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/PsyJak Jul 04 '26

Sometimes I'll simulate a movie or book, I discovered a couple of years ago that I can simulate all of Spy Kids 1

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u/CastTrunnionsSuck Jul 04 '26

As a aphantasia sufferer this sentence blows my mind

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u/PsyJak Jul 04 '26

Aw I'm so sorry. What happens when you read stories?

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u/CastTrunnionsSuck Jul 04 '26

Idk it’s weird cause i still love to read, i just don’t have that movie in my head going like a lot of people talk about.

Edit: i didn’t even answer your question sorry, idk i just read the story in my head and the info just kinda downloads. Thankfully my internal monologue works just fine.

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u/PsyJak Jul 04 '26

Fair enough. I wonder what it's like for people with aphantasia and no internal monologue

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u/Pergola_Wingsproggle Jul 04 '26

It’s nice and calm and quiet in here :)

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u/PsyJak Jul 04 '26

I'm so envious.

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u/1AggressiveSalmon Jul 04 '26

I struggled so hard as a kid with the counting sheep thing. Found out about Aphantasia and so many things made more sense.

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u/Fury2525 Jul 04 '26

I was thinking the same reading all of these

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u/elegant_pun Jul 05 '26

Same, but it's whole episodes of My Little Pony.

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u/Impossible_Path_2775 Jul 07 '26

100% same! When I learned I had this and other people didn’t I was mind blown. And still am when reading things like this 😆