Best Sleep of Your Life! 🌞😎😌❤️🙏🏿🐰 Science within! ⚗️👨🏿🔬
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What is the best sleep you ever had? Did it feel like infinite perfect release and rejuvenation? Did you wake up feeling like a million bucks? I hope you did! That's what I always feel like when I sleep shirtless, on the grass, in the sun. (I wouldn't sleep on grass at night bc I don't wanna get wet from dew, and it is often too cold at night).
Deep sleep is the lynchpin to peak health. And while accumulated toxins can block deep sleep (see my detox guide), deep sleep is also one of the most effective things to remove toxins, so both sides need to be addressed simultaneously.
Sleep can also be the key to the deepest spiritual experiences. Unfortunately, sleep duration and quality have been declining worldwide for decades now, due to the toxins and stresses of modern life. So it sort of makes sense that getting back to nature would bring us back to the restorative natural sleep rhythms that our ancestors (even our parents) enjoyed more than even the most powerful people on Earth might today.
But why is it that earthing and sunning have such an incredible deep sleep benefit?The answer may lie in what is called Zeta Potential. That's just a fancy term for the electrical charge on the surface of your cells. Highly charged cells don't clump together. They flow easily, absorb nutrients better, remove toxins better, communicate better, have less inflammation, fight pathogens better, utilize oxygen more efficiently and with less oxidative stress, and hydrate better. Reduced zeta potential underlies most disease states, and you can notice when it feels reduced, after eating certain foods, taking certain drugs, having certain stresses, etc. You feel heavy, slow, foggy, weak.
This also ties into the orthomolecular medical theory of redox balance/electron balance/antioxidant capacity. Greater zeta potential means you have more electrons floating around to absorb harmful molecules with unpaired electrons (free radicals). When it comes to neurological diseases, redox balance is too often overlooked.
A Midwestern Doctor, one of the most famous alternative health M.D. influencers, mentions various ways to boost Zeta but his/her post is way too long without tightly focusing on the most important stuff.
There are only 2-3 very effective ways to boost Zeta potential:
Walking barefoot on the earth (or earthing sheet properly grounded, but they also have strong capacitative charge which can bother some people) boosts zeta 270% in 2 hours.
Sunbathing boosts zeta 100-200% within 30 minutes (obviously without shirt and when sunny). This obviously can’t be done at night, but it helps anyway.
Ionized or ozonated charcoal water (which I call Holy Water, part of my ZHoly3O kit) may work even better than grass and sun (feels like it, no studies done). Drink this instead of regular water.
Epsom salt bath boosts zeta 50-100%.
Electrolytes in general help a bit, 20-50% boost. (Source)
Naiman’s 10 Sleep Insight Gems:
One of the most famous books on sleep is “Healing the Night,” by Rubin Naiman. Here are the top gems from that book:
The “Night Watch:” Middle-of-the-Night Waking is natural. Before electricity, humans naturally slept in two shifts (”first sleep” and “second sleep”) separated by an hour or so of wakefulness known as the “watch.” This interval is not a disorder but a time for “spiritual reflection, contemplation,” or intimacy.
Instead of fighting to get back to sleep with frustration, one should view this lucid, quiet time as a sacred opportunity for meditation or reflection, which often leads naturally back into the “second sleep”.
“Counterfeit Energies”: Drama is a Stimulant. We know caffeine and sugar are stimulants, but Naiman identifies “gratuitous drama” as a primary source of artificial energy used to mask exhaustion. When we are sleep-deprived, we subconsciously seek out “hyperbolic” news, conflicts, or stress to trigger an adrenaline rush.
Depression as a “Call for Deep Rest:” Conventional medicine views depression as a disorder to be fixed, often with SSRIs that suppress REM sleep (dreaming). However, dreaming is essential for processing emotion. By chemically suppressing dreams to treat depression, we may be eliminating the very mechanism (dreaming) the mind uses to heal itself. Naiman suggests that the “fatigue” associated with depression is a protective mechanism trying to pull us out of the external world and into the internal world of the dream to heal.
“Cognitive Popcorn”: The Heat of Unprocessed Emotion. People often can’t sleep because their minds are racing with trivial thoughts (the grocery list, an oil change). Just as heat makes popcorn pop, repressed emotional energy (anxiety, grief, anger) generates these random thoughts. You cannot stop the thoughts by fighting them; you must “turn down the heat” by feeling the underlying emotion (e.g., crying, journaling, acknowledging fear) before bed.
