Help understanding insomnia

its my boyfriend who has insomnia I have never had it so don't understand it. To me if you are tired you fall asleep if you're not tired you don't. Obviously for people with insomnia it's not that simple. My boyfriend admitted to having insomnia a few month back. Up til yesterday he has seemed fine with it not being too tired in day on days I've seen him. There has been the odd times he has been tired and fell asleep easy with me but even after 3 nights struggling to sleep which led to him having headache through lack of sleep he seemed fine. Earlier this week we spoke and he said he was struggling to sleep more but didn't seem too bad. Yesterday he admitted he hadn't slept too good night before and for first time in ages I could tell. We unfortunately was in a car crash which wasn't either of our faults he seemed to cope better than me we were both fine but shook up. After all that was over neither of us felt like doing anything so just cuddled up and he fell asleep I left him to catch up on some sleep but he still seemed as tired when he woke up yet last night he struggled to sleep again. Now that doesn't make sense as he was obviously more than tired enough to sleep and wasn't too shaken up to sleep yet at night he couldn't sleep. The only explanation could be he's used to sleeping with someone til he lost his partner last year. He's in no way trying to use this to get me in bed as its him who's not wanting to rush sleeping with me and wants to get used to sleeping alone if he can. Is there anything he could try taking or doing to help him sleep he's had sleeping tablets not sure which ones, but he doesn't like using them as he knows he can't use them every night and the night after using them he can't sleep again.he says he's tried going bed and getting up at same time every day but didn't work. He said he is using medication for hay fever which is safe to use every day to make him drowsy before bed. He said it was working but obviously not now.

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