Originally posted by Theresa

- You should never do anything except sleep in your bed. That means don't read books there, do homework there, watch TV from bed... just sleep and nothing else. This is because if you do other things in bed, then when you lay down to go to sleep, your mind says, "time to read or watch TV" or whatever, and you won't be tired. By restricting the bed to simply sleeping, you're kind of training yourself to feel sleepy when you go to bed.
I always read in bed and haven't had much trouble sleeping.

It's probably because I've always read a book before going to sleep, and it's part of my going-to-sleep routine.

(That being; Pajamas, bed, book+hot chocolate+snack, sleep).

Having a routine is good.

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If I wake up in the middle of the night and can't sleep, I either pick my book up again for a bit... or turn on BBC News 24. YAWN. Just thinking about it makes me tired.