To get a good night's sleep, you have to understand there's a mind and body connection. Both the mind, as well as the body, need to relax.

The most important thing is to relax before you go to bed, have a standard fixed sleeping time and avoid exercise or heavy meals two to three hours before bedtime.

People may have temporary lapses from the sleeping pills. They may have motor and coordination (problems). Sometimes, elderly patients may fall at night.

Writing out a prescription is a quick, temporary fix. It's a lot easier to write a prescription than sit down and try to figure out what the potential reasons that could be contributing to the lack of sleep.

No matter how good the schedule is, nothing replaces sleeping when your body clock actually wants you to sleep.

The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations. One set concerns representations of key events in an individual's autobiography, on the basis of which a notion of identity can be reconstructed repeatedly, by partial activation in topologically organized sensory maps. ...
In brief, the endless reactivation of updated images about our identity (a combination of memories of the past and of the planned future) constitutes a sizable part of the state of self as I understand it.
The second set of representations underlying the neural self consists of the primordial representations of an individual's body ... Of necessity, this encompasses background body states and emotional states. The collective representation of the body constitute the basis for a "concept" of self, much as a collection of representations of shape, size, color, texture, and taste can constitute the basis for the concept of orange.