- cut back caffeine significantly
- work out daily (lift and/or cardio)
- move phone away from reach
My key ingredients to sleeping like a baby, deep dreaming almost nightly. 31yo ymmv
Lie still in bed
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#62I find any advice with regards to falling asleep to be very dependent upon the person. Everyone is my family seems to have different sleep styles and it isn't because of people using phones in bed.
So try a lot of different things and do what works.
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#63There is an amazing trick that I now use almost every time I want to sleep: the 4-7-8 breathing method. I don't remember using it and not falling asleep in less than 5 minutes, whatever the stress I was in. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/16/health/4-7-8-breathing-te...
Those ratios drive my music brain crazy.
Would 4-8-8 work?
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#64I’ve been meditating every day for 3 years. I now meditate more than 1 hours every day.
How did I do it? My only goal was to do at least 1 min of meditation a day but every day. No excuse.
It’s my opinion that this is the best and easiest method to build a meditation practice.
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#65The best kind of parody: the one you almost can’t tell is parody. My sense is that the core issue with people who actually think this way is that they lack empathy. They assume that their context is shared by everyone. So if one simple trick worked for them, it surely must work for everyone else.
That part was obvious enough. The icing on the cake is that they fail to point the reader to in-depth reading material, written by experts. Doing so would serve to acknowledge to the reader the author's own limitations, and to point them in the direction of some better help, since the reader might actually need it if they're reading that.
That's all the author had to do to keep this post from being a complete eyesore. But frankly, an eyesore is wishful thinking when you consider that some could actually end up trying this for weeks, failing, and getting epicly discouraged.
Though in all likelihood it won't matter either way as the two kinds of people in today's Internet are those that trust everything they read, and those who fall out of the gene pool.
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#66This may work for non-neurotic people but laying still in bed is when the demons in my mind come out to play and remind me of all of my problems.
In my experience lying still doesn't really work, because it's a deliberate practice with a goal and your brain starts analyzing that as well. You know the inner voice that says: I am still not calming down, I am still awake. I once read that sleep therapists sometimes give people with bad sleeping problems the opposite advice: keep your eyes slightly open and try to stay awake. Not in the sense that you should put o…
Relevant Bob the Angry Flower comic:
http://www.angryflower.com/221.html
Instead of trying to focus on nothing at all, the standard trick to get around this problem is to focus on something extremely boring, such as your own breathing. The traditional "counting sheep" method of sleep induction could be considered a variant of this.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Takes 2 months to see a doctor in Canada. Maybe better to give it a shot.
Acces to a doctor appears to be quite inequal in Canada as I can log on to my doctor clinic portal and book an appointment to see my doctor in the next week. However, I live in a town with a research hospital affiliated with to an university, so maybe that help.
> Acces to a doctor appears to be quite inequal in Canada
Understatement. An amazingly high portion of Canadians don't have a family doctor https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/despite-more-doctors-many-cana...>. In Atlantic Canada (the four easternmost provinces, for non-Canadians) it is impossible, repeat impossible, to get a family doctor if you don't have one https://web.archive.org/web/20190226051406/https://www.thete...>. It's one thing to have shortages in rural areas—that happens in the US too—but Halifax?!? I've heard the same occurs in Vancouver too.
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#68I've been trying this over the years but unless I'm completely comfortable I'm unable to fall asleep. This means perfect position (tossing over for hour or more in new unfamiliar bed), perfect hydration (no need to drink or pee) and perfect sound (rain is ok, for ticking clock in another room I eventually give up and go take out the batteries).
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#69Most sleep problems cannot be solved by sitting still. You should go to the doctor, get a sleep test and look for more serious treatment methods. I wouldn't recommend wasting your time with such suggestions.
Takes 2 months to see a doctor in Canada. Maybe better to give it a shot.
That's just bizzare. It takes no more than a day in my country (India) to see a doctor.
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#70It is 4am and here I am after waking up and having trouble sleeping. Serendipity, since I am reading this article now? I am going to give this a try - the narrowing down of any challenge to its prime implicant makes a great deal of sense.
You haven't posted in the last hour. Hope you had success.