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This article talked about some questions and some research from researchers which is focus on hoe to get a better sleep. It talked some reason that may cause people can not sleep, and they give reader some suggestion which can make sleep easier and more quickly to sleep. For an article about how Silicon Valley and other innovators have taken on the challenge of sleeplessness, a $32 billion market once populated mostly by mattress and pharmaceutical companies, I tested but a few of the many hundreds of gadgets, apps, podcasts and other inventions now devoted to a good night’s sleep. As the gizmos grow more elaborate, imbued by ever more exotic technologies, they are creating a ruckus in our bedrooms, and sleep experts advocate a simpler approach. Here are some suggestions from them.

Listing something or someone. Listening to some music or some recitation works will help you with sleep, especially if you listen to something complicated and not easy to understand, which will help you fall asleep quickly. But if you listen to music or radio that you can understand and even excite you, it will make it hard for you to fall asleep.

Take a shower. Arianna Huffington, author of “The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time,” suggests following the bedtime rituals we gave our children. “You didn’t just throw your baby in bed,” she said. “There was a transition. A hot bath makes it easier for you to wash away the day.”

​Make your bedroom dark, cold and quiet. According to the study, humans get better sleep in a relatively dark, humid and low temperature room than in a room full of light. Because these factors make people feel more comfortable when they sleep, but if there is other noise in or around the room, this may also become a factor affecting sleep.

Tuck in with a weighted blanket. According to the survey, covering a thick blanket will make you feel more secure when you sleep, which will also help your sleep.

Say your prayers. Doing some prayers before going to bed will make people feel more relaxed inside, and it is not easy to think about things that affect sleep. Especially for those who have religious beliefs, it is very useful to pray before going to bed.

Keep your devices out of sight, or in another room. Nowadays people are too dependent on mobile phones, so many people have to play mobile phones every day, especially before going to bed, it will make it difficult for you to fall asleep and will ease your sleepiness. More than just mobile phones, there are a lot of companies that have introduced some technology devices to detect sleep quality, environmental quality, etc., but many people rely too much on them so that they always think about the working conditions and data of the devices while they sleep. Whether it is correct, these have led to a decline in the quality of their sleep. If you try to take all your electronic devices out of the room one day before you go to sleep, you may find that you can fall asleep easily. Or do as Mr. Rose at M.I.T. does. Mr. Rose lives with a collection of interactive furniture and animated objects, like Alexa by Amazon and Personal Assistant by Google and Aura, a sleep tracker and alarm clock by Withings that looks like a ship’s funnel and uses light to regulate melatonin. He and his family sometimes struggle with the beguilements of his enchanted objects, as he calls his gizmos. His children play Alexa and Google’s Personal Assistant off each other, a battle of the robots. And when he reads Harry Potter to his son at night, Alexa has taken to playing the theme song from the movies. Recently, however, Mr. Rose invited a new gizmo into his apartment to police the other devices. Called “Circle,” it wirelessly scouts all the technologies in the house — his children’s iPads, internet-connected guitars, toys and his own phone — and sets rules for their use, which is to say, it sets bedtime for the robots, so everyone can get to sleep.

https://cn.nytimes.com/style/20170418/how-to-get-a-good-nigtht-sleep/dual/