abcsofadhd:

abcsofadhd:

Basically, put something on in the background/ think about something inconsequential.Yes,people tell you to clear your head BUT THAT’S near IMPOSSIBLE WHEN YOU HAVE ADHD.Don’t empty your mind, but rather focus your mind on something stupid.

So what you should do it put on something/ think about something that will distract your brains from all the little things that come up in your head. Then eventually you will fall asleep. This method works if you have ADHD or not, but its especially handy for adhders.

I found a good explanation for this on reddit:

The brain is like a group of people talking to each other. When you’re watching TV, the part of your brain that watches TV says “Shut up guys, I’m watching TV,” so you can focus without thinking about cake or math. As a result, the others sit silent, grow bored, and fall asleep, until only the TV watcher part of the brain is left. Left by himself, he too gets bored and falls asleep.

When you’re in bed, assuming you aren’t counting sheep or something, the entire brain is kind of in free time mode, and any part of the brain can speak up if it wants to. They start talking to each other, and even if one of them starts to drift to sleep, the others wake it up either by deliberately talking to the sleepyheads or just being noisy. Eventually more and more of the parts of the brain fall asleep from sheer exhaustion no matter how loud the others are, and eventually the last one passes out and you are asleep.

This is the best method for falling asleep that I’ve found; I was using it subconsciously until I saw others mention it too. Besides just passing out of exhaustion, its the ONLY thing that works for me.

An example of this would be counting sheep. You’re not emptying your head but focusing your mind on something stupid. 

Best way to fall asleep is NOT to empty it but rather to occupy/ distract it.

if I may, here’s what I do:

I just listen to Sam O’Nella’s YT vids on his playlist of uploads on loop; I usually fall asleep around the fourth video.

I dunno what it is; the cadence of his voice, the classical music he plays softly in the background, or what, it’s just very soothing

(protip for those who don’t have YT premium: if you open another window on your PC over the one that’s playing YT (I like to use discord b/c the dark background doesn’t give off a lot of light), you can trick the computer into thinking that you’re just letting the playlist play, and it will stop playing ads at the beginning of the videos after 1 or 2 videos. I have bluetooth headphones that allow me to skip forward or backward through a playlist by swiping left or right across my right earpad, so I can change videos on the playlist without viewing and clicking on the browser window.)

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