How to fall asleep anywhere in 120 seconds or less | Blaze Media

How to fall asleep anywhere in 120 seconds or less | Blaze Media: 

Make a pot of coffee. Get yourself a nice, straight-backed chair with no cushioning -- something you might find at the DMV. Keep the lights on, fluorescent if possible. Play some machine gun sounds on a loop at maximum volume. Take a seat, close your eyes, and relax. That's how legendary sprinting coach Bud Winter taught a bunch of Navy pilots to fall asleep during World War 2. It took them six weeks of practice to get to this level, but once they did, it worked every time. And Winter's technique is something we can apply in situations even more hostile to peaceful slumber than combat. Flying coach from Philadelphia to Tampa, for example. Here's the technique, often called the "Military Method," as described in Winter's book "Relax and Win." It has two parts: relaxing the body, followed by relaxing the mind.