Do These 10 TikTok Sleep Hacks Actually Work?
From sleep trackers to grounding sheets, discover 10 trending sleep hacks shaking up TikTok, and find out which ones genuinely support better sleep, and which are perhaps best left behind.

Written by: Pippa Thackeray
Written on: July 1, 2025
Pippa is a content writer and qualified Nutritional Therapist (DipNT) creating research-based content with a passion for many areas of wellbeing, including hormonal health, mental health and digestive health.
As a contributor to The Healf Source, she regularly attends seminars and programmes on a plethora of contemporary health issues and modern research insights with a drive to never stop learning. In addition, interviewing experts and specialists across The Four Pillars: EAT, MOVE, MIND, SLEEP.
In her spare time, she is an avid swimmer, mindfulness and yoga lover, occasionally bringing a raw, honest approach to the topics she faces. You may also discover some personal accounts of eye-opening wellbeing experiences amidst the reality of a disorientating, and often conflicting, modern wellbeing space.
- 1. 1. Sleep trackers: help or a hindrance?
- 2. White noise and sleep sounds
- 3. The ‘Sleepy Girl Mocktail’
- 4. Getting a ‘Sleep Divorce’
- 5. The comfort of weighted blankets
- 6. Is mouth taping a smart sleep hack?
- 7. The drunken monkey method
- 8. Polyphasic sleep
- 9. Is "Bed Rotting" a complete shutdown?
- 10. Grounding sheets
- 11. Key takeaways