LOCKED TOPIC - 2014: Week Four: Get your phone out of sight!
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LOCKED TOPIC - 2014: Week Four: Get your phone out of sight!
Week Four of the 6 Week Sleep Challenge is about cutting down on over-stimulating technology usage late at night for a better night's sleep!
THE CHALLENGE
Keep phones, computers and TVs out of the bedroom and stop using them 30 minutes before bed.
Tell us below what results you've seen from staying away from those Youtube clips, social media browsing and TV right before bed. We are giving away an A.H. Beard iComfort pillow valued at $149 for the most creative and original response. For full terms & conditions visit: http://on.fb.me/1jqKJmv
Full challenge: http://www.ahbeard.com.au/sleepwell/wee ... -of-sight/
THE CHALLENGE
Keep phones, computers and TVs out of the bedroom and stop using them 30 minutes before bed.
Tell us below what results you've seen from staying away from those Youtube clips, social media browsing and TV right before bed. We are giving away an A.H. Beard iComfort pillow valued at $149 for the most creative and original response. For full terms & conditions visit: http://on.fb.me/1jqKJmv
Full challenge: http://www.ahbeard.com.au/sleepwell/wee ... -of-sight/
Last edited by Emilie on Thu Mar 31, 2016 12:02 pm, edited 3 times in total.
Reason: This post is closed as this is a past round of the 6WSC.
Reason: This post is closed as this is a past round of the 6WSC.
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Re: Week Four: Get your phone of your bedside table
I admit I have a tendency to stay up late on my computer, but my rule is "NOT in bed!" I will SIT on the lounge until my eyes are drooping, set the alarm on my phone, put it on the bedside table (as far away as I possibly can) and go straight to sleep.
- tiggerlover
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Re: Week Four: Get your phone of your bedside table
This week is going to be a tricky and tough one for me as i need the noise for the computer to sleep. The phone on the bed is something i do also as i have a sleeping program that monitors the movement patterns of my sleep to let me know how my deep sleep is going:
Over the last month my statistics are:
Avg sleep of 6:09hrs a night
Deep sleep of 55% on avg
These are very bad statistics.
Will post after this weeks challenge see if has helped!
Over the last month my statistics are:
Avg sleep of 6:09hrs a night
Deep sleep of 55% on avg
These are very bad statistics.
Will post after this weeks challenge see if has helped!
- Andrew
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Re: Week Four: Get your phone of your bedside table
Just putting it 'out there'
But this weeks is going to be a hard one!
But this weeks is going to be a hard one!
- Rachmel
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Re: Week Four: Get your phone of your bedside table
Golly gosh this week is going to be extremely hard. I've been finding my mind ticking over with things bugging me at night when I go to bed so I've been taking my mind off these things by scoping out Facebook. Really bad habit, especially when I wake during the night after a bad dream and need to divert my thoughts from it. I will give it a go though, so keep everything crossed 
- sneakyfi
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Re: Week Four: Get your phone of your bedside table
I'm only keeping my mobile phone in the room when I need my alarm for work. I'm sleeping much better when I don't have it near me. Amazing what a difference it makes!
I don't tv in my room anymore. That's improved my sleep pattern as well.
I don't tv in my room anymore. That's improved my sleep pattern as well.
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Re: Week Four: Get your phone of your bedside table
sneakyfi wrote:Golly gosh this week is going to be extremely hard. I've been finding my mind ticking over with things bugging me at night when I go to bed so I've been taking my mind off these things by scoping out Facebook. Really bad habit, especially when I wake during the night after a bad dream and need to divert my thoughts from it. I will give it a go though, so keep everything crossed
Oh hi there sneakyfi!
Oh no not Facebook! Scoping out Facebook to take your mind of things is likely to surface a whole new universe of thoughts floating round in your head, not to mention the fact you are likely to start feeling a little jealous of the stream of photos of friends enjoying holidays. Probably not the best lullaby to go to sleep!
We hope you've managed to ween yourself off a little bit this week, and diverted your thoughts to a good book! Let us know how you go
Cheers,
A.H.Beard
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Re: Week Four: Get your phone of your bedside table
As I don't have TV's etc in bedroom I decided to take out digital phone (landline), Have found it also made a difference to my sleep pattern
- Trisha
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Re: Week Four: Get your phone of your bedside table
WOW
This has been a hard one for me i always go to bed and use my phone for internet . But not this week . Found it hard to leave my phone out off the room in hallway so cauld hear my alam to get up in morning . Did it and will persevere , to stop this one .
Have to stop the gadget DEMON call . SWEET DREAMS ALL
This has been a hard one for me i always go to bed and use my phone for internet . But not this week . Found it hard to leave my phone out off the room in hallway so cauld hear my alam to get up in morning . Did it and will persevere , to stop this one .
Have to stop the gadget DEMON call . SWEET DREAMS ALL- blaze
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Re: Week Four: Get your phone of your bedside table
So this wasn't too hard afterall.
I set an alarm on my phone and when it goes off I put it onto the charger and don't use it for the rest of the night.
We don't have a TV in our room but I do use a Kindle reader - as I always read for 20mins before going to sleep I had to keep that. It isn't connected to the internet and isn't backlit so I hope it is okay?
The fibeginning of the week was harder than the end - but I've continued doing the same thing (with the alarm) this week and it actually works. Helps to calm my mind so Im not thinking about so and so's last status of the day etc. Damn Facebook - how did we survive with out it?
I set an alarm on my phone and when it goes off I put it onto the charger and don't use it for the rest of the night.
We don't have a TV in our room but I do use a Kindle reader - as I always read for 20mins before going to sleep I had to keep that. It isn't connected to the internet and isn't backlit so I hope it is okay?
The fibeginning of the week was harder than the end - but I've continued doing the same thing (with the alarm) this week and it actually works. Helps to calm my mind so Im not thinking about so and so's last status of the day etc. Damn Facebook - how did we survive with out it?
- Rachmel
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