Odd methods that help you fall asleep... only you.

[GearSolidMetal]

One way to get me to stay awake all night is to lay down and do nothing in silence. My mind is hardwired to be stressed when not preoccupied visually or sonically. I think about my worries, fears, and past failures if I just lay in bed.

So, I load up on youtube cutscenes from my favorite videogames like Mass Effect or Kotor and listen to compilations of them and I'm guaranteed to be asleep within 15 minutes... its something about the voice actors in that game that's soothing to me. Can't explain it. So I thought it'd make an interesting forum topic.




How about you, Sherdoggers? Any unique sleeping methods?

 

[Project 2501]

Watching random videos from my phone. And I mean random. Doesn't matter what the subject is or what they're talking about. Or even what language they're talking in. All that matters is if the voice is "relax sounding" enough that it relaxes me to sleep.

 

[Steveston]

I go on Youtube through my Xbox 360 and I listen to Joe Rogan's podcast until I fall a sleep.

 

[monkey king**]

netflix or music

 

[casualfan]

Playing Real Racing 3 on my Ipad. Or some game with tons of load time.

 

[melvinj0]

Sounds weird but I like to write a story in my head. I create completely fictional characters and a plot and begin acting the story out in my mind, it helps to stop myself from thinking about things going on in my life, cus once that starts I end up laying in bed awake for hours. I've been doing this for about 10 years and it has always helped me to get to sleep withing 15-20 minutes.

 

[Project 2501]

Sounds weird but I like to write a story in my head. I create completely fictional characters and a plot and begin acting the story out in my mind, it helps to stop myself from thinking about things going on in my life, cus once that starts I end up laying in bed awake for hours. I've been doing this for about 10 years and it has always helped me to get to sleep withing 15-20 minutes.

Holy shit, I thought I was the only who did this :icon_lol:. Word for word, you've described what I do when I'm bored or having trouble sleeping.

 

[zapataxiv]

i watch some cheesy sitcoms like everybody loves raymond, friends, king of queens, scrubs etc there bland and usually upbeat enough that i will drift off

 

[JohnSAFTAHess]

I intentionally watch shitty things.. bad cartoons, crappy action movies, a tv show that's not any good.. stuff that can barely hold my interest or that I really wouldn't mind passing out in the middle of.. keeps me from thinking too much, I hate not watching something when I'm trying to sleep.

it's 4:30 am here and I'm just debating what garbage I'm about to put on.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Sounds weird but I like to write a story in my head. I create completely fictional characters and a plot and begin acting the story out in my mind, it helps to stop myself from thinking about things going on in my life, cus once that starts I end up laying in bed awake for hours. I've been doing this for about 10 years and it has always helped me to get to sleep withing 15-20 minutes.

Facinating. As an amateur novelist myself, I could imagine detailing whole chapters in my mind while attempting to fall asleep. However, I'd be frustrated with not getting any of it on paper. And most of the details would be lost to a night's sleep.

Very interesting method though. Perhaps I'll give it a shot sometime.

 

[Prime Yossarian]

Even in the middle of winter, ill have a pedestal fan on, but pointed at the wall.

The whirring of the blades gets me to sleep over the noise of screaming children every time.

 

[Kb7]

Listen to music.

 

[Cowlevel]

Really loud floor fans going. Also have a ceiling fan and run them year round so its cold as hell during winter, but the noise lulls me.

 

[melvinj0]

Holy shit, I thought I was the only who did this :icon_lol:. Word for word, you've described what I do when I'm bored or having trouble sleeping.

Interesting, I've always wondered if other people did this.

 

[Cowlevel]

Even in the middle of winter, ill have a pedestal fan on, but pointed at the wall.

The whirring of the blades gets me to sleep over the noise of screaming children every time.

Not just me then! Drives my lady bonkers with how cold it gets.

 

[fingercuffs]

I'm assuming the majority of you are single. If I put the TV on or some music when my other half was asleep, I'd be in trouble.

 

[melvinj0]

Facinating. As an amateur novelist myself, I could imagine detailing whole chapters in my mind while attempting to fall asleep. However, I'd be frustrated with not getting any of it on paper. And most of the details would be lost to a night's sleep.

Very interesting method though. Perhaps I'll give it a shot sometime.

I've tried putting some of them on paper but they never come out as good as they seem in my mind.

I've even gone as far as coming back and continuing the same story over a months time, night after night, until the story came to the end.

 

[melvinj0]

I'm assuming the majority of you are single. If I put the TV on or some music when my other half was asleep, I'd be in trouble.

My ex girlfriend could not sleep without a TV on. It use to drive me crazy honestly, even once she fell asleep if I turned the TV off she would just wake up and turn it back on.

I've never understood how people can sleep with a TV on honestly, I use to try so hard but could never do it. Got to the point where I would just go sleep on the couch when she would fall asleep.

 

[Zer]

Even in the middle of winter, ill have a pedestal fan on, but pointed at the wall.

The whirring of the blades gets me to sleep over the noise of screaming children every time.

I'm the total opposite bro -p I'm having a rough night I gotta turn my fan off so I can hear the screaming children

 

[Cowlevel]

My ex girlfriend could not sleep without a TV on. It use to drive me crazy honestly, even once she fell asleep if I turned the TV off she would just wake up and turn it back on.

I've never understood how people can sleep with a TV on honestly, I use to try so hard but could never do it. Got to the point where I would just go sleep on the couch when she would fall asleep.

I used to do it, occasionally, when I was younger but had two epileptic seizures because of it. I now always turn it off as force of habit.