bedtime rituals

[SongsOfDragons]

If I don't have to get up early, sometimes I listen to BBC radio for a while. The business report always makes me drowsy

I know people who swear by the Shipping Forecast as a way to get to sleep.

[sms001]

I'm surprised at so many responses.

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Aren't you my age or so FL? And you hadn't figured out that people LOVE to tell other people excruciating minutiae about their lives?

Actually, I've found the question and answers interesting. And given how hard most of us work, I bet bedtime is often the highlight of the day.

[Athaelia]

My nighttime ritual (I am a night owl!)

10pm: Twins to bed, wash baby bottles, clean highchairs, pick up dirty baby clothes
10:30: dinner, followed by a shower or hot bath
11pm: A club soda, occasionally a glass of wine or beer, TV
12 am: The Sims 3 or Diablo 3, or classic SNES or NES games
2am : Brush teeth, maybe a midnight snack, check on the babies, bed! (But not before letting my kitty Max in my room, or carrying up Big Fester kitty for a snuggle, I don't sleep well unless I am in the presence of cats!)

[ShinyGreenApple]

Depending on what time I work the next morning (or if I go in at all), I start by taking the dogs out one last time so they're not waking up with full bladders at some ungodly hour.

Remove collars

Put Dobby in crate Seriously, he loves his crate and will pass out almost immediately. He even gets REALLY cranky and insecure if I don't put him in there when he asks.

Tell Strider it's bedtime, he just goes to the bedroom and gets in his bed.

Then I either read or watch Netflix for an hour or two. Lately it's been an episode or two of Doctor Who. I'm a newbie

Turn off computer/close book, get up to turn off light. Take care not to trip on Strider who has moved from his bed to a blanket on the floor.

Good night, moon!

[BookstoreEscapee]

My sunrise clock helps a lot too, making sure the light gradually gets too dim to read and therefore making sure I don't keep reading until 2am.

This is a good idea...I've thought of getting one of these for waking up in the morning but I never thought if it in reverse... I used to have a lamp on a timer to come on just before my alarm. My old apartment faced a main road and there was too much light from the road so I had to have dark curtains, and when I have to get up in the dark it was really hard.

I don't really have a ritual. I brush my teeth and wash my face. Sometimes I read. I really should get off the computer earlier and wind down better. I don't get enough sleep.

[Mishi]

Normally: Some time after 10-11 pm I have a lovely hot shower, get into some comfy pjs, brush my teeth, have a drink of water, and then cuddle up in bed with Rugz.

At the moment it's:
1 - Change nappy, feed and burp bub at 10-11 pm.
2 - Carefully sneak up bub upstairs and into his bassinet next to our bed.
3 - Have a huge drink of water, refill my drink bottle and put it on my bedside table.
4 - Check that I have a clean, folded blanket plus a clean burp cloth for the 4 am feed.
5 - Have a blissfully long, hot shower and find some comfy pjs.
6 - Brush teeth and drink some more water.
7 - Let my hair down and finally snuggle up in bed with Rugz.

[AccountingDrone]

I just absolutely love fresh sheets, fresh pajamas and hopping into bed right out of a shower. Making my nest comfy, picking something to watch on tv and picking out an ebook on my droid1.

I don't understand people who don't mind getting into bed dirty or sweaty=(

[Sunshine]

Make sure lil ray is actually sleeping.
take shower, brush hair, teeth and put jammies on
snuggle dog.
watch tv, read cs on my nook or watch tv til i zonk out

[Food Lady]

Am I the only one who puts her hair up at bedtime? And I definitely have to be clean at bedtime.

[Sunshine]

Food lady my hair is almost waist length but i just ponytail it up.

[Food Lady]

Mine is waist-length, too. The one time in the last 6 months that I fell asleep without putting it up somehow, the next day there was weeping and gnashing of teeth as I spent 40 minutes detangling it.

[Rantsylvania 6-5000]

I like to fall asleep watching and listening to relaxation videos. I have my laptop set up next to my bed, put on my earphones, and play ASMR or hypnosis videos on Youtube.

[AccountingDrone]

Don't you just hate movies or tv when the heroine has seriously long hair and it never gets snarled into a rat-king by sleeping on it or running around in a tornado with it loose? *sigh* If I don't get it braided into submission, half an hour, 45 minutes of work with the comb and fingers to get the knots all out.

[Sunshine]

Accounting drone...oh yeah. I dont like some tv shows for the same reason..too distracting!

[DeltaSierra]

I *HAVE TO* read before I go to bed, even if its just 5 minutes. If I don't, I just lie there and can't seem to get my brain into "go the frak to sleep" mode. I've been this way since I was a child, and I *always* have books on hand - it doesn't have to be something new (often I like to re-read old favorites) but I must get my reading in or I won't sleep.