What do you think about when you are trying to get diff to sleep to help you sleep

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Sometimes I think back on past holidays

I try not to start thinking about anything, book down, lights off and try not to let anything in. If that doesn't work then imagining myself lying on a warm beach listening to the waves crunching over the shingle helps. Another thing, I used to be an avid soap watcher for many years and would go through soap families or houses, so take the first house in Corrie for example and think who lived there previously and before them going back to when I first started watching, then onto the next house. I stopped watching them years ago though and can't remember enough now.

Those of you who listen to stuff, if you have partners how do you listen without disturbing them?

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I do this too.

I really like this idea!

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@lemons44 zombie apocalypse/general apocalypse is my alternative falling to sleep story! So far I've got survivors in an old caravan park growing veg and keeping chickens.

Those of you who listen to stuff, if you have partners how do you listen without disturbing them?

I go to bed by 11pm at the latest but often 10pm. DH comes up much later, he's a night owl and I'm a morning person.

I imagine that I am watching a big cinema screen. Images come and go, most of them a really random - a pavement, someone's shoe, a coffee pot, a weird face, some leaves - then it takes on life of its own and I fall asleep.

I go through the steps of a lovely walk I used to do from a hotel I visited many moons ago, heat of the sun on my face as I step out of the air conditioned lobby, up the little hill, bear left on to the pretty mosaic pavement and up the road I go.. 😁

I try not to think about anything but my brain won't let me. I sleep with white noise on Spotify all night.

I've also done the alphabet - 15 names beginning with each letter. I even spin an imaginary wheel to pick my starting letter

Now I've discovered 'Nothing Much Happens', I listen to that. It's a wonderful way to drift off.

I sometimes plan out what I would do if I won different amounts of money (unlikely given I don't enter the lottery).

My main one is imagining scenes where the key objects all begin with one letter.

So a girl, in a garden, and there's a gate and goat and grape vine and a greenhouse which has glazing and the gate has gold at the top and there's greenery and grass and I can see a gas task and the girl is holding a glass...

And so on and so forth.

I also do the things beginning with each letter of the alphabet. It normally works but a couple of nights ago I was doing sports beginning with each letter and got stuck on N. Then suddenly woke up in the middle of the night thinking 'Netball FFS!' And then couldn't get back to sleep again.

Those of you who listen to stuff, if you have partners how do you listen without disturbing them?

I have a headband with built in headphones (cheap from Amazon). Sometimes, though, it annoys the hell out of me and I find myself trailing it off during the night. Sometimes I put one ear pod in, as I do reliably sleep on one side - so I place it in the ear that's uppermost so it won't fall out (it occasionally does😅)

Similar. I fantasise about a family member's house in Greece and how I'd change it if it were mine. I need to sort out the kitchen before I can "decorate" any other rooms but the kitchen is really awkward so I'm usually asleep before I can work out where to put the fridge.

I used to do it with my friend's family home in Ireland. Probably needs an update by now 😂

Thanks, I do have airpods but never use them in bed, I keep them downstairs so that I don't forget to take them to work (I always put them in my handbag when I stop using them), I toss and turn in bed and don't fancy trying to find a lost airpod in the bedding in the morning. Might look at alternatives then.

I plan my beautiful home by the sea

I listen to the Sleep with Me podcast, usually. It’s eccentric and rambling and good natured and always helps.

I walk around my grandparents' houses from when I was a child. I've found rooms this way that I'd completely forgotten about, I just seemed to access the memory this way.

I absolutely love the idea of this, I’m going to do this tonight for fun 🤩

I do breathing relaxing exercises I learnt in yoga class. Works every time within 5 minutes! 😴

I read a book. Feel myself dropping off and just have time to put down my kindle and switch off the light before I fall asleep.

Cognitive shuffle - think of a random and neutral word with 6 or more letters, then for each letter think of another 6 words starting with that letter.

Other than that, I like to think of floating on a lilo on calm turquoise seas and in warm sunshine.

I am normally off to my Scottish cottage in the middle of nowhere. It is always snowing those great big flakes of snow that fall slowly straight down . . I find watching the snow fall so relaxing . I always have a log burner roaring away and it is dark outside. Bliss.
Sends me off to sleep in no time.

I imagine my life after winning the lottery/inheriting lots of money from a surprise relative/being offered a dream job with a big salary, including designing my perfect house. Or imagine how my life might have ended up if I had made different decisions in the past. Or how I courageously save the life of the President/other Important Person and modestly give numerous interviews.

My bedtime lives are fascinating