Endless Sheep or Endless Sleep? (2)

My sleep-filled nights are still very hit or miss as we enter into our fourth week of school.  Sometimes I fall right to sleep, and other times I lay wide awake for what feels like eternity.  I'm deciding that my thought process once I get into bed is what keeps me up or helps me fall asleep faster.  For example, if I lay down at night and my brain takes off thinking about what stresses me out or events during the day that effected me negatively, then it takes me longer to fall asleep.  Sometimes it doesn't even matter how exhausted I feel!  I'll still lay awake at night thinking about absolutely everything, even if my body is basically begging me to just relax and sleep.  I haven't ever come up with a solution to this, either.  However, last night as I got into bed I listened to music and laid on my back so I could stare at the ceiling, then let my thoughts wander until I started to feel tired.  Once that happened, I turned everything off and fell asleep right away.  I don't know if this is a remedy to my sleepless nights, but I plan to continue experimenting with this nightly ritual.  Other times I can't seem to get enough sleep though.  If I'm lucky, sometimes I can lay down and immediately fall asleep with no problem, and then continue sleeping all the way through the night.  When that happens, I usually have a harder time getting up in the mornings (which seems backwards to me).  Either way, I'm trying to find a happy medium between getting good sleep at night and waking up easier in the mornings.

On another note, I haven't been remembering as many of my dreams.  I vaguely remember my dream from last night, but I didn't recognize any people I knew.  It's said that the faces you see in your dreams cannot be conjured up by your brain, therefore I have seen those people in my dream at one time, I just don't personally know them.  Hopefully I'll begin to have more exciting dreams again.