When I can’t sleep, I turn around and sleep “upside down” - moving my pillows to where my feet were beforehand, and my feet to where my head was beforehand - and I stick with that for a week or so. It gives me a week or so without insomnia and then wears off, so I have to turn myself back around for the next 7-12 day period.

Admittedly this could just be a me thing, but let’s put our faith in this method and let the power of placebo effect take hold. Boom, minor bouts of sleeplessness are cured.

What are your own examples of this?

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
      2·
      22 days ago

      While most probably would be okay with hydrating more, do be careful:

      1. The “eight glasses per day” thing was made up whole cloth
      2. The advice I’ve heard is that for MOST people, drink when you are thirsty.

      But if you’re trying to figure out what’s wrong because you feel a little bad, or have a headache, or are sleepy, or feel like you might be hungry but think you shouldn’t be, or any number of other situations - drinking a glass of water usually doesn’t hurt, and does sometimes turn out to have been the issue. So it’s rarely terrible advice.

      (Unless you’re on dialysis like me and have fluid restrictions) :)

    • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
      43·
      23 days ago

      yes. you need water more than calories and while the rule of threes is basically about calories with the three weeks if you don’t have fiber with those calories you will have a medical emergency on your hands. Granted though you can have to much water and fiber so its kinda a balance. I mean granted with water its more about to much water and not enough electrolytes.

        • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          23 days ago

          Hyponatremia . We called it hyponatriosis or ‘water-drunk’ in the army. We had a girl in our platoon over-hydrate and go floppy on a march, and my swear-to-god buck-oh-five bunkmate had to play crutch for the rest of it while we all redistroed all their collective gear. (calm your breathing: they marched in back with the medicos under obs the entire time, and we didn’t fail the little exercise we were on, and it was her choice to continue at every stage, and she was lauded for it afterward. This is a heroism story.)

            • str82L @lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              22 days ago

              Guess I wasn’t paying attention. I googled it and then tried to share the Wikipedia page. Guessing I must have clicked on some ai result instead of the actual page. Annoying, unintentional.