What do you do when you can't sleep?

[Eupher]

Since I am an author, I will write stories in my head. The other night I wrote the beginning of a really good one. I never get past the first few paragraphs. And I never remember what I 'wrote'.

Works every time.

Perfect! That's a great technique, seems to me, but apart from one book that I've written (never another one), I ain't no author.

 

[TinaM]

I try reading a textbook or instruction manual for something I have no interest in learning and/or find completely boring. I will read it with a book light sitting in bed until I am very tired again.

Similar. I will listen to a YouTube from World Science festival about physics or cosmology and, although I love the subject, those usually put me right to sleep. If it’s something I really wanted to hear, I have to “rewind” the next day and re-listen.

 

[Jackie23]

I usually turn on my tablet that I keep by my bed and read for about an hour, works most of the time.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

What I hate about the nights when you just can't fall asleep is not only that, but waking up an hour or two later, wide awake!! Now, I'm going to wake to one or two times more to go to the john, anyway. I wake up all worn out, and feeling like I've worked all night trying to get some sleep.