A tip - my experience with falling asleep.

[cobalt]

After some not doing anything for a longer time i've returned to my tries with AP'ing.

A bit of background for those interested:
My biggest problem was falling asleep, no matter how i tried, i could sleep by loud music, alarm clocks.
I always failed to stay awake when relaxed, was it morning, evening or the middle of the day.

I've had some very unconscious success with binaural beats and some random vibration occasions when accidentally falling asleep in an uncomfortable pose, when i usually freaked out and "denied" vibrations because i was not expecting them and got confused.

Others skip to here:
Lately i've tried to experiment with possibly simple techniques, not requiring any additional aids (music, alarm, binaurals, deep silence) or complex attention exercises (which either keep you too alert/conscious for proper relaxation, or make you wander off in some unconscious dream).
So the technique is following - simply lie on your back and keep your arms to the both sides of you, at comfortable angle.
Then hold your fingers in similar way (pick the mundra - finger you touch with thumb, you think is best for you):

And the trick is keeping your hands with the palm facing upwards. Because when you put your hands parallel to your body or at small angle, your palms rest at approximately 45 degree angle. So you have to turn them a bit to make them face upwards.
Balance the amount of tension so that the hands are pointing up as much as possible but are still comfortable and allow you to relax.

Now what i've experienced is that this slight force is too little of a distraction to keep you away from falling asleep comfortably, since the hands are well resting on the bed (it's not like sitting and meditating when its almost impossible to fall asleep). Still, when i'm already wandered far away in my imagination and start to drift away, my palm relaxes and returns to its resting position, drawing my attention away from the unconscious wandering and leaving in an odd sleepy state.

I know it's not much, but still for me it seems as a decent and reliable way of capturing and extending the awake/asleep transition. And i can adjust the state at which my attention is "reset", by varying the amount of force i apply to keep my palm facing up. The more i allow my hand to rest, the more dreamy the state at which i regain consciousness is, but then the risk of falling asleep completely increases aswell.
It is even better because of its double action - finger tip separation, palm relaxing.

[Panthau]

Sounds good, thanx for the tip!