Grogginess is a Sacred “Coastal Zone.” We usually treat morning grogginess as a nuisance to be cured immediately with coffee. Naiman reframes this state (the hypnopompic state) as a “lush coastal zone of consciousness.” Awakening is a “birth” process. Rushing it with alarms and caffeine is like a “forceps delivery” or “rude awakening.” This “half-dream, half-waking” state is permeable and offers access to creative inspiration and spiritual newness. We should linger in it rather than “snap out of it.”
We Are “Darkness Deficient.” Society focuses heavily on Vitamin D and sunlight deficiency, but Naiman argues we are suffering from a “darkness deficiency.” Darkness is not just the absence of light; it is a biological nutrient mediated by melatonin. After sunset, we should minimize our light exposure (wear sunglasses if you are exposed to light).
Sleeping Pills are Actually “Waking Pills.” Sleeping pills often suppress deep sleep (Stages 3 and 4) and dreaming (REM). They create “artificial sleep”.
Spiritual Sleep: Surrendering the Ego. Naiman connects the fear of insomnia to the fear of death. Falling asleep requires a “letting go of waking” and a temporary dissolution of the ego/self. This mimics the process of dying. Insomnia is often a refusal to “let go” of the waking self because of a lack of spiritual trust.
The “Waking Dream:” Naiman challenges the idea that dreaming only happens at night. The “Waking Dream” is a way of perceiving daily life symbolically. By noticing synchronicities, symbols, and the surreal nature of daily events, we bridge the gap between night and day, reducing the pressure for dreams to “rebound” violently as nightmares or symptoms. Caution: if you have trouble grounding in consensus reality, you should probably not go further in that direction by practicing this.
Sleep Hygiene Protocol
Before we consider taking anything for sleep we should do the basics of sleep hygiene:
Avoid all stimulant drugs, including caffeine, completely, 100%. Even when taken in the morning, they can subtly disrupt your sleep architecture at night. Stimulants destroy your HPA axis alignment and thyroid. They are a gateway to all kinds of mental illness, as Dr. Josef explains, and they don’t even keep you truly awake. They activate your brain stem to make you feel alert, while other areas of your brain go to sleep, leading to impaired work and driving performance, and overconfidence.
Get plenty of exercise during the day so that your body is really tired at night. Strength training is especially important.
Turn off phone a few hours before bed. Unplug wifi and all electronics. Some people might need to get an expensive Blushield device if they can’t get out of the city’s toxic airwaves. I tried their top model and it was absolutely incredible (although I didn’t notice a sleep benefit as some others did).
Do masseter jaw muscle massage to prevent jaw grinding and relax.
Get rid of blue light, and only use incandescent lights. Even better, use red light or candlelight only as needed, and turn your screens onto max red light/night light mode. I find red light really does make me sleepier and more relaxed. The best red lights are sold by EMR-TEK.
Don't eat before bed except warm raw organic A2 milk for tryptophan, raw honey optional ..
Replenish the probiotics in your gut that are beneficial for sleep. SIBO yogurt is a good place to start for this and general health. Research here.
1-5mg Lithium Orotate can be very beneficial for sleep and a number of other health aspects. But N-A-Selank and/or N-A-Selank Amidate will be much more powerful (and still just as safe) - the tiniest speck under your tongue is enough.
Journal: Write down everything that is on your mind so you can stop trying to remember it. Ideally write with pen and paper since your phone should be off.
Take a hot epsom salt bath or at least splash epsom salt on your armpits (unless you are stuck in catabolism, then use Epsom salt in morning).
Using the correct pillow(s) is critical to relax your whole body, especially your trapezius muscle. Some people like the Japanese Hug Pillow, while others might prefer the trapezius neck pillow with a separate pillow for the knees. I always turn my head pillow vertically since I’m a side sleeper, but here is one designed just for side sleepers. I also find i need some extra cushioning on my waist to keep my spin straight. Some folks actually find they sleep best on the hard floor, although that has never worked for me no matter how much I’ve tried.
Go to bed 10hrs before sunrise so you don’t feel pressure to immediately fall asleep and you can enjoy some self-massage (wink wink).
If you feel you aren’t sleepy after a little while in bed, sit up and meditate. Choose a meditation that feels gentle, like loving kindness meditation, rather than one that requires strong focus. At some point you will feel drowsy, and then you can lie down.
