First, do you sleep alone or accompanied?, because if you sleep (try to sleep), accompanied, then perhaps the energies of the other person were the ones that do not allow you to sleep, they keep you awake.
On the other hand, tell you that it is not necessary to sleep many hours if you sleep soundly. I, for example, have been sleeping only 4 hours a day for more than 20 years, and giving a good performance. Of course, if you feel tired, you need to sleep more and better.
Also tell you that there are periods in a person's life when they can't sleep, they are those periods similar to yours where you just don't feel sleepy. These periods are almost always accompanied by deep sadness and many tears, you don't know why you cry but you cry. This only means that your soul is "cleansing", liberating, healing, and usually has to do with traumatic, painful times of your childhood. Cry woman and rejoice with those tears that fulfill their healing function.
In any case, you can always abandon yourself in the hands of God when you go to sleep, to avoid the intrusion of external energies, do as follows: Ask God to protect you and your dreams.
Psychic tension and nervousness or restlessness due to worries, doubts, uncertainties caused by blockages in the Solar Plexus (frights, annoyances, associated with grief, heartbreak or frustration), are usually the most common cause of insomnia.
You can treat the symptoms by putting a few drops of Lavender Essential Oil on a handkerchief, smelling a little and putting it under your pillow. You can also take a bouquet of fresh or dried lavender and do the same. My best recipe against insomnia is a Perfume Oil made with 10 milliliters of olive oil, 5 drops of Lavender Essential Oil and 4 drops of Sandalwood Essential Oil, you would use it as a normal perfume when you go to sleep, that is on the nape of the neck between the breasts, on the wrists of the hands, etc.
But if you want to treat the root of your insomnia, I recommend that you do a good Healing Therapy and to free the Solar Plexus from the blockages that these sorrows are causing you. You can also acquire my Book, the most complete on the Solar Plexus that exists ( Solar Plexus Chakra Encyclopedia ), where there are techniques, methods and recipes to heal your Solar Plexus.
You do very well not to take medicine (hypnotics), otherwise you will be "hooked" all your life.
Damian Alvarez at http://sistemasanaciontinerfe.blogspot.com/
32 Years Healing and Educating the World