Lying awake, hour after hour, craving sleep is a recipe for frustration and misery – and can impact on your health, too. However, there are some simple solutions you can try – and some of them might surprise you…

“Sleep scientists have found various enjoyable waking activities which are effective in bringing a sounder sleep,” he explains. He points out that something as simple as a relaxing hot bath before bed, can make you instantly sleepy and encourage deeper sleep. Professor Horne says that feeling sleepy is all to do with warming up the body, and then cooling it down again.“The body needs to cool down before a night’s sleep, which seems at odds with having that bath,” he says. “But drying off afterwards accelerates this cooling; meaning that your body overcompensates, radiating out more heat than was gained in the bath and further speeding up sleep.”
The telegraph