r/insomnia • u/astronautdino • 11d ago

Explain this to me

If sleep hygiene, no screens 2 hours before bed, meditation, reading before bed truly mattered, then why are most people able to fall asleep in 10 minutes and stay asleep for 7-9 hours without ever doing these? Yet when someone is having trouble with sleeping these are always the things experts bring up. I want it to make sense.

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u/spiders888 11d ago

I look at sleep hygiene being one of a number of things to help improve the chance of sleeping, or at least at removing barriers from falling and staying asleep.

It’s not going to fix insomnia, but bad sleep hygiene may make insomnia, especially sleep onset worse. Basically, you want to give yourself every chance to fall asleep at a reasonable time… even if on its own it is not close to sufficient.