Eyes closed. Preferably without dying.

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.

the one where I’m unconcious for a couple hours while vividly halucinating

With your mother, usually.

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.

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.

If I’m having a hard time getting to sleep, I put on a podcast and that usually does the trick. Need to find something in the sweet spot where it’s engaging enough that it’ll hold my attention without being so interesting that it keeps me awake.

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.

Smoke some weed to get sleepy

Don’t ever read or look at a phone in bed. Just get in and immediately try to sleep.

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100mg trazodone, 25mg doxylamine, 5mg melatonin, ~.5L whiskey or vodka.

Mix, inbibe, hope for the best.

If I’m struggling to sleep because I have a lot on my mind I’ll just read until I’m sleepy again - otherwise I end up getting more and more stressed.

Imagining something fantastic like living in an asteroid mine and managing things. Or trying to not think anything. Both works for me. And of course working 60h a week and spending my whole free time with my kids leaving me completely exhausted falling in coma in a second. Good night!

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.