Margaret Heffernan Quotes

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

I need to figure out how to sleep better. Most of my binge watching is after midnight. Most of my baking is after ten. I'm really working on trying to sleep more. No devices in my bed, get into a routine. I've started doing yoga every night.

I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.

I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.

I'm a light sleeper, but so long as I'm wearing earplugs, I sleep well.

I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane.

If I want to go to sleep, click on a procedural, put me right out.

I have trouble falling asleep. I have trouble shutting my mind off.

Whatever you need to increase the quality of your sleep is really, really important.

I don't really sleep until gone midnight anyway. It takes me a while to calm down before my mind allows me to switch off.

I love a sleep mask, havin' total darkness is essential for good sleep, you know, cuttin' that light out of your eyes.

There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an inquiry, a question about how music and sleep fit together.

Jet lag is tough, to be honest. For me, it's much easier to force yourself to stay awake.

I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

Sleep is huge for me. I don't set an alarm. I just wake up when I wake up.

We go to bed at 8 o'clock at night, even on the weekend, just because that's our schedule.

I'm in bed by 10, but I may not actually go to sleep until 11. It doesn't take long. I just breathe in and out maybe 10 times, and that does it.

I wake up naturally and begrudgingly around 6:10 A.M. That's wired in so deeply that I wake up at that time no matter where I am, in any time zone. I wish I could sleep later.

A wide array of factors can determine just how quickly you'll be able to drift off to sleep when you choose to do so.

You should not actually stay in bed for very long awake, because your brain is this remarkably associative device, and it quickly learns that the bed is about being awake. So you should go to another room - a room that's dim. Just read a book - no screens, no phones - and, only when you're sleepy, return to the bed.

I try not to take sleep medication.

I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night.

I like to go to bed very early and get up very early.

Meditation gives you back one or two sleep cycles every time you do it. Do it every day and it goes quite a long way towards helping insomnia.