Don't count sheep if you want to sleep

I heard on the radio recently that when it comes to finding methods to get to sleep that counting sheep is meant to be avoided.

Despite it being a long held example of what to do to drift off to sleep, apparently, it’s a fruitless exercise and doesn’t aid dozing off at all. I’ll admit I gave it up myself once the electronic identification (EID) came on the scene.

While the advice might be to stop counting sheep, a neighbour of mine remains a firm advocate and swears by the count the number of legs and divide by four, method. Each to their own I suppose.