It turns out they were right. The whole time. Assholes. I’ve been doing a pretty consistent midnight to 9-9:30 for a couple of months, no screens in my bedroom, just a nightly podcast. And I’m usually asleep inside half an hour. Sometimes well inside. I still sometimes wake up during the night but that’s mainly cos of painful crampy legs from working on my feet all day.
I regret to report that sleep hygiene is in fact a thing.
2nd, any advice on working around that?
The one period in life I was able to manage it somewhat was when I perfected my melatonin regimen. Took it 2hours before bed time but those two hours were pretty much forfeit. You could try that.
Or weed, weed will help you sleep well but maintaining discipline and not letting the secondary effects of it impact your life is hard.