Sleepmaxxing focuses on using a variety of practices, techniques, and products to maximize — that is, improve — one’s sleep quality and duration.
Although good sleep is important for one’s health in its own right, sleepmaxxing is also considered a subset of looksmaxxing because adherents believe that better sleep enhances facial features and overall physique.
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Therefore, sleepmaxxing is likewise practiced by involuntary celibates (incels), because they believe that it can help them becoming more successful in scoring a date and finding a romantic or sexual partner.
Many practices/activities of sleepmaxxing are common and sound, but some others lack evidence of efficacy, the latter sometimes posing certain health risks.
Sleepmaxxing practices include optimizing bedroom conditions for temperature, darkness, and quiet, tracking sleep stages and duration, taking supplements, consuming specific foods or drinks before bed, and avoiding substances like caffeine and alcohol prior to sleep, maintaining consistent sleep schedules, reducing screen time, and establishing relaxing pre-sleep activities like reading or meditation.
Some controversial sleepmaxxing practices include mouth taping (to prevent mouth breathing during sleep), nasal strips (assist in keeping the airway open), lucid dreaming (a trainable skill whereby the dreamer realizes that they are dreaming during their dream), and polyphasic sleep (segmented sleep).
Mind that dietmaxxing supports sleepmaxxing because a proper diet — including when exactly and what one eats —is thought to influence sleep patterns.
