Question: The best method I have found after 15 years of insomnia and delayed sleep phase syndrome (don’t worry, it comes and goes and the issues are not always consistent) – is melatonin.
A small does like 1mg, 3-5 hours before bed, and another dose an hour/half an hour before bed (desired sleep time).This will more than likely help you maintain sleep patterns and i have actually found is more effective than sleeping pills.However, the best advice (as per above), is to get very little sleep (4-5 hours), and work back from 6am, to 5am to 4am etc by just being so freaking tired. This will start working after 2 or 3 nights of sleep deprivation. However, this means no late nights, no one offs etc, you’ll fall back into the same pattern.