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Counting sheep is a mental exercise used in some European cultures as a means of lulling oneself to sleep. In most depictions of the activity, the practitioner envisions an endless series of identical white sheep jumping over a fence, while counting the number that do so. The idea, presumably, is to induce boredom whil... more at Wikipedia
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i actually count my breaths
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Counting sleep - only works when I am counting backwards at the request of an anesthesiologist prior to a surgical procedure.
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Depends on the day. Counting calms me down but it can keep me awake too.
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Not excatly counting sheep but yet I try to distract my busy mind with something boring or relaxing. Some night after 3 hours it may work other night i never seem to get a ounce of sleep!
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HAHAHAHA! Sometimes it really does!
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i count down from 400 by fours.
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well after I run outta numbers, Its time to get up again LOL
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i can count 986736254418980 sheep a time, so it does work after a very long time
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Counting sheep, or breaths, or spots on the ceiling. It works I guess... sometimes.
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notI sheep - i count backwards from 100 with deep breaths in between each count...sometimes it works.
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