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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.
interesting, i might try your suggestions
Thats called WILD!
Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming, hard to do but pretty cool if you can pull it off.
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.
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.
Personally, I always find you extremely stressful
Surprised I havenβt 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.
What if you don't feel that tired the whole night? Would you not sleep and go to work after that sleepless night?
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.
Damn dude, what about cuddles and stuff :o
I'll fall asleep during the cuddles as well lol
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, Iβm screwed and thereβs nothing I can do. Iβll 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.
~1h, 30min if I'm lucky. And it have to be absolutely quiet or the timer will reset π
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.
I donβt get in bed until I feel my sleeping pill kick in, so not long
Minutes, to hours, to not sleeping at all. It sucks.
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.
You guys sleep?
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.
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
Usually 5-10 minutes
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.
Fast. Itβs staying asleep thatβs the hard part.
When I am stressed , atsleast 3-4 hours but when I am not usually within 30mins.
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.
20 seconds. Iβve got 4 kids.
It takes me an hour or so !! Once i am in bed , i play some video and fall asleep to it !
Man, too long. Chronic pain has me in bed by 9pm, but it takes hours to actually fall asleep. Even with the sleepy meds..
Fuckin hours wooooooooooooo!
Probably about half an hour or so.
Occasionally get a bad night where it takes me 2 or 3 hours to get to sleep. But itβs only if Iβve had a bad day in work or something that my head wonβt quiet down about but itβs pretty rare and i can usually sort it out with some white noise earphones
Initial bedtime sleep takes a few minutes or so. If i wake during the night, it could take me hours to go back to sleep. If this is a daytime nap, that takes me like 20 minutes.
Too long. I just can't not process things that happened, interactions with people, all that stuff. I'm not sure I even want to just drop when I finally have the time to thinks stuff before sleep.
If I'm really tired, sometimes I'll just dose off in the midd
Maybe 2 minutes normally. Hard to tell really. If I don't I have two strategies:
If I'm staying awake because of some captivating train of thought (stressfull or exciting or whatever) I mentally put it aside with the thought "I can't change that right now anyway I can deal with it tomorrow" and start trying to freely associate without focusing on any thought starting from some nice landscapes.
Otherwise if there isn't something obvious keeping me from sleep, I just start focusing on relaxing bodyparts and breathing deeply and slowly to stimulate my parasympathetic nervous system. That normally puts me out quickly.
It happens instantaneously. After some waiting.
It usually tak... Zzz zzz zzz
Anywhere between 7 minutes and 3 days.
Usually 10 minutes. Reading a book helps if it's taking longer.
Usually between 6 and 8 hours
3 to 10 minutes, depends how sleepy I am
Once I put the Skyrim OST on itβs usually within two songs but sometimes itβs all the place.
Usually like 5 minutes or less.
I sleep worst when I have to get up extremely early and would benefit by falling asleep as early as possible. In situations like that, it takes me about two hours to fall asleep.
Less than 30 min if I turn the TV sleep timer on 30 min and listen to something quiet/boring. Not sure that's the best way to do it, but it works.
10 to 20 minutes if I am not super tired.
Typically <10 minutes, but under <5 quite frequently. If I get woken up in the middle of the night or very early morning, good luck. I have such a hard time falling back asleep as I get older.
As far as I can tell most nights I fall asleep immediately. Occasionally I'll have some trouble but not so often that I can remember the last time.
I have discovered audio books can help me fall asleep in minutes. Just set the timer to shut off in an hour.
Sometimes two hours.