Sleep is not something we do. We often miss that point when we try to make it happen. The objective is to create a nice environ where sleep will be more likely to arrive. And i think temperature is kind of a surprise solution. It was the biggest, one of the biggest surprises, if not the biggest surprise in my sleep environment and how that was contributing to things. I don't know a single person who has ever had an eight-hour night's sleep without waking up at 5am or 6am because they didn't like their body temperature so much. But there are ways you can actually work on this yourself. Making your bedroom dark isn't as bad as thinking about making
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