The Paradox of Sleeplessness: Why Getting Out of Bed Might Be the Only Way In The latest sleep advice from experts is counterintuitive: instead of lying in bed and willpowering yourself to sleep, get up and do something else.
This technique has been around since the 1970s but still seems to contradict our natural instincts.
Sleep specialists Shelby Harris and Michael Perlis argue that lying in bed when struggling to fall asleep is the worst thing you can do.