You will likely fall asleep faster because your mind will get tired much like counting sheep at night in order to fall asleep.

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Leave it alone long enough, however, and it'll get tired, start snoring and eventually just fall asleep.

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From the time I roll out of the cot at 6 a.m. to the time I fall asleep after midnight, I get to do what I love nonstop.

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It then waits till you fall asleep then starts the timer, waiting for you to get roughly 26.5 minutes of shuteye, before rousing you during a light sleep cycle.

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Sometimes I was drinking a bottle of whisky and I couldn't even get drunk, so I'd go onto two bottles of whisky a day, wake up, fall asleep, wake up, start again.

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