I just can't fall asleep...

[Azaradel]

Thankfully, I did manage to fall asleep, after finding the most boring book I could (I feel like an anti-feministic ass for saying so; but there's a reason womens' history isn't in the real history books - it's boring as all hell - yes, what a fitting thing to say on the International Womens' Day). Even still, I lay tossing and turning for an hour or so before actually falling asleep.

BTW, love the avatar. Where's it from?

Why, it's from one of my deviantArt accounts.

 

[PrimoThePro]

Testicular support group

Testicular support group? Support for testicles? Support of testicles? Support from testicles?

Well, have you ever been attacked by rabid testicles? the worst is when they are your own. Traumatizing. Those support groups really help victims of such attacks.

 

[Artina89]

I suffer from insomnia and I hate taking the medication so what I found helpful is to try and study something really boring (I once tried it with one of my chemistry modules). I was out like a light. Alternatively, try what most other people have been recommending, don't have anything to eat after about 7:00 and ease off the caffiene.

 

[ad5x5]

Turn/block out any light sources - light naturally wakes you up.
I'm so used to sleeping in the dark that my phone will wake me up just from the screen lighting up well before it either vibrates or rings.

Also try drinking camomile tea just before you go to bed. (If you can get some with vanilla infused its actually quite nice, Twinings do a good one if you're in GB - no, I'm not gay, I had the same problem a while back)
Camomile tea is a natural anti-pyrhtic (it lowers your body's temperature) and helps you sleep.

Also developing a routine is quite useful - such as waking up at a certain time of day, even during the weekends - I do this and my body will let me know when to go to bed. The time i go to sleep changes depending on how knackered I actually am, some nights its early, others its gone 2 in the morning. awake every day at the moment at 08:30


These work for me - haven't had the problem since i started doing these (don't drink the tea anymore though, I only do that if it starts happening again)

 

[TheWwwizard]

I have that problem some times, I just close my eyes and stare at the back of my eyelids to avoid thinking about anything, It helps me sleep some times, other nights I'll literally lay in bed two hours trying to sleep before I actually do... (Have a habit of checking the time when I'm laying down)

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

I try to get up and do something for awhile 'til I can't stay awake anymore.

 

[Brandon237]

I also cannot sleep, and I find that with a fan I sleep more easily, but don't feel so fresh in the morning, without I sleep easily but not well. I use it anyway.

But I also have ducks and hardy-dars in the garden, those bloody birds are the scourge of my sleeping habits!@

 

[Eumersian]

What do you do before you go to bed? That could be it. I shadowed this doctor for a few months during the summer, and he said this:

"Read the most boring thing you can find before you go to bed."

The reason is because when you watch, read, or do something interesting, your brain is occupied by lingering thoughts of it. You will be subconsciously thinking about that stuff for a while, which means that your brain will be occupied with whatever it was that you did/read/saw than sleeping. Stuff that doesn't interest you won't occupy your thoughts as much.

Maybe that's it?