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Insomnia - I just can't sleep

26/03/2005
Australians love to sleep, and recent research proves it. While most of the world stays up past midnight, over half of Australians are tucked up by 11pm. And if we don't get a good 8 hours kip, we're complaining. But a significant number of the rest of us are obsessed by sleep for a different reason. We know we need it. We really want it. But try as we might, the Elysian fields of sleep elude us. Has chronic insomnia become the great affliction of the 21st Century? Self confessed insomniac Gretchen Miller investigates, hoping she too might find the key to slumber.