Having added an average of 30 minutes a night to my sleep swag with that eyemask, I’ve been looking for other ways to improve my snooze time. I long ago took Nora Ephron’s advice that the second glass of wine was why I couldn’t sleep through the night, and then I cut the first glass out, too.
One thing I haven’t been able to work out or workaround is training nights for jujitsu. I don’t normally get him until 9.30, and after having a shower and a small bowl of custard and protein pudding, it’s normally ten o’clock at the earliest before I get my head down. The alarm goes off at 4.45 the next morning. Not great, especially as it can take a while to come off the training high.
So last night I tried a melatonin tablet. They’re supposed to help you get to sleep quicker and stay that way. It seemed to work. But I had a migraine come on after breakfast this morning. Might just be coincidence. Might be because of the melatonin. Only one way to find out…