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Sure, that might be easier said than done — especially when it's the middle of the night and you're desperately waiting to fall asleep. But there are several not-so-obvious ways to quiet your thoughts and prep the brain and body for sleep.

当然，这说起来容易做起来难，尤其是你在半夜苦苦等待入睡的时候。但是有几种方法可以悄悄让思绪平静下来，并让大脑和身体为睡眠做好准备。

Instead of taking a hot bath, pouring yourself a night cap or squeezing in a workout before bedtime, here are a few expert-backed ways to dupe your mind into sleep:

和洗个热水澡，给自己倒一杯睡前饮料，或者在睡前锻炼身体这些方法不同，以下专家推荐的方法可以让你的大脑进入睡眠状态：

One of the most effective ways to trick yourself into falling asleep is to, well, try not to sleep. Trying too hard to sleep never works, and all that worry and anxiety about falling asleep is what actually keeps so many people up at night, said Deirdre Conroy, a sleep psychologist and the clinical director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic at the University of Michigan Health Sleep Disorders Centers.

哄骗自己入睡最有效的方法之一就是努力不去入睡。睡眠心理学家、密歇根大学健康睡眠障碍中心行为睡眠医学诊所的临床主任迪尔德丽·康罗伊说，花大力气以求入睡根本没有效果，想入睡而产生的担忧和焦虑实际上才是许多人夜不能寐的原因。

By doing the opposite and forcing yourself to lie in bed and stay awake all night — a phenomenon called paradoxical intention — you'll unintentionally doze off at some point. “In your mind, you're actually trying to stay up but sleep will eventually kick in,” Conroy said.