A recent TikTok trend known as the 'cognitive shuffle' method promises to help people fall asleep by engaging their minds with random mental imagery. One skeptical writer decides to give it a try for a week and shares her experience.
The ' cognitive shuffle ' method for nodding off has amassed a huge following on TikTok. Antonia Hoyle tried it out for a weekLying in bed, I come up with a word, “project”, before thinking of as many different objects as I can beginning with its first letter, “p”. I imagine each in turn – peanut, person, parachute, etc – for a few seconds before repeating the process with the second letter, “r”, and so on, creating a mental reel of vivid pictures as I progress through the word.
Dr Sophie Bostock, founder of TheSleepScientist.com, explains that, “The idea is to re-focus attention away from negative thought patterns to something gently distracting, which is either positive, or in this case, neutral. This may be enough to switch off the stress response and allow the natural process of sleep to take over – if you’re already tired, and your body clock is ready for sleep.”
But I can’t think of an obvious second letter to add to “i” and don’t want to move on, my brain suddenly lit up by the fear of failure – what kind of journalist can’t think of more than two words beginning with i? Words are my business! As the five-minute time limit I choose approaches her voice becomes quieter, the gap between the words longer. “That was good,” I say, groggily, to my husband Chris afterwards. “But you’re still awake,” he points out, irked his bedtime read has been interrupted by a stranger in our bedroom saying “violin”, “rain” and the like repeatedly.
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