Do we stay awake for long hours during the night, find it difficult to fall asleep even when we are exhausted and do we go to bed ready to sleep but cannot do so? Sleep onset insomnia can cause loss of focus, excessive sleepiness during the day, irritability and trouble holding and engaging in conversations. Excessive pain, existing chronic conditions, disturbance in the sleep cycle, restless leg syndrome, anxiety, and drugs can also cause sleep-initiating insomnia. Sleep maintenance insomnia may also cause disturbances. Keeping at least a two-hour gap between rest and dinner time ensures the food digests, and we do not suffer from heartburn and belching issues. Seeking professional help from counsellors and therapists can be a great way of treating sleep maintenance and sleep-onset insomnia. One can overcome these conditions with proper care, lifestyle medications, good routines, and vital sleep hygiene.