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Article: How to fall asleep: (When you can't shut your brain off).(Health check)
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- Cosmopolitan
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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Counting sheep doesn't accomplish jack when you're having trouble dozing off. Our strategies knock you out, even when your mind is racing.
It's one of life's cruel ironies: On the nights when you most desperately need to get some quality shut-eye, your mind is in overdrive. Whether you're worried about a presentation you're giving at work the next day, obsessing over all the dreamy qualities of a new guy you're gaga for or scared that you won't wake up in time to catch an early-morning flight, falling asleep turns into mission impossible.
So why can't you conk out? "When you're wired from stress or excitement, your sympathetic nervous system reacts, ...