What things do you do when you can sleep because your mind is still thinking?

This happens all the time for me. The best way I have found to combat it and get some rest is to think of something that is not important, but able to occupy your mind. For example, you could count something by 6s, try to think of all of the people you saw today/this week/etc., think of the all of the words inside the word "daydream", etc. The worst thing you can do is actually think about the sleep you are missing or your responsibilities for the next day. It is hard to relax with all of that anxiety that is sure to build.

Watching TV helps me a lot. I get involved in the plot and that takes my mind away from parto of myproblems. I turn off the light and place the "sleep" devise. Usually the first commercial makes me sleep.

Hi Dominique25, I had forgotten I couldn't take espresso few hours before bedtime. This happened again when I was on my vacation abroad. I never realized this and ordered a cup of hot espresso and a berry pie together with my friend in a coffee shop. Yeah, the moment I got the aromatic smell of the coffee brewing there I couldn't help and made the order straight away I really enjoy the coffee aroma as well as its great taste but I suffered the whole night long tossing and turning on the bed until the wee hours around 4 o'clock I can't fall asleep as well if feeling too excited even if I'm really tired or exhausted. Keeping our mind busy with thinking like your situation can't let us fall asleep as well. It's better to leave the bed and have a cup of lukewarm milk to calm down our mind and this usually would help me to fall asleep then. I couldn't prepare myself the milk while facing insomnia in the hotel room at that time mentioned above, shrug. Certainly I will if this happens to be at home. Happy posting

Yes, I have also had my share of things like these for sometime. It used to be those worst nights that my mind knew that I should sleep tight and never wake up till the alarm rings, but the same mind will be racing from one thought to the other thought never letting me to sleep. This sort of thing when it happened to me like continuously because I had some personal problems to deal with earlier took me to an almost depressed state and all I could do was cry. I have even read somewhere that when a person doesn't get enough sleep, he/she tends to become weak emotionally and tends to cry for silly things too. How I overcame this? I made real hard work. I strained myself the most i can so that my mind also gets tired to think about anything at all for that matter. I did take a few sleeping pills at times when my mind never gave up on racing between the thoughts. But I made sure that I should find a permanent solution rather just taking the sleeping pills. I did some meditation and I spent a lot of time with god. It really helped me more than I would have ever imagined.

I also experience that once in awhile. When there are things or issues that I have in mind the whole day, it haunts me until bed time. I would give myself 5-10 more minutes to fall asleep and if I still can't I would get up and do something else, like go online, play a game or something like that to tire my mind and deviate from what's bothering me.

Do not think a bad things happen to you when you want to sleep try to remember funny things happen. If still cannot sleep login mylot with phone and always write until you sleep. :)

I think when you go to sleep as much as possible, you should just try to keep your mind off things such as what is bothering you. It would also help you whan you would retire to bed when you are really tired already so you won't have those times or period that you will have to just lie in there and think.

Lately ir happens to me almost all the time. It occurs because of lots of problems and stress we pass. As for me, I go to sleep at night and wake up around 2-3 in the morning. I stay awake for about 2 hours till I manage to get asleep again. Many of these nights I just get up and sit in front of the computer, or pick up a book and read. Couldn't do anything else like watching TV, or cooking, or cleaning up the house, if not I would wake up the whole house. Some say one must empty his mind and try getting some sleep. If I could...