Have sex usually. Which isnt possible if im home alone. Otherwise i dont know. Glass of warm milk?

I give myself a Reiki treatment and fall asleep again :-)

Yep thought of that but what if you've already done it and the one next to you is snoring like a horse?

Wake him up...

Come on... any fun and imaginative ideas ?!?

Breathe in...&...breathe out. I keep doing this until sleep takes over...

When that doesn't work...fat French books from 18th century and beyond come to the rescue.

Might I venture that there may be some things preoccupying you. 

Regular meditation is a means of quieting the mind and returning to the body for in the body there is only stillness and calm.  Again, like all ours minds it can races, and at times it has no dignity keeping us in unrest and so therefore keeping us from rest.  If you awake in the night, consider have some relaxing music close at hand and use it with head phones.  Better still find a guided meditation - there are many on Youtube - for rest and sleep where you will hear someone's voice man or woman help you find calm.  Just acquiesce!  There are also many free postcasts if you have an iphone - I find Mary Maddox has a nice voice with appropriate sounds.  

Within all of that perhaps before you go to bed it is worth reminding yourself of a few key things that are personal to you and positive and that also puts our short lives into true perspective over and above the fabrications we create for ourselves and let others impose on us.  In othere words relativise things: here is a 3 min sample of the style of music that can be useful, but I would encourage you also to consider the quotes on the right as a source of appeasement and solace as and when: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyXKslqkj5I.   May your sleep be restful.   

A lot more exercise, that includes upping the intercourse workout to new levels so that it actually properly makes you tired and in full bliss; likely before that, go for a good evening walk or better a run to get some fresh air, time to think about things and get that blood flowing so that you are tired when you go to bed ;)

Actually I felt some tensions in my arms and legs and would have gone swimming or running if it was not in the middle of the night...

Get up .. roam around or go for a jog ... and you realize that bed was better , so come back to sleep.

It is indeed one of my few pet peeves that the pool closes generally around 21:00 (if lucky) and that they are closed on monday mornings so that one can't do a swim every morning to wake up again...

Running you can do in the middle of the night, might be a bit cold and rainy depending on the time of the year though ;)

If your SO snores, try pushing them on their sides or heck, force them to sleep with a pillow in the back, or hey, much better: spoon them! ;)

Wake up early in the morning evereyday and if you can exercise. Then the following night you automatically get tired after the daily work and chores and ofcourse the intercourse.. ;) and den you get good  sleep after that.

As others said maybe a glass of warm milk would help more..and even if not..read a book /watch TV..you will fall asleep..

I tried with booze and it did not help rahter..so wud not suggest.

Good luck in getting good sleep.. :)

Manu, I thought you were going to say "have a pillow fight!"

Smooth Jazz, (Something like Earl Klug, or Acoustic Alchemy...) and a generous helping of Armagnac, seems to work well for me.

The music is calming and after a couple Armagnacs,... I don't give a shit any more;-) 

Sleep well.

KEN/// 

no one has actually suggested to try and enjoy that time awake

Generally i do yog nidra its a very good practice . you can find some audio in internet for yog nidra (in English or French ).

Mind unwinding is another very good technique to sleep properly.

 if you need more information pm me.

When you are just falling into sleep at night, just ready to fall into sleep, go backwards through the memories of the whole day--backwards. Do not start from the morning. Start right from where you are, just on the bed--the last item, and then go back. Then go back by and by, step by step, just to the first experience in the morning when you first became awake. Go back, and remember continuously that you are not getting involved.

For example, in the afternoon someone insulted you. See yourself, the form of yourself, being insulted by someone--but you remain just an observer. Do not get involved; do not get angry again. If you get angry again, then you are identified. Then you have missed the point of meditation. Do not get angry. He is not insulting you, he is insulting the form that was in the afternoon. That form has gone now.

1) Try going shopping...find the town dead, yet get robbed and do the deed on the Geneva is not safe thread 

2) Try going partying. Talk to no one & find out no one wants to talk to les etrangers of the fear of getting robbed...come back and start a Geneva is boring thread. 

3) Do neither, read the existing Geneva is not safe threads, join the risk awareness groups and forget about sleeping...forever...

