I get insomnia twice a year. In the winter when it gets very cold and in the summer when it is extremely hot. One summer I went to the doctor and she gave me sleeping pills for two weeks. That helped a lot because it got me back on a sleeping schedule. I've tried every trick I know but this insomnia looks like it is going to track right along with the bitter cold we are experiencing. I don't know what the actual connection is other than during both periods I do not get outside as much as I like -- yet I have to be outside (because I walk quite a distance to work from the bus stop) regardless of how bad the weather is. So I get all the suffering of extreme weather without any of the fun of being outside. Ai yai yai! So irritating. And when the clocks lurch forward and stagger back -- well, that messes with my internal sleep regulatory mechanism, too. I'm nothing more than a groggy, cranky animal. A groggy, cranky animal with depression. Now that is just not right.