Fall Asleep Easily

For nights when your brain won’t shut up

Your brain won’t shut up? Keep it busy.

Fall Asleep Easily is an app for the cognitive shuffling technique: a calm voice speaks single German words — two voices to choose from — and you picture each one. No breathing drills, no counting, no discipline. Your mind stays busy just enough that worries can’t take hold, and you drift off fast. English and more languages follow soon.

See how it works

Coming to the App Store — free at launch, for a limited time. Android follows.

Prefer to try it without an app? Read the guide.

Night-style comic. A cartoon brain pesters a sleeping cat: “Did you know that the black-throated diver can hold its breath for up to 10 minutes underwater?” The cat replies: “You can’t keep me awake. Do you know about Falling Asleep Easily? My app tells me a series of words I have to imagine. That way you can’t bother me and I can fall asleep.” In the last panel brain and cat lie asleep side by side, dreaming in thought bubbles of a fireplace, a ball of yarn and an armchair.

How a session works

  1. 1

    Set the mood

    Pick your background sounds, the pace of the words and how long the session runs. Headphones or speaker, both work.

  2. 2

    Start it and let go

    Lie down and do nothing. From here the app carries the session — nothing to watch, nothing to count, nothing to get right.

  3. 3

    Hear a word, picture it

    The voice says one concrete word at a time. Lighthouse. Honey. Canoe. You picture each one and let it pass.

  4. 4

    Too busy to worry, calm enough to sleep

    The images occupy your mind just enough that rumination never gets started — exactly the state in which sleep comes fast.

Why German first? Because I listened to every single recording.

The voices are AI-generated — and that is where the work starts, not ends. I listened to several hundred words in each voice, over a thousand recordings, and reworked every one until the pronunciation and pace felt right for a voice you are meant to fall asleep to. Judging pronunciation that finely takes a native speaker’s ear — mine is German. So English and more languages ship when they meet the same standard — not before. It is your sleep.

— Andreas, who built the app

The technique itself comes from cognitive scientist Dr. Luc Beaudoin and has been covered by The New York Times, BBC, CNN, Time and the Washington Post. The formal evidence is still young —we say so plainly.

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