How to Fall Asleep Naturally
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I'm very lucky, I sleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. I can also sleep sitting in buses or waiting rooms, park benches and Biology class, practically anywhere. No, I haven't tried sleeping standing up, and can do it if somebody else can!. Rarely I have problems getting to sleep, and then I understand my less fortunate brothers and sisters. For them, I reveal my secrets!
The cartoons at the right are unused roughs I did. They are about snoring, but sometimes laughing and relaxing can get you to sleep, so look at them.
Top 22 natural sleepy methods.
1. Relax. If you need tips for that, go to my how to relax hub.
2. If there's something nagging you, finish it and go back to bed. If it's not finishable then, at least decide to do something about it in teh morning.
3. Go to the loo.
4. Don't increase tension level. As a general rule, nobody shouts at anybody at bed time. No noise. Loud kisses are fine.
5. Listen to soothing instrumental music, or those waterfall noises or whatever you get now.
6 Have a good meal
7. Tire yourself out.
8. Read a good book. A boring book is better.
9. Deliberately yawn, It fools your mind, causing it to issue orders for real ones.
10. Don't get into politics. Responsibilities and assassins won't let you sleep.
11. Drink water, go to the loo, go to bed.
12. Regulate the temperature to comfort level, if you can.
13. Pray. When I pray, I'm so boring that God and I go to sleep immediately.
14. Meditate. Same principle.
15. Count sheep. This still works. Either it works, or at the millionth sheep, it's time to get out of bed.
16. Count down from 100 to 1. I usually fall asleep at 65. 67...66..65...6Z...ZZ...ZZZZ
17. Close your eyes and create a dream.Suddenly you find your dream taking over!
18. Read Bedtime stories to your kids. Don't know about them, but my book drops from my hands after Pickety-Boo the Kitten talks to Don Juan the Duck.
19. Watch a foreign, dialogue-heavy movie. Any movie your intellectual friend suggests will work.
20. Encourage your spouse to talk about his or her cousin-in-law. Your mind can't take this, and to protect itself, will make you sleep.
21. Switch off the lights.
22. Reread this hub. You will fall asleep at point 12 or 13.
YAWN! Good Night!
- Isabella Snow's "Best White Noise Sound Machines"
Beat Insomnia by using the latest in soothing sound machines! Listen to a range of lulling sounds like waterfalls, waves, rain or just white noise. - Rupple Maker's hub "20 Great Ways to Get a Good Night's Sleep"
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If you're single - mas...er...interact with porn. Or get busy with the wife...hehehe.
I also fall asleep easily like Kenny.
Would to know if those with problems in sleeping found these suggestions useful!
Kenny, 15 is useless. 17 is the best and easy to do.
As usual your cartoons make me laugh and smile I need more.
Thank you
Great hub Kenny. I agree with Mrmarmalade, number 17, for sure.
As always a good bunch of info.
Great HUB
regards ZsuzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
I've used 17 to some extent before. Not necessarily create a dream, but tell a story. I've continued the same story of weeks before until it got boring, to which I would then change plots and characters. It's an interesting way to fall asleep, but it usually works for me, unless I'm really stressed, upset, or worried.
My late wife had the secret. She would listen to a tape of the Fibber McGee & Molly show evey night -- always the same show. She never got to the end of it!
you always make me smile Kenny..great ideas..If I read in bed I am out in five minutes. One of my favorite is to put on headphones and listen to my favorite music..I never get to end of a CD.sometimes I never hear the last 4 songs ever.... Hugs G-Ma :O)
lol, good tips, i sleep easy too but my hubby takes real long. this is good for him hehehe
Thank you, my friends, I just woke up from a good night's sleep to see your nice comments! It's Sunday morning here.
Abhinaya, hope the same for you, too.
Kpfingaz, that works, right! LOL!
Shyam, thanks for dropping in, even when you didn't need the tips!
Frank, No 15 is traditional, so has to be there.
Good that 17 works for you.
Ok, more cartoons for you in future, thanks.
Wehzo, you are a dreamer like me?
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzsuzsy, hope you don't fly and sleep! :)
Whitney, yours is No 23, and a good method. May even give plots to writers.
William, No. 24 is your wife's secret! Thanks!
G-Ma, Hugs. So music lulls G-Ma baby to blessed sleep.
Hope your hubby does not snore, Sminut! :)
Very good hub oh I wish hard that they would all work. 15 and 16 do not work at all they stimulate the brain by thinking. Oh gee I wish I could sleep I would love to go to bed every night and just nod off. Some times I watch the clock for hours. Then fall asleep when sun nearly coming up or so.
That's sad, Eileen. Hope you discover a personal remedy. When you do, please tell us. And hope you're getting enough sleep.
useful Hub for a chronic insomniac - me :o hehe
I think women have much more trouble sleeping than men - perhaps we've"trained" ourselves to hear every sound when we had little children. I find it difficult to sleep when I do not have the bed to myself. On my own, I have no problem. Hubby isn't impressed. But that's the way it is.
as a side note, wonderfully humorous and I loved #20. Actually what I was told was not to lay in bed too long if I couldn't sleep because it created a situation where you came to associate going to bed with not sleeping.
Usually if it's my mind running in circles, I get up and write it out in unsent or sent :O letters. I get a lot of snippets for poetry or essays this way.
You're right about the politics too. I live for pol and yeah it makes the blood run and is anything but sleep-enhancing. LOL
Tottie... I think you may be right about that mother thing too, kind of always listening for sounds that could mean you need to wake up.
