What is ‘cognitive shuffling’ and does it really help you get to sleep? Two sleep scientists explain

Photo credit: Cottonbro Studio via Pexels. Article by Melinda Jackson and Eleni Kavaliotis. The Conversation – June 16, 2025.

If you’ve been on social media lately – perhaps scrolling in the middle of the night, when you know you shouldn’t but you just can’t sleep – you might have seen those videos promoting a get-to-sleep technique called “cognitive shuffling”. The idea, proponents say, is to engage your mind with random ideas and images via a special formula: […]

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