You Fall Asleep When.....

@else34 (13515)
New Delhi, India
June 1, 2016 8:35am CST
You can't sleep as long as you keep trying to sleep.You fall asleep only when you become absolutely effortless. Do you agree?
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Oshy
@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
1 Jun 16
Yes I find if I let my mind go, I eventually can fall asleep my friend. But what a task it is! My mind will not shut off.
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Oshy
@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
4 Jun 16
@else34 It matters not what I am thinking of, it seems I have no choice but to keep thinking and not sleeping..I wish you well my friend.
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jaishankar
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
5 Jun 16
@TiarasOceanView One of my friends says I'd better try to keep awake,it would make me fall asleep.
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jaishankar
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
2 Jun 16
@TiarasOceanView,Me too.I have yet to experience a state of mind when it's absolutely thoughtless.The previous night I was thinking about a hockey match and couldn't know when I fell fast asleep.
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Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
1 Jun 16
who knows, maybe you are on to something
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jaishankar
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
2 Jun 16
@Jessicalynnt,The other day I had the opportunity to attend a lecture by a philosopher.He spoke about being thoughtless.I,for one,never get rid of thoughts.Thoghts come and go.I have observed that I fall asleep when I get focussed on a particular thought.
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jaishankar
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
3 Jun 16
@Jessicalynnt And I often fall fast asleep while watching a tv serial.However sleep remains elusive at night.
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Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
2 Jun 16
@else34 I do well when I daydream on a nice vacation or winning a lotto usually pass out in there somewhere
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Jandie
@tech40 (23230)
• Philippines
4 Jun 16
Its so hard to force ourselves to sleep specially if our body decline to sleep hehe
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jaishankar
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
4 Jun 16
@tech40,No,perhaps the fact is that you can't sleep if your mind,not your body,declines to sleep.
jin
@Yar_Joey (3271)
• Philippines
4 Jun 16
Just dont think about some things that induce awakenness, and you will be able to sleep
Jeff Unruh
@mypointsju (583)
• Westland, Michigan
1 Jun 16
I agree. I am up a few nights a week for work and if I am working on a problem for more than 15 minutes, it is going to take sometime for me to fall back to sleep because my mind is thinking about the problem, I need to turn that off before I can fall asleep.
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jaishankar
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
2 Jun 16
@mypointsju,But does your mind become 'absolutely' thoughtless? You may stop thinking about a particular problem,but how can you stop thinking?How can your mind become absolutely thoughtless?
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Marlina
@marlina (154103)
• Canada
3 Jun 16
@else34 I sure can't do the "thoughtless" state when I can't sleep.
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jaishankar
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
3 Jun 16
@marlina Nor can I.Don't know how can it be possible for a person to be absolutely thoughtless.