Trouble sleeping, counting sheep

[Plumcrumble]

Hi everyone, sometimes I have trouble getting off to sleep when I start thinking about things. I've been using a slight alternative to sheep 🐑 counting, here goes. Firstly think of a topic, birds, plants, towns and villages, etc, then start with the letter A, go through the alphabet eg football teams, Arsenal, Blackburn, Chelsea and so on. As your clearing your mind of day to day things if you get stuck on one letter before you've found it your asleep 😁 it usually works for me, hope this helps.

Best wishes sarah

[Lolabridge]

Good idea, thanks!I couldn’t do the alphabet of football teams but I will try tonight with bands/groups.

[Plumcrumble in reply to Lolabridge]

👍💕

[Pinkypie2018]

Great idea I'm struggling to sleep at night so will try this tonight!

[Plumcrumble in reply to Pinkypie2018]

👍💕

[AnneField]

I do this too - I call it the Alphabet game- and it really does work a treat!

[Plumcrumble in reply to AnneField]

That great, it certainly works 👍💕

[vonniesims]

Audio books do it for me

[Plumcrumble in reply to vonniesims]

Yes, it's all to do with clearing your mind 👍💕

[stbernhard]

Anything to get the mind to focus just on one thing is good. I count in foreign languages, do mental arithmetic or just repeat "empty head - empty head" on every in and out breath. It works more often than not. Isn't it great that we're all doing the same thing in so many different ways?

[Plumcrumble in reply to stbernhard]

That's great 👍

[Soreknees2016]

Good idea - a friend told me to try doing it with places I’d visited, and it definitely helped! Will try other topics now - never thought of doing that! 🤦‍♀️

[Plumcrumble in reply to Soreknees2016]

That's a good one, I'll try that next, as I do get stuck on the same one 😁💕

[JFlay]

If I can't sleep I mentally refurbish my house/add an extension etc. 😂 or I picture what my perfect property would be like, all the rooms etc. it usually works for me. Shame I can't afford it for real though 😂

[Plumcrumble in reply to JFlay]

That's sounds great, maybe one day you will 😁👍💕