I cannot tell if I do even have insomnia, but I might as well develop one that will be a facsimile of such. But often what I do to combat this facsimile, and I often confirm this with my friends who do suffer not sleeping right but may not suffer from insomnia:
- Exercise regularly, even hourly with small exercises on non-exercise days.
- Going to my studies on Uppercase S Stoicism in relation to stress, think about negative perception when yah are going to encounter series shit. In an ironic twist of fate, it makes the event less stressful since one has thought it through and doesn't sting as much than being surprised from a bad event. Even more ironic, it gives us time to worry about smaller and nicher things as we recognize them more and see them more often. To which these things are in our control and can be dealt with.
- Don't stress before going to bed, the brain still thinks yer awake and can't transition to "sleep-mode." Stress out way before hand and then transition from that state of stress to calmness.
- Breathe slowly and peacefully 'til one can't hear one's breath and/or one can hear one's body a tiny bit.
- Sleep consistently and on a regular schedule. I know this is hard with how Neo-Liberal Capitalist Realism makes it seem like atemporality is actual and makes time non-existent, but it's a struggle worth overcoming.
- Also avoid naps if possible at all, but take gradual steps to take less and less naps that yah will just fall asleep when yah land on the bed. I know these aren't cures, more like treatments to the problematic, but it lessen the symptoms and may even over time make insomnia feel like it was all a bad dream. And the byproduct of temporality and consistency will feel better as one can feel free and improvise better when in control to plan one's life and modify it when contingencies arrive. And not feel dread that anything can happen for any reasons because time is an illusion, like a robo-unicorn with a cat mounting on it shooting with a Deagle (Desert Eagle) will cross the street any minute.
Though a wild and surrealistic example, atemporality does often paint history as such to be such: a random and disconnected points of history that had no scale of time involved and was just... there. And it's no wonder that as Neo Liberalism hit the block, we got an explosion of insomniac cases. Maybe it is true that politics and the economy play hand-in-hand while making the Social Being of a person, for insomnia often plays and screws the structured sleep schedule of a person, thus making the waking and sleeping phases feel uneasy. Which is perpetuated by Capitalist Realism's atemporality being the guiding principle of passing one's life and the economy enforcing that, lest one want's to be in debt to overcome that enforced principle out of their life.
This one helps me the most. If I don't work out, I get ancy as shit, having slept the night before or not.
I really think capitalist discipline is the biggest cause for me. If I could just have the freedom to sleep when I naturally felt like sleeping, not giving a shit about work, I think I could eventually find the right 'time' for my brain.
Yah, the discipline coupled with atemporality makes life confusing and always anxious of what is to be done in the next second.