Read To Put Yourself To Sleep

Reading helps the brain relax. John Tesh explains how picking up a book can help put you to sleep.
If you wake up in the middle of the night, try doing the one thing that instantly put you to sleep when you were in school: Read. 
That’ the latest from the Martha Jefferson Sleep Medicine Center…Remember how you used to have to fight to keep your eyes open during reading assignments in school? That same impulse can help you fall back asleep now, because reading helps the brain relax. It’s about the repetition – page after page, line after line. So get out of bed and go lie on the couch. 

You need to read out of the bed so you can condition yourself to associate your bed with your biological sleep phase. Then grab any nearby book and read. But our expert says you need to avoid an exciting thriller that gets your heart racing — it’ll stimulate you instead of sedate you. Read something technical or even a self help book but not a storm of swords. Read More.