Review: Standard Sleep-Promoting Advice in Booklet Form
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2011
This book doesn't contain any new insights or tips for getting a perfect night's sleep.  However, it does contain standard "sleep hygiene" advice (i.e. don't watch TV or lounge around in bed, make your room as dark as possible for sleeping, etc.).However, I have to say that many of the sleep hygiene tips can be somewhat anxiety-provoking for someone who suffers from stress-related insomnia because they require fairly stringent time-keeping and meticulous rule following.  For people who already have relatively good sleep hygiene, it may actually be counterproductive to add additional sleep hygiene rules to their routine.  My doctor actually advised me against going "over the top" with the body clock resetting strategies and the like.Readers who have never heard of proper sleep hygiene may pick up a few helpful tips from this book, but most chronic insomniacs who have done any reading about insomnia or have gotten any sleep tips from their doctors will probably have already heard and/or tried most of the advice in this book.