Usually means: Mentally tally sheep to sleep.
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  1. count sheep: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. count sheep: Wiktionary
  3. count sheep: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Definitions from Wiktionary (count sheep)

verb:  (idiomatic) To attempt to go to sleep by thinking of something boring, traditionally by counting imaginary sheep.

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