1. Assignment #7
Challenge Assumptions 2

2. Ideas
1. Tire yourself dancing so much that you can sleep right away.
2. Carry your own bed with you, sleep on the same travelling mattress at home
and away from home.
3. Record the environment noise in your room and play it wherever you go.
4. If not able to sleep, distract yourself with activities in your room that will take
your mind off the idea of not being able to sleep. (watching those around
you).
5. Carry with you a blanket that electronically keeps your sleeping environment
at the same temperature.
6. Bring your own pillow to the new place.
7. If you can dream, make your dreams come true, scare yourself to sleep or
entertain yourself to sleep.
8. Record those around you sleeping/snoring to entertain yourself.
9. Don't sleep the night before so that you are very tired the next day.
10. Stick an ice pack to your blanket if it is too warm in the other place.

3. Ideas (con't)
11. Stick a hot water bottle in your blanket if it is too cold.
12. Take sleeping pills
13. Listen audio books on indian mythology
14. Choose a hotel chain, stick to that hotel chain, buy the same bed they use.
15. Get a massage before going to sleep.
16. Watching boring TV shows
17. Going for a late night run
18. Eat a lot so that you get tired.
19. Read the same book you were reading at your house.
20. Ensure you go to sleep later than usual so that you are sure that you will go
to sleep.
21. Listen to a sleeping CD
22. Take cold medicine
23. Think of chores, and feel lazy so that you go to sleep.

4. Ideas (con't)
24. Hypnotize yourself
25. Listen to a lullaby CD
26. Bring your own giant mattress
27. Get drunk.
28. Spray your bed with an aroma and carry that spray with you.
29. Make the situation around you uncomfortable so that they try to make you
sleep.
30. Train yourself to sleep on a hard floor so that everywhere you go you can
sleep on the floor or on another hard surface.
31. Have a huge pillow fight before going to sleep
32. Drink warm milk
33. Don't travel
34. Ask other people for sleeping ideas.
35. Sleep in a sleeping bag every night and carry it with you.
36. Perform hard math computations

5. Ideas (con't)
37. Try counting in a different language
38. Only travel one day and come back to sleep on your bed.
39. Sleep in a hammock, take the hammock with you
40. Swim before going to sleep
41. Use eye numbing drops
42. Take muscle relaxants
43. Count sheep.
44. Die
45. Attempt to study a very boring subject.
46. Long boring phone conversation with a person.
47. Use laughing gas until you fall asleep
48. Create an automated robot that you can call and you can program to make
you fall asleep.
49. Get a human being to tell you a boring story.

6. Ideas (con't)
50. Imagine yourself sleeping at home.
51. Get a tickling machine that tickles you until you fall asleep.
52. Get a bed massager
53. Think of something sad and make yourself cry until you fall asleep
54. Use a virtual reality headset that recreates your bedroom.
55. Drink a warm herbal tea
56. Play games on your phone in order to take your mind off of not being able
to sleep
57. Think about what you want to dream about until you fall asleep
58. Use your time to think through something important, like your work or
something you have to plan, in order to tire your brain
59. Do your Creativity class homework in order to tire your brain
60. Repeat: "I'm sleepy, I'm comfortable"
61. Knock yourself out
62. Drink mulled cider

7. Ideas (con't)
63. Always travel with your partner
64. Change sleeping surfaces, if you were in bed, try a sofa
65. Use ear plugs and eye covers
66. Use headphones and play some songs
67. Meditate
68. Take a warm bubble bath
69. Take a hot shower
70. Sleep on top of a friend or use their belly as a pillow
71. Sleep on top of the pillows
72. Switch sleeping directions (horizontal across the bed, or backwards)
73. Bring your pet with you and let him sleep on the bed
74. Don't sleep and just drink coffee
75. Try to recall all of the scenes in an entire movie
76. Watch news in a different language

8. Ideas (con't)
77. Watch your sleeping habits
78. Put a pillow between the legs
79. Try to keep the same position to sleep as at home
80. Concentrate, meditate before sleeping
81. Try to relax at the other place.
82. Try to forget about your problems
83. Drink some relaxing tea
84. Do not eat 2 to 3 hours before bedtime
85. Try not to smoke
86. Think of something positive
87. Drink water throughout the day to feel healthy at night
88. Do not use your computer as much the day you sleep somewhere else
89. Go to the spa before sleeping
90. Search music or sounds to sleep

9. 91. Find a good bed position that makes you feel comfortable
92. Go to the jacuzzi before sleeping
93. Try to sleep on your back
94. Go to the sauna before sleeping
95. Visualize what you'll do the next day over and over until it mind too heavy
to be up
96. Attend a night class that would have only 2 - 3 students with a teacher who
is "in"famous for being monotonous in her lessons. Recommended
Subjects: Geography, hindi literature
97. Think about a situation you are trying to escape in real life - sleep is an
escapist tool ;)
98. Do not nap during the day if naps seem to worsen your insomnia
99. Do not exercise at night because your body will be active and will not sleep.
100. Bring your own linens
101. Drink Red Wine.