I've been getting really sick of the length of time it takes me to sleep (30 minutes to 4 hours). My younger brother and sister can fall asleep in 5 minutes, but it takes me 30 minutes to 4 hours to fall asleep even though I'm only getting a measly 6.5-3 hours of sleep a night. Added onto that, I'm a super light sleeper, EVERYTHING wakes me up. When my brother rolls over in his sleep in the room next to me, even the slight noise that gets through the wall can wake me up. I have learned to live with this, since it's not to hard to fall asleep if I'm woken up before getting 5 hours of sleep, because the problem is getting to sleep at night. Well, last night I decided to use Brain Wave Generator to create a preset to drop from 15 Hz to 3 Hz in 10 minutes, to see if I can drop my brainwaves low enough to allow me to sleep. I put it on my iPod, set the sleep timer so my iPod will shut off when it's finished playing. I have no problem falling asleep with headphones. (at least the ones I use). I'll be posting my results here.

Tuesday September 12, 2006
Went to bed at 11:10, fell asleep at 11:30
I went to bed 50 minutes earlier than usual, not because I was tired, but because I wanted to get more sleep than usual. I went to bed, waited 5 minutes for the sleep timer to drop from 15 minutes to 10 minutes. I played it, and lied down. The slowly dropping frequencies sort of felt calming, although it might just be the placebo affect. I just let my mind wander like normal (since that's the way I fall asleep) although my random thoughts focussed more on the sound I was hearing. After what definetly seemed like forever, the noise shut off. I was already in the deep state of thought that comes before sleep, and I quickly got back into it. I fell asleep 10 minutes later.
Result: GREAT!


Wednesday September 13, 2006
Went to bed at 11:30, fell asleep at 11:45
This time I went to bad 30 minutes earlier, since I was as tired as I would be at 12 AM. I went to bed, and played the tones again. By the end, I was very deep in random thoughts and my eyes were heavy. 5 minutes after the tones stopped, I was asleep.
Result: EXCELENT!


Thursday September 14, 2006
Went to bed at 11:30, fell asleep at 11:42
I went to bed the same time again, but after the preset played I was suprisingly awake. Somehow I fell asleep 2 minutes after the preset ended!
Result: OMFGBBQ!!!11111ONEONE


Friday September 15, 2006
Went to bed at 12:30, fell asleep at 12:42
I went to bed later because it was Friday (actually Saturday when I went to bed since it was past midnight). I almost fell asleep during the preset hehe.
Result: OMFGBBQ!!!11111ONEONE