I love it because I fall asleep easier and wake up more fresh
Come on Lemmy, surely we can do better than this.
As someone who slept 13.5 hours last night. Yes, the trick is to always be extremely exhausted!
What episode is this from?
I can’t enjoy a good night’s sleep unless I have to force my consciousness into submission with a cocktail of 1937 Glenfiddich, Nyquil, and whatever I managed to steal from the hooker I just kicked out. Waiting until you’re tired is for pussies.
For me it’s a cocktail of bath salts, incense, Enya, a long soak in the tub, and the screams of whatever housepet I happen to be drowning that day.
Ok hear me out. I’ll have a nap and be so glad to fall asleep. But then I get to bed and I’m like nahhhhh I just keep reading or playing this game.
I gotta get better at sleep hygiene 😅
Anyone else like to breath when they require oxygen?
No I prefer to fall asleep mid morning when I’m awake and alert after two coffees
Everyone laughs like this is obvious, but I really struggle to do this. I’m not sure if it’s an ADHD thing, but I just can’t make myself go to bed at night. Extremely tired? Nah, I’d better wait until I hit a second wind. There’s unimportant stuff I’d rather do.
Avoud blue light. Make your phone black and white when you should be sleeping.
I envy those that can just fall asleep whenever they want. It usually takes me an hour or more of laying there to finally bore myself enough to pass out.
ADHD hits everyone different but I know I personally crash so fucking hard if I’m tired. We’re talking head hit the pillow then I time travel to the next morning.
Yeah same. I’m AuDHD so I’m just constantly ruminating. CBD and ASMR videos help.
What do you mean, unimportant? Calculating the exact scaling factor for my desktop environment to match the look on my old Thinkpad was urgent!
Yeah i WISH i could control when i sleep, but I have lifelong serious problems falling asleep. I’ve tried all the things people talk about - counting sheep, no screen right before bed, melatonin, meditation, exercise early in the day, etc etc. Some of them help somewhat sometimes, but so far there’s no fix. Actually there was one thing that totally fixed it, which was taking zoloft. Taking it at noon everyday completely fixed my lifelong sleeping problems even though it did little to help the depression i had back then. Now that i say it, i think i should start taking it again just because it fixed my sleep so completely.
This is me. I met someone who once had a psychotic attack and told me she has weaned of to a micro-dose that helps calm her internal voice so she can fall asleep.
I convinced my doctor to try that medicine (after i underwent sleep trials) and it works really well. It’s no sleeping pill, it just shuts up you internal monologue for long enough to get to sleep. It’s great, it got me off my alcohol self medication. It doesn’t make me feel sleepy, though, I need to remember to get to bed. But then it works.
Anyway the medicine is this one, of course check with your doctor, as I’m just a guy from the internet.
it just shuts up you internal monologue for long enough to get to sleep
Though it takes longer to achieve, it’s effects go beyond just helping you sleep - regular meditation, even purely secular “mindfulness meditation” can help achieve the same, with lasting effect, and much wider implications in day to day life.
There is sometimes still an internal monologue, but it’s not as powerful or overwhelming, and it’s much easier to ignore or shut off.
That seems like a very powerful medication with a lot of effects and side effects that you would only want to use as a last resort. Wiki says it has effects on serotonin and dopamine receptors, which are also receptors effected by zoloft, so if seroquel helps you then you might want to consider switching to zoloft. But honestly what the hell do either of us know, we’re just sharing anecdotes, which is useful but shouldn’t be assumed to be true.
Yup, hence me saying to consult your doctor.
I’m on 25 mg dosage, which is quite low so I don’t get major side effects.
Depression for me.
I hate sleeping under any circumstances.
Anyone else like food when they’re extremely hungry?
It’s a bit like eating when you’re actually physically hungry.
It feels very good.
Is it just me or does food taste better when you’re hungry?
It does, it does.
Oh yes, so nice. I try to wait until I am physically sleepy to go to bed. And if it’s late I send a text to my husband that says: Let me sleep until I wake up.
Yes it sounds like a stupid question, but it is an indulgence that not everyone gets to do. Many people have to work at a time that doesn’t match their natural daily rhythm. My work schedule is flexible-ish, so sleeping later if I have to is no big deal.
It’s an artform, like perfectly baking a poo. If you time it right you can basically fall straight asleep without your brain going “hey, I just thought of something!”
I messed up last night when I hit the wall after 9 days solidly on the go - I thought the bed looked nice and a little lie on it wouldn’t hurt but I still had shit to do before bed. So I dropped off but my brain kept prodding me back to near consciousness and I kept on having weird sleep paralysis/false awakening dreams - including one in which I heard a woman murder a friend outside my bedroom door but I couldn’t force myself off the bed to intervene.
Excuse me…baking a poo?
is your friend alive?
Ahhhh, I didn’t check… Now I feel bad.
As long as their corpse isn’t outside your bedroom door you’re probably fine.
That was my reasoning.
Of course, inside your bedroom door means you have a different problem
No.
Anyone else like to drink water when they’re extremely thirsty?
I do, so good.
Hahahahahah
Nah, I like to eat potato chips and shovel salt into my mouth until my lips crack in ecstacy
