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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (5 children)

To actually fall asleep within a few minutes of laying in bed, and stay asleep until I actually need/want to be awake.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have this power, and it is in fact... super

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A friend of mine does too.

I'm ready to form a supervillain league with the sole motivation of performing unethical research experiments on your kind. This power must be brought to the masses!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have it too. It took me a few years to figure it out but now I average 12 minutes to fall asleep and can sometimes do it in less than 3.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have this one too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to have insomnia that came from anxiety about my future (I’m guessing.) When I started doing carpentry and started truly exhausting my body I gained the ability to sleep ANYWHERE ANY TIME FOR HOWEVER LONG I WANTED.

It’s seriously amazing. I’m 33 now and don’t have to work quite as hard, plus am used to the long shifts that are hard on your body. I can still sleep pretty much whenever, wherever.

I flew to England once (it was like a 14 hour flight) and seriously slept the entire time. I didn’t even have a window seat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I did residential construction for a couple years, then 4 in the military, so no stranger to physical exhaustion... Insomnia hit even in those times.

The only way to predictably get a decent chunk of sleep is to kind of bank hours in the days leading up to it. Like if get 0 to maybe 3 hours per night through the work week, I'll sleep like a baby come Saturday.

Never been on meds for it. Was afraid to report it when I was active duty (fucking stupid) and now my rating isn't high enough to cover prescriptions and I don't have regular health insurance so... can't afford them. :-/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've used ambien and that L one. Benefit/negatives = not worth it. My husband and friends switched to trazodone (safer and cheaper) and really like it. I've learned to put myself to sleep quickly by focusing hard on relaxing each body part for 3 breaths, starting with feet, ankles, lower legs, .... When i wake up in the middle of the night it's harder, but i can usually do it if i concentrate. Oh, when I'm really struggling, adding cannabis helps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Trazadone works really well. The only drawback I find his if I need to use the bathroom during the night (getting older sucks) - makes me feel really unsteady kind of like I'm drunk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ugh brutal man. I hope one day you can sleep well :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's hoping. Cracking away at nursing prerequisites, so assuming that path goes as planned, I'm a couple years away from a job as a nurse, which will hopefully translate to a large enough pay check to afford health insurance.

Light at the end of the tunnel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can do it. I believe in you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! It's going well so far! Actually rocking a 4.0, but the class I'm in now (microbiology) will likely be putting an end to that. Confident in a passing grade at least, and that's all I really need for admission into the nursing program. Things are moving along!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck yeah! I’m a stupid tradesman so I don’t exactly know what 4.0 means, but it sounds high. I know from TV that it means good. But I don’t know why haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not actually sure if it's a universal scale, so could be you just grew up with a different system, but it's a grade point average: 4.0 means all A's so far. There are some instances of students cranking out a 4.1 or some higher value, but I'm not sure how that happens... like you can score 100% on every assignment, and then take advantage of extra credit to get your class grade higher than 100%, but as far as GPA calculation goes, an A is an A... I think.

...also pretty much everyone I went to highschool with who went on to a trade are now financially WAY ahead of the rest of us dumbasses who bought into some other path. You may be less educated, but definitely not stupid - and on the same page, being educated doesn't mean someone isn't stupid... listen to a doctor start talking about something other than their immediate field of study, and you start to realize pretty quick that some of them are just absolute hopeless morons.

I digress :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh wow, good for you man.

I thought it was all A’s, but that also seemed insane to me that someone can get all A’s, and as often as I’ve heard the phrase. But I was bad at school and grew up in a small town so that’s probably why haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'm lucky to have gotten both good teachers and good classmates so far (both of which can make a huge impact on grade) so I think I owe my current score at least as much to good luck as to my own study habits. I'm also pretty early into the process - I've never been a straight-A student before, so I doubt I'll be able to keep this rolling all the way through completion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't advise you to get depressed with this superpower. 🙂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"Wake me up when the world is worth living in."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have the monkey paw version of this where I can fall asleep instantly but can’t stay asleep, I wake up several times throughout the night

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I get this too kinda. I find I get really vivid dreams when wake up but fall back asleep

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's called alcohol