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I used to just do hobbies until physical exhaustion would force me to sleep.
Now i sleep 9 - 14 hours on the regular 🤷♀️ Don’t fuck up your circadian rythm kids
This, apparently.
Yup. It is currently the time for sleep, and yet here I am.
Meditate
Make up stories in my head.
Rub one out.
Practice meditation.
A good night is when I do all three in order :-)
Make up stories in my head.
This is super effective to help get to sleep. Just waking fantasies of being a superhero, or in a zombie apocalypse or being super rich. Any fictional narrative to keep the mind from wandering to racing thoughts or stresses. Gets me to sleep every time.
Not sleep. shrug Seriously, I’ve tried every trick in the book and a boatload of medication, even the medicine didn’t work longterm.
Yay, crippling insomnia!
Have you tried getting regular exercise?
I’ve tried every trick in the book
but have you tried the first trick in the book?
Stop browsing the internet, try and relax, go to my mental happy place and slowly drift into sleep.
Take more melatonin and try boxed breathing exercises. Keep trying until i fall asleep or morning comes.
Boxed breathing? Tell me more 😊.
You’ve heard of the sandman, right? Well, now you know why marital artists punch buckets of sand
Just a variation of general breathing exercises.
Created to calm the body and nervous system down, generally used to help with anxiety, stress, insomnia.- Breathing in while counting to 4(roughly 4 seconds).
- holding breath while slowly counting to 4.
- breathing out while counting to 4.
- waiting for 4 seconds before breathing in again.
I found putting a number of seconds on it made it much harder for me because I was concentrating so hard on breathing exactly x seconds. Just making it even and slow worked much better. YMMV
Yeah completely fair, just slowing down and controlling breathing is good enough for me as well.
I don’t necessarily subscribe to this belief but there are certainly purveyors of breathing excellence who would tell you that the count for each side of the box is important.
I agree that counting is challenging.
Melatonin just makes most people super drowsy during the day.
Most people do take it without any preparation and in too strong dosages. Basically using it as a high dose stand alone sleeping pill rather than a sleeping aid in conjunction with general sleep hygiene, which starts already during the day.
Like if i have to resort to the last method, i will be drowsy during the next day, but it’s better than being completely sleep deprived.
That sounds a bit presumptive.
Like most supplements, if you already have enough of whatever thing then taking more wont be beneficial.
Not really presumptive if you’re aware that like 99% of the adult population are disrupting their circadian rhythm, and natural melatonin production, with screens and artificial light.
But yes, like any supplement, don’t take it unless you have a deficiency.
Try low dose children’s gummies; they don’t make you drowsy the next day.
What I always do: read and/or write.
Night is often much quieter than the rest of the day, which makes it perfect for quiet activities like reading and writing. And in the early morning I can even stop reading/writing in order to listen birds singing which is even better… before the roaring motorized traffic cover their tiny voice for the rest of the day (yes, I do live in a busy city).
Hearing the birds waking up is usually how I know I’ve gone from staying up pretty late to staying up really late. I am listening to them right now. It’s pretty :)
It is, indeed :)
Whatcha reading? I just finished The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin. I already feel like I need to re-read it because it is dense but I’ve just picked up The Language of the Night so I’m gonna finish that one first. I’ve known about Le Guin forever, she’s always on the lists of notable sci-fi authors, but somehow I’ve never read her stuff until now and I think I’m hooked.
I just finished reading of Cordwainer Smith first volume of his Instrumentality of Mankind. I read it in a French translation I was given, not expecting much out of it, I was almost decided to just give to a friend of mine but then decided to give it a chance, just reading a few pages to see what it was all about and if it was any good… I could not put it down. Most of the time, I was very much impressed. It’s smart, it’s bright, deeply humane, and very imaginative too. It was subtle or not so subtle, depending the story. And most of the time it was very well crafted. I felt like a moron to never have read anything by this dude.
I liked the book so much I picked the next 3 volumes of that set… in their French translation, like the first volume I just read, as I was unable to get my hands on any English print edition.
This evening, not sleeping, and alone in our new but yet unfurnished apartment (save a few books, obviously), I started re-reading of The Hobbit, this one in its original English ;)
What a coincidence, Le Guin speaks very highly of Cordwainer Smith in The Language of the Night. Gonna have to give him a go soon.
Does she? Had no idea, but that may not come has a surprise they both shared the same ability to create entire worlds that were so effing convincing :)
I listen to calming sleep stories and try to lie still. That way even though I can’t sleep I try to let my body and mind rest as much as possible. Listening to calming sleep stories is entertaining enough that I don’t get frustrated by the lack of sleep and also calming enough that I feel like I’m resting.
I have no idea. I’m an excellent sleeper.
Bully my brain
make food, wrap up in soft blankets, talk to strangers on the internet. might as well at least be comfortable if I can’t be unconscious
My sister is a registered nurse, and she has a pro tip. Electric blanket. I wrap myself, and I am out like a light.
Also, I am a “sleeper” after r/Futurama_Sleepers when I was over there, so I just download episodes of my favourite tv shows, usually American Dad, Family Guy, Venture Brothers and what not, onto this old phone I have, and set the screen to the lowest brightness, sometimes the screen is off, and the volume low and I watch till I fall asleep. I have not made it past 20 minutes yet in the years I have done this.
Electric blanket as in a heated blanket? How would that help you sleep? I sleep on a heated blanket but u only do that because otherwise the bed is too cold for me but I don’t feel the heat does anything to help me sleep.
Well, the cosy warm feeling tends to lead me to sleep. It works like a charm.
Yes, heated blanket. Around me.
Go Team Venture
Go Team Venture.
Usually just get up and go on with my day. Most of my work is flexible hours anyway.
