Statistics say that most people need half an hour to fall asleep, although in reality the process shouldn't take that long.. And scientists know which habit can help speed up the onset of sleep.

We are talking about the concept of " Scientists offer to write a list of affairs every evening before going to bed. In their opinion, this unloads your brain, you stop worrying that you have forgotten something and fall asleep faster, writes Ny Post.

Researchers from the University of Baylor used a diagnostic test to check on volunteers whether this habit works really. As a result, they noticed that the more accurately participants wrote down their to-do list, the faster they subsequently fell asleep..

This concept is called " Ultimately, this may lead to better performance, the study authors write in the Journal of Experimental Psychology..

The importance of “cognitive unloading” has been shown in previous studies. For example, among IT workers in 2014. Employees who didn't complete a task before the end of the week slept worse on the weekend because they spent a lot of time worrying about unfinished tasks..

" I just wanted to find a way to better track my priorities and productivity every day.

So every evening before going to bed I recorded three things that I would like to do the next day, ”said Adam Benjamin, who now uses this habit every day to unload his own thoughts before going to bed.

Therefore, sleep experts recommend planning the time outside the bedroom to think about what may prevent you from falling asleep. Write a list of things for tomorrow, clarify what you did not have time to do today. Then, when you go to bed, you won’t worry about it and will quickly fall asleep.