Keep your feet warm, someones just given me some nice fluffy socks.
Drink Hot Milk with Cinnamon in.
Reading before bed gets me tired.
Dont Eat cheese right before bed.
have a warm Bath but not Hot.
Gord...is there anything that works !
What's sleep...it's so long since I had any 
I go to bed tired but cant sleep through the night . Dont know why i keep waking up at 2am then cant drop off agian for what seems like hours . Tried going to bed at a set time & getting up at a set time to try to get into a system but it makes no difference .
Mind you OH's snoring dosnt help 
I get a humming sound in one ear, so to get to sleep I have a radio with headphones, I set the sleep button for 30mins and put in one headphone in the ear that's not on the pillow. I never get to the 30mins!!!!! I use it too if I wake in the middle of the night, it's the only way I can get back to sleep. I don't disturb the OH either. I have it set for radio4extra or radio4 which is more boring, this way if they drone on I still get to sleep.
I don't know how lucky I am ! My head touches the pillow about midnight and I'm gone. I stagger out for a wee about two am and again about 6 or 7 but hardly remember it. I surface between 8 and 8.30, but I could go back to sleep if I wouldn't feel so guilty. 
Forgot to say, hubby gets up at 5am. His alarm goes off, he puts the light on while he gets washed and dressed, then he brings me a cup of tea and puts the light on again at some point but I never hear any of this. The tea is always stone cold when I wake up. 
Same here, Merc! I think I could read every tip there is and sleep would still elude me. So nice to know there are lots of us on here in the same boat, though, at least we can support each other 
Sometimes getting to sleep is a problem for me.
I've found that if I'm not asleep within 30 - 40 minutes, it's best to get up and go downstairs. I have a drink of hot chocolateo , take a couple of paracetomols, have a bit of a read of my book. After 20 - 30 minutes I go back to bed and do usually drop off quite easily.
Also if I can't sleep I try not to keep looking at the time while I'm in bed, if I have to get up for work at a certain time then the diminishing sleep time becomes a worry, which doesn't help.
Sometimes I can't sleep and don't think to get up, just surely I must fall asleep soon. Or it's so late, I don't want it to be another 30 minutes before I'm even trying to sleep.
But I really should follow my own advice, as it tends to work for me 
A lettuce sandwich is excellent advice towery.
Lettuce contains something called Lactucarium, which has sedative and analgesic effects 
oh yes audio books are good too, I never got to the end of chapter.
I fall asleep quite quickly really, I only use the radio to get rid of the humming in me ear'ole which stops me falling asleep....does that make sense!!
they say you should have a little bit of supper though don't they? We used to have toast at 10pm when I lived at home as a child.
I have started to have a little trouble sleeping, but i think me getting stressed so much just makes me tired and i sleep. I dream especially now on my pills and i can feel like i have been taking an active part in a full length feature film. Last night was bad, not a vary nice dream either very strange.... I used to sleep in the afternoon but try not too now as i dont work in the evening any more and also it stops me sleeping so well at night. Sleep is a funny thing when you think about it.
don't by an LED alarm clock, ours lit up the room like a lighthouse!!! and you got in the habit of looking at the **bleep** thing all the time, if I woke up I'd look at the time.
I bought a cheap £1.99 old fashioned alarm clock from A*da and it's perfect
