There are always going to be times when you are going to have trouble sleeping. It could be that you are not falling asleep when you lie down at tonight, or perhaps you get to sleep, but you wake up time and time again and are unable to get back to dreamland. If you are dealing with these problems over a long period of time you are experiencing severe insomnia and you are going to have some health problems, if you do not already have some, if you don’t do something to correct the problem. You need to sleep, and without it, your life is going to suffer.

Not falling asleep once in a while is not severe insomnia, though it may feel like it. Someone with severe bouts of insomnia are the people you see falling asleep at their desk or in meetings, and are also the ones that never have any energy to go out and do anything. Along the same lines, however, you may see them posting on Facebook at two, three, or even four in the morning because they go tired of tossing and turning and decided to get up and so something interesting. If you fit into any of these scenarios, you may be having problems that need attention.

There are few simple things that you can try to do to reverse having trouble sleeping on your own. One of these would be to cut out any caffeine after two or three in the afternoon. Some people drink coffee in the morning and then drink caffeinated sodas for the rest of the day. If you are sensitive to caffeine, a soda at four PM could keep you up past midnight. Also, make sure you use white noise and have thick curtains that block out light in your bedroom. Remove the television or computer, as those can keep you awake, even if they are not being used or even on.

There was a study done a couple of years ago into what taking a nap for 45 minutes in the middle of the day could do for someone who had a normal sleep rhythm. It found that it could improve your immunity, improve your memory and lower your blood pressure. And it works the same way even if you suffer from shift work syndrome where you have a job where you just can’t sleep at night- such as the job of an emergency services worker, a police officer or an airline pilot. If you have a normal ability to sleep, the bottom line is that a little nap midway through your waking hours for the day (or night) will do you world of good.

If your ability to sleep is even a little impaired, if you have insomnia of any kind or intensity, naps can do the exact opposite for you of what you expect them to. Rest yourself in the middle of the day, and you throw your sleep pattern even farther out of whack than it already is. If your sleep problems come through poor sleep habits, jetlag, stress or anything, a mid-day nap can only help intensify the problem. You have a fragmented sleep pattern as it is, and the nap only becomes one more part of it.

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