Occasional insomniacs would do well to read this.
On occasion in the evenings, I manage to have a coffee a bit later than I normally would, then go to bed earlier because I need to get up for work the next day. The end result being that I find myself lying in bed wide awake trying to get to sleep.
I’m no fan of taking any sort of tablets to sleep, so clearing one’s mind is usually the best bet. However, when you have nothing else to focus on, just the darkness, that can be easier said than done. My mind is usually whizzing along at a million miles an hour, and I can’t ‘unfocus’ to get to sleep.
But I’ve found a foolproof method. And it seems to work EVERY time. I heard it on the radio a few weeks ago, on Chris Evan’s drive time show. As I recall, it was Rebecca Pike who mentioned it.
The method is really simple. Try and come up with a list of things, going from A to Z. For example, a list of band names starting with the letters A – Z. Or perhaps a list of British towns from A – Z (I did that one last night). I found it helps to make it harder too. My list of British towns was only places I thought were actually towns (not cities or villages). So that took a bit of thinking.
You might think it wouldn’t work, but it really does. So if you’re lying in bed getting frustrated, just try and come up with an alphabetical list of something, and you’ll have dozed off in no time!
