• TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
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    Probably about 5-10 minutes most of the time.

    Your brain chatters to itself all the time, so if you stfu with the inner monologue and instead just try to eavesdrop on what’s going on in the background, that leads pretty much directly into a dream state.

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      Thats called WILD!

      Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming, hard to do but pretty cool if you can pull it off.

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      Same, I have sleep tracks I listen to as well that usually start with a relax/disrupt your self-think exercise and then start describing a scene, like a train ride through pastures, this is not the same as leaving the TV or YouTube running, or an audiobook; it’s intentionally boring and low engagement but it gives you something to focus on listening to so that you don’t get caught up in your own thoughts, similar to the eavesdropping.

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        Interesting. I basically do this to myself by counting two breaths and repeating that count while focusing on the darkness behind my eyelids. If I catch my mind wandering I go back to the simple count and staring at my eyelids again. Works pretty well most of the time as I’m not picturing anything nor am I allowing my inner monologue to run away on me.

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    Depends how stressful I am. Sometimes it’s less than 5 minutes, other times I struggle to obtain the eepy stage even after 3 hours.

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    Surprised I haven’t seen this response yet:

    I say awake doing things until I am on the verge of passing out from being sleepy. If that means I only get 3 hours of sleep, then so be it.

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        Yuuuup. It’s happened at least once in the last month.

        Usually, though, I end up getting between 5-8 hours a night. (5hrs for the late nights, 8hrs for the next night when I’m so tired I could sleep in a warzone).

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      Finally! Someone who does the same thing! People look at me like I’m crazy when I say I don’t have a sleep schedule. I let my body do the scheduling. Like you, when it comes to staying up all night, I just tell myself I’ll get some bomb ass sleep tonight. Lol

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    My wife is appalled that I’m asleep the second i hit the pillow. She could be in mid conversation with me in bed then she’ll just hear snoring.

    It’s a gift and a curse.

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    Anywhere between an hour or never. I have a small window of opportunity to fall asleep, if I miss it or my sleep gets disturbed, I’m screwed and there’s nothing I can do. I’ll just be tossing and turning the whole night. On work days I probably get about 5 hours of sleep, that goes to maybe 6.5 hours on the weekend.

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      I’m sharing that pain with you.

      On hot summer days, like now. I can find myself up for 2-3 hours due to the discomfort.

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    I don’t get in bed until I feel my sleeping pill kick in, so not long

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    Ages 0-38: one hour to 3 days, sleep 1-4hrs/session.

    Ages 39+: 5-10 minutes. Sleep 7hrs/session.

    I’m so tired all the time now.

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    Usually about 20min? I set a sleep timer on podcasts for 30 min and i usually don’t hear it stop.

    When i can’t fall asleep quickly, it’s maybe an hour? Eventually sleep happens.

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    before ritalin: 2 to 5 hours, or not at all

    after ritalin: 15 minutes.

    note I take the ritalin during the day, not to go to sleep

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    Some nights 15 minutes and annoyingly frequently 1-3 hours. It used to really worry me, but I’ve learned to make peace with it.

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    An hour maybe to get some light sleep, and I can’t get to deep sleep until 5 AM easily.

    I remember a few years ago that suddenly this topic came up with friends, and turns out almost everyone sleeps nicely after 1-5 minutes in bed.

    And I thought my case was normal (it’s been like this since I was a kid). But I’ve been probably losing years of life without a way to gain them back. Depressing.

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      The time it takes to fall asleep is called sleep latency, and mine is also around an hour so you’re not alone. In my case I blame a combination of ADHD and Aspergers, which means that my brain literally always wants to think about interesting stuff rather than quiet down. For about 10 years now I’ve been using ASMR videos as a sleep aid and it helps immensely. I use the ones with people talking and it totally occupies the speech centre of my brain, cutting off my brains ability to keep thinking about whatever interesting thing it wants to think about (it’s hard to think complex thoughts while also trying to absorb what someone is saying)