I kept waking up at 3 a.m. with racing thoughts — now I fall back asleep in seconds thanks to this expert-backed method

The main image shows a woman in bed asleep. In the bottom right corner is an ident showing a close up of an alarm clock at 3 a.m..

It's 3 a.m. and your brain refuses to shut off, but all you want is some shut-eye. When I recently found myself struggling with the dreaded middle insomnia, I decided to stress-test a sleep expert's strange hack: the 'fake blink'.

This calming method stops your brain from wandering, so you can get back to sleep. It only takes 30 seconds to work and I found it effective from night one.