I just found a really great post on To Done! with Tips for getting to sleep faster & sleeping better.
My favorite:
Don’t watch TV or even so much as look at a computer screen atleast 30 minutes before you lie down. The light from both a television as well as a computer monitor mimic the same intensity of light as sunlight. This fools your body and brain into thinking it’s nowhere near time for sleep.
[…] [snip] This is an ongoing item of interest for me… as my sleep patterns get worse. But, honestly, other than this great info on why I may not be sleepging, it didn’t give me any ideas on how to correct it. […]