Some sleep thoughts very roughly

My current model: falling asleep depend on three things happening. If these three things happen, then you will be asleep:

1. Relaxed body
2. Lowered pulse (around 50 bpm)
3. Mind clear of thoughts (or leaning into visual imagery)

But actually, most of the action is in the prerequisite 0th step: disengaging from whatever is interesting, so that your attention can actually be to relax and fall asleep.

How to do that?

Some ideas:

• IDC with the thoughts
• Physically remove the felt senses from the body
• Meditate?
• Distract yourself
  • By drawing
  • By reading fiction
  • By trying to get absorbed in some thoughts?
• “Leaning out” from the thoughts?
• By jotting down everything that you’re excited about?
• By scheduling specific time in the morning to try and boot up those motivating considerations / making reminders of everything important.
  • The main thing, might be the sense of time scarcity or urgency which is salient at the time.