• ArtieShaw@kbin.social
    222·
    6 months ago

    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.

  • ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    18·
    6 months ago

    Mine is really weird and hard to describe. I’ll try to be concise. I close my eyes (no shit Sherlock) and I imagine faces of people. It can be someone close, a star of a TV show, anything. Then I change element of their face one by one (e.g. their eyes). And I keep going. And everytime the face changes enough I question myself “I know this person, who is this ?”. And when I answer the question, the face is clearer (because I’ve put a name on the face so it is easier to imagine it and correct it) and I can go on again until I fall asleep.

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 months ago

    My bed is exclusively for sleeping and sex. No food. No coffee. No TV. So my body has learned if we’re not doing one thing then we’re doing the other.

    My mind does have a tendency to wander/worry/race though so I put on a podcast when I lay down to distract my brain. I’m usually asleep within 5-10 minutes.

    • ascallion@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      That’s a great idea. I tend to scroll lemmy in bed like I’m doing now. Actually associating sleep with lying in bed sounds like it’d be pretty helpful.

  • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
    91·
    6 months ago

    sleeping technique

    No idea what you mean by this.

  • ApostleO@startrek.website
    81·
    6 months ago

    To combat jet lag, or otherwise reset your sleep schedule if it has drifted…

    1. Go 24 hours without eating.

    2. Go to bed early enough to make sure you get 8-10 hours before you normally want to wake up.

    3. Using an alarm, wake up a bit earlier than you usually want to wake up.

    4. Make a big breakfast, eating when you normally want to wake up.

    Now your body will have reset its circadian rhythm, and you’ll naturally wake up at that time.

  • dan1101@lemm.ee
    6·
    6 months ago

    Dark room, turn on something boring/soothing on TV, turn sleep timer on 30 min, turn tv screen off, lay in a cozy comfortable position and close my eyes and listen.

    • Hikermick@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      My technique as well. I need a distraction from my own thoughts so I turn on something that’s not too stimulating. Definitely no news. Often something I’ve seen before though right now it’s Unsooolved Mysteries. LOTR is a soothing choice

      • dan1101@lemm.ee
        2·
        6 months ago

        I tend to pick things with no sudden loud noises or music, like documentaries or standup comedy. Some shows like Seinfeld work pretty well too.

  • grtz@feddit.de
    5·
    6 months ago

    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.

  • qwewew@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 months ago

    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.