Thread: Falling asleep quickly.

Hi Ninja,

The method i use to get to sleep fast (usually 5 - 10 mins):
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*Blank my mind, think of nothing for a good 10 seconds.

*imagine my whole body relaxing into the bed.

*imagine falling through a black abyss, just falling deeper and deeper (dont concentrate hard on it, just let it come naturally and if you cant see it, just feel it). I also add in layers, like i hit water, sink to the bottom into the mud, sink slowly through the mud, then drop out the bottom back into the blackness. Or i hit a huge pile of giant sized balls of wool, ill hit the top one, then slide down between 2 or 3 and hit another, just keep falling through the gaps (might sound weird but it works for me).

It may also help to write anything thats on your mind down on paper before bed, then you know you can forget them and they'll be there in the morning, It just helps you to let go.
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I was once in your situation, although not that extreme, before coming to the method above i used another hypnosis style technique designed to force hypnogogia. It came from the same hypothesis that "hypnogogia is the close precursor to sleep", if you can bring on hypnogogia quickly you can bring on sleep. I simply thought about how my hypnogogia normally looked, back then it seemed it was usually slight images and friends talking randomly.
The technique then was to imagine a friend of mine talking somewhat randomly. I found after a few sentences i could allow my brain to go into auto and the sentences would keep coming without much thought from me. None of the sentences made any sense but my brain carried on and the situation quickly grew into full blown hypnogogia and sleep. It got to the point where i could say to myself with a high degree of accuracy "ahh, im about to fall asleep" and within 10 seconds i would have lost conciousness.

So yes, definitely try self hypnosis/visualisation style methods, i find them very powerful.

Best of luck and i hope this helped

>RooJ

I think yoga can help do this. Actually I am attending a Yoga session for the last few weeks and in one of the sessions the trainer showed us if the tip of the finger which can be any is rubbed with the other hand one can fall asleep quickly, I did try this out and got positive effects. Although I must say my problems were due to anxiety which did not allow me to sleep properly. Now the said problem is over and sleep related troubles have never disturbed me again.