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Maybe 2 minutes normally. Hard to tell really. If I don’t I have two strategies:
If I’m staying awake because of some captivating train of thought (stressfull or exciting or whatever) I mentally put it aside with the thought “I can’t change that right now anyway I can deal with it tomorrow” and start trying to freely associate without focusing on any thought starting from some nice landscapes.
Otherwise if there isn’t something obvious keeping me from sleep, I just start focusing on relaxing bodyparts and breathing deeply and slowly to stimulate my parasympathetic nervous system. That normally puts me out quickly.
Anywhere between 7 minutes and 3 days.
It happens instantaneously. After some waiting.
Surprised I haven’t seen this response yet:
I say awake doing things until I am on the verge of passing out from being sleepy. If that means I only get 3 hours of sleep, then so be it.
What if you don’t feel that tired the whole night? Would you not sleep and go to work after that sleepless night?
On a good night 30 mins but average about an hour or 2
20 seconds. I’ve got 4 kids.
An hour maybe to get some light sleep, and I can’t get to deep sleep until 5 AM easily.
I remember a few years ago that suddenly this topic came up with friends, and turns out almost everyone sleeps nicely after 1-5 minutes in bed.
And I thought my case was normal (it’s been like this since I was a kid). But I’ve been probably losing years of life without a way to gain them back. Depressing.
The time it takes to fall asleep is called sleep latency, and mine is also around an hour so you’re not alone. In my case I blame a combination of ADHD and Aspergers, which means that my brain literally always wants to think about interesting stuff rather than quiet down. For about 10 years now I’ve been using ASMR videos as a sleep aid and it helps immensely. I use the ones with people talking and it totally occupies the speech centre of my brain, cutting off my brains ability to keep thinking about whatever interesting thing it wants to think about (it’s hard to think complex thoughts while also trying to absorb what someone is saying)
Ages 0-38: one hour to 3 days, sleep 1-4hrs/session.
Ages 39+: 5-10 minutes. Sleep 7hrs/session.
I’m so tired all the time now.
If I’m really tired, sometimes I’ll just dose off in the midd
Some nights 15 minutes and annoyingly frequently 1-3 hours. It used to really worry me, but I’ve learned to make peace with it.
About 10 to 20 minutes
Idk I don’t tend to look at the clock when I fall asleep, but I do know that whenever I accidentally fall asleep while watching, say, a PBS spacetime video, I pass out for no less then about an hour
Also I have no clue how the other people here figure out how long it takes them to go to sleep, because as far as I know, looking at the clock just keeps you awake for longer
You can test yourself at the expense of actually getting sleep. As you settle to sleep set a timer and hold a teaspoon (or similar metal object) in your hand hanging out of the side of the bed over a metal tray. When you fall asleep the spoon will slip from your hand and clatter, causing you to wake. You can then check how long that took.
Usually within a couple of minutes unless something is triggering my anxiety, which hasnt happened in years thankfully. Otherwise I can pretty much turn my sleep on/off at will
Minutes, to hours, to not sleeping at all. It sucks.
~1h, 30min if I’m lucky. And it have to be absolutely quiet or the timer will reset 🙃
