Slumber

I've always struggled sleeping. I've gotten used to it, and have had a few ways to get around it.

When I was younger, maybe way back college, I discovered for myself a technique to put myself to slumber (which I later on found out on tv or from a friend, I can't recall, that it's the same practice that could be done/ he does). I close my eyes, and somewhere in the darkness there'll be a tiny white speck that'd be moving around. Sometimes, there'd be a lot of 'em, but i blink reversely until i form just one bright speck. I focus on catching that spark and attempt to hold it in one place, ideally at the center, as if I were looking straight if my eyes were open, and then I stare at it until I feel calmer and I won't notice that I'd already dozed off. i figured it was effective and it had been a great help putting me thru the night or day, whatever my sleeping schedule was....it worked everytime. It worked for a long time.

Somehow, I had eventually let go of this practice. I can't remember when I'd stopped, as I continued to habitually form other, perhaps more effective ways of starting the sleep (or still working around it).

So far, I have not found a better way.