# What's your trick for getting back to sleep?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-trick-for-getting-back-to-sleep/664257>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 22, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-trick-for-getting-back-to-sleep/664257 "2013-07-22T22:35:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-trick-for-getting-back-to-sleep/664257/61 "2015-02-14T03:11:25Z")

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No disrespect to others who posted here but I have just tried all your “solutions”.

I’m still awake.

Should I just turn this laptop off?  
That might work for me tonight. 😃

(Puts coffee down and heads sheepishly to bed)

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**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-trick-for-getting-back-to-sleep/664257/62 "2015-02-14T03:17:25Z")

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Actually, I tend to put earbuds/headphones on and listen to TalkRadio (USA).  
The “blah blah blah” plus the noise cancelling effect tends to do the trick for me.

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**Author:** ![Loch\_Raven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Loch\_Raven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loch_Raven)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-trick-for-getting-back-to-sleep/664257/63 "2015-02-14T03:31:34Z")

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A belt of Limoncello always does nicely for me.

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**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-trick-for-getting-back-to-sleep/664257/64 "2015-02-14T03:44:53Z")

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get a radio with a sleep timer and with an earphone output. lay an earbud under ear. listen to non-obnoxious talk radio.

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**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-trick-for-getting-back-to-sleep/664257/65 "2015-02-14T04:05:01Z")

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I find a quarter of an ambien works great when i really need to get to sleep. It gets me out and then the natural sleep takes over.

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