I’m losing my mind man. I mmresly trying but I just can’t. I got to bed for 7-8 hours and always get 5-6 hours of sleep. I just want tot fucking sleep and I want to blow my fuckinghm brains out my fucking head

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I agree almost completely, but I would recommend picking an audiobook that's not exactly boring, but that you have already read. It can't be so much of a favorite book that you are wide awake and appreciating the fuck out of the prose the whole time, but you should enjoy the book, and you should absolutely know what happens next already. The comfortable feeling of listening to character descriptions of characters you already know and following along with a plot where you know what happens next can really help. It really needs to be something that you already know though, because even a fairly bad book can throw in a sudden plot twist or something that suddenly makes you pay attention and wakes you up.

    • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]
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      3 years ago

      There are sleep podcasts designed for this. They have very little plot action and mostly describe someone going about their day.

      • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Speaking only for myself, that sounds a bit like the old idea of counting sheep or something like that. I doubt I could lose myself in something like that enough to drift off to sleep like I can with a book that I enjoy but already know.

        • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah, fair enough. I don't use them but my partner has met some success. They are at least a little more involved than counting sheep lol.

          • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            It's great that they exist. It is worth trying, and obviously if it works you should just keep doing this because you found a solution. If this type of content doesn't help though, I think it is still worth trying a familiar story that you enjoy. There is a bit of a difference I think. A story can be really action packed and still help you sleep if you know it. I can find myself losing any sense of time and drifting between different points in the story in my mind. I'll be thinking about how calm and nice a character is, how funny they are in my favorite interactions and how cool it will be when I find out that they were actually the killer all along at the same time. And if the story is familiar none of those actual moments will actually wake me up, because I know that they are coming and I'm already kind of thinking about them beforehand if that makes any sense.