Why did no one tell us that as you start getting older, you start having trouble sleeping? Some of us have trouble falling asleep, some of us wake up in the middle of the night — or even worse an hour before the alarm goes off — and are dull and tired the rest of the day.

We asked readers and Eugene Weekly staffers how they deal with their bouts of insomnia.

Reader remedies

• I’ve cut out coffee to get off of the stimulus-crash cycle. To get to sleep I count my breaths, one through four, and slow it down. Slower breathing sends a message to the brain that it’s OK to relax and sleep. Going to bed and getting up at the same time helps. Better to skip late night TV, but I watch it anyway. Fiction is the only drug I haven’t been able to give up. — Lynn Porter

• Yoga Nidra or “yogic slee

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