If You Cannot Fall Asleep
Most people know the feeling. You are exhausted. The day has been long and heavy. You lie down, close your eyes — and nothing happens. The mind keeps running. The minutes stretch. You check the time, which makes it worse. Half an hour passes, then an hour, and somewhere in the background a familiar thought begins to form: I am not going to sleep again tonight. For people living through war — in cities under missile threat, in temporary housing, in shelters, near the front — this experience is not occasional. It is the texture of every night. The body is tired but the nervous system refuses to stand down. Sirens , sounds, the habit of listening even while lying still, the weight of everything that happened and everything that might happen — all of it crowds into the hours that were supposed to belong to rest. This article is for anyone in that situation. It does not promise a cure. It offers a few concrete steps that can make the night slightly less of a battle. The twenty-minute rule...