Cannot sleep in the dark and cannot fall asleep without the TV on. I find that I cannot shut my mind off at night to go to sleep. I need a TV show/movie which I know well enough not to need to watch it to see what happens and is not a favorite enough to want to see it again – Married with children and original Law and Order work well. I turn volume down to just on and also run through info in my head – presidents, presidents wives, states in alphabetical order or reverse or by map location. I need to focus my mind so that it does not wander. Even so I often don’t fall asleep until after dawn.
Cannot sleep in the dark and cannot fall asleep without the TV on. I find that I cannot shut my mind off at night to go to sleep. I need a TV show/movie which I know well enough not to need to watch it to see what happens and is not a favorite enough to want to see it again – Married with children and original Law and Order work well. I turn volume down to just on and also run through info in my head – presidents, presidents wives, states in alphabetical order or reverse or by map location. I need to focus my mind so that it does not wander. Even so I often don’t fall asleep until after dawn.