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You know how sometimes you remember where you put the thing you lost the moment you stop looking for it? Sleep works the same. Laying in bed trying to sleep doesn't work. Get up and do something that doesn't involve any blue light from a screen for a little while and eventually when you forget about sleeping you'll realize you're sleepy. Then go right to bed
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Get up at 425 and work out hard for at least an hour and work a full day. You will embrace climbing into bed at 9pm and drift off.
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Aug 14, 2022 01:16
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The obvious one is exercise. Tire yourself the gently caress out, push it harder until it hurts and your dumb monkey brain wants to stop, and you'll sleep like a baby. And then get fitter as a bonus. And then even poo poo like Chef Boyardee canned stuff will taste like the food of the gods. And if sleep is still hard (because you didn't push hard enough), placing your hands on your chest and counting breaths (RR) seems to work for many. If you have a partner, you can hold them close and do the same. Just take RR for 30 seconds and x2 to get the number and check if spec, Making sure they aren't dead or having problems, which is nice and calming to know they are safe. The Butcher fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Aug 14, 2022 |
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Aug 14, 2022 01:32
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BigSexy posted:Having trouble falling asleep lately. A lot of times I think about the vastness of the universe and how insignificant I am which makes me feel more secure on a personal level since nothing I do will ultimately matter. But lately this isn’t helping I find old VHS rips to help, if only to put myself in the shoes of millions of people from decades ago who also had trouble sleeping with or without the anxieties of the future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9nOp7D-Zj0
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Aug 14, 2022 01:55
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I blast at least 20 minutes of blue light directly into my eyes, roll over and start thinking about a wizard building a wizards tower and I'm asleep in 5 minutes.
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Aug 14, 2022 02:15
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Reading OPs posts Also jackin it, but not at the same time.
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Aug 14, 2022 03:06
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Every night since I’ve quit my job I lay in bed exhausted and ready to fall asleep, and I consistently think about how I was passed over for a promotion and how my job and coworker hosed me over until I sulk and sometimes cry myself to sleep. It’s a depression thing, but it puts me to sleep, I guess. At least by the time I wake up, I’m over it.
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Aug 14, 2022 03:25
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I think about all the things I'm grateful for, including all of you, my friends here in GBS
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Aug 14, 2022 03:29
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Noodle River. Hear me out. I lay down, close my eyes, and, no matter what I'm thinking, my mind eventually makes me imagine myself as a noodle flowing down a decently fast river. Then I blink out and it's the next day.
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Aug 14, 2022 03:39
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audiobooks
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Aug 14, 2022 03:39
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I invent background stories about a cast of various imaginary people who live unusual but basically mundane lives, mostly from various wry literary novels I halfassedly started writing in my 20s/30s. About 5 minutes of thinking about how the guy who did gay porn in college's dad is pissing his retirement fund away on classic cars puts me right out.
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Aug 14, 2022 03:55
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"make sure you fall asleep on your side so you don't puke yourself to death" after injecting some opiates is a good way to go to sleep. Works every time.
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Aug 14, 2022 04:23
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Wendigee posted:The best way to fall asleep for me is to turn on some white noise, I like the sound of rain personally, then lay down, breathe deep and slowly through the nose This is my experience in the matter almost exactly. I feel like sleeping is something many people take for granted but I suck at it and its like a skill I have to improve and develop.
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Aug 14, 2022 04:38
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I enjoy going to bed since I have time to relax and think so I’m not usually trying to actually fall asleep, but it happens eventually.
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Aug 14, 2022 04:40
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I just hit myself in the head with a frying pan every night. I saw it in a cartoon.
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Aug 14, 2022 04:42
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i think alcohol is good for sleeping, but unfortunately it takes a lot
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Aug 14, 2022 04:49
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lol
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Aug 14, 2022 04:49
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I’m at this rodeo and the rodeo clowns are going to scoop up the horse poo poo but it’s revealed that the horses are all just popular actors so there’s no poo poo. The rodeo clowns all strip down and they are chunky hardbody chicks with jiggly knockers, and they start walking up the bleachers towards me! But then I remember I left a coupon for 50% off nachos in my car visor so I go out to the parking lot to get it. I get in my car and fall asleep, thinking about nachos, gently caress you 50 cents for jalapenos the coupon is for the whole drat nachos bitc.... zzzzzzzzz.
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Aug 14, 2022 04:52
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I come up with characters to inhabit the village of Bogshite, a pseudo-medieval fantasy village full of weirdos and home of the Night Soil Men’s Guild headquarters. Feel free to ask me questions about Bogshite and it’s environs. Nigmaetcetera fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Aug 14, 2022 |
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Aug 14, 2022 04:55
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Hypnagogic hallucinations are a hell of a thing.
