More on Insomnia

The second thing you want to ask yourself about sleep is what is the environment you try to sleep in. What I mean here is do you turn off the lights, TV, stero? Is your bedroom actually ready for sleep? The bed should be comfortable, the room cool, dark and quiet.

If you're going to bed with the TV or the lights on, you will wake up earlier than you want and even though it may be considered a white noise, you may not be getting down into the lower levels of sleep. If you are only in levels 1 and 2, you can easily waken, just by turning or moving, or if there is an increase volume from the TV as with what happens when a commercial comes on. Because you have not gotten down into deeper sleep, you may think that you have not even been asleep.

When I had some stress issues and cuold not turn off my brain at night, I found that listening to a relaxation tape would help me drift off easily. With the advent of iPods, it is even easier today to listen to a relaxation piece without the click of the cassette tape.