How long does it take you to fall asleep?

[Martymark]

I fall asleep effectively instantly. I lead a very low stress life though, to my detriment.

[Zaktar]

Hours, sometimes not at all. Just laying in bed too exhausted to sleep.

Yeah, there with you, been this way since I was a little kid.

Things I have tried with little/no effect (they work on the good nights, but on the bad nights...):
- reading
- regulated breathing/meditation/apps which assist with such things
- music
- melatonin
- various drugs
- intense physical exercise
- regulating "screen time"
- forcing myself to wake up at a certain time every day
- managing diet/eating only at certain times/not drinking caffeine

At this point in my life I've just come to accept that as much as I desperately need/want sleep, I'm not always allowed to get it. I think my body is on some kind of weird like 40 hour sleep cycle.

[Rotted]

oh i'm aware... and its been this way for several years now just how it is with work/school/gym/life and more so a general dislike of sleeping. I try to keep it below 4-5 cups of coffee a day lol

You're intake of caffeine has nothing to do it with. Based on the stupidity you've just posted here about dislike of sleep I have to assume you're under 20.

Stop being idiotic before you cause yourself irreversible damage.

[Caerule]

Takes me 20-60 minutes normally. But I have a few weeks every year where I suffer from heavy insomnia and I lie awake for hours.

Opening Poster, if it takes you less than 30+ minutes to fall asleep, I'd say you are definitely in the normal to quick end of sleep catching, and you should probably not use sleeping medicines. I wouldn't recommend those to folks that don't regularly take more than an hour, really.

[ro9ue]

In the morning when i have to wake up its easy, at night when I have to go to bed early its the hardest thing in the world.

[VanishingAct]

Used to take me a long time. Sometimes I wouldnt sleep at all and spend the next day at work shitty. Was taking a fair few sleeping pills but then I tried weed and sleepy time comes along so I have some every night now. Can't say it'd be worse sober cos as I said I used to spend all night laying there awake and stressing out at having to wake up soon at 4am.

[cuafpr]

You're intake of caffeine has nothing to do it with. Based on the stupidity you've just posted here about dislike of sleep I have to assume you're under 20.

Stop being idiotic before you cause yourself irreversible damage.

I'm above 20... by a decent amount... i just don't like sleep. I get a bit more on weekends but less i take sleep aids i rarely sleep more than 5 -6 hours before waking up. In cognitive psych we talked a lot about REM sleep and how to find your cycles and what not. It was interesting for sure, namely that waking during REM is horrible so I do try and avoid that at least.

I know its shocking for someone to not like sleeping, i just think of all the things I could be doing if i had those extra hours per day and my body didn't need sleep.

[Lil Sparkie]

Depends on what I have done prior to it. If I have been playing games, it can take up towards an hour before I can fall asleep when I try to sleep. If I've just had sex it's within 5 minutes.

[Aoyi]

It depends on the night, but it can take between 20 minutes and 2 hours before I fall asleep from the time I get in bed.

[PACOX]

Melatonin does the job for me. I've accepted that I built up a resistance to falling asleep when my body tells me but the melatonin allows me to fall asleep in a short time frame when I choose to.

Used to do the Benedryl, hate that stuff. Groggy the next day, weird mental states, simply doesn't work sometimes if you use it too often consecutively. Ambien...benedryl * 10. Don't try to fight it or it will make you racist.

[Flame6]

Maybe an hour, but 90% of that is spent reading.

[Granyala]

Depends on how exhausted I am.
Normally around 30 minutes but occasionally I am toast the moment my head touches the pillow.

I am extremely dependent on keeping the rhythm though. If I venture outside of that, my body often refuses to sleep for 3-4 hours. >.<
I could never work in shifts or travel around the planet. Takes around 2 weeks to find a new rhythm.

[EliWallach]

Usually an hour. Then the wife will come in complaining about being cold. She's asleep before she hits the pillow. Then another 30 minutes to get back to sleep.

[psiko74]

It takes me an hour or so sometimes. Some nights I will turn off the lights and hear footsteps, whispers, crying, or laughter. I live by myself.

[Topornic]

Lately I've been having some issues. I feel asleep pretty quickly (in a matter of minutes, sometimes even less than 3) but I wake up after what I feel is like 15 minutes of sleep and then I need to fall asleep again and it takes up to half an hour.

[Sevyvia]

From the moment where I (already in bed) decide that now is the time to sleep, usually something like 5-10 minutes. I'd say. But given that I fall asleep, and that that's a gradual process, it's not like I'm able to accurately measure it.

[shise]

A minute or two :x

But I have a piece of advice:

Turn your phone brightness to the minimum and then the night yellow light on. Use your phone in bed fr about 5/10 minute, in the dark... Now shift the filter off and tune the brightens up.. BOOM! There, that is why you can not fall asleep if you are on your phone and don´t take care of the brightness and the blue light... Your brain will simply not switch off.

[endersblade]

Sleep? What's that?

[LoopyLoop]

Since I only go to bed when I am tired it usually takes only a few seconds.

[Razorice]

Most of the time I'm out within 15 minutes.