 How to fall asleep in five seconds flat? Yes, it's possible and in this video I'll show you how so my name's Steph I teach lucid dreaming and sleep hacks sleep tips that kind of thing and I'm often asked by people especially video gamers or people that Maybe work night shift or stay up late. How can I fall asleep faster and more easily specifically? How can I fall asleep in just a few seconds people want it instantly? Okay, so I will explain exactly how to do that in this video now This is a technique the military actually use because the military often have to fall asleep firstly very quickly But also in stressful situations Maybe they have like a really intense physical activity session or a watch or something or even like a battle or something stressful And then they need to fall asleep quickly ready to wake up early again the next morning And they need to do this all very efficiently and without feeling tired the next day So they have developed or they use this technique that I'm gonna share with you right now to fall asleep in just a few seconds So the first thing you need to do is just to relax your entire upper body specifically your face and your mouth We carry a lot of tension in our neck in our mouths and in our shoulders So focus just firstly on those things and relax them really deeply by the way after I've explained this military technique I'm also going to share with you some other things to make you even more effective some things You can do during the day and also before you go to sleep as well But let's just carry on with the technique for how to fall asleep in five seconds So you relax your face your shoulders your muscles Okay, and then you want to focus on dropping your shoulders down So as you've noticed as I'm talking sometimes I actually hold my shoulders up and we all do this Subconsciously we hold that shoulders up and even when we're sleeping or going to sleep your shoulders will subconsciously move in Order to mirror what you're thinking about let's say if you're imagining You're trying to go to sleep and you're thinking about all these different things You're thinking sometimes I visualize like climbing things right so my subconsciously my shoulders will start moving really small movements Is it as I'm visualizing climbing something so you need to really consciously focus on dropping your shoulders down Really relaxing your shoulders keep your face relaxed You're breathing deep and regular and then you want to focus on your chest So it's sort of like stages that you can go through each stage you can spend no more than two or three seconds doing So you focus first on your face your muscles Then your shoulders you drop your shoulders down Then you exhale everything from your lungs as much air as you can you exhale and get rid of that air And then once you've done that you focus on your lower body your legs We actually do move our hips in very small movements I don't know if you guys do this But it's been found that people very slightly move their hips as well as their shoulders when they're sort of thinking about things when they're trying To fall asleep maybe you're visualizing running you're visualizing walking or even just having a physical reaction to something You're thinking about let's say if you're thinking about a conversation with someone you don't like You will subconsciously move your body in tiny ways to move away from the conversation or you'll tense up when you Visualize or imagine them saying something you don't like or that would annoy you So once you focus on relaxing your lower body and your legs now you're going to focus on Visualizing a relaxing scene for just 10 seconds just for 10 seconds and you're probably thinking well hold on this Title said how to fall asleep in five seconds. You will fall asleep in five seconds once you've done these things So the total processing time the total sort of time for you to do this technique is roughly two to three minutes Okay, you can spend a few seconds on each stage But it's still going to get you to fall asleep pretty quickly very quickly I would say so you focus on relaxing scene. This could be a beach I like to focus on walking through a forest You know one of those forests where the trees are really really far apart so you can kind of you got lots of space to walk around You can see birds flying really peaceful So picture a scene that you would like to walk through and then visualize yourself walking through that scene really slowly just for 10 seconds That's all you need to do it for you'll be able to fall asleep pretty quickly after your intense video gaming session I don't know if any of you are video gamers, but and now once you've done all that now the final stage This is where you can fall asleep in just five seconds So you need to repeat something over and over to yourself things like I am asleep or stop thinking those two things you repeat Over and over again Roughly 10 to 20 seconds as fast as you can think or imagine them and you'll find that you fall asleep pretty quickly Usually within five seconds, maybe it will take you two minutes to fall asleep It really depends on a few different things But I'm going to get into as I said in a minute some tips that you can do in the daytime to make it even faster And that is the technique the military used to to fall asleep basically in five seconds or less And sometimes it takes longer sometimes it takes two minutes sometimes five minutes It really depends on a few things But here are some ways to make it even more effective and to make yourself fall asleep even faster So it starts with a daytime practice What are you going to do during the day and also leading up to when you fall asleep in the evening? This is really important and pay attention here because this will make a big difference to how fast you can fall asleep So firstly your room you need to do a few things firstly Don't do anything other than sleeping in your room if you can so don't work in your room Don't video game in your room if you can if it's possible because this will subconsciously train you to associate your room with sleep That's really important next in your room make sure that when you are trying to sleep There are no lights no LEDs on in the corner no weird sounds no whirring noise from your computer and everything is quiet and dark Really important that it's quiet and dark and then make sure that you've blocked out all of the light from the door There are no cracks of light that are going to show if someone else in your house You know comes and turns a light on outside You don't want that light to then shine through into your room and then something which a lot of people overlook is to Ensure that underneath your bed. There is nothing blocking air flow to your mattress Okay, the sleep quality is massively dependent on your temperature throughout the night if you've got loads of junk under your bed It's stopping the airflow coming up through your mattress and basically regulating your temperature That's why beds are raised above the ground because they are designed to allow air flow through the slats of the bed Through the mattress to keep you cool if you've got loads of stuff there It stops the airflow you overheat and you best case scenario You don't have a very good night's sleep worst case scenario you overheat and wake up So that's the bedroom set up done now There are some tips that you should also focus on so this is specifically in the few hours before you go to sleep You don't want to eat anything big or heavy and you don't want to have any stimulants kind of goes out saying but you know Caffeine sugar alcohol tobacco these things will keep you awake and then right as you're going to sleep And if you're having trouble falling asleep, and let's say if you've woken up at 2 a.m I don't know what time you try and fall asleep you guys But let's say if you're trying to sleep and it's 2 or 3 a.m You know, you've got to be up for school or work in the morning and you're just trying to fall asleep Basically, do not look at the time in fact put your phone far away from your bed So you can't even check the time even if you wanted to because every time you check the time and realize you're not sleeping yet It's going to be more stressful and you're going to realize the stress is going to keep you up longer Because you'll be having this loop going on in your head where you check the time you realize it's late You realize you should be asleep by now you panic and then you realize even more awake now I can't fall asleep and it's sort of like a vicious cycle that keeps on going on So put your phone away make sure you can't see the time and just lay there motionless And if you need to just go through these this cycle the military technique the five second technique again and again Until it works it might not work the first time but keep trying it and also pay attention the next day as you go on Let's say if you have trouble falling asleep every day You can do these things the following day to make it more likely that you'll fall asleep then So I hope you enjoyed this but don't click away Just yet because if you do want to fall asleep you need to basically science has said that you need to either Like or comment on this video. 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