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> I've always said to insomniacs that they should read textbooks. I'm not a good sleeper and quite like reading. If I'm in a state where I'm very tired but al
by Steve44 8y ago
> I've always said to insomniacs that they should read textbooks.
I'm not a good sleeper and quite like reading. If I'm in a state where I'm very tired but also having trouble getting off to sleep then I'm generally too tired to read. I may be able to manage a paragraph or two before my eyes start to lose focus but that's it.
I'm not wide awake and fully functioning, I'm lying there tired but unable to get off to sleep - these are quite different states.
The best thing I can do is to close my eyes and build 3D models in my head and fly around them. That sometimes helps, I think it concentrates the mind.
- torgian 8y agoI’ve started doing that whenever I have trouble sleeping. I start with a random world, set it to orbit, then make another world, have it orbit the first world, then add a third. I let them all orbit eachother.
- Klover 8y agoThat’s super cute! Do people who do this 3D modelling in their mind thing do a lot of visual things regularly? I would find it difficult to start doing that without being distracted by the million thoughts after 10 minutes.
- torgian 8y agoWell, I’m not sure. I used to do a lot of drawing when I was a kid, but now I do more programming and teaching. I think the exercise is really just to distract me from thinking “go to sleep go to sleep” over and over lol.
- cloverich 8y agoThat's meditation. I do the same thing but slowly imagine athletic form in sports moves (e.g. positioning of hips while kicking a soccer ball). Imagining and focusing on an imaginary dot in your vision is the same thing I think, but I can't seem to do that well. I wonder if anyone with this realization has taken it into awake meditation -- e.g. starting a daily meditation practice using the tools they've been developing to fall asleep.