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What are your tricks for falling asleep when you can't but you really need to? (lemmy.world)
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No pharmaceutical aids preferably

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[–] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I use a visualization technique, and this'll probably sound dumb, but it works for me. Try it.

When I have an intrusive thought, I visualize it being consumed in a mushroom cloud and mutter "boom" a few times. There's something about the combination of the visualization and vocalization that makes the intrusive thought go away.

I have no idea how or why it works. It just does.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    I learned something similar decades ago. I picture a floating orb, the color changes based on whatever my head makes up. Then when I breath in, I imagine "awake particles" being pulled from all over my body into the orb which destroys them. Then I breath out and it releases whatever is left of them. Then I breath in again... I've gone to sleep in 2 breaths (after doing this for years).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    Doesn't sound silly to me, and I'm going to try it. In part because it makes sense - brain is a funny thing. But also because I've not had hiccups I didn't stop almost immediately by concentrating hard on telling myself I no longer have gills. It has worked every time so far.

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