I've never understood how so e people are able to just put their head down on the pillow and... Go to sleep. Within minutes.

Even when I'm tired, trying to sleep normally involveds at least a half hour argument with my brain to persuade it to at least consider switching off.

@garius I don’t manage to switch my brain off. I try to redirect it; instead of working through something, I try to think about a story or a memory or a place I want to go to and how that would be. That seems to trick the brain into the dream world. Doesn’t always work, though, sometimes it takes ages especially going back to sleep.