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Probably about 5-10 minutes most of the time.
Your brain chatters to itself all the time, so if you stfu with the inner monologue and instead just try to eavesdrop on what’s going on in the background, that leads pretty much directly into a dream state.
Thats called WILD!
Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming, hard to do but pretty cool if you can pull it off.
Same, I have sleep tracks I listen to as well that usually start with a relax/disrupt your self-think exercise and then start describing a scene, like a train ride through pastures, this is not the same as leaving the TV or YouTube running, or an audiobook; it’s intentionally boring and low engagement but it gives you something to focus on listening to so that you don’t get caught up in your own thoughts, similar to the eavesdropping.
May I ask for some suggestions from your collection?
My local library gives me a free subscription to Headspace, so I use their Sleepcasts a lot, if it turns out that yours does too; Cat Marina 1&2 are good times, as is the Slow Train, Rainy Day Antiques, and Temple Rain.
Otherwise, I haven’t tried them myself, but my sister is a big fan of https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com
Thank you!
Interesting. I basically do this to myself by counting two breaths and repeating that count while focusing on the darkness behind my eyelids. If I catch my mind wandering I go back to the simple count and staring at my eyelids again. Works pretty well most of the time as I’m not picturing anything nor am I allowing my inner monologue to run away on me.
My wife is appalled that I’m asleep the second i hit the pillow. She could be in mid conversation with me in bed then she’ll just hear snoring.
It’s a gift and a curse.
Damn dude, what about cuddles and stuff :o
I’ll fall asleep during the cuddles as well lol
Depends how stressful I am. Sometimes it’s less than 5 minutes, other times I struggle to obtain the eepy stage even after 3 hours.
Personally, I always find you extremely stressful
Anywhere between an hour or never. I have a small window of opportunity to fall asleep, if I miss it or my sleep gets disturbed, I’m screwed and there’s nothing I can do. I’ll just be tossing and turning the whole night. On work days I probably get about 5 hours of sleep, that goes to maybe 6.5 hours on the weekend.
~1h, 30min if I’m lucky. And it have to be absolutely quiet or the timer will reset 🙃
I’m sharing that pain with you.
On hot summer days, like now. I can find myself up for 2-3 hours due to the discomfort.
I don’t get in bed until I feel my sleeping pill kick in, so not long
Minutes, to hours, to not sleeping at all. It sucks.
20 seconds. I’ve got 4 kids.
Usually 5-10 minutes
Initial bedtime sleep takes a few minutes or so. If i wake during the night, it could take me hours to go back to sleep. If this is a daytime nap, that takes me like 20 minutes.
Once I put the Skyrim OST on it’s usually within two songs but sometimes it’s all the place.
Probably about half an hour or so.
Occasionally get a bad night where it takes me 2 or 3 hours to get to sleep. But it’s only if I’ve had a bad day in work or something that my head won’t quiet down about but it’s pretty rare and i can usually sort it out with some white noise earphones
Typically <10 minutes, but under <5 quite frequently. If I get woken up in the middle of the night or very early morning, good luck. I have such a hard time falling back asleep as I get older.
Some nights 15 minutes and annoyingly frequently 1-3 hours. It used to really worry me, but I’ve learned to make peace with it.
It usually tak… Zzz zzz zzz
