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Smoke some weed to get sleepy
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 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 💤.
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.
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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.
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.
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
Don’t ever read or look at a phone in bed. Just get in and immediately try to sleep.
Eyes closed, dreaming deep. That’s the way I like to sleep.
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.
For most nights… Just get in bed and sleep, though sometimes my brain just goes into a sorta fear episode…
Idk what it is, I just start feeling scared for no reason. If that happens, I just pull some long video on my phone and doze off watching it.
These days it involves using a CPAP.
I smoke a joint around 1h before bed, I lay down, watch some unfathomably long video about something dumb (a bad game, Elon musk, the UK etc.), then I fall asleep, wake up an hour later to my computer playing the weirdest fucking thing, close the lid and go back to sleep. Works wonders.
100mg trazodone, 25mg doxylamine, 5mg melatonin, ~.5L whiskey or vodka.
Mix, inbibe, hope for the best.
.5L? You okay?
Staying up until I’m sleepy, then closing my eyes until I’m no longer tired.
