It's hard to sleep on Christmas Eve.It's hard to fall asleep as excitement and eagerness accumulate.You can't stand how long it takes for Santa to show up.Here are a few suggestions that will help you get some sleep before the big day.
Step 1: On Christmas Eve morning, wake up earlier.
When you want to go to bed later that day, doing this will make you tired.As long as possible, stay awake the night before Christmas.It's a good idea to set your alarm early in the morning.Resist the urge to go back to sleep when you wake up because you will be very tired.You will fall asleep easier when you have to go to sleep later in the day.If you use your phone as an alarm, change it to a sound you don't like so you can get out of bed.You have to get out of bed to turn off your alarm.You will wake up for the day when you get out of bed.If you have a calendar in your bedroom, you can change it to a different month at night.Make a list of the songs you liked listening to in that time.
Step 2: You can exercise throughout the day.
Go for a walk or do some jumping jacks.Wii Fit is an exercising game that can be played if it's too snowy to exercise.
Step 3: Try and memorize a song.
This will make you tired.
Step 4: Help your family, friends, and neighbors prepare for Christmas.
If you keep busy and helpful, you will be able to take your mind off the excitement.
Step 5: Santa is being tracked.
Tracking Santa's progress around the world is a great way to get excited for Christmas.You can use websites such as NORAD Tracks Santa.Tracking Santa may do the opposite of what you want it to do.It's harder to sleep if it makes you more excited.The blue light from your electronic device can keep you awake.
Step 6: Think of it as an ordinary night.
Tonight is not Christmas Eve.Do the same things you always do at night: brush your teeth, read a book, chat with your friends, etc."Oh, hey, tomorrow maybe I will hang out with my bud, _____".
Step 7: Someone is playing a game with another person.
A technique that works well is to play a quiet game, such as Mad Libs, in bed with a hyper and excited friend or sibling.This will help you fall asleep fast.Santa came much quicker than you thought.
Step 8: Exercise.
Exercise can help calm you down.It's a good idea to see how many push-ups, crunches, or jumping jacks you can do in your room before you go to bed.You don't want to stay up too late, so only do it for thirty minutes.Exercising will help you feel tired so that you can sleep.It will take your mind off Christmas for a while.
Step 9: Take a bath in warm water.
It is easier to fall asleep when you have a warm bath.Squirt bath toys at imaginary targets, submerge yourself in bubbles, and relax.Try scented bubbles and soap.
Step 10: Look away from the Christmas tree.
This will keep you awake and excited.Santa knows when you are awake and asleep.If you are looking, he won't come.
Step 11: Warm milk is good to drink.
Warm milk can provide you with calcium, magnesium, and L-tryptophan, as well as being a comforting drink that lulls you to sleep.Hot herbal tea is very relaxing and calming to drink.Make sure it does not contain caffeine.Warming up a cookie plate for Santa with some warm milk is a good idea.After you are in your pajamas, drink hot chocolate.It will help you to relax and stay warm.Don't drink coffee.It has the ability to keep you awake.Add some honey if you don't like warm milk.It will be a relaxing treat.
Step 12: Take a break.
You need to calm down if you are jumping up and down because it will be hard to come down from.You should read a book.Listen to music.Whatever makes you relax and calm down.You should read a book.Although it doesn't matter, it can be about Christmas.Try reading a boring textbook from your least favorite class.To get sleepy, read a boring book, and to get lost in, you should read an exciting one.Harry Potter, School of Fear, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid are some good non- Christmas books.They can keep you occupied for a while.It's a good idea to burn a candle in a safe place.If you choose a scent like lavender or jasmine, it will help you relax.It's important to extinguish it before you fall asleep.
Step 13: It will be Christmas Day if you relax and feel like falling asleep more often.
Step 14: It is a good idea to sleep in a comfortable position.
As tightly as you can, crunch up.Try to stay still and hold that position for 30 seconds.You will become tired.Relax and close your eyes, it's important to get to sleep.The whole category on better sleeping can be found in this article, as well as some of the related wikiHow links.You should fluff your pillow.If you fluff your pillow, it will make it easier for you to fall asleep.
Step 15: Have fun with your pets.
If the pet is small enough to fit in your bed, try to fall asleep with it.When you have someone else in the room with you, it makes it easier to sleep.It will make you fall asleep a bit quicker if it is a hamster or something of that size.
Step 16: Depending on where you live, make sure you're warm.
If it is cold, you should put on some warm clothes or put some extra blankets on your bed.Don't make yourself too hot, or it will be hard to fall asleep when you're cold.If it is too hot, turn on the air conditioning or open a window and sleep with a sheet on you.
Step 17: Count sheep or reindeer.
It is possible to get out of being too excited into a calmer state by using any of these methods.As the sheep jump over the fence, try to focus on each of them.What do they look like?What type of fence are they jumping over?How high are they jumping?It will help you fall asleep if you focus on these details.
Step 18: You should lie in bed and say this.
Relax my toes.For a moment, wiggle them.Relax my body.Relax my ankle.Flex your ankle.The power of suggestion is what makes it work.Continue, working all the way up to your head.Keeping up the effort of concentration is a distraction from the excitement of the night.You might not even get up to your head before you fall asleep.
Step 19: Think about why you celebrate Christmas when you listen to slow Christmas music.
You can make a "sleep songs" list on your iPod.Music will help you sleep and take your mind off Santa.
Step 20: If you can't sleep at night, do not sit at the computer, laptop, or iPad; this will keep you awake.
The light makes you think it's not time to go to sleep.Turn off the other lights in the room if you watch TV before bed.Your body will be ready to sleep.
Step 21: You should watch a movie.
If you can't sleep, watch a movie.There are a lot of good Christmas movies that play during Christmastime.
Step 22: You can set a time to wake up.
Make sure that everyone in the family agrees with it.Everyone is prepared to get up when it turns.If you get up earlier than this, you need to get ready so that you look good on video.Prepare your best set of PJ's if you're going to be videotaped in the morning.Do you want people to remember you wearing a raggedy old t-shirt and shorts on Christmas morning?It's a good idea to brush your hair in the morning.