My rules:
- Get some excercise each day. Even in a cramped hotel-room you can get your heart rate up and make yourself tired. Crunches, push-ups, squats etc.
If you manage to make yourself physically tired, you will sleep better.
- Go to bed before it's to late. When I start yawning I know it's time. Be quick about it aswell, don't let the sleeptrain pass. You will be even more tired when the next "train" comes 3-4 hours later and by then you might be so tired you might not get any sleep that night. It takes energy to go to sleep. If you're too tired, you simply won't have any control over it.
- Don't watch the telly. It's amazing. I've never seen a lord of the rings film without dozing off after the first half hour. But whenever I'm in bed it's like curiosity gets the better out of me. I start flipping the channels to see if there's something better on and all of a sudden it's 03:00.
- Read a really boring book. I allways have a Franz Kafka book in my crewbag. I never seem to get past the second chapter.
/LnS