.
Lying on my back.
Bed.
I focus on feeling my heartbeat. Puts me right to sleep.