Thread by @BroStreetJoy

1/ VIRAL SLEEP TECHNIQUE

A TikTok viral video showed a sleeping method

Claimed to send you to dreamland within 5 minutes

I’m a lifelong insomniac

Last night I tried it and I was *out*

So rather than send you, I just wanted to write it out in an easily followed format :)

2/ FIRST: Lay down comfortably

Start relaxing/releasing the muscles in your face (all of them; jaw, forehead)

Relax the neck & shoulders & chest

Once you get to the chest,

Visualize the heart spreading warmth out to your fingertips & down to your stomach, legs, & feet

2/ then, once you’ve done that, visualize you’re in a peaceful place

Like in a hammock or a boat staring at the night sky

Critical: whenever your mind thinks (good or bad things), just mentally repeat

“Don’t think. Don’t think.” Ten times total, for any thought

3/ Keep holding the visualization & using the “don’t think” method.

Man, lifelong insomniac here, I was OUT in under 7 minutes.

I didn’t wake for 8 hours.

The OP said the technique was used by soldiers to ensure sleep on battlefields, especially pilots who need full attention