[achtung]

...right before you go to sleep.

What do you do with it?

I mean, do you think yourself to sleep? Do you just lay down and drift away smoothly? Do you hear music? Are you out like a light?

I always start thinking about something, anything at all, and focus on it until it becomes less and less realistic, weaving into a story that leads me into sleep. Alternatively, I spontaneously recall a song I enjoy, sometimes songs I haven't heard in years, and drift away. Sometimes there are even original scores (which I REALLY wish I had the ability to write down, some sound really beautiful).

Just a curious thought I had before I decided to go to sleep. I'm assuming this won't garner much attention, but I'll take a shot at it anyway. I've been dealing with insomnia a bit more directly lately, and it just had me thinking about it.

[watsisname]

I focus my mental energy on the intention of having and remembering a lucid dream.  My success rate is running about 15%.

Or I simply shove the cat out of my way and pass right out.  Depends how tired I am.

[ssmit132]

To be honest, I haven't really paid attention to what I'm thinking about just before I'm actually asleep. I usually mull over something when I go to bed, though.

[Bobboau]

I have chronic insomnia

[Hades]

It usually takes me a while to fall asleep, so I always think about things before I fall asleep... such as an existence without existing - life after death if there is no afterlife - and I'm always horrified. If there's truly no afterlife, then you'd die and there's be nothing more of yourself. You'd no longer be able to think, sleep, drink, eat, and so on; however, the horror I feel from this often times ironically keeps me up.

[Dilmah G]

I don't really know, it's been a mystery to me. I usually try and visualize the cockpit of a Spitfire MK 1 or a Cessna 152 and run them both through the take-off and crosswind turn though, since those two processes are quite familiar to me and often help me relax. Or alternatively, I just try and look into distance when my eyes are closed to clear my mind of all thoughts, but then I usually end up visualizing a whole bunch of odd scenes.

**** it, I hate not being able to sleep.

[Mongoose]

Even if I'm dead tired, it usually takes me a while to get to sleep, because woo near-nocturnal schedule.  I usually wind up thinking about random stuff, like a game I played or a show I watched over the course of the day.  The thing is, I never have any recollection of the moments leading up to my actually falling asleep.  I'll often have a few "false starts" where I feel myself drifting off and snap myself back to consciousness, but the actual event goes unremembered.  I always wake up the next morning wondering when the heck I finally drifted off.

[headdie]

I've noticed 3 different ways I do or don't

1. I hit the pillow and there is more life in a brick wall.

2. my thoughts go off in random directions, some times I fall asleep despite it and sometimes it keeps me awake.

3. My head just wont shut down and after an hour of trying I usually give up and hit the computer again till stupid o'clock

[Fury]

It usually takes me a while to fall asleep, so I always think about things before I fall asleep... such as an existence without existing - life after death if there is no afterlife - and I'm always horrified. If there's truly no afterlife, then you'd die and there's be nothing more of yourself. You'd no longer be able to think, sleep, drink, eat, and so on; however, the horror I feel from this often times ironically keeps me up.

Afterlife is nonsense. After you're dead, that's it. What baffles me though is why you're horrified by it? It's natural cycle of life, live your life and then that's it.

As for me. I usually recollect what happened today and curse what I screwed up. Then fall asleep. While it does take me a while to fall asleep, I usually have no trouble getting sleep. Stable sleeping cycle helps, those with irregular sleeping cycles usually have it much worse.

[Bobboau]

bot flies are natural, but would it confuse you as to why someone would be horrified at the thought of being infested by them.

[Fury]

Apples and oranges man.

[Hades]

It usually takes me a while to fall asleep, so I always think about things before I fall asleep... such as an existence without existing - life after death if there is no afterlife - and I'm always horrified. If there's truly no afterlife, then you'd die and there's be nothing more of yourself. You'd no longer be able to think, sleep, drink, eat, and so on; however, the horror I feel from this often times ironically keeps me up.

Afterlife is nonsense. After you're dead, that's it. What baffles me though is why you're horrified by it? It's natural cycle of life, live your life and then that's it.

Because I guess I value living, thinking far too much. I'm not really sure.

[Bobboau]

Apples and oranges man.

both fruit.

[watsisname]

Why do we sleep, and why do we dream?

[Pred the Penguin]

I always start thinking about something, anything at all, and focus on it until it becomes less and less realistic, weaving into a story that leads me into sleep. Alternatively, I spontaneously recall a song I enjoy, sometimes songs I haven't heard in years, and drift away. Sometimes there are even original scores (which I REALLY wish I had the ability to write down, some sound really beautiful).

Pretty much the same here...
Lucid dreaming is something that has always eluded me, though sometimes my thoughts continue on in my dreams.

[Nohiki]

I learned to control what i dream of I just imagine something and as i pass to sleep it goes from "willing imagination" into the dream, yet i can still control what happens. Then i managed to shut the dreams down and i haven't had any in 3 years

[General Battuta]

usually it's all

'oh, baby'

'battuta, you're amazing'

then i try to shush them both and get them to sleep before they wake up the rest of the *****es

[Dilmah G]

2? Frakking lightweight.

[General Battuta]

2? Frakking lightweight.

reading comprehension failure

[Dilmah G]

orly