I’m talking about how when your head hits the pillow and you’re immediately out. How do I accomplish this lol, it generally takes me a while to fall asleep.
Men who sleep really well at night, what’s your secret?
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I’m talking about how when your head hits the pillow and you’re immediately out. How do I accomplish this lol, it generally takes me a while to fall asleep.
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I’m talking about how when your head hits the pillow and you’re immediately out. How do I accomplish this lol, it generally takes me a while to fall asleep.
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I guarantee you most responses are gonna be shit us insomniacs have already tried lol
Honestly though, take melatonin or Benadryl and get as cozy as possible. Weighted blankets help. As far as falling asleep when my head hurts the pillow? Exhaustion and/or booze but neither are very healthy
I have good night habits that make sleeping much easier.
I don’t blast my eyes with light (the biggest mistake), I do low dopamine activities and I embrace breathing techniques the chill the central nervous system.
Most people I know that “can’t sleep” are staring at a screen until the last second, watching dopaminergic videos (Shorts, TikTok, Insta) and lay their head on a pillow with their CNS buzzing.
I’ve always had battle with sleep, but have been sleeping great the past few months. I have a creative mind, which can be hard to slow down. What helps me is being active during the day. Staying away from screens, like me at 11pm as I type this. And just calming your mind. Try to clear it out and make it voiceless
Cool dark room that’s noise free.
No screen activities before sleep … save sex till the morning.
To reach that level I need to be exhausted. Like 70-100km bike tour, 15km hike, etc.
what also helps me is winding down properly, without my phone. So usually reading. No caffeine at all (I’m sensitive, I also feel the coffee from the morning in the evening).
Completely dark room, any light source makes it harder to fall asleep.
And if all that does not help: weed.
My house also has orange light in the evening, so it’s nicer for the eyes.
Work really hard through the day. Not ideal, but your body tells you when it’s enough.
A curved pillow, not a normal one (about £25 on amazon), and a firm, cool mattress.
I’ll share what works for me (without even trying). It usually takes 5 min and I’m out.
Here’s what works for me:
I got this sausage formed pillow + weed
My wife says I mm asleep almost immediately, I never remember it. I’m usually just already exhausted from the day.
My wife gives me shit all the time about how I can be out in like 2 minutes while she lies there for half an hour trying to get to sleep.
I mean… 🤷🏻 I don’t know. If I’m tired and I lie down, chances are I’ll be out as soon as possible. Probably because I’m already 3 or 4 hours past the time I wanted to go to bed because life is busy and exhausting. However, if I get interrupted and I have to get up and do something and then go back to bed, I’ll probably lie there for a good 20-30 minutes trying to get my brain to shut up because all the good sleepy chemicals have left the station.
Be tired and cold dark quiet room.
I take prescription medication that makes me tired as a side effect. I don’t recommend it if you are healthy of course, but I usually sleep 7-8 hours without getting up at all. Start resting well before you attempt to sleep, don’t drink much in the evening so you don’t have to pee at 4.
Relax your entire face, and then gradually the rest of your body. Imagine yourself slowly becoming heavy and sinking into the bed
Have a productive day.
Stressless work for me. Money is not worth the stress I was getting. Slightly less money now for me but tons of less stress. Checks out so far, sleeping like a baby again.
Working out. Zinc too
Tire yourself out.
Stretch your hamstrings and hip flexors right before you go to bed. Ben doing it for years and it is a total game changer, no more tossing and turning although I do wake up at 4am every morning to stretch again but I think that is more some weird routine I developed, I sleep great most nights regardless.
Two things for me.
I get physically tired and don’t drink coffee or alcohol.
No caffeine after 2pm, one of those 23-and-me tests said I slowly metabolize it, so I noticed doing this helped me feel tired at bedtime. I also take 500mg Magnesium Glycinate in the evening. Must be Glycinate, and can’t take anything with Calcium in the afternoon/evenings because it will block the channels the body uses to ‘do its thing’ with the Magnesium. …if I really need to sleep or change my sleep schedule, I take Dramamine on an empty stomach 1-2hr before bed (the OTC motion sickness stuff). It works for me when Benadryl did nothing, Doxylamine (nyquil’s hypnotic sedative) only worked for a night or two, and prescription Sonata doesn’t do what I need it to. I’m an anxious person, I need to feel tired to truly feel like it’s time to sleep.
A good memory foam mattress helped too.
I’m dumb—the following is my initial comment—I only read the title and not the subtext before. This is how I actually feel rested after sleeping.
I was also allergy tested because I was always congested. I have an allergy to dust mites, pollen, mold spores. Dust mites are everywhere—they feed on dead skin cells we (and pets) have sloughed off. I make sure I wash all of my bedding regularly so that I don’t wake up congested…if you’re not breathing easily while asleep, then you’re not getting quality sleep. If it’s a busy week, I at least change my pillow cases. I wash my pillows every few months too. I stopped using heavy hard to wash blankets too (or I take them to the laundromat to use a super huge washer to really wash things well.)
That really improved my quality of sleep. I wake up feeling rested now. (Also, mold spores cling to dogs coats/fur like static electricity, and dust mites really are everywhere, so I vacuum the bedroom weekly too, it lets me breathe lol, and I swear being able to breathe easily while sleeping is the biggest improvement you can make.)
