I find it hard to sleep, I usually only get a solid night's sleep once a week (usually on the weekend where I totally crash for like 12 hours). I lucid dream a lot, so it is fun to sleep, but it also makes me wake up sometimes. Some nights I just lie in bed for hours.

My wife sleeps well, but I always wake her up, which I feel terrible about. She has a million pillows stacked on her head when she sleeps and I wrap myself like a burrito with the covers. She has fans going, the window cracked and a humidifier. I suggest all or a combo of these things.

I don't get to bed before midnight ever and sometimes not until 230 am or so. I have to get up by 7 to take my wife to the train and have coffee and such. For awhile I was getting up at 5 or 6 am all ready for the day.

I watched a documentary series on the brain and how it works. Apparently, your dreams are just a mashup of things that happened that day. Also, in order to dream you need to be in REM sleep which is only a short period of time - which accounts for the time illusions. You can also train yourself to lucid dream if that thing would help you sleep.