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.
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.
Smoke some weed to get sleepy
Don’t ever read or look at a phone in bed. Just get in and immediately try to sleep.
Imagining something fantastic like living in an asteroid mine and managing things. Or trying to not think anything. Both works for me. And of course working 60h a week and spending my whole free time with my kids leaving me completely exhausted falling in coma in a second. Good night!
Eyes closed, dreaming deep. That’s the way I like to sleep.
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
100mg trazodone, 25mg doxylamine, 5mg melatonin, ~.5L whiskey or vodka.
Mix, inbibe, hope for the best.
.5L? You okay?
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.
Concentrating on breathing using my diaphragm.
I stole this actually from sitting meditation. Laying on my back this usually puts me too sleep in a couple of minutes. It’s especially useful when my mind is racing.
These days it involves using a CPAP.
Isn’t it harder to fall asleep with a cpap?
Not when the alternative is gasping for breath.
