Article: 7 ways to fall asleep when you feel wired: all you want to do is close your eyes until morning, but instead, you're stuck in bed, wide awake, watching the minutes lick by. Here's help.(the cosmo health report)

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It's three in the morning, and once again, you're staring at file ceiling as your mind races. Not being able to nod off when you want to is agonizing. And you're not the only one with the problem: Two-thirds of women report trouble sleeping several nights each week.

So what's keeping you up? Read on for the factors, habits, and behaviors that have been killing your sleep, then the simple fixes.

SLEEP KILLER 1

Light Seeping Into Your Room

Even slivers of light--the kind that sneaks in through a crack in your blinds or the blueish glow of a computer monitor left on--can keep you awake. "Light signals your ...

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