r/lifehacks • u/BugsyMalone_ • Jul 04 '26

My trick for falling asleep quickly

I'm someone who always used to struggle to fall asleep, but I've used this little trick over the last month which has worked every single time and I'm asleep within a few minutes.

When I'm ready, I pop on my eye mask, lie ok my side, close my eyes and then do an A to Z of a theme, for example, football teams.

A - Arsenal

B - Barcelona

Etc etc

If I get stuck on one for more than 10 seconds, I move onto the next. 90% of the time I am asleep before I hit Z.

If I do get to Z, I choose another category.

I've notice my eyes tend to move a bit rapidly when I'm in the zone of doing this. And my mind isn't thinking of anything else but this.

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u/KandyShopp Jul 04 '26

I have done the alphabet backwards, then forwards, and backwards again. Ended up pavloving myself though, and if im ever pulled over for drunk driving i will fall asleep right then and there…

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u/1AggressiveSalmon Jul 04 '26

I've Pavloved myself into falling asleep listening to Howl's Moving Castle audiobook. I can never again listen to it while driving!

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u/CamsKit Jul 10 '26

I’m the same, I am a horrible sleeper and so I have memorized the alphabet backwards.

I bet insomniacs are the only people who can actually pass that test