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Aug 14, 2022 05:07
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Nigmaetcetera posted:I come up with characters to inhabit the village of Bogshite, a pseudo-medieval fantasy village full of weirdos and home of the Night Soil Men’s Guild headquarters. what do the night soil guys do, like whats their job or designated task
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Aug 14, 2022 05:36
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i'm typically thinking about work, or replaying interactions with people, and that leads to so on and so on. then i just start doing random math. nothing serious. then realize I'm doing math and try to just focus on my breathing and convincing myself that I'm sleepy and tired. i'm fairly certain I have musical tinnitus cause I'll start hearing music but it's from like far away. all sorts of genres. eventually i just hope my meds kick in and put me to sleep. I've also heard voices or music when in a MRI, so that's a weird thing too, i guess. Super jealous of those people that can be asleep in like 30 seconds.
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Aug 14, 2022 05:54
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Relax your face. You'll stop thinking about nonsense after realizing your face squinches up while you're doing that.
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Aug 14, 2022 05:55
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Haverchuck posted:what do the night soil guys do, like whats their job or designated task They dig up old latrines and outhouses and take the poo poo away. They generally work at night. Bogshite is not supposed to be where they dump it, but sometimes people get lazy.
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Aug 14, 2022 05:59
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Sid Vicious posted:plus if you have depression just go for a walk I was gonna say to hit the floor and do a bunch of sit ups and push ups to tire yourself out. Similar logic and you get some muscle growth as a bonus.
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Aug 14, 2022 06:04
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Sell insert myself into the Aubrey/Maturin novel series. More often now just imagine I'm on a sailing ship but I have nothing to do and it's time to sleep. Waves, gentle sounds of wind...:zzzzz:
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Aug 14, 2022 08:31
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I used to think I had insomnia but it turned out I have a circadian rhythm disorder that basically means I am permanently jetlagged, so I actually sleep okay but shifted about 4-6 hours later than regular people. I have prescriptions to force my schedule to be a little more livable, but at least I actually fall asleep when I go to bed now. Waking up at 10am feels really early to me, but I mostly manage it during my work week. It does mean I'm lucky to get more than 6 hours of sleep per night, though. It's a pain in the rear end but at least it's not primary insomnia or non-24 - both of those seem worse than what I have. Circadian disorders often get missed and a lot of doctors appear to be unaware of them, so I figure it doesn't hurt to mention it in case anyone is in the same boat I used to be in. Knowing why my sleep was hosed up finally let me figure out how to manage it better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder
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Aug 14, 2022 09:47
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pulling off the perfect heist
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Aug 14, 2022 10:19
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Two hours of timpani practice tires me up nicely
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Aug 14, 2022 10:23
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2nd Amendment posted:There is a voice that sounds like a radio just a few notches off telling me something I can't hear. I used to have a bathroom ceiling fan that did this to me. While it was running I couldn't stop thinking "it sounds like sports talk radio is coming from the drat fan" except could never make it out, obviously. (Since it wasn't real, clearly) There's got to be some frequency of sound that triggers that.
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Big stinky honkers
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:made up scenarios where i'm the hero or love interest, mainly This and the violent destruction of my enemies. Not really "to fall asleep" though, just while I'm falling asleep.
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Aug 14, 2022 12:49
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Actual answer: I have a small corgi puppy that wakes me up at 6am every morning and it’s basically impossible for me to fall back asleep after I take her outside, so most nights I’m asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow
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Aug 14, 2022 14:46
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I used to think I had insomnia but it turned out I have a circadian rhythm disorder that basically means I am permanently jetlagged, so I actually sleep okay but shifted about 4-6 hours later than regular people. I have prescriptions to force my schedule to be a little more livable, but at least I actually fall asleep when I go to bed now. Waking up at 10am feels really early to me, but I mostly manage it during my work week. It does mean I'm lucky to get more than 6 hours of sleep per night, though. It's a pain in the rear end but at least it's not primary insomnia or non-24 - both of those seem worse than what I have.
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Moderating an internet forum
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TY for this.
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I listen to Sebastian Lague on YouTube. Or the original Cosmos series.
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Aug 14, 2022 16:06
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The opening line to a book I'll never write
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blight rhino posted:i'm typically thinking about work, or replaying interactions with people, and that leads to so on and so on. I hear very faint music and chatter when falling asleep sometimes and it was bugging me for the longest time until I figured out it was radio interference from a white noise machine.
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Rhythmic tapping works for me sometimes Skip to about 8:15 for his technique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5dE25ANU0k isaboo fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Aug 14, 2022 |
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