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Lemmings who can fall asleep within minutes of their head hitting the pillow, what's your secret? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Are you just always tired? Do you have some kind of bedtime ritual? Have you had issues sleeping in the past and how did you handle that?

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[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Had insomia in highschool. Didn't know what it was but taught myself guided meditation to overcome it.

For me, it was usually a song being stuck in my head. I would see myself floating up and away from the earth amd into space where the void was silent.

I also learned to pay attention to the mental "feel" I had while driftong off to sleep and pictured myself sinking into sleep like a submarine beneath the waves.

I know these aren't super helpful descriptions because if I could really verbalise and teach it I would be doing that for a living.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I have also had great results with meditation aiding my sleep. For me it was mindfulness meditation, and recognizing when my mind was buzzing or going in circles, then letting the thoughts go and coming back to my breath or just observing my empty mind and watching for the first sign of a thought.

For years I was hugely skeptical that saying words in my mind would make a difference, but when I tried a sleep meditation, like a yoga nidra, mentally saying things like "i have nothing else to do, and nowhere else to be. i am here to relax." really helped. also, when my mind starts going off on a crazy line of thought and i recognize it, i can usually get it to stop by mentally saying "i can think about this tomorrow." i'm still amazed that it even works. the idea that you can so easily trick (or i guess vocally control?) your own mind just sounds ridiculous. I suppose though that different minds work differently, and the mental words may not work for everybody, or not all the time.