Comment on Why do we count sheep before bed?
DrownedRats@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s the counting that matters, not the sheep. By giving your brain a simple, familiar, and repetitive task you help to disengage some of the more distracting functions of your brain letting you get to sleep.
By all means, count whatever animals, objects, or social constructs that tickles your fancy!
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Doesn’t work.
I have tried to count bats, I have tried to count young dominatrices and old ones, former reddit mods on lemmy, and even fanbois of Elon. None of them have helped me sleeping.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
This is what works for me. I close my eyes, relax my body. I visualize all the “non-sleep” in my body traveling from my toes and fingers up into my head. Then I visualize a sphere, which is usually kind of hazy, kind of behind my eyes. As I breathe in I visualize all the “non-sleep” being sucked into the sphere which changes them to sleep stuff. Then I exhale picturing the sleep stuff dispersing from the sphere. In…and out…in…and out.
When I first started doing this I could fall asleep almost always in about 5 minutes. After doing it every night for awhile, I started to go to sleep in like 2 minutes, if not quicker. These days, after about 5 years of using this technique, I’ve found myself going to sleep after one or two breaths.