It is a common misconception that everybody can go to bed and wake up at the same time. Some people describe themselves as a “night person”, and they find it much easier to work late, go to bed late and get up late. On the flip side some people like to work early, go to bed early and get up early. Neither is wrong – it just depends on the type of person you are. It is important to realise whether you are a night person or not, if you are then you will find it difficult to go to sleep at what is seen as a conventional time, say 10 or 11pm. It could lead to you lying in bed awake for hours, struggling to sleep, then when it is time to get up you feel shattered, like you haven’t slept well enough or long enough. Some people believe that they are in fact insomniacs when they are experiencing this type of sleep disruption, when in fact it is because they are fighting against their body clock. The same applies to early risers – some people naturally wake at 6am fresh as a daisy, however if they try and stay up late they will struggle and no matter how late they manage to stay up and how tired they are when they go to bed they will still find themselves waking at 6am, more than likely feeling exhausted and frustrated at not being able to sleep any longer.

Night people and early risers suffer from the same frustrations just at opposite ends of the day when they try and enforce an unnatural sleep pattern on their bodies. Unfortunately, in todays world, most people have to stick to a sleep pattern that enables them to get to work for 9am, which means that night people across the UK are turning to insomnia cures to enable them to try and get a half-decent nights sleep. The fact that more and more insomnia cures are appearing on our shelves indicates the increase in people who are finding it difficult to sleep, while not all these people will actually be suffering from insomnia, the fact is more and more people are loosing sleep and trying to find ways to get some of it back.