“Sleep Environment,” Missionary Wellness: Sleep (2023) Sleep Environment Your sleep environment can affect your sleep quality. Depending on where you serve and your individual apartment, you might not have much control over some things in your sleep environment. For these situations, simply do the best you can. Try This Do what you can to create a calming sleep environment. The following are some ideas: Clean and declutter your room where you sleep. Make it calm and relaxing. If external noises keep you up, get a white-noise machine or download a white-noise app. Try to keep the temperature of the room relatively cool. A dark room is more conducive to high-quality sleep. Turn off lights, and fully cover your window with blackout curtains or shades so light doesn’t come through.