No Cell Service At Bedtime

While I’m backpacking, I always marvel at how well I sleep. I’m usually in the woods, on a tiny, 3-inch-thick inflatable pad, in freezing temperatures, and yet I manage to easily get nine hours of sleep each night. Eventually, I’ve been forced to come to the conclusion that every adult over the age of 50 has been saying for years: I need to get off my phone. As it turns out, when I don’t have the ability to scroll random videos for two hours, I am usually able to fall asleep two hours earlier. At home, I’ve started putting my phone in airplane mode when I get into bed. Am I always able to follow through on this? No. I’m not the most disciplined. However, when I do, I find myself getting to sleep a lot earlier than when I’m able to lie there and scroll.