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I normally fall asleep very quickly.
On the rare occasions when I have problems falling asleep it most of the times helps, if I try to visualize places I have visited in dreams of my past (there are some places which I dreamed of, for example a beach with a half buried tower which looks like Big Ben, which are very easy for me to visualize)
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Bereta_Eder
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Order!
That's where it's at. You have to have order. Order on things and in life. And plenty of things to do. Then you can sleep. If you don't have that and are loose it becomes difficult.
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Flubber
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With a view of the Rockies
Aug 2000
time: 22:37
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I fall asleep within 10 minutes of going to bed unless I am stressed about something. It may sound mundane but going to bed at a pretty regular time and getting up at a pretty regular time works wonders. I can't stay asleep past 7. a.m. anymore.
If you can't or won't get into a regular pattern, the masturbation thing would likely help OR you could read something boring like the manual for a new digital camera or a novel you have read previously (forget this one if the lamp will distract you too much. Even television . .. I find I would always pass out if I put something on that is mindless. It would be distracting enough but wouldn't engage me enough to keep me awake . . . and with the sleep timer feature, you don't have to be worried about being awakened at 3 am with some loud informercial
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Blake
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Brainfallocatione
Oct 2000
time: 17:37
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I'm also one of the unlucky bastards who can't go to sleep. If there is one thing I envy it is the ability to go to sleep just whenever. I also have no problem sleeping for 8+ hours and I wake up dead. So I have no problem staying asleep or staying awake, I just happen to be a bit too good at both... (it is however handy at times since I can like drive while dead tired and am guaranteed to not fall asleep it the wheel - I wouldn't do something so foolhardy though since tiredness still causes loss of reaction time and stuff).
Some things I try...
Focusing on the "hypnotic imagery" generated by the brain in the absence of any visual input, that appears inside of the eyelids. It looks like shifting colors but you normally wont notice it because it's meant to put you to sleep.
Daydreaming. This can sometimes lead to real dreaming especially once the brain starts getting confused and the sensation of "vertigo" appears - at this moment the brain doesn't know if it should be paying attention to the senses or the daydreaming and it can be nudged in the right direction by focusing on the dreamworld. This probably makes more sense to a lucid dreamer like myself. "Entering a dream" does seem to be a generally useful technique to get to sleep. (it has on occasion resulted in very screwed up lucid dreams that can make it IMPOSSIBLE to get back to sleep afterwards - but having such a lucid dream is usually worth it anyway.)
Counting backwards from 101. Just gives something to focus on. Counting doesn't usually do much for me since I can usually still think about other things at the same time. Counting backwards works a little better. Counting down from 201 to 100 is good too, since saying 'one hundred and' one hundred times is just the kind of tedium that puts you to sleep...
Scratching my scalp. Helps for some reason.
Sleepy relaxed tired dark deep tired sleepy drifting.... imagining words like these in a tone a hypnotist might use seems to help quite often.
Catching (and resisting) the "roll over" instruction. When you sleep you will change position, well whatever part of the brain that is repsonsible for this (brainstem, I think) tries to make you do this before you're fully asleep, depending on how you react to the roll over instruction the brain can determine if you're conscious or not - if you don't react it decides that you've drifted off and does the paralysis thing to stop you physically acting out your dreams. If you consciously resist shifting position the brain can't tell the difference and will paralysis your body anyway, leaving you in a state of sleep paralysis - I've had the pleasure of experiencing this and the alternate name - "Old hag syndrome" is indeed very appropriate and if you're not crazy you may find it very, very scary. However the "resist rolling over" thing hasn't ever worked that way for me, it does however help me go to sleep for some reason, maybe by focusing my attention "inwards"...
(How I managed to induce sleep paralysis was staying away for way more hours than is healthy (like 40 i think), then sleeping for a few hours, then staying awake for another 18 hours or so, then sleeping... it was during this second sleep period that everything got screwed up enough for my mind to be awake while my body slept. It was really loud, like screaming static in my ears, and I actually felt a ghastly hand grab my shin through the covers. VERY groovy and I can see why this experience can scare the living **** out of people and why it's also known as Old Hag's Syndrome or Alien Abduction (in earlier times, witches, vampires, spirits etc), would hate to experience it without knowing what it is.)
Jacking off sometimes helps but it's a bugger when it doesn't work, seems to make thing worse really.
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Dis
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Las Vegas, Nevada
Feb 2000
time: 21:37
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quote:
Originally posted by Bkeela
I have a number of fantasies I like to think about as I am trying to sleep. All the fantasies involve beautiful women.
All my fantasies are set in a post apocalyptic world. Sometimes I lead a nomadic existence riding a camel around the desert, with a few female slaves for company. Sometimes I lay in ambush for slave trains, and when I free the female slaves (all nude of course) they offer their services for lack of alternate options.
Sometimes I roam around in a car like Mad Max.
Sometimes I live in a desolate city beseiged by zombies.
Sometimes I am in an underground bunker with a number of other women.
Sometimes I live in a utopian underground city, where all the inhabitants have been conditioned to avoid sex. I of course take it upon myself to corrupt some of the female citizens.
If I see an attractive woman on the street, or there is a woman I fancy in Survivor or some other show, then she will star in my fantasy.
I do not think about explicit sex or anything, for that would distract my intention to sleep. I just think about mundane, domestic type situations where the women wear nothing but undies.
Pretty sad, but it gets me to sleep without fail. |
hmm, I have the same post apocalyptic world fantasies.  . Okay, mine don't have slaves, I'm not into that sort of thing.
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