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re: Can you fall asleep without sleeping pills or alcohol?

Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:02 pm to
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
34037 posts
Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:02 pm to
Deep breathing waiting for that nonsensical thought that indicates I am falling asleep.

Anyone like this?
Posted by thejudge
Westlake, LA
Member since Sep 2009
14724 posts
Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:02 pm to
Window unit

Heavy blanket

Incandescent light bulbs in lamp

Rosary

Clear conscience
Posted by Aspercel
Member since Jan 2009
114030 posts
Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:04 pm to
Eventually? But running on little to no sleep for days in end is not fun.
Posted by Lonnie Utah
Utah!
Member since Jul 2012
28949 posts
Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:05 pm to
Yes. Easily. I'm old.

Staying asleep is an entirely different matter.
Posted by tigerfoot
Alexandria
Member since Sep 2006
58947 posts
Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:07 pm to
This time of year I get up at 5:30. I’ll take a quick nap around lunch for 20-30 minutes. Then bed at 10. I will generally fall asleep in 10 minutes.

Tonight I was out at 9:30. But wide awake now due to 8 teenage boys showed up at house to eat everything in it. They are loud as shite. We like em here but damn was I sound asleep.

Posted by DavidTheGnome
Monroe
Member since Apr 2015
30478 posts
Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:11 pm to
Benzos
Posted by North Dallas Tiger
United States of America
Member since Mar 2024
13008 posts
Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:16 pm to
I think my sage advice worked and OP passed out within 10 minutes as promised. I should write a book or start a YouTube channel.

me
Posted by Tomherman
Member since Sep 2016
2003 posts
Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:17 pm to
I can sleep anytime anywhere. If I could bottle my sleeping ability I would be a true OT baller.

Oh and you can wake me up and I can fall right back to sleep.
Posted by junkfunky
Member since Jan 2011
34978 posts
Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:18 pm to
Daily dose of magnesium and L-teianine...and sometimes alcohol.
Posted by MBclass83
Member since Oct 2010
9772 posts
Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:18 pm to
I just took a muscle relaxer. I woke up this morning with a pulled muscle in my upper back area. It eased up during the day but now that I'm trying to sleep, I'm uncomfortable.
Half the days, I take a sleep aide.
Posted by Dirt Booger
Comanche County
Member since Apr 2023
618 posts
Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:19 pm to
Yea but only for a few hours at a time
Posted by dukke v
PLUTO
Member since Jul 2006
213341 posts
Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:20 pm to
I never had a problem sleeping before. I would basically pass out. But somehow I would wake up at 4:30 every morning to go to work. But when I first quit it was brutal… started taking Xanax but would be too woozy the next day. But now I go to sleep pretty easy without help.
Posted by SantaFe
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2019
7163 posts
Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:21 pm to
I read a few pages of Toll’ s WW 2 book on the war in the Pacific and I can fall asleep instantly after about 15 pages, but I can only sleep for about 5 hours.
Anything more than that I will start having bad dreams.
Posted by Lou
Modesto, CA
Member since Aug 2005
8434 posts
Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:23 pm to
quote:

If so, how?
I leave my cell phone in the living room to charge overnight.
Posted by wfallstiger
Wichita Falls, Texas
Member since Jun 2006
13345 posts
Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:23 pm to
I just go to sleep... usually don't remember when I fell asleep...wake up and it's morning
Posted by cuddlefish
Member since Jun 2024
209 posts
Posted on 8/17/24 at 12:04 am to
quote:

Finally, you start the dreaming process by focusing on what appears in your mind's eye. You'll be surprised at the random shite you'll start seeing in your mind's eye when you close your eyes and just let your imagination run.


No problems falling asleep here. Coffee gives me a boost, but I can still sleep on it. This "mind's eye" thing is what caught my interest. I always thought it was a metaphor, but apparently it is a real thing, and I, alas, am in the 1-3% who have "aphantasia". While I can close my eyes and remember and reason about the appearance and physicality of things, I don't actually see them. It's just blackness, and I thought it was like that for everybody. I've been aware it isn't for a couple of years now, and I still can't quite bring myself to believe people can imagine a horse and see it with their eyes closed, as if they were seeing it for real.

What is aphantasia?

Scientists Are One Step Closer to Demystifying 'Aphantasia' - The Atlantic
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
107737 posts
Posted on 8/17/24 at 12:07 am to
Yes.

I close my eyes and fall asleep. I am usually out within 3-5 minutes.

Drives the missus crazy.
Posted by North Dallas Tiger
United States of America
Member since Mar 2024
13008 posts
Posted on 8/17/24 at 12:09 am to
Well you don't actually see the object.

Try this:

Try to see an apple. What color is the apple? Does it have a sticker on it? Is the stem removed?

YOU have to create the apple with your imagination.

You are basically saying you don't have an imagination. Me thinks you do...
Posted by Joehat
New Orleans West
Member since Jun 2011
1041 posts
Posted on 8/17/24 at 12:13 am to
I’ve taken 2 advil PM gel pills to sleep every night for about 15 years. Works for me.
Posted by cuddlefish
Member since Jun 2024
209 posts
Posted on 8/17/24 at 12:13 am to
quote:

Well you don't actually see the object.


That's what I always would have said, and it's why learning I have aphantasia was so unreal to me. You clearly didn't read the articles I linked. I can say that with certainty because you responded immediately, and you didn't address what they discuss.

quote:

You are basically saying you don't have an imagination.


No, I'm not. I was describing imagination when I said "While I can close my eyes and remember and reason about the appearance and physicality of things..."
This post was edited on 8/17/24 at 12:18 am
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