Not really what OP asked, but I think it's far more important to try and fix the cause of why you can't go to sleep, instead of working on the symptoms. 1. Try

Not really what OP asked, but I think it's far more important to try and fix the cause of why you can't go to sleep, instead of working on the symptoms. 1. Try to go to bed at the same time every day (and sleep the same amount of time). I'm a night owl and can easily move my day on, but moving it back is very difficult. 2. Sleeping ritual. Mine is pretty simple, I turn the lights off, climb in bed and lie on my right hand side. After a bit (1-10 minutes) I will turn over and then I'm pretty much immediately asleep. If you repeat something it will become ingrained (and will work most of the time). 3. Fix all sources of disturbances. Partner, pets, light, noise etc. 4. Learning to switch your brain off. Try not to watch/read something that's too emotionally charged before bed. 5. After that everything else that has already been mentioned, eating too close to going to bed, having drunk something so you need to get up to pee etc. For most people sleep shouldn't be a problem, they just have terrible habits and/or environment.