How long does it take you to...

[WickedKitchen]

I've been dreaming a lot lately. I know why I hadn't really dreamed for the past 13 years and the newly found playground I visit each night is fantastic. I have had some nightmares too but you've got to take the bad with the good.

I guess 20 minutes or so seems to be the average so far. It's not all that long really and I do the same as most. I just simply relax and think of what I'll do tomorrow. Often that includes some visualization of tomorrows tasks/events. I never get through the list of things as I just drift off thinking. I do remove my last portion only a few minutes before brushing the teeth and climbing into bed. My wife can fall asleep on command though. She can also sleep for 10 hours on the regular if I let her. Now, I think that's too much but to each his own. She has slept through a plane landing, layover, and takeoff and I mean dead-out, no alcohol or anything.

I've tried the OTC sleep aids on occasion but they make me feel swimmy the next day and I don't like that. Never tried anything stronger.

[ChaoticGemini]

I have to start preparing to sleep HOURS before I plan to actually lay down. If I don't, I will not sleep. After the entire evening of preparations, I will lay down with some mind-numbing game on my DS until my eyes feel heavy. Could take a half of an hour, could take 3 hours (may not happen at all), depends how my evening preparations went. Best case scenario is I sleep for 4 to 5 hours before I am wide awake again. I've tried the OTC sleep pills, and they do knock me out for around 10 hours and then I spend days after feeling hung-over. I've tried cutting off nicotine after 7 p.m. and that just results in an irritated sleepless person. I only do 2 double shots of espresso during the day because my body wants to shut down in the afternoons. When I have been places that I don't have to sleep at night, I can fall asleep in under 10 minuter and be asleep for 3 to 4 hours in the afternoon/early evening and be good for an entire day's worth of sleep. It's great in Europe, because my body does the same thing there, but it's around 11 at night when it kicks in. Living and vacations there give me the best sleep of my life (besides morphine)

[myuserid]

I usually don't have too much trouble falling asleep. I would say I'm in that 10-20 minute range.

I work a 3-11pm shift, get home around 11:30 and am usually in bed by about 12:30.

Like CoderGuy, I start thinking about something and usually I'm out pretty quickly.

[Premium Parrots]

long enough to piss, take one last look at SnusOn, pop a portion, tute a snuff, preform my husbandly duties, piss and pass out.