What do you do when you can't sleep?

Nice topic to discuss. If I can't sleep, I turned on my TV and watching movies while drinking milk. Drinking a lot of milk before go sleep can be helpful for easy to get sleep.

I use to have a lot of trouble going to sleep when I was on nights. Now I try to keep to the same routine, and I am fine. I always have the radio on, seeing as there are so many people in the house, and we all have our seperate routines. I try to relax, and take a little extra time to lay down and think of everything that happened, or worries me as I would just keep me awake.

i pray or play a game. i pick a topic and go through the alphabet and pick a word related to that topic that corresponds with that letter. ie if i picked bands, the first word would be ABBA, the second would be Boston, the third would be Cream, etc. it does help me fall asleep most of the time.

I usually read and that makes me sleepy enough to get to sleep. I used to have problems falling asleep until I started reading more. I just lay down and pick up a book and pretty soon I am tired enough to drop off. Even if its just to take a nap.

Sleeping is essential to our mind and heath. You can't call yourself health (even if you take vitamins) if you can't sleep well.... When I can't sleep, I usually read a book that is not so interesting just to make my eyes tired. As soon as i feel that I'm already sleepy, I close the book and got to bed right away.

It depends on the reason. There are times I feel too cold to sleep so I have to change that before I can. There are times I am way too tired to sleep and the only thing I can do is stay in bed and hope or tell myself that sooner or later (days later) I will sleep again. There are times my mind keeps busy so I tell myself I will deal with it later (write it down). There are times it helps to think about happy things, the blessings I have (counting them).. I do the same when I am in a lot of pain or just try to shut out my mind.. if it's blanco it's easier to bear. Before I did get out of bed, do some housekeeping etc but I don't do that anymore since it only tires me out more if the day starts. If possible I go back to bed at day time but it's seldom possible pity enough.

If my son is asleep and I had hoped to nap, but did not, I will do some cleaning, surveys, and mylot; things my son would not be too interested in. Late night, I will read, go on facebook, answer a few on mylot and catch up on email. Hope you are able to get some rest in!

If i can't sleep i'll play with my cellphone or go internet like FB and do emails, and mylot too... Ya if your daughter will sleep you get a nap too, it's the only time you have a rest.

Hi Dominique! I usually sleep at 10 pm and if for some instances, I did not sleep on time, most likely, I will find it hard to have a good sleep. So what I do is I would drink a glass of warm milk before going to bed. Have a nice day!

Haha ! If i can't sleep i would be the happiest then because i can do Mylotting until dusk , by then i would drop to bed without any effort of forcing my eyes to close. There are times when we want to sleep but our eyes won't cooperate no matter how we tried , so we end up wasting time , why not make it productive , get up and move those hands. You type , you earn !

I usually do some activities that make my body tired such as doing work out, or cleaning the house so that it will eventually put my body into a tiring stage. Also, drinking milk and relaxing with the lights dim helps you sleep.

When I cannot sleep I just lie awake on my bed until I fall asleep. I take the time to do some thorough thinking and do a little prayer as well.

I try to focus my thoughts to one thing-peace/sleep/something or someone that would put my thoughts and feelings at rest. It's because most of the time, even though I feel totally beat down, I can't sleep because my mind is full and racing with (random) thoughts.

When I can't go to sleep I usually close my eyes and think about good things that have happened or what I would like to happen. I in-vision it in my mind and usually the happy thoughts put me to sleep.

i watch TV, put on a dvd or just write till i am tired and eyelids are heavy usually more often i just watch TV till i fall asleep and TV is still on

When i can't sleep i just do chores till i am tired and want to sleep again. However, i hate a feeling when i can't sleeping...that's why i always try to sleep on time, at 11-12pm. and when i go to sleep, i don't think anything else..everything should be solved tomorrow

Whenever I find it hard to sleep at night, i would read a boring book. Like...busines statistics books. If that didn't work, I will drink a cup of warm milk and listen to some soothing music.

Sometimes when all my chores are already done and when my son is still sleeping I will also take a nap.. but there are times I can't sleep so what I do is I grab my cellphone or tablet to read or surf the internet and after a few minutes I will get sleepy... it really needs for us to get a enoungh sleep and rest so we can have energy for all the things we are doing..

Because you are not used to go to bed early that is why you are having problem regarding sleeping. And all you need to do is make a habbit of sleeping early and slowly and gradually you will get used to it. You can try reading books while you are in a bed and that is the best option for get to sleep. By reading books you will make sure that your mind will not be roaming here and there which is a big reason why people can't sleep early.

Sleeping is the finest assets which we got from the nature. After having sound sleep, we just feel a type of peace,relaxation. But sometime we will not able to sleep due to different reasons . Sometime its cause is mental where as sometime physical. Whatever is the reason but it is so hard. When i can't sleep i start to play games on my mobiles and slowly i feel to sleep.