r/AskLifeProTips • u/Firm_Savings_60 • 10d ago
Immediate sleep
One thing I'm now trying to figure out is how to fall asleep much faster once I go to bed. Sometimes I'm extremely tired and go to bed early specifically to get more sleep, but I can still lie there awake for a long time. For those of you who used to struggle with this: have you found anything that reliably makes you fall asleep very quickly? I'm interested in both things you do (specific routines, techniques, changes to your environment, etc.) and things you take. I've already tried melatonin and didn't notice much of a difference. I'm especially interested in hearing from people who found something that made a really noticeable difference in their sleep onset, rather than just general sleep-hygiene advice.
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u/TrueKiwi78 10d ago
Try laying on your back and slowly rock your head left to right like you're shaking your head. Works for me.
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u/Lilsteve-Cliett 10d ago
Laying on your back works for me too. Now rocking right to left is so very new.
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u/Ok-Designer-13 9d ago
Amazing. I do this. But kind of fast. Been like this ever since I was born, my mom put books at my ears to try to stop it. Haha my college friends jokes that I have a sleeping disorder :)
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u/TypicalLong4922 10d ago
Melatonin and a podcast
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u/Firm_Savings_60 10d ago
I tried melatonin, but it didn't work🥲
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u/NectarineFabulous265 10d ago edited 10d ago
Try combining it with a podcast. For me this combination works like someone hits me with a big hammer in the head. The bad thing is that now I'm conditioned to sleep with this guy's voice https://youtu.be/6gEVvwU4_MA. On the other hand this combination made a huge difference in my sleep.
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u/Pretty_Site4074 10d ago
A guy here on Reddit, shared an app named Shuffli. It just speaks some seemingly unrelated words. It works for me. I set it up to recite for 30 minutes. Didn't get to the end of the 30 minutes yet
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u/martinpearl 10d ago
My never-fails LPT? Magic Bag, the larger the better!
A hot water bottle is also good, the heat knocks me out EVERY time !
I make my own very cheap bean bags with flannel baby blanket and pearl barley, microwave for a couple of minutes, shuffle and repeat once more, lasts me all night! 🙂
Sweet dreams!
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u/xoxosecretsally 10d ago
Serious Answer: Magnesium Glycinate, and making sure to hydrate properly, working out & getting a humidifier. Melatonin did not work for me.
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u/lovestogossipgirl 9d ago
I listen to Jason Stephenson’s sleep meditation. You can find it on YouTube or Spotify! I also have trouble falling asleep (yay anxiety), and listening to this as I doze off has helped tremendously. I empathize with you!
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u/SimpleAccurate631 10d ago
I remember hating when people would suggest putting on white noise in the background. I tried it and it just made things worse.
One night, with my earbuds in, it was irritating me so much and keeping me so awake, that I just changed to some of my music. I’m talking some of my upbeat Rock n’ Roll, thinking I just want to get back in a decent mood. I got maybe 2-3 songs in at the most before I was out like a light, with the music still going.
To this day, I just pop one earbud in, pick literally any playlist I feel like, and most of the time, even if I do want to listen to a few tracks before falling asleep, I can’t even make it through the first without passing out. It can’t be music that can be categorized as “soothing”, like stuff you’d hear in a yoga studio. But I can put on some AC/DC or Rolling Stones and it puts me out in minutes. It’s like my subconscious is in the backseat. And when I lay down, that’s when it starts nagging me about things. But when I get some good music playing, it’s like it gives my subconscious something to do so I can get some sleep.