4) If you reached this part of this post & aren't asleep already, Arun KV needs to find a new way to be more boring...

Bon weekend!

That really cracked me up! Thanks Arun!

There are typically 2 reasons why I can't sleep: either I am simply not tired or my mind is not done thinking about something.

Not being sleepy means I made a mistake during the day; e.g. I took a nap too late in the day or didn't do anything that required energy later in the day. Either way I just get up, watch some TV and try again an hour later. If that doesn't work I prepare myself for an exhausting next day (unless there's flexibility in the morning).

If my mind is still working I figure out what it is, get a sheet of paper or the right computer application and work until I'm satisfied. Then I may watch a short video to clear my mind before I go to bed.

My PS3 works for me... accompanied with a decent whiskey.

If thats not possible, then a hot bath with some nice scented oils and/or candles... and a cup of jasmine tea.

Hot sex does for men (its a proven fact) but may not for women... hence the snoring beast next to you.

I put some classical music. do the job very well

Another trick I tend to use: swap the bed around.

That could mean moving the pillow to the feet part of the bed or moving the bed to a completely different direction/location. But I guess that trick only works for people who do sleep fine in other locations than home too ;)

Download some guided meditation  - it is very relaxing and will def put you to sleep :) 

Warm shower helps, too :)

If you do Yoga regularly, you never get a day without sleep. I think its high time to practice yoga.

Read a book you dont like or do all the things you dont like if that doesnt help - count from 1000 backwards to 1 and do it till you sleep if you still cant sleep then count from 10'000 backwards to 99 - and re-start again, before you fall asleep again shout out loud - "I DID IT"

HTH

Glass of wine and internet... No use to struggle with insomnia, it will only create more stress (that's not to say one shouldn't find the real reason behind and address that onethrough meditation, sports, diet, medicine, etc etc)....

Raise your hand/leg and hold it up in the air until you are so tired that all you want to do is to fall asleep :-)

you wake him up for a second round or kick him out of bed...

Since when a girl is not able to have sex if she's home alone?

Where did you find jasmine tea in Geneva?

there: http://www.tschin-ta-ni.ch

jasmine pearls are the best if you like...

the Chin Tsin tea shop at cornavin has great Royal Jasmine tea... you have to buy the best one, it has jasmine flowers floating in it... yummy

Thanks guys i will have a look :)

that's why pearls are the best as each pearl is a jasmine flower hand rolled with a tea leaf...

Well,Izzie,there's always sex by yourself (quicker and more efficient)

If that doesn't work,counting backwards from 1,000 works really well(if you  make a mistake you have to go back and start all over again.I find it works really well)

Tisane made with cannabis flowers is also good.

Voilà-dors bien!

Sex by yourself? Sure good but ain't very exhausting is it?? Kama Sutra by Youself book hasn't been written yet... would undoubtedly be a best-seller!

As for counting, I think I'd rather go for the fat French books from 18th century

Where do you find your tisane with cannabis flowers Buzz? I've just bought basil and rosemary to grow on my terrace...

Thanks a lot for all your tips everyone! I've heard lavender essential oil is very relaxing too.

Masturbate.  Mastubate furiously.

Or watch some f*cking diabolical television like "Two and a Half Men" and realise that being unconscious is by far preferrable.

something I appreciate too is orange blossom water (eau de fleur d'oranger), taste incredibly good.

Other thing, used by my mother is "sédatif pc", an homeopathic remedy. It used to work on me before, but not now, probably due to the drugs I took last 3 years.

1) Yog nidra(follow the instruction in the audio this is most effective technique for insomnia )                                                                                                              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-lHkOR9kTw

2) Bhramari pranayama(Practice it before you go to sleep )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oK5pvBX940

4) Sleeping music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta1NzqRiZ9U

4) Mind unwinding (follow the instruction in text)
http://www.yogachicago.com/sep02/osho.shtml

Misc.(Have a look )

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Mental_Health_Letter/2009/April/Yoga-for-anxiety-and-depression

http://www.messagefrommasters.com/oshoyoga/osho_patanjali_yoga_science.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21446363

The Snoozatron !!!

That was sweet :-)