sleeping technique
No idea what you mean by this.
Bed.
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.
Drink sufficient alcohol, lay around in bed until I notice I fell asleep and dropped my phone. Then I can go to sleep.
I focus on feeling my heartbeat. Puts me right to sleep.
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.
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.
On my side, head sandwich between two pillows with my arm over the top pillow, and Youtube playing a long video or a playlist.
Earplugs, cold room, thick blanked and a pillow under my knees/between my legs depending on wether I’m on my back or side. If on top of all this I don’t fall asleep/wake up in the middle of the night anxious about unfinished tasks that would be great.
There is a good fix for the tasks thing. Keep a notepad near your bed. As you get into bed, anything on your todo list you are worried about gets written on the notepad. Get in the habit of looking at the pad every morning. Then once you write it down, you should be able to let it go. And if you wake up because you remember something, just grab the notepad and scribble it down (doesn’t need to be elaborate, just a word or two to trigger your memory in the morning.)
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.
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.
Staying up until I’m sleepy, then closing my eyes until I’m no longer tired.
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!
Doctor! Have you told my family yet? I’m getting kind of worried about them.
Well the sooner you give up on those, the sooner you can get on with dying
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Don’t ever read or look at a phone in bed. Just get in and immediately try to sleep.
