no caffeine after 2 pm, read a book, or leave the tv on the history channel...not the news till it puts me to sleep....if none of that works, then i get my sleep when napping during the day.... and no I do not work...
they say warmed milk works, but i have never tried it.
Oh and if all else fails, NyQuil works every time!

My day's not even half over by 2pm.
I know!
and THAT is where my insomnia problem lies, with my caffeine intake after 2 pm that i feel is necessary...i take the coffee... regardless of the insomnia, but if it gets really bad, then i follow my own rule the following day and stop the caffeine at 2pm and by 9 pm I am sound asleep and exhausted....
then i get in to the 'waking up at 4=5am routine'! Which I actually like, alot more than I ever thought I could when younger...i don't think I ever made it to work on time my entire career...just not a morning person back then...my best work was done in the evening, when everyone else left me alone and went home....and I had about 10 cups of Jo in me already!
But now, it is really strange, but i love to see the sunrise....which happens across the meadow and behind the hills in my front house view....it is just gorgeous. My mother says, what? It is just an overgrown FIELD? hahahahaha! But to me it is a meadow and God's land and picturesque view!
I hate it when I go through nights at a time being up and sleeping my days away...but I also like my coffee!