Techniques for Better Sleep

That done two or three times generally has people waking up the next morning

going like wild. What happens? Okay, you're gonna close your eyes.

Great. You're gonna move your eyes slowly to one

side underneath your

eyelids-

Mm-hmm.

Then to the other side.

Mm-hmm.

Then up,

then down. Now you're gonna move them

counterclockwise in a

circle-ish

and then clockwise in a circle-ish.

And now still with your eyes closed, you're gonna kind of point them towards

your

nostrils. You're not gonna cross your eyes

and you're gonna do a long exhale.

Great.

That done two or three times generally has people waking up the next morning

going like wild. What happened? What happened is your

proprioceptive circuits are shut down.

Now that's kinda fun to do and you'll see and it costs nothing and it

generally works. Some people if they're really,

really stressed it might not work

but this is what I do if I wake up in the middle of the night.

I usually go to the bathroom, get back in bed,

do long exhale breathing and I do

that and I wake up the next morning. It really works well.

So well in fact that there's a company based on work

done from two MIT scientists. They have a sleep mask