When I can’t sleep, I turn around and sleep “upside down” - moving my pillows to where my feet were beforehand, and my feet to where my head was beforehand - and I stick with that for a week or so. It gives me a week or so without insomnia and then wears off, so I have to turn myself back around for the next 7-12 day period.

Admittedly this could just be a me thing, but let’s put our faith in this method and let the power of placebo effect take hold. Boom, minor bouts of sleeplessness are cured.

What are your own examples of this?

  • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    If you have the hiccups, putting a facial tissue over a glass of water and drinking through it will fix them.

    I thought it was the stupidest thing I’d ever heard, but I tried it and it works pretty much every time. Paper towels can work, but aren’t as effective

      • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        The tissue basically forces you to take those sips very slowly, which I think is what helps. The holding my breath trick almost never works the first time for me.

        • emmanuel_car@fedia.io
          3·
          2 days ago

          For me it’s not holding my breath, but pushing as much air into my diaphragm as possible, kind of like swallowing air and pushing it down until it hurts.

          • Klear@quokk.auEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            Yeah, this works for me 100%. Just holding breath isn’t enough, though.

    • 22NewtsInACoat@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 days ago

      Honestly with hiccups I concentrate on what it feels like to be about to have a hiccup and then I don’t do that. I haven’t had more than - few hiccups in a row In years, and now I’ve taught my wife to do the same and she can kill them off mentally too.

    • Sergio@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, apparently something along those lines has been shown to work:

      Drinking through a straw with the ears plugged is a folk remedy that can be successful.[34] In 2021, a scientific tool with a similar basis was tested on 249 hiccups subjects; the results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).[35][34] This device is named FISST (Forced Inspiratory Suction and Swallow Tool) and branded as “HiccAway”. This study supports the use of FISST as an option to stop transient hiccups, with more than 90% of participants reporting better results than home remedies. A non-commercial resource describing a similar suction-based technique using a regular straw and water bottle has also been published online.[36] HiccAway stops hiccups by forceful suction that is being generated by diaphragm contraction (phrenic nerve activity), followed by swallowing the water, which requires epiglottis closure.[37]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccup#Folk_remedies the “non-commercial resource” referenced: https://hicfix.com/

      Another approach that worked for me once:

      A breathing exercise called supra-supramaximal inspiration (SSMI) has been shown to stop persistent hiccups. It combines the three principles of hypercapnia, diaphragm immobilization, and positive airway pressure. First, the subject must exhale completely, then take a deep breath. Then, they must hold their breath for ten seconds. After ten seconds, they must take another small breath without exhaling, then hold their breath for five seconds. Again, without exhaling, they must take another small breath and hold their breath for five seconds. Upon exhaling, the hiccups should be gone.[33]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccup#Folk_remedies

    • EtherWhack@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      Breathing in as much as possible and holding it for as long as possible usually works. S

      It’s sorta like allowing the diaphragm to fully relax, with the expanded lungs helping to lightening the tension from the ribs.

    • Schal330@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      May have to try this next time! Normally I gulp lots of air until I can’t anymore, then hold my breath until I can’t, and breath out really slowly. It works but can be uncomfortable to do at times.

    • avg@lemmy.zip
      1·
      2 days ago

      I bought a straw off of Amazon that helps, I imagine that it takes advantage of the same mechanism.

      • proudblond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        My husband and son get the worst, most painful full-body hiccups so when I heard about the straw I thought, why not? It does work. However, it’s stupid expensive for a plastic straw so it stays at home all the time and sometimes they get hiccups when we’re out. We’ve found that jamming a regular straw flat against the bottom of a cup and then sucking really hard will pretty much work. The trick is making it hard to suck the liquid up the straw, so that your diaphragm is really working for it, and it’ll help reset things.