Yeah. I do this. The number gradually gets smaller as I fail to fall asleep
And of course, doing so is what keeps you awake and keeps the number getting smaller.
Some more sleeping tips:
Stay off your phone.
If you have to do something but don't want to because you're going to interrupt your sleep progress, just do it and don't worry about it as long as you take less than 15 minutes.
Stay out of bed when you're not trying to sleep. Condition yourself to associate your bed solely with sleep.
Keep your alarm clock across the room so you have to get up to snooze it. Disable voice snoozing. Then you won't have to worry about sleeping through it.Read a book for at least half an hour with a warm white book lamp (or if using a backlit eReader, use the warmest temperature setting on the backlight).
If you have RGB LEDs, set them to red when it gets close to bedtime as well.
I used to use sleepyti.me until it was bought by some shitty company that sells mattresses or something and subsequently went to ugly bloated ad-infested "modernized" shit.
I just checked again for the first time in a while and it seems to have improved since it was first redesigned, though it's still not as simple and lightweight as it once was.
Anyways. It helped when I used it. Kept a shortcut right on my home screen for the longest time. If you can look past the stupid brand name they've chosen to redirect to, it's worth a shot.
