How Do You Get To Sleep?

I try daydreaming from time to time. It's certainly the most entertaining way to sleep.

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I daydream too, or watch South Park/Futurama, or listen to music. Helps me sleep quicker

On the recliner (where I spend at least half of my time sleeping), I don't have to do anything. I somehow fall asleep much easier on that. But when it somes to sleeping in bed, I typically do the same sort of thing, coming up with some random scenario to help clear my head.

Lately it's been difficult to go to sleep, too many things in my mind. What I usually do is think about my goals, objectives and everything I wanna do, before I know it, I'm sleeping like a baby and not even a hurricane can wake me up.

When I'm traveling, wether it's a bus or a plane or train I can fall sleep easily, but if I want to. If not I can stay awake the entire ride.

[QUOTE="SteverXIII"][QUOTE="konvikt_17"]lately ive just been drinking a four loco.konvikt_17

it was.

in 2010 it came back, but they removed the caffeine, tuarine, and guarana. basically watered it down, so its not as potent and dangerous as it once was.

Ah right, good thing too.

Wow, I envy the people saying they take an hour to fall asleep, who in turn are envying the people who fall asleep immediately. I'd kill to be able to fall asleep in an hour "normally." Unless conditions are absolutely right, I will not fall asleep for upwards of seven or eight hours (basically the entire night).

1. No gaming (or anything exciting) an hour before bed, and no caffeine or sugar 5+ hours before.
2. Take sleep aid.
3. Wait two hours.
4. Either read or watch TV until drowsy.
5. Put on soft music, soundtracks work well.
6. I have approximately one hour before the window of opportunity closes.

Been this way for about ten years now. I've tried all sorts of things; meditating, working out (which is what I usually do after pills but before drowsy now), melatonin, turkey, whatever. Any deviation from the schedule results in an extremely long period of time tossing around or not sleeping at all. Having to take sleep aids every night is terrible for me, but so is never sleeping. I've experimented many times where I completely stopped for about a month to try and wean myself off them, but all that resulted in was a trip to the hospital for exhaustion. Oh well, I've accepted I'm doomed forever.

Melkari

Exercise before bedtime is a surefire way to stay awake. It gets your body going and keeps you from getting to sleep. Bad move.

Lie down and close my eyes in a wamr and comfy bed. I'm usually "out" within 1 minute.

Listen to music... Until I am about to pass out. horgen123

I'm usually tired enough that I fall asleep within 5 minutes. I always play a dvd and put the tv on Sleep for 30 minutes though.

I fall asleep while in thought. I can't imagine how someone can fall asleep with a blank mind.

I lay on my right side and listen to a classical music CD and slowly drift off.

I lay on my right side and listen to a classical music CD and slowly drift off.

M13L13S

Lay down. Roll onto stomach. Close eyes. Out.

Namgis

I lay on a bed. Derp.

I smang myself and call 911 at the same time

I have this fantasy/sci-fi/historical world that I created in my head, and I like to think up stories in it. I can't fall asleep if I think about serious stuff.Lonelynight

I have to make myself really tired and sometimes use earplugs to drown out all sound.

It takes me an hour or two to fall asleep. Sometimes it can take hours. I do the same day dream bit too. Im always day dreaming when im in bed. I also cannot sleep without a fan. It cools me down, & the sound of the fan relaxes me. Without a fan & day dream i cannot sleep.

Also when i know i have to get to sleep quickly, when i know i have to get up early ( for work, or what ever ) i actually find those days really hard on me. Ill say to myself "if i go to sleep now ill get 5 hrs of sleep before work". An hour later im still not asleep yet & i say to myself " if a fall asleep now i get 4 hrs of sleeps'. Repeat this every hour until morning.

Im one of those people that has to have 9 or more hours of sleep to even be mildly satisfied with sleep, so the closer it gets to the time i have to wake up, the harder it gets for me to fall asleep ( becuz my body gets so irritated when i know im not going to get enough sleep that my body then refuses to go to sleep )

Does that make sense?

Exercise before bedtime is a surefire way to stay awake. It gets your body going and keeps you from getting to sleep. Bad move.

WhiteKnight77

Depends on the person & how much excercise they do. I for one go to the gym, lift weights, do some Boxing, & then go outside for a nonstop 40 minute 8 KM run. Thats 2 or more hours of brutal exercise. By the time im done i can sleep for 12 hrs straight.

Hard exercise can put your body to sleep real fast because your body & your brain are dead tired & need to re - energize by resting.

I can't sleep if I haven't fapped first.

themajormayor

Same here.

It takes me about an hour before i fall asleep.

[QUOTE="WhiteKnight77"]

Exercise before bedtime is a surefire way to stay awake. It gets your body going and keeps you from getting to sleep. Bad move.

brucecambell

Depends on the person & how much excercise they do. I for one go to the gym, lift weights, do some Boxing, & then go outside for a nonstop 40 minute 8 KM run. Thats 2 or more hours of brutal exercise. By the time im done i can sleep for 12 hrs straight.

Hard exercise can put your body to sleep real fast because your body & your brain are dead tired & need to re - energize by resting.

I usually start daydreaming and then it just carries me off to wonderland.

I do the same "daydream" thing. It helps get me to sleep quicker for some reason. JML897

[QUOTE="themajormayor"]

I can't sleep if I haven't fapped first.

tjricardo089

Same here.

[QUOTE="WhiteKnight77"]

Exercise before bedtime is a surefire way to stay awake. It gets your body going and keeps you from getting to sleep. Bad move.

brucecambell

Depends on the person & how much excercise they do. I for one go to the gym, lift weights, do some Boxing, & then go outside for a nonstop 40 minute 8 KM run. Thats 2 or more hours of brutal exercise. By the time im done i can sleep for 12 hrs straight.

Hard exercise can put your body to sleep real fast because your body & your brain are dead tired & need to re - energize by resting.

I lay on a bed. Derp.

gamerguru100

I usually don't make it to the bed before passing out.

Usually wake up on the floor.

Edit: I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW, IT IS MY CHOICE TO SLEEP ON THE FLOOR

I just think of whatever pops into mind but nothing too serious. A glass of wine can make it much easier to doze off, sometimes I go for a 2 glasses for a quick and distraction free sleep starter.

[QUOTE="horgen123"]Listen to music... Until I am about to pass out. Lovely637

[QUOTE="Lovely637"][QUOTE="horgen123"]Listen to music... Until I am about to pass out. horgen123

lol what ? infected mushroom and system of a down make you fall asleep ? That's interesting. Do you lay there all night sometimes with music blasting in you ears ? But seriously I thinkn more people should consider listening to audiobooks while they sleep. I think you can accumulate knowledge that way. dkdk999

lying down just gives you this big boner.dkdk999