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How to fall asleep more quickly – the healthy way

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While I've personally never had issues with sleeping, I know someone who was having them almost everyday.

This is of course anecdata but in their case it was trying to make plans for the next day while in bed trying to sleep. It was causing anxiety of planning every night leading to poor sleep.

The solution we eventually arrived at was to not plan that late. They weren't going to stop planning for a hectic day anyway so might as well flesh out the plan earlier in the day and clear the mind.

The only way I’ve ever been able to get my brain to turn off quickly is by using some kind of light fiction- either a book or audiobook. Its like imagining characters in another world somehow refreshes the part of my brain that would otherwise be obsessing about something I said or need to do the next day.

That works for me too, but I don't read.

I try to imagine weird things, like flying cars, to kick off the dream state.

For me, it’s usually thinking about how my favorite RPG characters would deal with something that I saw or experienced that day.

Since one of them is a large tiger-size cat that is also a dimension-hopping traveler and one of the most powerful psionics that their planet has ever produced, those kinds of thought experiments usually end up relating to recent super-powered movies I might have seen recently, or other super powered situations.

For example, how to most easily kill Thanos without causing significant harm to anyone else. So, dumping a planetary core quantity of super compressed antimatter into the core of the planet, well that wouldn’t really be a useful way to solve the problem. And destroying the entire galaxy likewise would not be useful. And using a dimensional portal to drain a lake of liquid oxygen onto the field in front of Minas Tirith would have completely changed the nature of that battle.

I usually have to add on the restriction that minimal force must be used when intervening in events, because the more force that is used, the more likely you are to attract unwanted attention from higher level immortal super beings that are also multi-dimensional travelers, and that’s something you don’t want to experience. Especially when you’re not immortal.

And yes, I also have sleep apnea. Getting to sleep for me is … an involved process.

Many people suffer from clinical sleep disfunction (apnea for example) and don't know it.

Melatonin works well for me, possibly due to it actually working, or that I’ve created a trigger behavior that my body acts on (pop melatonin == time to sleep).

thc+cbd (where %cbd>%thc) works wonders

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