1. Challenge Assumptions 2
Team - 26019
Too Worried to Sleep : Modern life has a lot stresses that cause us to lose sleep. Losing
sleep also creates stress. A endless loop of insomnia can be created. Our team 26019 will tackle
this problem and come up with 100 solutions.
Solutions proposed by our team:
1. Drink chamomile infusion.
2. Drink milk with honey.
3. Practice actives meditations, in order to focus on positive thoughts before sleep.
4. Daily Exercise: to generate more endorphins and oxytocin , it will help to cope with a
better aptitude towards problems.
5. Take a warm bath.
6. Avoid sugar, coffee, or any stimulant drink before sleeping, some hours before
sleeping.
7. Practice Gibberish meditation: this is a meditations with nonsensical sounds in order
to quiet the mind, it helps to clear the mind
8. Go to a psychologist , he or she might help you to deal with the problems, some of the
problems just need a different approach.
9. Drink some valeriana infusion.
10. Listening to some pleasant and relaxing music before sleep.
11. Have positive sex, the kind of sex that help you forget about problems, help you have
positive endorphins and not the kind of give you one more issue to worried.
12. Talk to some good and positive friends about your problems, sometimes friends have
a different approach, sometimes they light up your live or sometimes make you sleep.
13. Practice some yoga postures before sleep, like inversion postures such Shirshasana,
Sarvangasana, that helps irrigate the brain and well you will see the world from a
different perspective.
14. Take out your bedroom all the distractive equipments, such as TV, radio, Pc, laptops,
sometimes people kept distracted with tv o computers and they can not sleep because
the sleeping time is out.
15. Do something very different and positive before sleep, it will change the thought of
worried to some positive thoughts.
16. Do something kind for someone , kindness changes perspectives and helps sleep.
17. If you really do not fall asleep, get out the bed and do something else, so you will
not associate the bed with bad thoughts , subconscious is a very serious issue.
18. Take one or more pillows, find place (not the bed) and shout all your problems
very loud at your pillow, it will release your tensions, people will not be disturbed if you
scream and in any case you will be tired and fall asleep.

2. 19. Dance before sleep, just as nobody is seeing you, it makes you feel relaxed and give
you a change of perspective.
20. Do not procrastinate, sometimes worries comes from procrastination, so we go to
bed with a large to do list that transform itself into a monster , that makes us worried and
prevent us from sleep
21. A cranial massage. This week I babysit a baby cat and before sleep the cat literally
give me a massage on the base of my head, because he likes to play before sleep and
sleep on the head of the bed, it was very relaxing :). I look at internet and there is a:
22. A cranial sacral massage, helps you to release the tensions and make you sleep
better.
23. Use a lavender splash or lavender essential oil some articles said that lavender oil
helps to depress the central nervous system as a tranquilizer.
24. Some north american natives such as ojibwe use a dream catcher to filter the bad
dreams, worries are like bad dream.
25. Said goodnight to your worries, send them to sleep to.
26. If you can not get rid of your worries, make peace with them and go to sleep with
them, but sleep.
27. Rehearse every night for 6 to 8 hours at least the sleeping beauty or handsome part
where they sleep, it might be a trick for your subconcious. (arriving to the think out the
box part)
28. Before sleep have a lucid dream, think you are a gardener and every problem is a bad
plan and you clean the ground of all the bad plants, then you should did to the root of
your worries until you find the very root, after a while I guess you will fall asleep. (this
might be therapeutically and I am still thinking out the box) .
29. If you can get rid of the worries and can not sleep, then do something useful, like
clean the house, do some handcraft, at least you will feel useful.
30. Read 10 times the 100 solutions to sleep, I guess it will inspire you to sleep.
31. Drink a lettuce leaf infusion.
32. Go to a psychologist and ask for a prescription for pills to sleep.
33. Count Sheeps until you fall asleep
34. Try to read a book or a magazine to relax.
35. If you have your TV in your room watch a tv program that does not have your
interested. If you're bored it’s possible that you fall asleep
36. Buy a pillow pet to get some cuddle company in the night
37. Practice some kind of relaxation with your breathe until you fall asleep
38.Think in white or in your favorite color... Only in your favorite color until you fall
asleep
39. Do or buy a teddy bear that looks and smells like that one that you had in your
childhood. (We can do a product with this.... a bear with a smell of wood, a bunny with
smell of strawberries, a dog with a smell of vanilla....) and cuddle your teddy bear to fall
asleep
40. Establish a bedtime ritual like this: Turn on a scented candle, take a warm bath, take
some bach remedies and go to the bed.... (We can do a kit for this.... your best bedtime
ritual... with your favorite smells based in aromatherapy)

3. 41. Drink a glass of warm milk (an ancient remedy for sleep)
42. Keep a sleep journal trying differents methods to fall asleep and decide what is better
for you...(this also can be a product)
43. Pet a soft ball with your hand
44. Squeeze a soft animal between your feet
45. Put a tennis ball under your back, your attention is more on the pain, than on the
worry.
46. Write your worry down and throw your paper away
47. Call your mother
49. Get up and iron your shirt
50. Have a blanket that play a lullaby
51. Drink some scotch
52. Solve a rubik's cube
53. Count till 10000
54. Imagine sheep that jump above a fence and count them
55. Find another worry
56. Sleep in a bed that is remind the womb of a mother
57. Sleep in a rocking bed
59. Use a machine ( to be invented) that erase worries
60. Pray
61. Have a workout in the morning
62. Playing Monopoly
63. Knitting
64. Eat turkey
65. Read a foreign language
66. Watching a intellectual indian or turkish movie
67. Getting drunk
68. Listen nature sound
69. Change the bed position
70. Change the linen type
71. Play puzzle on your phone
72. Sleep outside
73. Sleep in a hammock
74. Sleep during day
75. Having a great meal that put yourself in a food coma
76. Solving your problem
77. Call to your grand mother
78. Sleep with your pet
79. Have a baby and you will be exhausted and you’ll sleep
80. Turn the fan on.
81. Sleep close a washing machine one
82. Watching a boring sport
83. Lowering the temperature in your house
84. Don’t take vitamins at night

4. 85. Put a clock or watch clicking by your ear
86. Wait for the sleeping dust
87. Have a special blanket to wrap you in
88. Listen to audio book
89. Align your body
90. Orient your bed to have the head to the north
91. Rearrange the bedroom following the rules of Feng-Shui
92. Acupunture
93. List things. Ex.- List birds: parrot, hummingbird, etc.
94. Read a boring story to a child
95. Get a child read a story to you
96. Get someone or something rub your hair
97. Wear a hat with rubbing hands inside
98. Solve some math problem
99. Cut down fluid few hours before going to bed
100. Sleep in reclined chair
101. Go to a yawn meeting or a yawn support group
102. Count backwards from 100
103. have sex
Team members:
Emmanuelle Jean
Francy Garcia
Eugenia Hernandez
Gabriela Escoto
Paul McManus
Brian Pedrazzani