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r/sleep

Community for Better Sleep

r/sleep is an active safe-for-work Reddit community for sleep with 631,112 members and about 49 new posts a day.

Subscribers631.1K
Posts per day49
Posts all time142.7K
CreatedDec 2008
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About r/sleep

In its own words:

Good sleep is essential for our health and happiness. Find and strengthen your best habits and help others improve theirs.

The community was created on Dec 15, 2008, which makes it 17 years old. Among the 5 communities on our sleep list it is the largest.

What sets r/sleep apart

Compared with other large communities, r/sleep leans heavily on text posts (87% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 35%). r/sleep is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 4.5 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.0. For its size it is unusually busy: about 77.0 new posts a day per million members, more than 93% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (18:00 UTC) sees about 3.3× as many posts as the quietest (03:00 UTC).

Top posts on r/sleep this week

The most upvoted posts of the past seven days, in the order Reddit ranks them (collected Nov 9, 2026).

  1. Slept Through My Alarm Again — Lost a 110k/year Jobu/LeftyBaby · Nov 5 · text post
  2. Does anyone else wake up between 2:30 and 3:30 a.m and can't go back too sleep for the life of them ? And what has helped to go back too sleepu/George2825 · Nov 9 · text post
  3. M35, can’t stay asleep for ~5 years: I fall asleep in 5 min but wake up after 4-5h. What actually helped you?u/RegretNo7141 · Nov 6 · text post
  4. Magnesium magnesium magnesiumu/IvoryPilot · Nov 6 · text post
  5. Spinning / flipping sensation when falling asleepu/ProfessionalPushie · Nov 8 · image
  6. why does getting sunlight increase deep sleep so muchu/Tall_Toe_5229 · Nov 7 · image
  7. Severe sleep anxiety has completely disrupted my sleep schedule. How do I get back to normal?u/froginthefog0 · Nov 3 · image
  8. Your blue light blockers are doing almost nothingu/therealraphaelwong · Nov 8 · text post
  9. something to knock me out instantlyu/laysafeplace · Nov 5 · text post
  10. Hello, is there anyone here who can help meu/Beginning-Peace-2746 · Nov 6 · text post

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/sleep, from 2019 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.

  1. The military secret to fall asleep in two minutesFeb 12, 2019 · 258 points · 19 comments · text post
  2. Essential Sleep Habitsu/dudemeister023 · Feb 9, 2022 · 265 points · 0 comments · text post
  3. My weird but effective sleep trick: pretend I’m a medieval peasantu/Right_Energy_8326 · Jul 24, 2025 · text post
  4. I keep having dreams where I call Obama the N-word and I want it to stop.u/ArmLucky1285 · Sep 7, 2024 · text post
  5. I don't get this subreddit.u/Here-For-The-Comment · Apr 19, 2019 · 234 points · 17 comments · text post
  6. It's okay to just lay down and not sleepu/damnmanthatsmyjam · Dec 15, 2021 · 368 points · 33 comments · text post
  7. honk shoo mimimimimimimi honk shoo minimikimiki honk shoo mimimimmimu/Unable-Emu-7986 · Feb 25, 2023 · 303 points · 30 comments · text post
  8. hey...im going to sleep rn...Good Nightu/Haycutter69 · May 13, 2020 · text post
  9. I don't know who needs to hear this BUT: Society needs to start normalizing the importance of adequate sleep and stop glamorizing the "I get by on 4 hrs of sleep per night" lifestyle.u/NarrowPea4082 · Sep 12, 2022 · 520 points · 71 comments · text post
  10. Don’t you hate when you’ve been sleeping regularly and then some curveball hits you with unexpected stress and you find yourself on reddit from 2-5am on a Wednesday?Apr 24, 2019 · 196 points · 17 comments · text post

What r/sleep talks about

Across 266 recent posts (Oct 31–Nov 7), the words that come up most are “night”, “asleep”, “hours”, “fall” and “waking”. Other frequent themes are sleeping, wake, help, bed, falling and trouble. Recurring phrases include “fall asleep”, “falling asleep”, “single night” and “stay asleep”. By format, 87% are text posts, 9% are images and 3% are videos.

  • night 26
  • asleep 20
  • hours 20
  • fall 15
  • waking 15
  • sleeping 15
  • wake 13
  • help 12
  • bed 7
  • falling 7
  • trouble 7
  • feel 7
  • anxiety 6
  • work 6
  • alarm 6
  • struggling 6
  • actually 6
  • slept 6

Popular post flairs: Advice (121), Discussion (67), Insomnia (38), Dreams & nightmares (13), What helped me (12), News (6).

Activity and best time to post

r/sleep gets about 49 new posts a day. The public archive holds 142,690 posts and 637,096 comments in total, about 4.5 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Thursday (51 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (41). Posting peaks around 18:00 UTC and is lowest around 03:00 UTC.

00: 130001: 1802: 1503: 60304: 1205: 1506: 80607: 608: 1209: 110910: 1711: 1612: 111213: 1314: 1915: 161516: 1417: 718: 201819: 1320: 1321: 142122: 1023: 17
Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 31, 2026 – Nov 6, 2026
Text posts 87%Images 9%Videos 3%Links 2%

Rules of r/sleep

The moderators of r/sleep list 5 rules. In short:

  1. Be kind.
  2. No commercial content.
  3. No surveys and studies.
  4. No misinformation.
  5. No links.

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/sleep and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

How many members does r/sleep have?

r/sleep has 631,112 subscribers.

When was r/sleep created?

r/sleep was created on Dec 15, 2008, so it has been around for 17 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jun 10, 2009.

Is r/sleep still active?

Yes. r/sleep gets about 49 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 142,690 posts and 637,096 comments. In a sample of 266 recent posts we counted 253 different authors.

What is the best time to post in r/sleep?

Based on post counts from Oct 31, 2026 to Nov 6, 2026, the busiest day was Thursday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 18:00 UTC, with the fewest around 03:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What kind of posts are on r/sleep?

The community describes itself as: “Good sleep is essential for our health and happiness. Find and strengthen your best habits and help others improve theirs.” Recent post titles often mention night, asleep, hours, fall and waking. Most posts are text posts (87%).

Is r/sleep SFW?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/sleep as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

What are the rules of r/sleep?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/sleep accepts text posts only, with galleries and polls enabled. It has 5 posted rules, starting with: “Be kind.”; “No commercial content.”; “No surveys and studies.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 9, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/sleep.