How do you make yourself fall asleep?

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I just fall asleep. I don't really do anything per se.

Tim

When I was a child I stimmed - rolling my head left to right (and even now I still occasionally fall back on that, though it never works).

What does work most often is closing my eyes and focusing on the random patterns that my optic nerve seems to generate in response to a lack of stimulation - I see flashes that resolve to faces, space ships, landscapes, and whatever. I never dwell on these "images" - just let them pass and await the next one. They're usually pretty rapid-fire. At some point I sleep, and wake hours later.

I rarely recall dreaming, though. I sort of feel cheated by that. NT's get to dream all the time, it seems, and they know they did. I just wake up after a period of nothingness, and I'm jealous of folks who say they dreamed of things that I can imagine desiring in my conscious life.

Proprioceptive input. More blankets, and my arms tucked under me. It relaxes me immediately.

Exhaustion! It should do it every time! I could sleep standing most days, but all the others, well, they are spent leading up to the point of exhaustion

Exhaustion! It should do it every time! I could sleep standing most days, but all the others, well, they are spent leading up to the point of exhaustion

Xanax works for me if Tylonel PM won't. I could name almost a billion others such as Trazadone, Ativan, Ambien, Lunesta. Just ask your local pharmacist.

If you want to fall asleep quick and fast. Try staying awake for one week. Then run a marathon.

I'm not AS,but I do have lots of trouble falling asleep at night. I take Melatonin and that helps me more than anything, and if something is stuck in my mind (usually all the things I still have to do the next day!) then I try and read a book that is somewhat boring, for example right now I have Photoshop for Dummies that I am reading!

i will be up all nite watching all those A Haunting videos i havent seen from episode 1!

I have to wear ear plugs and sleep in a quiet, dark room. I also need to sleep relatively low to the ground and with a blanket over me. Having a cat or two ont eh bed with me helps too.

"For the first twenty years of my life I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no problem. Follow seven beers with a couple of scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it's funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own. Often I never even make it to bed. I'd squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the floor eight hours later, having lost a perfectly good excuse to change my clothes. I'm now told that this is not called "going to sleep" but rather "passing out," a phrase that carries a distinct hint of judgement."

---David Sedaris