Sensory issues with sleep

Does anyone ellse tend to have an overactive brain before they go to bed? Like if your staying some where different like at a relative's house you can't sleep well unless it's your own bed. Other people's houses freak me out at night time. I can literally here everything from pipes creeking to floor boards to the wind outside. Then my over imagination kikcs in and thinks there must be somone there when reality I do t beleive in ghosts but old Victorian propperties really creep me out. I sleep fine in my house but when we stay at families houses not so much. 

Parents
  • Never have a problem now - but there are things we have done to make sleep easier

    • Always go to bed at the same time (weekends included)
    • Always get up the same time (weekends included)
    • never have caffeine after midday (or a bit later depending on when you go to bed)
    • Don’t use devices at least ah hour before bed
    • Turn the TV off some time before bed and no TV in the bedroom
    • maybe try and read or some wind down activity.

    this seems to work for me plus I am often tired at night anyway.  Probably from masking or other type of activity during the day

Reply
  • Never have a problem now - but there are things we have done to make sleep easier

    • Always go to bed at the same time (weekends included)
    • Always get up the same time (weekends included)
    • never have caffeine after midday (or a bit later depending on when you go to bed)
    • Don’t use devices at least ah hour before bed
    • Turn the TV off some time before bed and no TV in the bedroom
    • maybe try and read or some wind down activity.

    this seems to work for me plus I am often tired at night anyway.  Probably from masking or other type of activity during the day

Children
  • Good advice,. Shame I never follow it.

  • My brain doesn't work like that due to my ADHD ASD over lap. My brain goes into over drive at night time it's insanely hyperactive even though my body is physically drained longest I've lasted without sleep was 48 hours I had to go to the doctor's and they had to prescribe me with temporary sleeping tablets just so it would *** down and let me get some sort of sleep. Like people assume just cause your have ADHD that makes you physically hyper all the time when in reality ADHD makes your brain mentally hyper but the rest of you physically shattered.