tired but cant sleep what should i do?

[Falconer02]

Another good tip I overheard is that if you have a workstation in the same room as your bed, it assists in the difficulty of falling sleep due to you thinking about your work more.

[nauticalstar]

My advice is Camomile tea and a book.  It always works for me.  I hope this works for you.

[samiole32]

Some warm anise is great it's great in relaxing and a few minutes you would be sleeping or you can use some cold milk
I hope you can sleep good

[poopypot]

watch an hour of boring tv

[kirbymiester]

Read classical literature. It's like anesthetic.

[gene53]

I don't recommend liquor. It's actually a stimulant, and even if it relaxes you at first, it will make your sleep more difficult later.

I agree about meditation and deep breathing, something to clear your mind. Also about not having a TV or workspace in the bedroom to distract.

If you're tossing and turning in bed, trying to sleep will just frustrate you.  Get up and do something until you get sleepy.  And don't take naps during the day -- that will make it harder to fall asleep at night.

If you use caffeine (soda, coffee), try cutting off your caffeine intake earlier in the day.  I don't drink caffeinated drinks past lunchtime.

Good luck!

[ladybuttercup7]

I too sometimes suffered from sleepless nights. I now listed to meditation music and these things called elixers and they knock me out. If you have a mps player they work really well on that with some good headphones.
If you are into things like essential oils you can get some lavendar and put some on your pillow or dilute some in a small spray bottem with a little bit of alcohol and spray some in your room.
And not to sound smart, ridding yourself of stress would probably help too.

Good luck

[anguyen21]

I found the best way is to think about something/fantasize.  For some reason I just find something to fantasize about and soon my brain just wanders into lala land.  I find that the more I think about sleeping the harder it is to fall asleep so I think of something else to counter that.  Actually I wouldn't even think of it as thinking, I just let my mind wander off, if you daydream you should know what I'm talking about.  I wouldn't try counting sheep or anything like that because that causes too much concentration.

[debraleesparks]

 :wave:If I can't sleep, I get up and start cleaning house.. sort out stuff from closets.. Then if I don't get tired from that, I listen to the old time radio shows,,you can download them if you want to, but they are free. look up... ZOOT old radio shows.

[jnjmolly]

i have the same problem some nights.  Sometimes reading a magazine or listening to the radio helps.