I exercise most days
My dad has a sleeping issue I inherited from him the older I get the worst it gets. I smoke cannabis at night and it’s been helping me for years. It’s obviously not for everyone but just thought I’d share
I sleep naked. best feeling ever waking up
There are some controllable factors and some you can’t so I’m only commenting on the factors that are known to work.
There will be moments in the 10 days (and instances shortly after) where it doesn’t feel like this has worked. Stick to it, it’s your body getting confused between routines. Do not nap during the 10 days, be aware of naps after. It’s fine to have them but they should be circa 20 minutes and never within 6 hours of bedtime.
No lights, no sound,
I have a fan for climate and white noise, Blackout curtains and lately i have been using a cool mist humidifier.
I dont drink caffeine after 12 PM
if i know i don’t feel that tired, I’ll take two 5mg dual spectrum melatonin to relax me. However, thats very rare., usually if I have had caffeine after 12 PM.
I’m blessed.. if I get sleep I can sleep anywhere, on floor,chair, I once slept on a running motercycle and fell off peeled my face..
Close your eyes, take 5 deep breathes and say in your head, or out loud, “55515” -declassified CIA documents. I couldn’t believe how well it worked. For me and my kids.
Exhaustion.
See, your subject asks one thing, yet the message completely different thing. On the latter my answer is meds. Those usually do the trick. But the former question is whole another ballgame. Waking up every couple of hours is taxing and I can’t even remember how it felt to wake up feeling rested.
But at least I (usually) can fall asleep easily, unless…
Sleep naked with one leg on top of the blanket.
Food… its normally your liver that will create issues with sleeping, so eat foods that agree with you and keep your heart rate down, buy a pulse meter (can get hem for like $20 in US), check your heart rate regularly to work out what foods you hear to keep it up and avoid them… that would be a great start.
Used to smoke weed from time to time to help with sleep.
Tried Gaba a while ago – cant believe how effective it is.
Funny thing but Ive found that if I read for an hour before I go to bed I sleep much better than if I dont.
I don’t sleep 48 hours, then i fall asleep really fast.
OP, I spent my entire life have slp issues and assumed I couldn’t do better, but there are so many thing you can do to improve slp.
Andrew Huberman And Dr Matt Walker did a 4 part series on slp. No magic pills, just a ton of practical science based advice that will help.
Still not an amazing sleeper but better than I used to b.
Exhaust yourself physically and mentally throughout the day.
Go to bed and get up at the same time every day, even on weekends
Quit caffeine if you haven’t, and cut down on sugar, especially before bed
Get the missus to sleep in the guest room
For me I play a movie in my head as in I act like I’m filming a movie about something than boon I’m dreaming
It’s a little bit different for everyone, and a lot of good points are covered here already. There is a part of this which is personal trial and error, don’t think just because you do everything I write that you will get a result, it just works for me. I routinely get 90+ sleep score on my garmin.
EXERCISE. Kinda want to write it twice in this list make yourself proper tired.
Routine and environment: dark, quiet, good bed. And an appropriate sleep time window (mine is 9pm to 5am).
No alcohol or non-prescription drugs. Completely fucks my sleep and sleep rhythms. One night is not worth the price to catch it up. All habits “train” you. This habit teaches you how to not sleep well.
Practice “Daydreaming”. I do this every night. I close my eyes and fiddle around with stories on my head. Maybe I pretend I’m Luke Skywalker or Jon Snow, I don’t know or really care. I just make crap up in my head that’s not about work or life or anything important. I imagine a lot of people do this with tv shows they watch before bed, or books they read. I seem to be able to draw from stuff when I was younger.
Coffee surprisingly has little effect on me, I can have caffeine at 7pm and be completely fine.
There’s more “sleep hygiene” things I can list, or you can just google that specific phrase, 4 isn’t really ever talked about and maybe for good reason, but it works for me lol.
Quitting coffee was a game-changer. Not just before noon, ALL coffee and all caffeine in general. And the benefits go beyond the better sleep.
I kind of hate it now that i know how much it affected me.
Just have a horribly tiring job OP 🫡
Teach your brain to turn off. If your mind is working you will not go to sleep.
Regulating porn use was big. I found out I was having major bipolar shifts that was messing up my sleep. Now Im prepared and adjust accordingly. Meaning have a snack budget and not masturbate for a week or 2. I go nuts, literally when I’m manic. Get no sleep at night, sleep all day.
No caffeine after 3pm, physical job, kids and a good hearty balance dinner
Drink coffee ONLY in the morning. Eat well every day. DO NOT look at your phone before falling asleep. Keep your head up at night with two pillows. Finally, to fall asleep immediately, I think intensely about something beautiful.
Work out.
No caffeine after 2PM.
No blue light after sunset.
Read in bed and it’s an automatic zzz.
I have found that lots of guys who snore very bad are constantly tired and thus they fall asleep very easy. I do not recommend this! See a doc about and get some kind of fix or get cancer, alzheimers and tons of other nasty shit from bad sleep scores…
I dont drink Coffee i can go from doing anything to see pillow and fall asleep as I fall down to it idk how.
no stress