• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    count whatever animals, objects, or social constructs that tickles your fancy!

    Doesn't work.

    I have tried to count bats, I have tried to count young dominatrices and old ones, former reddit mods on lemmy, and even fanbois of Elon. None of them have helped me sleeping.

    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      This is what works for me. I close my eyes, relax my body. I visualize all the "non-sleep" in my body traveling from my toes and fingers up into my head. Then I visualize a sphere, which is usually kind of hazy, kind of behind my eyes. As I breathe in I visualize all the "non-sleep" being sucked into the sphere which changes them to sleep stuff. Then I exhale picturing the sleep stuff dispersing from the sphere. In…and out…in…and out.

      When I first started doing this I could fall asleep almost always in about 5 minutes. After doing it every night for awhile, I started to go to sleep in like 2 minutes, if not quicker. These days, after about 5 years of using this technique, I've found myself going to sleep after one or two breaths.