Eli5: Why cant we just signal to our brain when we want to fall asleep?

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When we lay down at night why our brain does not recognize it and make us fall asleep much easier? Interesting that we have control over so much things but not our own body.

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You kind of can, or I should say I can, but it’s a learned skill.

For me, what works is to put myself into a sleep breathing pattern, and I do something else which is really hard to explain but I think of it as putting myself into a dream. There’s a sort of mental space I inhabit in dreams, and I can put myself into that space when I want to go to sleep.

Sorry, it’s appallingly hard to explain, but it is something I’ve learned to do over the years. Might be something you can develop too.

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