How long does it take you to fall asleep?
I read until I'm tired then fall asleep pretty quickly. I had trouble sleeping when I was hating my job. Right now I'm getting my exercise and enjoying the easy sleep of the sociopath.
Usually somewhere between vertical and horizontal, unless I land on my back. Seriously, sometimes I'll wake up at night and hadn't pulled the covers over me before I conked out.
When I was younger it might take me a couple hours. Now it takes a couple minutes. Having a regular schedule for 25 years will do that.
Just a few minutes nowadays. Unless it's an evening where I can't sleep, in which case 2-4 hours. Those happen periodically. More difficult for me though is when I wake up at 5:00 on a very regular basis and can't go back to sleep, no matter how few hours I've gotten.
Not eating within 2 hours of bed, and not looking at my phone within 30 minutes of bed both make a dramatic difference.
I'm asleep before my head hits the pillow
I hate that falling awake thing too, clod. Happens in spurts. Like 3 times last week. I'm right out within 5 minutes, but if I wake up at 5, it takes until 20 minutes from the alarm clock to get back to sleep
My whole life before anti-depressants: half hour to fall asleep
After: 5 minutes
Now 4 years off them: 5 minutes
Similar numbers on waking up. Now if I hit the snooze button, it doesn't work, I wake up anyway. Brain has been reprogrammed.
If I'm lucky, 45 minutes, even following all my sleep hygiene protocols and my sleeping pills. Otherwise, hours.
The mm can fall asleep in minutes.
That potential for reprogramming is something people don't seem to grasp fully until they've done it or seen it. Congrats on your success, it's nothing short of amazing isn't it?
It's pretty much everything, except eventually the reprogramming went too far. I only needed about half of it. But that's impossible to see until it's in retrospect
Just a few minutes nowadays. Unless it's an evening where I can't sleep, in which case 2-4 hours. Those happen periodically. More difficult for me though is when I wake up at 5:00 on a very regular basis and can't go back to sleep, no matter how few hours I've gotten.
Not eating within 2 hours of bed, and not looking at my phone within 30 minutes of bed both make a dramatic difference.
exactly this. Used to be hours every night. Just didn't bother going to bed until I was falling asleep. Only difference is my "falling awake" happens at 3am -ish. Only an hour or so before I need to get up on weekdays when I don't actually have to get up at 3am, but horrible on the weekends. This morning, I woke at 3ish and didn't get properly back to sleep until gone 7, and had to be up at around 9. oh well
....I get about 5 hours a night on average
This doesn't show how long it takes to fall asleep but it's the data I have about how well I sleep.
omg I can't tell you how glad I am to see you don't sleep 8 hours any night. thank you
Do we count a couple hours here and there due to jobs? I think being a non-worker might give one more choices regarding falling asleep time. It's a luxury.
Didn't sleep any more when I didn't have a job
You never sleep! You're on the go all the time!
And I wasn't taking into account those with insomnia. That has to suck.
I hate sleeping. I just don't get it. It would be Ok if the rest of the world would stop too so I don't miss anything. Maybe.
This doesn't show how long it takes to fall asleep but it's the data I have about how well I sleep.
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Wanna trade prostates?
That sounds like something you'd ask privately.
It's pretty much everything, except eventually the reprogramming went too far. I only needed about half of it. But that's impossible to see until it's in retrospect
Are things a little flat like you don't have the edge you did? Could you build that back in?
No it's not the final results, more like, the last five years on meds I feel I was less concerned about my impending doom than I might have been.