[wildwoman]

I know the counting sheep remedy has been around for ages. But does it really work? I know for me personally sometimes it does. It all depends on how tired I am and how much I have on my mind. So have you tried it and does it work?

[shari]

I don't exactly count sheep, I just count. It's a form of meditation that relaxes your mind. If you just start to count without really paying attention to the counting your mind will float. Eventually, if you stop to think about the numbers you won't remember what number you're up to. Counting is the best way I know to let myself fall asleep.

[Lorianna]

In my case, it does not work, it is too boring. I prefer thinking about a good movie or book, watching the story in my head. It is more fun and yet it is also relaxing. Sometimes I fall asleep and the story continues in a dream.

[manojjonam10]

I don't do these things anymore. I had done this in my childhood but not anymore. Instead I would something which would be really exhausting in order to get sleep.

[jamesb]

I tried doing that when I was a kid and it never seemed to work.

[cauradiusirty]

Im new here and i hope i will contribute to this forum in some way

[BurningTiger]

well, in a desperate bid to fall asleep i tried counting sheep the other day. first off, it took some good concentration for me to actually picture the sheep. once i had the sheep clear in my mind i had to picture some kind of fence and a yard. once i had that i began to make them jump, and i counted them.. after about 10 they started to change into different things and eventually i started to lose count of them.

point being, i was up for a long long time.

[Adrian Morgan]

I imagine that many insomnia cures, particularly visualisations and other mental exercises, get invented because when you're lying awake at night, inventing a new insomnia cure to try out gives you something to do.

Most of these experiments don't work. Sometimes they seem to work once or twice, but not consistently. Occasionally, perhaps, you stumble upon a technique that really seems to help you.

There's a lot of advice out there about ways to overcome insomnia. Most of it tries to be useful to as many people as possible, which is obviously not a bad thing, but it does mean that the same advice is repeated again and again (even though very little of it applies to everyone).

Personally, I'm interested in all those imaginative treatments that people invent for themselves, and then refine through personal trial and error. I'm intrigued by their diversity and originality. But such treatments are so personal, so tailored to the individual who developed them, that they receive little attention from advice-givers whose ambition is to be helpful to all.

In order to share our most creative insomnia cures, we need to stop trying to be helpful and instead try to be interesting. We need to stop sharing them as solutions and instead share them as recipes, as expressions of human creativity to be appreciated as a sort of artform and not just for their practical use.

I've developed a technique of my own, which you can read about in detail at my own blog ... outerhoard.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/things-to-try-in-bed/ ... but to summarise it very crudely, it involves visualising letters of the alphabet being drawn upside down or sideways.

If this idea proves useful to others, then that's great. But I'm also happy if it just makes you think, "Well, that's different", and leads you to ponder how the strategies for switching off the mind are as diverse as the minds themselves.

I, too, might be intrigued by yours.

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