Hi, I’m Daniel Wright.

I started CalmNightly because I couldn’t sleep — andeverything I found online was either too clinical, too vague,or just a list of the same ten tips I’d already tried.

For about four or five years, I dealt with that specific kind of bad sleep where you fall asleep fine and then wake up at 3am, completely alert, brain already running. Not every night. But enough nights that it started affecting everything else.Work, mood, how I felt about going to bed in the first place.

So I started reading. A lot. Research papers, sleep studies,books on circadian biology. I tried things. Some of them worked. A lot of them didn’t. And slowly, over about two years, I figured out what was actually going on with my sleep and fixed most of it.

CalmNightly is where I write about what I learned.

It’s not a medical site. I’m not a doctor, a sleep therapist,or any kind of certified professional. What I am is someone who has spent years reading the research, testing things on himself, and writing about it in plain English.

Every article on this site is based on real studies, not opinion. I link to sources. I try to be honest about what the evidence actually says versus what people claim it says. And I try to write like a human being, not a health textbook.

If something helped me, I’ll tell you. If the research is mixed or weak, I’ll tell you that too.

A few things about how this site works:

Nothing on CalmNightly is medical advice. If you’re dealing with a serious sleep disorder, chronic insomnia, or anything that’s significantly affecting your health, please talk to a doctor. I mean that.

I do occasionally recommend products or link to things I’ve personally used. If there’s ever an affiliate relationship, I’ll say so clearly.

If you want to get in touch, you can reach me at:hello@calmnightly.com

Thanks for being here. I hope something on this site
actually helps.

— Daniel