I think everyone has trouble sleeping at some time. Now that I'm getting older (I just turned 60) I have lots more trouble sleeping than I did twenty or thirty years ago. I woke last night to go to the bathroom and was awake an hour or more. I usually just keep laying there and trying to sleep and eventually fall asleep again. I am retired so don't have to get up at any particular time and if I get up and am sleepy again after a bit I can go back to bed, etc. Sometimes I get up, go downstairs and get something easy to eat (yogurt, piece of fruit, toast, etc.) and if it's after five or six o'clock in the morning, sometimes I'll try to get up for good, will make a pot of coffee and see how it goes.

I read before bed and have whatever I'm reading to think about as I try to fall asleep initially. When I wake in the night, I often have been dreaming and have a piece of a dream to wonder about or some activity I'm looking forward to (or dreading :-) the next day or in the week(s) ahead. Maybe make a list of things you'd like to think about instead of how well you are sleeping and grab one a night as you go to bed?