Reddit mentions of Deep Sleep with Medical Self-Hypnosis

I trained myself in sleep hypnosis using a pirated version of this audiotape. This guy has a really calming voice and he leads you through some self hypnosis/meditation techniques intended to help you sleep.

At a minimum, listening to something like this could help you fall asleep just by helping your mind relax. For me, after practicing with the tapes for weeks/months, I eventually relearned how to fall asleep. Now I have no problems going to sleep any more. I was also working on becoming a lucid dreamer at the time, so you could work on something like that as well if you wanted. The self hypnosis techniques are great for that. They also teach you to control your body a lot better.

Also, I used to take these melatonin pills which work really well for me. They have some stuff in them that relaxes you really well, plus the melatonin to put you to sleep. One pill will make you sleepy, two will pretty much knock you out, assuming you are actually trying to fall asleep and are not doing stuff thats going to keep you awake no matter what.

I dont need the audiotapes or the melatonin pills anymore, and I have not for a long time. The pills are still nice if I am changing time zones or altering my sleep schedule or if I really need to fall asleep on short notice.

Finally, I have found listening to audiobooks to be an excellent way to fall asleep. Find a book that you really like, nothing too serious though, and just play it very quietly while you are trying to sleep. It gives you something to listen to/do while you are still awake, but it won't prevent you from falling asleep. These days I usually don't even make it through a chapter before I am out cold. Which makes it tough to ever finish a book because I just end up playing the same chapter over and over. But the sleep is good. And with that, I am putting on my audiobook and falling asleep.