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Eyes closed. Preferably without dying.
I dunno, isn’t dying like, S-Tier sleep?
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to die in my sleep. Just not yet. I have a few new years resolutions to give up on first.
Goals are important!
Well the sooner you give up on those, the sooner you can get on with dying
the one where I’m unconcious for a couple hours while vividly halucinating
With your mother, usually.
Two cats at once. I get the part of the bed not taken by the cats. I’m motivated to lie very still by the cats and the obvious repercussions for moving.
If that fails, the podcast Casefile - gruesome true crime stories recited by a very slow talking Australian fellow. It almost always puts me out. In bed or on planes.
I move around so much my cat has stopped sleeping with me LOL. He just comes to wake me up in the morning.
If I’m having a hard time getting to sleep, I put on a podcast and that usually does the trick. Need to find something in the sweet spot where it’s engaging enough that it’ll hold my attention without being so interesting that it keeps me awake.
I used to have a hard time when I wanted to fall 💤. Podcast has been magical to me. I play Daily tech news show then I’m 💤.
My bed is exclusively for sleeping and sex. No food. No coffee. No TV. So my body has learned if we’re not doing one thing then we’re doing the other.
My mind does have a tendency to wander/worry/race though so I put on a podcast when I lay down to distract my brain. I’m usually asleep within 5-10 minutes.
That’s a great idea. I tend to scroll lemmy in bed like I’m doing now. Actually associating sleep with lying in bed sounds like it’d be pretty helpful.
Smoke some weed to get sleepy
To combat jet lag, or otherwise reset your sleep schedule if it has drifted…
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Go 24 hours without eating.
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Go to bed early enough to make sure you get 8-10 hours before you normally want to wake up.
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Using an alarm, wake up a bit earlier than you usually want to wake up.
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Make a big breakfast, eating when you normally want to wake up.
Now your body will have reset its circadian rhythm, and you’ll naturally wake up at that time.
How the heck you fall asleep on a 24hr empty stomach?
Yeah I find that if I don’t eat enough I will have a very hard time sleeping from the hunger pangs. It can even wake me up in the middle of the night even if I’ve already managed to fall asleep.
Practice, I guess?
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sleeping technique
No idea what you mean by this.
Don’t ever read or look at a phone in bed. Just get in and immediately try to sleep.
If I’m struggling to sleep because I have a lot on my mind I’ll just read until I’m sleepy again - otherwise I end up getting more and more stressed.
100mg trazodone, 25mg doxylamine, 5mg melatonin, ~.5L whiskey or vodka.
Mix, inbibe, hope for the best.
.5L? You okay?
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The App ‘Calm’ which is good for meditation also has sleep stories. There is a great one by Levar Burton describing the solar system.
Come to think of it, listening to the Levar Burton Reads podcast would probably work pretty good as well.
One of my favorite podcasts
Dark room, turn on something boring/soothing on TV, turn sleep timer on 30 min, turn tv screen off, lay in a cozy comfortable position and close my eyes and listen.
My technique as well. I need a distraction from my own thoughts so I turn on something that’s not too stimulating. Definitely no news. Often something I’ve seen before though right now it’s Unsooolved Mysteries. LOTR is a soothing choice
I tend to pick things with no sudden loud noises or music, like documentaries or standup comedy. Some shows like Seinfeld work pretty well too.
I get into a state of anxiety sometimes where thinking almost anything will trigger a cascade of neurotic thoughts. This has led to many sleepless nights. Whilst it doesn’t always work, I found one effective technique to make your brain sleepy is just try to think of the most boring, unstimulating ideas. For some reason, I find it really effective to think about plain flat colors like brown or grey. I’m not getting much inspiration to proceed with an inner critical monologue when I think about the colour brown or grey. Not objects in these colors, just the actual colors. I imagine myself in a sea of that color and it is calming and neutralising, for reasons I don’t fully understand.
