'It works every time': Mum explains how a three-letter word can put you to sleep in seconds
You're not alone if you hop into bed at night completely exhausted, but just cannot go to sleep because your brain won't turn off.
Stephanie Howell, a mum-of-five knows that feeling all too well but she's found a hack that sends her to sleep in just seconds.
"I learned a new sleep hack and I've never had anything in my 47 years work so well," she said in the video and explained what she does.
Watch the clip above.
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Mum-of-five Stephanie Howell knows how hard it can be to switch off at night, but has found a hack that works in seconds. Instagram
"When I try and fall asleep, it's not like physical reasons or stress necessarily that keeps me from falling asleep, it's that I can't turn my brain off," the mum and pre-school director says.
"I always have a million things going on at one time."
She joked it's like that saying, your brain is like all the tabs open on your browser at one time, and it's a lot.
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So, she found the sleep hack on TikTok and while she has tried other methods that did work, this one is something else.
"When I tell you that I cannot do this for longer than like a minute, before I'm out like a light...
"What you do is you want to think of short words that aren't stressful, or stress inducing for you."
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She said she can't do this for more than a minute before she's asleep. Instagram
Howell suggested words like 'Joy' or 'Safe' but it's up to you.
Using the word Joy as an example, she said you start with the first letter – which is J – and then in your mind think of three things that start with J. Then you move onto O, then repeat the process of thinking of three words, then move onto the Y and do that again.
"The funny thing is how quickly it works," she said.
"'m a reader so I have a big vocabulary, at the beginning I think of all of these really fast words for each letter and they're pretty big words and pretty creative, by the second word, my words are really simple.
"By the third word, if I get to a third word, I cannot even remember what word I'm on. It works every time."
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She admitted this sleep hack has changed everything for her and it's worked unlike anything else she's tried, Getty Images/iStockphoto
In the caption she admitted this hack has changed everything for her, which is why she had to share it.
"It's called cognitive reshuffling and it works unlike anything I've ever tried before," she wrote.
And judging by the comments, it's a hack worth trying if you're struggling with sleep because so many people backed up that it really does work.
"Yes this is amazing. I've been doing it for a couple of months and it works every time. There are some nights when it takes a little longer but guaranteed it works like a charm," commented one woman.
Another user commented, "I have been doing this for about a month and it is the only thing I have ever tried that works. It's crazy how you never get to that last letter!"
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