Over time I’ve developed a fear of that self reflective laying in bed trying to sleep time especially as when I get into negative thinking it keeps me awake far longer, sometimes hours of ever increasing torment so I find myself unable to go to bed before I’m tired enough to fall asleep quickly - generally that involves distracting myself with social media, YouTube, video games, porn, or even work but then I’m tired the next day and spend most the day sitting around distracting myself on my phone trying to avoid that limbo of guilt and negative thinking when I’m not awake enough to be productive.
Anywhere between 7 minutes and 3 days.
It happens instantaneously. After some waiting.
On a good night 30 mins but average about an hour or 2
Maybe 2 minutes normally. Hard to tell really. If I don’t I have two strategies:
If I’m staying awake because of some captivating train of thought (stressfull or exciting or whatever) I mentally put it aside with the thought “I can’t change that right now anyway I can deal with it tomorrow” and start trying to freely associate without focusing on any thought starting from some nice landscapes.
Otherwise if there isn’t something obvious keeping me from sleep, I just start focusing on relaxing bodyparts and breathing deeply and slowly to stimulate my parasympathetic nervous system. That normally puts me out quickly.
