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How to Fall Asleep in 120 Seconds
Trouble sleeping? Here's a military-tested trick for guaranteed slumber
Methods to fall asleep quickly/instantly?
36 votes, 40 comments. Any tips on falling asleep INSTANTLY? For years I have been staying up until 1 AM (usually) and my body has adapted to it. Now…
I got an Oura ring a couple of years ago and have been working on improving my sleep and sleep habits ever since. For much of my adult life, I have been a poor sleeper. I have always been able to fall asleep quickly, but I have been plagued by two sleep issues. The first is waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep. The second is waking up early, like 4:30/5am, and being wide awake. So I’ve been working on those two things. I still wake up in the middle of t...

How do you turn your brain off to sleep?
83 votes, 119 comments. All day long I feel like my head is empty and I'm not thinking about much. Or, maybe it's that I don't notice that I'm…
Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t
Does our contemporary obsession with sleep obscure what makes it special in the first place?

What’s something that helps you fall asleep fast?
45 votes, 239 comments. 60M subscribers in the AskReddit community. r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions.
What’s something that helps you fall asleep fast?
45 votes, 239 comments. 60M subscribers in the AskReddit community. r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions.
What’s something that helps you fall asleep fast?
45 votes, 239 comments. 60M subscribers in the AskReddit community. r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions.
What’s something that helps you fall asleep fast?
45 votes, 239 comments. 60M subscribers in the AskReddit community. r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions.
How to Fall Asleep in 2 Minutes or Less | The Art of Manliness
With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to help our newer readers discover some of the best, evergreen gems from the past. This article was originally published in March 2018. Have you ever unexpectedly found yourself with a snatch of time in which to steal a […]

How one hour of slow breathing changed my life
An introductory breathing class fixed my sleep and left me calmer than ever. It took me years to find out why

To experience Zen-like awakening, try going the headless way | Psyche Ideas
Try to point to your true self as you’d point to a brick wall, and other experiments in Zen-like awakening

Opinion | Yes, Your Sleep Schedule Is Making You Sick (Published 2017)
What jet lag, insomnia and mental illness have in common.

The Mythical Agent-Month – Wes McKinney
Like a lot of people, I’ve found that AI is terrible for my sleep schedule. In the past I’d wake up briefly at 4 or 4:30 in the morning to have a sip of water or use the bathroom; now I have trouble going back to sleep. I could be doing things. Before I would get a solid 7-8 hours a night; now I’m lucky when I get 6. I’ve largely stopped fighting it: now when I’m rolling around restlessly in bed at 5:07am with ideas to feed my AI coding agents, I just get up and start my day.

You can learn a foreign language in your sleep, say Swiss
Study played newly-learned foreign vocabulary to students and compared their memory with those who were played the words while awake