Thread: how fast can you fall asleep?

It takes me so long to fall asleep that I have to take pills at night.

Originally Posted by jimmiethedreamer

the titel says it all, how fast do you fall asleep? i can fall asleep after 30-120 minutes(i usually watch a movie before going to bed but i know i shouldn't).

How exactly do you know jimmie? Do you time it or something, or is that just a rough guess?

Hmm...this makes want to find out how it takes until I fall asleep...

It depends for me. Sometimes it can take me a while. Other times, if I am really sleepy, then it takes a few minutes.

If I just relax and close my eyes, I can fall asleep in 2 minutes.

If I lie on my back, I can't fall asleep at all. My body is relaxed, but my mind is alert, but not racing. So I can lie there all night without falling asleep. Very weird.

If I lie on my side, I can fall asleep within 30 minutes.

Originally Posted by Flashdance

If I lie on my back, I can't fall asleep at all. My body is relaxed, but my mind is alert, but not racing. So I can lie there all night without falling asleep. Very weird.

If I lie on my side, I can fall asleep within 30 minutes.

I'm exactly the same, I've never fallen asleep on my back, my mind just doesn't like it.

I can usually get to sleep pretty quickly on my side, around 10 mins or so. I've never had any trouble getting to sleep at all.

It usually takes me an hour or two. Half an hour if I'm really tired.

It Takes me about 15-20 mins. I think it's quite fast according to some of you.

30-45 minutes is usually around the average

my average, not peoples average

I am actually quite tricky one, at least of what I have heard. It seems that I take a quite a long time to fall asleep approx. hour or more (in the night). I fall asleep in the day in 5 minutes, I sleep better anywhere else than in bed. The funny thing is that people say that I start snoring off after 5 or 10 minutes even in bed. I have concluded that I drift in a semi-sleep state where I can think and sense things but I snore and maybe even sleep. Funny thing is that I don't hear that snoring myself.

Maybe it is because I have WILDed so long, I somehow have generated some kind of state where I am conscious but still asleep. Don't know. I'd like to see my brainwaves going on.

Usually 1-2 hours, sometimes up to 3 hours.

On my average night, 5-8 minutes? Ten at most on a usual night.

If I'm really tired, 1-2 minutes. Seriously. Anyways, I lose conciousness if I'm not asleep.

If I am really energetic/have a load of stuff on my mind 30+ minutes

2 to 5 minutes on good nights. I've stayed awake 2 to 3 hours twice or thrice.

I can fall asleep in 2 minutes. Normally, it takes me about 8-10, because I like a little time to think.

Hmm... Depends on.
If I just let my thoughts go on, then I can fall asleep in 2-5 minutes.
If I start thinking about something/philosophizing, then it may take an hour or more.
If I don't want to fall asleep (see WILD/etc.), then it may take me 3-4 hours, but I always fall asleep one way or another
Except if I watched something scary before sleep. Then I can literally stay awake for days.
My record is about 2 and a half days, when I saw something very disturbing.

Originally Posted by jimmiethedreamer

the titel says it all, how fast do you fall asleep? i can fall asleep after 30-120 minutes(i usually watch a movie before going to bed but i know i shouldn't).

Wow, 30 minutes seems so long!
I think I can fall asleep within 1 minute. Maybe 2.
Just stop the mind and BE. Try not to think about the future, or the past. Just think NOTHING. And totally relax, don't move a muscle.

At the very least 15 min., but if I wake up in the morning, I can fall back to sleep quickly. Usually takes 45 min (I guess I'm used to it), can take longer though, on my bad days.

usually it will take me 30-60 minutes on a normal night before I actually fall asleep. But when I try WILD before bed I usually go the full meditation period before I try and drift off(90-120 mins).

But when I'm really tired, after water polo practice/working out. or if I have a long day or haven't slept in a while, I can almost hit the pillow and just fall asleep within in like 1-5 minutes.

I have to take pills and it still takes me a few hours of tossing and turning (usually because I think a lot - it's like my brain thinks because I'm not focusing on other stuff like my computer, it's time to spaz over everything). The majority of the time I read or watch something beforehand to help calm my mind from the thinking.

When my sleeping schedule is really smooth, I'd say it takes me about thirty minutes to an hour to fall asleep.

same for me, my mind is racing of thoughts all night and i cant sleep, thats also why i can't sleep!

About 4 hours.
I can never get to sleep, and I really cbf doing WILD.

When I was younger, around 12-16, I would have a lot of trouble falling asleep. Now it's not really a problem anymore, basically because I've become good at simply relaxing and let my mind drift off. That's one of the really great things I got from practicing lucid dreaming

I go on medication that makes me sleep. So if it 1.5 hours have pased after i took them.. I will fall asleep after about 10 min after I`w lied down.
But if it is in the early morning and I`w just stood up, I can and will fall a sleep in about 10-30 seconds after I`w lied down.

Originally Posted by jimmiethedreamer

the titel says it all, how fast do you fall asleep? i can fall asleep after 30-120 minutes(i usually watch a movie before going to bed but i know i shouldn't).

It usually takes me 45 - 90 minutes mostly cause I have gotten into the habit of imagining senarios and stuff. But once I have imagined enough for the night I usually switch off and fall asleep right away, unless I fall asleep while imagining stuff. Sometimes it goes past normal visualising and when my partner rolls over or coughs or something I freak out cause it jolts me out of it so instantly. Maybe it means its the first stage of that WILD thing...

I have always envied those, like my husband, who can sleep within 5minutes of their head hitting the pillow, especially when I'm trying to tear myself out of bed in the morning.
Does WILDing give you the same amount of rest as actually sleeping? Cause if I could induce it soon after going to bed maybe this wont be such a problem.