What do you do when you can't sleep?

I understand where you are coming from. It really is sucks if you can't fall asleep while everyone is having a very nice dream. What do i do if i can't sleep? I usually go out of the room, sometimes in the terrace and smell the night breeze. It was nice to feel the coldness of the night. It makes me feel relax. I seldom go online because too much exposure to computer's radiation makes me up the whole night sometimes. I am a night person and sleep around 3 or 4 AM doing online stuff, but if i want to sleep early---i do feel the coldness of the night outside, makes me relax and makes me to go to bed.

I don't have sleeping problems. But I was told you can have a glass of warm. Then try meditation. When you are in your meditating level, imagine you are drawing a huge number 100 and circle it. Next again imagine you erase the number 100 and the circle, followed by drawing the huge number 99 and circle it.Then erase 99 and the circle. The process go on and on and on and you fall asleep. Good night.

always have tv on in my room and I read for awhile usually puts me to sleep!

First, I usually try to watch some T.V. and see if it puts me to sleep. I try and find something that I don't find very interesting so I won't want to stay awake and watch it. If that doesn't work then I go on the computer and play a card game or something. This usually makes my eyes tired so all I want to do is close them. If neither of those work then I go out on the couch and watch T.V. until I fall asleep.

Well, sometimes I go online. Or reading my college books, they are so boring :D weird but it's effective for me, LOL Sometimes I drink hot tea or hot milk and listening to some instrumental..

I am a person who don't wants to waste time, so when I can't get sleep, I will not lay on the bed, I will sit down and write something on my notebook, like today's diary, if I have finished them and still can't get sleep, then I would read books, I have a lot of books that i am interested in, so ... I can read them till midnight...I can read them over and over again and will not get bored... luckily i am a book lover, i feel puzzle about those who don't like books, how do they overcome those tough nights.

I often get tired early evening and perhaps nod off for a while then wake up and can't sleep so get online and go to a couple of sites and also do some mylotting..it is frustrating cos when I do go to bed even then I'm not tired so am awake for about an hour then go to sleep and wake up late the following morning...I hate losing half the day but can't help it..5am is the earliest I get to bed..LoLo

Few days ago I can not sleep, a lot of thing need me to think about it and make me can not sleep when the time for sleeping, it already midnight 2am. So what I do is just wake up and drink some water then I start to online, listening some soft music.

I usually stay up and try and do some more online earning or I get out the book that I'm currently working on reading. Reading helps me to tire myself out better then pretty much everything else that I can think of. Other then that if I'm too awake I just have to kind of stay up until I eventually fall asleep.

Sometimes I will read a book and other times I will set sleep timer on TV and watch it but it is hard to fine sometimes worth watching real late at night. I am usually on the internet off an on until 100:: pm or midnight so I do not I have another of that for one day.

I like to knit, usually the night is the only time I get the chance. I'm usually busy during the day doing my chores. I'm usually watching TV too. But the volume is turned down really low so my husband and the dogs can sleep. My dog Buddy is usually right next to me, he can't bear to be away from me.

Like you if I cannot sleep, I go online or do whatever I should do in the morning so that when I manage to sleep late and wake up late, everything will be in order, no more rush hour in breakfast. But most of the time, I am online if I cannot sleep reading and responding in mylot's discussion. It makes me fall asleep sooner.

I always cannot sleep.Every night i go to sleep early but i always cannot fall asleep,and i will lie on the bed ,because i think i will fall asleep soon,but i can not fall sleep.it is a miserable thing .

There are times that I'm having a hard time to grab some sleep.What I did was watch television, read books and if I will check my email if I still have time. Sometimes if I really wanted to sleep, I take medicine and drink milk.

I simply shove some sleeping pills down my throat, which is what anyone who wouldn't be able to sleep would already be doing instead of posting around here. Alternatively, if you're just one of those with minor sleeping deprivation, try just reading then.

If I can't sleep, the first thing I do is give up trying because that produces stress hormones that will keep me awake. I will either get up and do some (sitting) meditation, or meditate right there lying in bed. It would depend on how long I had been in bed. Meditation, produces benefits that are equal to sleep, whilst you are wide awake. - Derek

I have quite afew nights that i don't sleep well & when i have one of them i usually get on mylot & putz around till i think i can go back to sleep. Thank heavens for mylot,.

I do a lot of things when I can't sleep at night. I text my friends and forward quotations to them. I go online at Yahoo Messenger. I also read books and magazines. I talk to my boyfriend. I watch tv or movies until I get sleepy. I also listen to my iPod. I also play poker in my celphone.

I often have had nightmare for which i often can't sleep and get up.at this time i choose to read books until i feel tired.

Mostly when I cant sleep I watch tv. it helps me to ease my mind and fall asleep. unless I get wrapped up in something interesting and then it has the negative effect :). So I try to watch something that I have seen before so that I already know what is going to happen. so then I can sleep easier.