Counting Sheep - It Does Not Work. Period.

Last night I could not sleep. I was wide awake and remember the clock showing 4am. And to make things worse I had to wake up at 6am. The thing I do not understand is the counting sheep thing.

At some point last night, who knows what stupid time it was , but I tried this counting sheep business. I don't get how it works. If anything I made me more awake trying to get the numbers right and whether the sheep are black or white, shaved or un-shaved, are they jumping over a fence or aren't they, is there a farmer chasing me because he thinks I'm gonna nick his sheep? There is a lot going through your head when it comes to counting sheep and it just makes you more awake.

I don't see how that could ever work, and after seeing that it wasn't going to I decided to try other things, like turn the TV off. That worked.