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Sorry. I spent 45 years of my life with ever increasing insomnia. During the worst year, I never slept more than four hours a night and would have several nights per week when I didn't sleep at all. I tried all the suggestions, even talking to a doctor and getting a prescription for sleeping pills, which didn't work.
Since finding the podcast, I've had maybe five nights in eight years where I didn't fall asleep within 15 minutes of playing it.
When I first started using it, I would play one episode when I was ready to go to sleep, but then I'd wake up when it ended. So, I started loading a playlist with all the episodes and playing non-stop, but then my alarm wouldn't wake me up in the morning (it would go off, then I'd hit snooze and the podcast would knock me out again). Finally I set on a routine in which I set it to play all night with a sleep timer to stop it a few minutes before my alarm.
Perhaps I come on too strong, but I was reaching the end of my rope when I found this. Like I said, it doesn't work for everyone, but on the off chance there's someone else like me who could be helped by this ridiculous thing, I can't help pushing it ever chance I get.
Edit: Also, I don't get anything out of the podcast except sleep. In fact, I pay to support it via patreon. It's completely free for anyone who wants to try it. I just want to make sure the people who need it can find it.