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▲ greybox555 3 hours ago

Recently worked on https://fastsleep.app

Use this to quickly get sleepy without taking any medicinal pill or long form meditation type things (It is as short as 7-minute session).

Easy to use. Simply close your eyes and imagine the micro-scenarios you hear. Like if you hear "moonlight on a white flower", imagine that scenario until you hear the next one.

You may also use it to break nightly doomscrolling habit. Try this tonight! (and any suggestion to improve it?)

▲belden 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Hey, I just gave this a try. (It’s not bedtime for me, but I had 10 minutes to sit quietly.) It very nearly put me to sleep despite the time being only 4:30pm.

I noticed that the later prompts tended to feel a bit irregular in their English: “Pebbles on bottom of stream” is one that I remember; “bird in small nest” might be another. “Pebbles on the bottom of a stream”, and “A bird in a small nest” would have sounded more natural.

I may be a little outside your target user base: I tend to fall asleep very quickly. (I joke to my spouse that by default I don’t have much happening in my head, and when it’s time to sleep, I just “listen to the dial tone.”)

One parting thought; I was pretty skeptical when I first started listening, and about halfway through I was gamely doing the visualizations, but mentally rolling my eyes (“This would never work!”). Around the 5 minute mark I noticed that I was in a fairly meditative state, and the app could have told me to imagine I was a being of light and I probably would have.

Around the 6 minute mark I noticed that I wasn’t really paying attention to the prompts at all; and I think it was only the weirdness of the English of the prompts around that time that kept me awake.

Overall a little weird, a little fun. Thanks for building and sharing it!

▲russfink an hour ago | parent [-]

Very thoughtful and careful review - we need more like this.