• tygerprints@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Who falls asleep in two minutes?? If I adjust for how long it takes me to fall asleep, that’s an hour and half at least. If I’m lucky!

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        11 months ago

        That must be amazing. My brother can do that. I don’t know how, I’ve never been able to. I wish I could!!!

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            11 months ago

            That’s a big part of my problem, I can’t turn my thoughts off, my mind races all the time. I follow a very set routine (I have for decades) for bedtime, I shower and brush my teeth and floss and get myself physically ready, but my mind just won’t relax. But my heart also races, so – it takes forever to get to a sleepy place.

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              11 months ago

              I know it sounds dumb, but lying still and thinking the same word over and over seems to help me if nothing else does the trick. If you notice yourself thinking something different just get back to it.

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                11 months ago

                I’ve tried that and the “2 minute” trick of blanking out your mind or just repeating a mindless phrase over and over. But it doesn’t work for me. Even when I can quiet my mind, I’m still awake for a couple of hours - I just don’t get sleepy and I don’t feel a desire to sleep, so it’s hard to force myself into it.

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        11 months ago

        Probably fairly sleep deprived. I’m older now, but I never did fall asleep easily. And I’ve always had night terrors and violent nightmares, so I wake up in panic most of the time, and it takes hours for my heart rate to go down enough to fall asleep again.

        I guess I average 4 to 5 hours of sleep on a good night. But, I don’t feel sleepy during the day, my heart races all day long also, I think I’m just built not to be able to settle down.