text: okay this is serious..................? i've done took 3 sleep aides about an hour and a half ago, not working.  i cant sleep and i have a really big day tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!  aaaawww help!!!!!!!!!!!! sometimes sleep aides don't work if you are really uptight. you must turn your brain off, if you can.  try meditating if you can, put all your problems into a basket.  take them one at a time and place them in the basket, and when you are done, send them to god.  i used to put people i was worried about on a bus.  one by one i put them on the bus.  when they were all on the bus, i imagined god as the driver, and i let him take them in his bus away to take care of them. it might help you.  another way, is to visualize a white light above your head, concentrate on it, and see it, feel it and it's love. bring it down through the top of your head, feel it's warmth and relaxing your brain. then bring it down to your eyes, nose, mouth, neck, shoulders, torso, all the muscles you can imagine, on down to the legs, also through the arms, and hands, just keep on going to the feet. the more you can envision the better, then just relax each thing that you go to and relax it. by the time you are through, you will be relaxed. you have to only concentrate on each area of your body and nothing else. this works too. i believe it is part of yoga. you must block out any other thing in your mind, and that means the things you are worrying about, or it won't work. p.s. i am not a guy as the picture shows, i am a older woman who has used this to block out cancer when i was being treated with radiation.  the inner meditation visualizing your inner self and fighting diseases also is encouraged by the cancer support groups. i have been cancer free 20 yrs. it was breast cancer, and i elected to not have them removed, it was early stage, but i did take radiation and surgery to only remove the small tumor. it does not work for everyone, this type of treatment, but do what your gut tells you, and also the doctor of course. i also took tomoxifin for 5 yrs, but the stress of it coming back was with me for a very long time. stress can kill, so try to control it as best you can.