20 years ago I was given a couple of Normison to take on a transatlantic flight to help me sleep. It was economy on an American Airlines 747!!Thats how long ago it was....(747's long gone). .Didnt sleep a wink and felt awful at the other end- totally spaced out. Never touched a sleeping pill since. However....whilst getting involved in home childbirth I did get involved in techniques of self hypnosis to allay pain in my wife. I had an amazing session with an obstetrician who was also a hypnotherapist. She helped my wife with a way of controlling her own pain without drugs etc., and seeing as I was in the room she wondered if I wanted to share in the technique.. .It worked, and not only did natural childbirth happen willy nilly, but I retained the ability to drop off to sleep/relax under most circumstances simply by recalling and visualising the images remembered from the initial sessions.. .loads better than pills.