An alternative to counting sheep to go back to sleep.
I came up with an equally unexciting activity you can use to go back to sleep – listing the numbers that divide 1000.
Here is the general method. First just list the divisors of 10 – 1, 2, 5 and 10.
Next you want the divisors of 100 that have not already been included under 10. Seem difficult? Here is a trick that makes it easy. You only need to include numbers that use two 2’s or two 5’s. Two 2’s is 4. Now keep multiplying by 5. 5×4=20 and 5×20=100. Now start with two 5’s for 25, and keep multiplying by 2 – 25, 50 and 100 has already been included.
Next we move to divisors of 1000, and we apply the same trick. Start with three 2’s = 8 and keep multiplying by 5. Then start with three 5’s = 125, and keep multiplying by 2.
With a little practice, you should be able to do 10,000 then 100,000 and, dare I say it, a million.
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This would keep me awake.
I agree with @Forever_Free that’s too much like working!!! Stll, if it works for you, go for it. A local sleep center suggest that you think of random even numbers in ascending order to start & at your chosen point began in descending order. The ONLY thinking required is to land on an even number. Why even, I have NO clue. When I first heard it I thought it was BS. Then on a bad night I tried it & it worked. Fortunately, I don’t need it very often. When I do need it, it’s my default go to.
You could count androids dreaming of electric sheep?
Honestly, when that happens to me in the middle of night, I think of old girlfriends from my younger days.
I get to sleep quickly.
@LadyMarissa I do that whenever I can’t sleep but I didn’t know it was a thing! I also sometimes count in multiples of 3 or count down from 300 in multiples of 2 or 3.
My stock answer….........read some riveting tax law.
I play one of those eight hour long YouTube videos on my phone that has, in my case, the sound of sleet and rain and blowing wind. Of course it works better if you have YouTube premium because that way I can lock my phone, which shaves the battery, but it will keep playing. I only need the sound, not the video itself. Anyway, that puts me right off to sleep.
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