Insomnia

It's 3.04 AM on a Sunday and I really ought to be asleep by now. However, I'm not, for the following reasons:

- I've eaten way too much sugar

- John will not stop snoring or grinding his teeth, and -

- I didn't get up till half past 2. Fail.

How the hell do you break a rubbish sleeping pattern? I'm not lazy. Ok, I am. But not in a sense that I just can't be bothered to get up and do something with my day. I just literally CANNOT wake up in the mornings. I set my alarm for 10am every day (10!! 10am!! Who even needs to set an alarm for 10am!! Most would consider that a generous lie-in) - but I either don't hear it or turn it off while I'm only about 2% awake. I then generally wake up 2 hours later feeling like a train has been dropped on my head and I had a bottle of night nurse with my dinner the night before. I don't understand it.

Lucky for me I don't start work until 2pm most days.

This sleeping (or lack thereof) lark is a vicious circle. I don't wake up until midday. So then I can't fall asleep until 4am. Or I fall asleep at midnight, then wake back up at 4, and don't fall asleep again until 8am. So then I wake up again at midday having tried to salvage a full 8 hours sleep. So then I don't fall asleep until.... zzzzz. (Not.)

Nothing works.

I have tried Kalms (make you tired ALL the time)

Camomile tea (not keen on the taste, end up replacing with normal tea which is full of caffeine)

Reading (If it's a book worth reading, then you'll bloody stay and up read it, won't you?)

Counting sheep (do one)

Eating a tonne of cheese (does nothing to help you sleep but makes your dreams really fucking cool)

Radox (it just... doesn't work...)

Hot milk (gives me a stomach ache)

and... Alcohol (which doesn't bode well for NOT feeling like a train has been dropped on your head the following morning.)

Blogging isn't exactly helping either, funnily enough.

I'm yawning now. But that doesn't mean anything.

Tips, please...