Fall asleep… with a pocket knife in your hand??

[Slice-and-dice]

Numerous mental health professionals advocate holding an object to treat insomnia like a small stone, a pillow, or some other worry item. This is said to give your body a physical anchor. The mild sensory input—weight, texture, temperature—draws attention away from racing thoughts and helps you focus on something neutral and steady. This is a grounding technique, often used in anxiety management or mindfulness practices.

Do you hold a small folding knife to help sleep, not out of fear or for protection, but for the mindfulness benefits like triggering a calming response from the brain?

If so, what knife do you keep in hand? If not, is it worth trying or just psycho-babble? For me, a smooth pocket worn Case swayback or medium stockman 6318 is like a glass of warm milk!!

 

[afishhunter]

I've never tried holding anything but my girlfriend (the very few times I had one) when going to sleep.

 

[abcdef]

First and foremost, a knife is a tool. A tool evokes "work" to most. Trying to fall asleep with a tool in hand seems prima facie counterproductive. I am glad it works for the op.

 

[sf fanatic]

As my coaches used to tell me, “Boy just keep it in your hand!” So endth the lesson

 

[hornetguy]

this might be the oddest thread I've seen on here....

 

[Boattale]

Knives are often totems. So are guns. Everybody has their own ways.

 

[jmh33]

I have done it many times in the recliner!! Quick nap
John

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

I frequently drift off to sleep while watching TV in bed, late in the evening. Sometimes doing so with the TV remote in my hand. And more than once, I've later woken up not realizing I dropped it off the edge of the bed while sleeping and then wondered where the heck it went (under the bed). For reasons like this, I'm generally not inclined to hold some object I value while I'm sleeping, as it can be unsettling in the morning, if I can't find it. If I feel the need to hold something while I sleep, it'll usually just be a fistful of the bed sheet or blanket, or the corner of my pillow.

 

[Buck_Fan]

I have fallen asleep while holding a knife but not with the thought of it helping me fall asleep. And when I do it while it is open has a tendency to wake me up at some point. Painfully. But since I struggle with sleep, I might give it a try. But I will make sure it is closed.

 

[meako]

No...but I like to know there's one close by which in my house there is ...somewhere.

 

[Will Power]

No...but I have been rudely awoken by a knife falling off the bed onto the parquet Then unable to get back to sleep due to going back & forth over the merits of the knife and its rivals

 

[waynorth]

Should I hold a knife or not??? I can't sleep until I solve this problem!!!!!

 

[mrknife]

ive fallen asleep on the nyc subway on several occasions without a knife in my hand, wonder what that means...

 

[Liberando]

Not in my hand. But when I camp, my knife is in my right boot, flashlight in the left, within reach. It was a habit I started as a scout.

 

[Ironbut]

I just need to sit in my recliner, and pick up whatever book I'm reading, and I go to sleep. I think my eyelids, and my butt cheeks are wired together somehow. So, yeah.......holding something, not necessarily a knife, in your hand may be a sleep aid.

 

[Crag the Brewer]

I fall asleep extremely Quickly.
I have to be careful, I'll spill food on myself, and yes, poured beer in my lap on the sofa. My wife gets mad, my dog likes it when I drop stuff on the floor though, She's fat. (Dog, Not wife)

Yes, I hate to admit I've dropped at various stages of completion. In my earlier design stages, before I knew what I really liked....I will hold a knife design probably for many hours, learning about it.

In fact doing this so often, I wondered about starting a New knife style...a "Fondling Knife"

A fancy, maybe a Bowie type style. But safer. Maybe less of a point. No dangerous edge.
Just fancy steel, and fancy wood to hold....

I'll probably do It, for me.. because of how I am.

 

[John A. Larsen]

I went to bed one time when I was a kid (10-12) with an open pocket knife stuck into the waist of my pajamas. I had watched "The Fall of the House of Usher"with my Father and it had scared the hell out of me, watching people being bricked up Alive behind walls. I thought ( I guess) I could protect myself if they came for me when I was asleep. How I did not end up cutting myself, I do not know? John

 

[waynorth]

I went to bed one time when I was a kid (10-12) with an open pocket knife stuck into the waist of my pajamas. I had watched "The Fall of the House of Usher"with my Father and it had scared the hell out of me, watching people being bricked up Alive behind walls. I thought ( I guess) I could protect myself if they came for me when I was asleep. How I did not end up cutting myself, I do not know? John

Glad you are still alive, John!!!

 

[gentleman_edc]

I went to bed one time when I was a kid (10-12) with an open pocket knife stuck into the waist of my pajamas. I had watched "The Fall of the House of Usher"with my Father and it had scared the hell out of me, watching people being bricked up Alive behind walls. I thought ( I guess) I could protect myself if they came for me when I was asleep. How I did not end up cutting myself, I do not know? John

Shalom.

 

[Campbellclanman]

W

I went to bed one time when I was a kid (10-12) with an open pocket knife stuck into the waist of my pajamas. I had watched "The Fall of the House of Usher"with my Father and it had scared the hell out of me, watching people being bricked up Alive behind walls. I thought ( I guess) I could protect myself if they came for me when I was asleep. How I did not end up cutting myself, I do not know? John

I am amazed we aren't calling you Joan and not John - amazing you didn't cut yourself all right!


Can't say I have fallen asleep holding a pocket knife- but they do get to be used as a fidget gadget when I'm watching a movie.