9781422285770

10

3:12 am . . .

It’s very late, but you can’t fall asleep. You lie in bed and stare at the ceiling. You start thinking about how tired you’ll be tomorrow. You know sleep is important because adults say so all the time. You worry that you’ll feel lousy all day. You know that worrying just makes things worse. So you close your eyes and try to relax. You count imaginary sheep in your head. You lie there for what feels like hours. You look at the clock again.

When you have trouble sleeping, thinking about how you can’t sleep makes you feel even worse.

3:25 am . . .

This inability to fall asleep is called insomnia , and it happens to everyone once in a while. As long as it doesn’t go on for