Your are the Snorax you sleep with the trees

I keep a copy of my automobile insurance policy near my bedside for this purpose. The success rate is 100%, since I'll awake in the morning still holding the policy halfway through.

Counting sheep trees

I often have that problem. I put on whatever history documentaries or podcasts that have smooth voices and slow down the audio, thru my earbuds and fall asleep that way. Works better than all that sleep sounds/ music ever did

I used to have a book about The Simpsons. It had a collection of jokes and it was very colorful and well illustrated. It helped me calm my anxiety induced insomnia by distracting my brain enough into mindless jokes (they were bad) to finally find sleep again.

Thanks OP, this sparked something in me.

I also have trouble falling asleep sometimes. Multiple times a week even. I usually read my fiction book before bed but sometimes that can get really exciting and keep me up even longer.

I found a bunch of "instructional" and "reference" material on project Gutenberg. I've been using these types of books lately when I can't sleep and it's been working great.

I usually just read whatever (fiction) book I'm reading. I don't need it to be a particularly boring one. It varies a bit how far I get but usually not that many pages before I know it's time.