I have not been a good sleeper for decades, and I realize I have an overactive mind, but since I don't have to venture out to work outside of home nowadays, I can get up late, so I have very good energy, but I still would love the blessing of falling asleep quickly. Number 9 (yawning) sounds good and makes sense, I think. Tricking the mind to think I am sleepy is very much like self hypnosis, will try it tonight!
Iðunn and Tottie, thank you kind ladies. Though I diaagree with you. When my son was newborn, I was the one to wake up to his funny noises. My wife recovering froma painful caesaean, couldn't easily. She was to be disturbed only when he had to be nursed. I was a nappy changing proud pappy.
Sometimes they don't do business, but just let out loud farts that wake the neighbourhood up!
The same for the second chap, too.
After they grew up, I went back to sleeping even through thunderstorms and suchlike.
And Iðunn, maybe you should just write sleepy poems :)
VioletSun, hope No:9 works for you or try the creating dream thing. Works for hyper-active brains.
I used to visualize being caught in a blizzard on Mt. Everest as a sleep technique. I don't recommend this as it's not only ineffective, it has the opposite affect. I would spend hours thinking up battery operated thermal climbing suits, little caves one could hide from the wind in, food to be carried around etc.
LOL! Iðunn!
Okay scratch No 9 for very creative brains. But why can't you think of dappled meadows and quiet groves or something?
lol, well sometimes I think about himself but that's not very conducive to sleep either. :o
if I thought of dappled meadows I'd spend hours worrying about ants and bees and where the closest spot of civilization was.
There's a saying in my regional language, Iðunn: A good soul does not sleep.
then I must be a saint :)
I think there is a biblical reference too, "He who watches over Israel neither sleeps nor slumbers" but I freely admit I'm watching over no one. Just mucking about. :p
At least indulge my dreams, please. I like to think i associate with saints.
you only say that because you haven't tapped into my music vidz yet. try the billy talent sometime. but not at bedtime :p
I just watched it again myself. I missed my music vid babies. :heart:
There are saints and saints, so no problem. Will do.
Kenny this is great! And I just tried 9, it works! Thanks! ;)
Thanks, Isabella, though I hope the yawns are not a direct result of reading this hub! Anyway, you are my first practical success! :)
You know, sometimes this trick is very useful. My father was watching the BBC one night, and I wanted to switch channels, but he didn't seem in any hurry to retire. A few yawns from my side did the trick; it sent him to bed in five minutes!
Lol thanks, hope it's true! Will write if you promise to read and leave me a good comment! :)
Gtreat tips Kenny and lol at hub contents and comments...9-10-13 and 22 were very funny and many a true word said in jest!!
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Funny, but true, Compu-smart. Thank you for dropping by! Hope you don't need my hub! :)
Thanks for the advice Kenny. Very useful.
Thank you, Peter!
Great Hub Kenny. I new to this network, and yours was the first Hub I read. Look forward to reading more.
Welcome, Law. and am proud to have the honour of welcoming you to Hubpages! Delighted! Hope you enjoy the hubs of all my friends here, and possibly look at the option of becoming an active hubber!
And thank you.
Love this hub! 13 especially got a chuckle from me, I can imagine God being bored to tears with my ramblings. Great advice!
LOL! Thank you Cynna, and welcome! Just read your hub on overpopulation.
Good thing that there are many atheists,
or God would have to listen to so many prayers,
and still continue with His work!
Great Hub Kenny,
I do tend to have trouble sleeping. My mind keeps shouting things at me.
I have found that forcing myself to relax helps. Can't go wrong with 13 I suppose. However it is 10 that does keep me up on occasion. Gah! ;)
Well written, helping and humorous, thanks!
Thoog.
Hi Thoog! Yes, can't go wrong with 13. I'm almost apolitical, so I don't have No.10 problems.
Thanks for visiting and sharing!
It is a great hub, I also don't have problems sleeping. But you are right we have to keep our minds relaxed to have a good sleep. I also avoid coffee and tea in the nights that also helps. Reading a book also helps. Great tips Kenny, I will try your tips when I have a problem. Must read by everyone.
But I hope you always sleep well, Cgull, without help! Thank you!
I had to giggle at number 13. That's pretty cute... :-)
Ah, Michelle, thanks for giggling, but I doze off especially when I have a lot of things to tell Him. I think that's the way he takes care of Himself! :)
LOL! I like #17 (create a dream) cause I thought I was the only one doing this! My sister once told me that when she has trouble falling asleep, she curls into the fetal position and rocks back and forth very slowly. Her theory is that it reminds her mind how she fell asleep as a baby. It works for her! =)
Hi Kenny! Great Hub! I am like you I can fall asleep anywhere. The one time I fell asleep on a park bench and someone put a dollar bil in my hand while I was sleeping :) Says a lot about my outfit huh?
Nice read!
Ah Kenny, I usually just tell Him to hug me so I could sleep. And it does work. hehe By the way, I'm writing a hub related (or similar) to this topic...and I'm putting up a link to this hub of yours.
Hi Mom! Your sis has a bonus tip, thank you and her! That's how even travelling in trains rocks one to sleep, too.
Amanda, my slumber is not a profitable enterprise as yours is! You also don't need expensive suits for your commercial venture! LOL
Thanks, Michelle. And His hugs spread His love through the ripples you make? You are blessed!
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Abhinaya says:
9 months ago
Great tips Kenny.You are really lucky to have a good night sleep as soon as your head hits the pillow.Thumbs up!