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Re:How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less by ams6110 on Sunday March 25, 2018 @01:26PM (#16673242)
What works for me is to just put on a documentary and something about the monotone narration voice just shuts my brain down. I don't even pay attention to the words. I'm generally asleep within minutes. I assume audio books might have the same effect.

I guess it might be related to my young childhood as I had parents who would almost always read to my brother and me at bedtime. So possibly there's a part of my brain that has associated falling asleep to the sound of a voice speaking.

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Re:How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less by robocat on Sunday March 25, 2018 @03:23PM (#16673985)
My girlfriend trained herself to sleep with movies. Now she can't watch movies without falling asleep.
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Re:How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less by dvtv75 on Monday March 26, 2018 @02:22AM (#16677022)
Mine does exactly the same thing. If she's on the couch watching a movie, she's a goner, but the moment she moves to bed, "it's too loud! Turn it down!" even when it's at 1/10th of the volume when she was drooling on the couch.
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Re:How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less by megy on Sunday March 25, 2018 @06:01PM (#16674901)
I did the same thing with books. I always used to read before I went to sleep. Now, I get tired reading.
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Re:How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less by stickdogg on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:25PM (#16674383)
It was imperative for an ex girlfriend of mine to have a movie on; or she was unable to sleep. I prefer total darkness so that my body gains the maximum recuperative benefit.
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Re:How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less by actsasbuffoon on Sunday March 25, 2018 @02:39PM (#16673689)
Bob Ross videos on Hulu or YouTube are the most pleasant and soothing things I've ever watched. They usually knock me out in just a few minutes. And if you still can't fall asleep, you got to watch someone paint a pretty landscape.
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Re:How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less by busterarm on Sunday March 25, 2018 @05:18PM (#16674659)
There's a podcast that's literally just this. Some guy reads nonsensical stories in a monotone.

10 minutes or less, guaranteed, every time.

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Re:How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less by kqr on Sunday March 25, 2018 @07:22PM (#16675251)
I need an URI for that.
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Re:How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less by ropable on Sunday March 25, 2018 @08:22PM (#16675518)
This is it (I believe): http://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/
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Re:How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less by stickdogg on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:23PM (#16674363)
I have been using audiobooks frequently to help me fall asleep. For me it has to be the right tone of voice and not a high pitched voicy or jerky style enunciation.
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Re:How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less by birksherty on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:43PM (#16674485)
I use Sleep With Me podcast and like you said it shuts my thinking and then I sleep within few minutes. I highly recommend it.

https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/

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Re:How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less by harshulpandav on Monday March 26, 2018 @12:02PM (#16679854)
I start a random YouTube video and set SleepTimer [1] app to 15 minutes. The beauty of the app is that it softly fades the volume to 0 and turns the screen off by the end of 15 minutes. It has always helped me fall asleep!

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pboos.andro...

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Re:How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less by ThrustVectoring on Sunday March 25, 2018 @07:41PM (#16675336)
There's a couple youtube channels of Go game commentary and strategy lectures that does something similar for me.
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Re:How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less by knuththetruth on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:35PM (#16674447)
BBC's In Our Time podcast is an instant sedative. Roundtable of British academics dryly discussing historical topics. 5 mins and I'm out like a light.
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Re:How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less by confounded on Sunday March 25, 2018 @07:04PM (#16675162)
Are you an Englishperson in San Francisco by any chance?
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Re:How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less by knuththetruth on Sunday March 25, 2018 @10:59PM (#16676282)
No, sorry. Originally from the East Coast.
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