A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes

Re:A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes by armandososa on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:11AM (#17908769)

Here's a technique that works for me:

So, when I close my eyes I can "see" things. I don't know if it's light coming trough my lids or blood vessels or just my mind's eye. I don't know. But what I'll do as a last resource when I have trouble sleeping is to pay full attention to those things and find patterns in them. I even say out loud in my mind like: "oh there's a dog", "a canoe", "a cigarrette".

Then I'm dreaming in no time.

I told my wife and she says that she sees nothing when she close her eyes so, maybe this won't work for everybody.

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Re:A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes by jachee on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @10:11AM (#17909147)

For years growing up, I'd notice that sometimes when I had my eyes closed, there were sometimes glowing circles in the darkness. Sometimes they'd be colorful and others they were like the typical photo of an eclipse. It was usually just as I was drifting off, I'd notice them.

Years later I realized that I could make them appear at-will by wiggling my eyes around (a la REM), and that lead me to conclude that it's likely my overly-long (i'm severely myopic) eyeballs physically stimulating my optic nerves.

I don't notice it as much lately, and I avoid doing it on purpose, in case it's not healthy.

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Re:A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes by feanaro on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @02:07AM (#17915397)

I'm not myopic and I see those too.

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Re:A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes by brennebeck on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:38AM (#17908926)

I see something as well. I’ll definitely give this a try, thanks.

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