The document lists 100 ideas for promoting healthy sleep habits, some of which include: temporarily using prescribed sleep aids; encouraging employers to offer flexible work schedules accommodating different sleep patterns; educating the public about proper sleep through various media campaigns; and developing technologies and programs to help people establish regular sleep routines.

1. Sleep ideas:
1. Temporary use of sleep aids (prescribed) to get on sleep pattern
2. Partner responsibilities
3. Promotion of sleep as a regular component of health
4. Discounts from health insurance for monitoring sleep
5. Family sleep time.
6. power off devices
7. Billboards (informational)
8. Sleep at work. Allowing
9. Public Service campaign changing the viewpoint of sleeping = laziness.
10. Employee sleep timecode
11. Employer certification standard for: ‘Promoting Healthy Sleep’
12. Employer Siestas
13. Sleep stations
14. Contents for awareness: sleep offs
15. Commercials for the promotion of sleep
16. Doctor involvement - standard question during exam
17. Relaxation chairs at work.
18. Herbal tea, and decaf offered at work
19. Presidential focus
20. Faces of sleep (like faces of meth) campaign
21. Healthcare employer offering discounts to companies for promoting sleep
22. Relaxation tea given as gifts.
23. Pillows given out??
24. What is the best sleep position?
25. Movie stars sleeping longer in films (for impressionable people)
26. Office chairs that convert to cots.
27. Cubicles that convert to sleep areas
28. Car seats that recline better for improved sleeping for naps
29. After market car sleep conversion kit - makes napping in car more enjoyable
30. Free sleep training specialists
31. Program people sign up for from their Electric Utility to reduce power at set hours in evening
32. Sleep Training App
33. Kit to shut off wifi router at designated times. Public (embarrassment) reporting of overrides.
34. App for cell phone - sleep time is blocked - no internet. Public (embarrassment) reporting of
overrides.
35. Simple timer hooked to tv’s, routers, etc - to turn off at specified times.
36. Sleep consultant certification
37. Sleep consultants available at work (component of physical training?)
38. Inexpensive relaxation players that display images and scenes on ceiling to induce sleep.
39. Sleep as fun activity - Promoting Active Dreaming/Dream remembering
40. Better use of tools like: http://www.soundsleeping.com/index.php embedded in different devices
(my ceiling fan?)
41. Buddy challenge. pick a friend to compete against for most consistent sleep patterns
42. Make work better focused on results rather than time in office
43. Use behavior training to assist employees/patients in long term goal setting for sleep improvement
44. Desktop application that displays popups as to sleep benefits
45. Public Service Announcements - (i.e. don’t do drugs) approach to mass media coverage
46. Household ‘lights out’ times.

2. 47. Have people put sleep time on their todo list.
48. Employers giving more flexibility to night-owls/early risers in work start and end times
49. Grouping employees into teams based on natural awake times
50. Kill your alarm clock day
51. Auto Light dimmers that start dimming lights an hour before bedtime.
52. Teaching relaxation techniques starting in grade school.
53. Better education on the additional benefits of room darking shades on sleep
54. Setting home thermostat to start lowering temp ½ hour before bed and to keep the temp cool
throughout the night
55. Creation of inexpensive white noise devices for people who are unable to get their room quite
56. Handing out sleep comfortable earplugs when: getting a driver’s licence renewal, stocking stuffers,
birthday gifts
57. Print sleep tips on the back of milk cartons, pizza boxes. etc.
58. Display sleep tips for one week when people log into Facebook
59. Create a website to download sleep tips wallet reference card
60. Promote lack of sleep as a bad behavior - much like the anti-smoking campaign
61. Create a sleep mentors program - like toastmasters.
62. Online community that people can join to get aid in sleep habits
63. Labeling on products that prevent sleep
64. Labeling on products that aid in sleep.
65. Promote awareness of herbs like: lemon balm, passion flower, chamomile, magnolia and valerian
root
66. 24 hour stores offering take out of teas with the above.
67. Sleep like herbs like the above are the new coffee.
68. Create more portable, lightweight cots - something that can fit under your arm
69. Better online tools to determine what type of mattress is best for your profile
70. More accurate and earlier diagnosis of sleep apnea.
71. Random sleep facts on coupons
72. Sleep facts printed on soda bottles
73. Sleep facts printed on Snapple caps (like the Snapple facts that currently exist)
74. Sleep facts printed on throwaway water cups
75. Basic sleep charting- download to assist with chart your sleep.
76. Online calculator that figures a monetary value to better sleep
77. Create better laws on motor vehicle sounds that can disrupt people’s sleep. Those living close to
heavily trafficked areas
78. Promote reductions in light pollution - have towns join in. http://www.darksky.org/
79. Have pubs close at midnight.
80. Create: Sleep Night - Annual event that promotes going to bed early.
81. Hashtag #lightsout for twitter when going to bed at assigned hour
82. Online reminder system that sends text message an hour before bedtime to shut things down.
83. Promote efficiency techniques (Getting Things Done) to get more down and allow more time for
sleep
84. Downloadable & Printable Self-Hypnosis cards which promote relaxation
85. Promote bike lanes in your community. Exercise and sleep go hand and hand
86. Make your community safer for walking.
87. Add sleep tips cards with government promotions, free fire alarms? - drop a sleep card tip sheet in
in the packet
88. Invite middle school children to to conduct this solving sleep creativity exercise- as a science/health
project in school. Let them find solutions and research the issue learning about the problem in the

3. process
89. Create online sleep journal to track your progress.
90. Link sleep journal to online fitness journal to link the two together to track effects
91. Use a DVR
92. Reward yourself by putting 1 dollar in a glass jar each our you go to be early. Otherwise you put it
in another jar to a charity you dislike
93. Log your wind down schedule and time it, so you know what needs to be done before you go to
sleep and how long it takes.
94. Identity stress at an earlier time for at risk groups
95. Market mediation as a sleep aid.
96. Create a website to share free sleep mp3’s
97. Chain letter thumb drives - send 20 thumb drives filled with free sleep music to friends with
instructions to copy and pass along.
98. Instead of wake up call - Sleep call - reminding people to go to bed
99. Computer application were desktop slowly dims to at a certain time until black and alerting to
computer shutdown
100. Call a friend: Pick a random day of the year and call 5 friends reminding them the importance of
sleep.