Erstellt am: 23. 2. 2016 - 10:33 Uhr
Today's Webtip: Sleep With Me
I can't sleep.
I want to sleep. I think about it. I feel like I could, and then I lay my head down...
And my brain goes into overdrive. So I can't sleep. Then I toss and turn and start to think about how much I need to sleep and that the alarm is going to go off in a little while, and I'm going to be wrecked the next day, and I just really want to sleep.
And then I give up. Read a book. Fall asleep holding the book above my face. It falls. I'm awake.
Rinse, wash, repeat.
This has been going on as long as I can remember. I have tried a few things. Even been to a special sleep lab where I got wired up and locked into a room at 8 in the evening and wasn't allowed out until the next morning. No music, no books, no nothing. Except for the wires coming out of my head and the terror of nine hours with just me and my mind.
It sucked.
I learned a few things about my sleep patterns, but didnt learn the one thing I really wanted to know.
How to get some frikkin sleep.
I have tried binaural beats, silly self hypnosis stuff that I could never get to work, and have even used online inductions to try to get something to work. When I saw a podcast that claimed to put you to sleep with a really boring bed-time story, I figured I didn't have anything to lose. Except more sleep. But I already knew I was going to lose that anyway.
So I checked out www.sleepwithmepodcast.com and it worked.
The first night at least. The second night I had a bit more difficulty, and despite the claims of it being a really boring story, I found myself fascinated by what the story-teller was doing. But I still fell asleep before he got done telling it. Not before I wandered in and out of a sort of half-sleep with his rather bizarre words filtering through and creating some decidedly strange imagery in my not quite dreams.
That was at least fun, and hurt less than having a book fall on my face. So if you also have some trouble getting to sleep it might be worth a shot. I am not going to make any promises, but at the very least you might also find it just a bit entertaining.