A big fat book and I am off to sleep

Hey there oindy54. I think that's an excellent way to wind down a day and fall asleep. Last time I read a book before going off to sleep was a few years back when I was reading "The Day Lincoln was Shot" book. One of the reasons people have so much trouble falling to sleep is because of the constant usage of gadgets. Television, laptops, computers, and cellphones all hinder our sleep habits. I read somewhere awhile back that it's advisable to not use any electronics at least two hours before sleep. I personally never have any trouble falling off to sleep, so I don't really read before sleep. I should probably consider starting to do it again though.

Hello oindy54 I, too, will use the strategy of reading to help me to sleep. This is especially true if I wake up in the middle of the night and want to go back to sleep. Unfortunately, it sometimes backfires if the book is too good and I cannot fall asleep because I enjoy it so. Peace

Reading books always makes me tired. But that is not my strategy. I rather have the TV on, I like the noise of the TV and that makes me fall asleep. If I was reading a book and got tired, the fact that I have to put the book on the night stand will wake me up enough to not sleep. So TV works for me.

Hi friend! I wish to read some books but I can't. I have eye problems and reading too many txts sometimes trigger my vertigo and migraine,oh my! I remember my godmother gifted a book about how to handle relationships effectively,it was a gift she gave me for my wedding and I did enjoy reading it as it is really inspiring and an eye opener. But I don't read while lying down,makes me dizzy after reading some pages,hehe! Well,I just play with my imaginations to make myself fall asleep,hehe! And that somehow helps. I usually imagine myself having vacations in other countries with my family or anything that will make a pleasure to my mind,haha!

I feels much sleepy if I am sitting in front of my textbooks, which are long as well as fat with lot of pages . I feel reading text books are quite boring and it is just a waste of time. I just used to prepare the notes by looking the references book and other books from my collages. So I don't have to open my text book at all and those note books help me to get the points quite easily

Hi friend, in my school days most of the time i did this technique to get a deep sleep. My maths book is a fat one, most of the times when i don't have the ability to sleep, i will take my Maths book and work out some sums, after that i am getting tired and have a good sleep

I always read if I am unable to fall asleep. I don't know how many times I have fallen sleep while I was reading. When I wake up I find the book on the floor or maybe under the blakets with damaged pages I try to put the book away when I am about to fall alsleep, but quite often I fall asleep before I imagine and I don't manage to put the book away. I always have a large pile of library books by my bed so I have something to read if I am unable to fall alsleep and that strategy never fails.

A fat book has the advantage that if you put it under your head when you're really ready to go to sleep, it can double as a (-n extra) pillow. Reminds me of the story my father told me of the patient who had a mania for reading plays, and the hospital had run out of them. "Give him the telephone directory" was the next suggestion. The patient's verdict: "A very good play, but isn't the cast E-normous!" Or did you call it a fat book because it's about dieting?

Lol, I haven't tried that method. But I will definitely have to give it a try. Most of the time I don't have a hard time sleeping. As I often seem to burn both ends of the candle. But I will have to try it the next time I'm trying to take a nap while my daughter is sleeping.

A fat book oinndy? I take a fig of newspaper and try to read a line and I am gone before I complete a whole para. The only condition is the news must be related to political subject and a lecture from a leader who knows how to divert attention of public.

"Fat book". That's an amusing term! Well, I have problems sleeping and I don't even have a strategy to fall asleep. Even if I do, nothing helps but pure tiredness. Maybe I should just stop thinking. I can't help it. I MUST think before going to sleep.