Thread: Trouble falling asleep

I typically go to bed at about 10, fall asleep at nearly midnight, and wake up at about 7. If anybody can assist me in falling to sleep in a fast manner I would greatly appreciate that.

What happens is I'll lay down in be being tired, but I'll suddenly become aware of my surrounding right before falling asleep. I can only compare this to zoning out deep in thought and then becoming aware of my surroundings on my own in the same way as if someone started calling my name and I were to notice. This is probably because when I lay in bed I constantly think about a lot (not just from the current day but from whatever my thinking leads me to think about next and so on). I have determined that what I do before bed (whether it is playing games, watching TV, reading, programming, or if I go to bed after preparing for bed since I take showers before sleeping).

I automatically become aware of reality when I don't want to, (whether I amthinking about that or not) usually right before falling to sleep. Is there a way to help prevent this?

And each night I become more tired because I wake up in the morning typically WHILE dreaming. If I can get to sleep faster it should be easier for me to survive with school. And I had this problem last year right before summer so the reason is not because I am not used to going to be early enough, since during the summer this happens to and I have been consistently waking up at 10 AM every morning and going to bed at midnight.

P.S. I found this website because someone at a forum I am a member of posted about Lucid dreams. I then remembered a LD that I had with little awareness but great power over which I described here.