Thread: What do you do when...

What do you do when you're feeling tired and sleepy, so you get in bed, but suddently you don't feel sleepy at all. You cannot fall asleep and you're just lying there on your bed.

After lying on my bed for half an hour without being able to sleep, I'm here. I need some advice for falling asleep easily if anyone has something that works, please post it here

Concentrate on your breathing, meditate. Focus on the pictures inside your head. Dont think about anything. Let the passing thoughts go through your brain, play some soft music mabey, nothing you really know the words to, like classical. I do this sometimes, when I cant fall asleep at all.

Hm, I'd have to suggest the opposite. I can't see focusing as an effective way of falling asleep since that's the one thing that seems to keep one awake.

Think about how you usually fall asleep - random thoughts fill your head and you drift off. Those thoughts then turn into hypnagogia and so on.

So, if you can't fall asleep, don't think about falling asleep. Just lie relaxed with eyes closed, resting, and thinking of anything. Don't do it willfully, just allow your thoughts to flow freely, about anything and everything, as usual.

I usually don't fall asleep until an hour after I get in bed. So, perhaps this is a subjective point of view but I'm speaking from experience so hopefully this advice might be of use.

Repeating a phrase to myself does the trick for me

Well, you can just get up as you did, and do stuff until you are tired again.
Reading is helpful because it can make your eyes tired.
If you have this problem a lot:
Try to keep a steady sleep schedule, wake up and go to sleep at the same hour every day.
Wake up early in the morning
Don't take naps during the day
Reduce coffee, tee, and coke, and don't drink them in the evening.

If I can't fall asleep I just lay completely still on my back like I would to WILD and fall asleep eventually. Listening to music or the radio helps too.