CBT-I therapists would tell you to get out of bed entirely and go do something else, but this can backfire. Also, CBT-I itself can backfire for people who already have sleep anxiety, as it tends to be rigid in its rules and goals.
Sleep curled up on your left side to aid digestion and glymphatic drainage. I find sleeping on my back is much better for lucid dreaming and psychedelic-type dreams, though. Some people can’t sleep on their side. It depends how you slept as a baby.
Do self massage and gentle body scan. Don’t focus too much on doing a deep body scan, as this can put your mind into concentration mode. We just want to mentally touch the body with a feather so it feels heard and held.
Love and talk your inner child. Hold one hand on heart chakra and the other on solar plexus. Don’t worry if it seems one-sided at first.
Extended meditation before sleeping can be counter-productive as it might keep you awake, but if you do have an hour or two, it can have some incredible benefits in terms of making your dreams more therapeutic and beautiful.
Forgive everyone and yourself and promise to be better tomorrow.
Special Breathwork Techniques: Buteyko method helps long-term, and Vagal Blitz is the insta-fix if you can handle it.
Wake up 1-2hrs before sunrise. Don’t turn phone on. Don’t use alarm to wake up unless it’s a gentle sunrise mimic type of alarm, otherwise you will often wake up in the wrong sleep cycle, which is why you feel bad instead of amazing upon waking (sleep cycles explained here). My dad always woke up exactly when he wanted to just by asking “the spirits” to wake him at that time. It does work, if you believe in it, and if you aren’t afraid of waking up at the wrong time.
Do loving kindness meditation and massage your feet until sunrise.
Breathe slowly (Buteyko method) to start the day off super chill.
Get early sun on your skin as possible on as much skin as possible. The infrared light from the red sun is critical to regulate your circadian rhythm. It also protects you from UV rays later in the day. Avoiding industrial oils in your diet also helps with that. Continue getting as much sun as possible on your body (without burning) all day.
Exercise during the day to give your body the signal that you physically need sleep to recover.
But what if you actually can't sleep at all?
I have done extensive research on sleep aids. It turns out they all disrupt sleep architecture to different degrees. Obviously, some sleep is still better than no sleep, but if we can do better, we should, because good sleep is so critical for mental and physical health.
Many people rely on benzodiazepines or the so-called Z drugs like Ambien, which destroy your hippocampus, memory, processing capacity, and gaba receptor sensitivity (making you paranoid and suffering panic attacks). These drugs are also incredibly dangerous to get off, taking months to years, and most people never manage to get off them. There is only one “benzo-ish” drug that actually does give very deep sleep, Phenibut, but it is the most addictive one (and true benzos do not substitute for it when in withdrawal, btw), so it's for real emergencies only.
Jordan Peterson, the famous psychologist got addicted to benzos his doctor prescribed for anxiety and it took his family years to find a rehab center that actually helped (in Russia somewhere). It actually makes sense it was in Russia because modern peptide medicine (and scenar tech) comes from Russian research. But even these miraculous peptides weren't able to help him very fast. One thing that he should have known about is the Syrian Rue cure for benzo withdrawal, and Selank for safe relaxation.
But if we still need more help, there are some powerful sleep supplements which can work wonders, altho we don't know exactly how they affect sleep architecture:
SIBO yogurt bacteria. I mentioned it before but it’s so important I will say it again. Some bad gut bacteria directly cause insomnia. Dilute food grade h2o2 can help purge those baddies, and then SIBO yogurt could help put some helpful bacteria back in.
Relaxing and safe at higher doses, but not forceful:
Lemon balm. You need a lot of it to work. I took a bunch and i had a dream I was high on heroin (never had that before).
You can also try: Mulungu bark, lotus flower, passionflower, edible CBD, CBN, CB9, or perhaps the best remedy, indica cannabis root.
Forced sleep: L-THP from C. yanhusuo is quite powerful, but it has a narrow therapeutic index which makes it dangerous. Interestingly it gets you as high as heroin when you vape it but it's totally non-addictive.
Vagal Blitz Breathwork — I mentioned before, but it really works if you are able to do it.
Below, I will mention another absolutely incredible cheap and natural deeeep relaxation and sleep hack that AI doesn't know about and i guarantee you won't find anywhere online, for paid subscribers. Free subscribers can already have this info if they carefully read my fermented psychedelics post. This image might give you a hint:
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