[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

on a serious note I use sound effects to fall asleep.

I have various apps and I customise my own, I usually revert to the one I made Under The African Storm (sounds of a camp fire, african insects in the plains, distant thunder and rain on a tent).

I used to use a similar African music/sounds tape Ben which DID get me to sleep, but I always used to wake up covered in mosquito bites.

[Calderyon]

Surf the internet, eat, watch certain "thing" or play video games.

Drinking banana yogurt also helps you sleep, i have noticed.

[Crimson Dynamo]

30 ml of nightnurse

[Crimson Dynamo]

Or 40units of alcohol

You've got to have a system

[T*]

ASMR

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Třm

ASMR

That freaks me out as you know from the thread about it on here

[Crimson Dynamo]

And Kirk

Its nuts

[smudgie]

Turn the telly on and listen to the BBC 24 hour news..soon nod off.

[Kizzy]

I wouldn't attempt to meditate in bed. Those audio books are good, you could have an autobiography playing softly in earphones till you drift off.

[Jay.]

when i was younger i used to kicked my legs up in the air and hit my head on the pillow until i fell asleep it sounds stupid but i used to find such comfort in it

sometimes when i really can't sleep i find myself doing it, or i rock myself side to side

i also do it in my sleep sometimes apparently

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

And Kirk

Its nuts

I love you LT.

[Firewire]

I don't have any techniques but I try and focus on dreaming. So, I'll try and focus on stories/situations playing out in my mind. Once they start to get incoherent and impossible, I'm close to sleeping. I can't control them though, but it's how I know I'm close to sleeping.

[GypsyGoth]

I read before I sleep every night. So once I put the book down, I've usually no hassle drifting off to dreamland.

[Conzors]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

Deadly serious, 1,000% way to get to sleep:

Lie down on your back on the bed in a dark, quiet bedroom. Shuffle around until you are comfortable. When you are, focus your eyes backwards - towards your forehead, so there is a slight ever so gentle strain on them. Stay like that.

Now imagine that all parts of your body are like workshops shutting down for the night.

Start at your toes and visualise all the workers shutting down, turning off the lights and leaving - slowly making their way to the pit of your stomach. Do this with your feet, legs, thighs, and repeat this with your fingers, hands, arms and your head, neck and shoulders and chest - ALL parts of your body - with all the workers leaving and gathering in the pit of your stomach.

You will DROP ASLEEP - and if you are really lucky - you will 'Astral Travel', though the first few times you will probably have no other sensation or memory than your 'Silver Cord' eventually reeling you back to your body (hence the worldwide dreams of flying and falling throughout history) and you may awake with a serious sense of 'lost time'.

It might sound 'nuts' (LT will think so ) but TRY it. Practice it. You'll see.

Some great ideas on here but this one actually sounds so freaky i dont want to try it!

[arista]

Originally Posted by Conzors

I cant sleep so I'm currently watching Oprah: Where are they now? videos haha!

I normally eat though - which probably makes it worse!

How about you guys?

Check what I have recorded on SkyHD
and VirginHD boxes.

Put on Music is 5.1 DTS / SACD /DVDA


Put FoxNewsHD on
and laugh

Stand on my toes for long times


Check work pile up



Feel The Force

[arista]

Originally Posted by Chaos

i shove razors up my bum

how nice

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Conzors

Some great ideas on here but this one actually sounds so freaky i dont want to try it!

It's merely one of many techniques of 'Astral Travelling' Conzors - something LT will deny with a 'Braveheart' fervor, but practiced for thousands of years by millions of people.

Nothing freaky about it. It totally relaxes body and mind, and WILL let you get to sleep.

[Kizzy]

No it won't that's ridiculous, he wants to rest and you want him to project his subconscious into the ether?

[Vanessa]

I watch tv.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

No it won't that's ridiculous, he wants to rest and you want him to project his subconscious into the ether?

Stop frightening him Kizzy - You of all people.

[Kizzy]

It's not me advocating he roams around the netherworld playing with charlie is it?