Someone else told an anecdote about being in the Army, and they have it 100% on the nose. Be forced to wake up at 4am every day; start out with an hour of cardio, then spend the rest of the day being physically active; don't be allowed to crawl into bed until some time between 8 and 10, depending on events you don't control. Do this every day - excluding Sundays - for two months. I guarantee that, by the end, you will be able to fall asleep almost instantly the moment you are allowed to sit or lay down and know you've got at least 10 minutes until you have to move again.
Relax, close your eyes, fall asleep. Not much to it other than making sure you're not in a position where your arm will fall asleep or neck gets cramped. There's no secret to it, you just go to sleep.
I feel extremely lucky to fall asleep in 5 minutes very regularly. It takes my wife a few hours to fall asleep, we’re polar opposites in that aspect. Maybe it’s genetic, my grandpa and father both fell asleep quite easily.
I had a CPT like that during my second deployment. He was out in 60 seconds and in the funniest positions. The team made an entire photo album of him sleeping. MK19 range included.
I have some pictures of a squadmate feeding me chips while I sleep and me just hoovering them up even without waking up.
But they're on Facebook, I almost logged in but Cuckerberg has decided my options are either paying them 10€ to use the site without them using my info for ads or using it free but giving consent to do whatever.
So I'll just actually fucking pay some day and take all my data and then quit.
Anyway... well, I would've liked to link the picture and go "oh you mean like this"? But fuck Facebook. Actually now that I'm reading up on this it looks like they're using it already anyway. "We receive this information whether or not you're logged in or have an account on our Products"
If you have the proper biological facilities and you've been up long enough, you can hardly stop it. Your mind slows to a crawl You're a perception of things around you narrows to where you barely notice anything that's not mission critical, and your consciousness just fades like someone slowly turning the dimmer down on a light bulb in a dark room.
I've had a hunch for a long time that people who grew up in a busy household with lots of family around are better equipped to ignore noise / light and be able to fall asleep easily. You should go wake them up and ask them.
I'm always tired. I don't go to bed at a decent hour, my joints ache all the time, so I rarely sleep more than 90 minutes without waking up. I could go to sleep right now if my 8 year old wasn't making a ruckus.
This was a life changer for me. I had an AHI of 69. For those not familiar, AHI means Apnea-Hypopnea Index, which is an average count of “events” per hour. An event is either a complete blockage of respiration for 10s or more, or a drop of 30% or more in blood oxygen level.
After I got my CPAP, I went from sleeping 10-12h and not feeling rested ever, a literal zombie, to sleeping 7-8h regularly and feeling good.