sleep

Does anyone have any good tips to help to get a good nights sleep, apart from being hit on the head with a frying pan.

Yoga helps me. Some gentle stretching.

Decaf tea to soothe me. I try to decrease my activity level (a.k.a. no aerobic exercise or heavy housework) at least an hour before bed.

I make lists of things I'm worried I'll forget. Of course, then you lie down and you think of something else for the list...

I ought to turn the TV off before bed. I have it on a sleep timer, and I know I don't sleep as well when I have noise as I'm falling asleep. It'd be better if I read!

I'll take benedryl for allergies in the summertime, but I'm too afraid to take it in the wintertime, as I think I'll wake up drowsy.

If I have a bit of insomnia, I try to lay still and breath slowly, as if I were falling asleep.

I hope this is helpful. These things help me, but I still often feel tired because I don't always take my own advice even though it generally works.

thanks for the advice,some of the things I have tried, reading a boring book, didnt work very often, because I started getting interested in the book! Ive found the dawn simulator, set on sunset mode helps sometimes,I tried a white noise machine by the bed ,but found that gave me a headache. One thing that did work was using an electric fan, it made a pleasent soothing noise that often helps me to sleep, Sadly its not much use in the middle of Winter.

just read http://www.lumie.com/help/news/are-you-one-of-the-millions-of-britons-suffering
lots of brill ideas there, including some of the above Im pleased to say!
ME x

I dont think it sounds silly at all, sometimes I can covince myself that, it doesnt matter if I cant get to sleep and suddenly, I wake up after 6or 7 hours sleep.

I have been told a mug of warm milk with a bit of honey and a small piece of dark real chocolate helps you sleep and also almonds.

I take Imovane as well as the warm milk but I still wake up to early

We like dark chocolate, don't we Paul?

don't take to much chocolate

Newsnight BBC 2 10.30pm It never fails.



...which is so, so annoying cos I DO actually want to see it.