Are there any methods that help one fall asleep faster?

I usually leave the TV on, and set the timer on it. I set the timer for 60 minutes, but I usually fall asleap in about 5 to 10. If I am on a business trip, I put on some heavy metal, blast it real loud, and it puts me to sleep like a light. If I don't have something to distract me, my senses become hightened and more focused, so the lightest of taps in the hallway, or the slightest of light changes catches my attention, and I can't sleep until I investigate what happened. This was once really bad when I had some serious insomnia, and I heard a gunshot upstairs in my apartment building. My senses were so heightend that I nearly pissed myself.

BTW, the gunshot was my neighbor shooting a rat that crawled up his toilet. Any city with a sewer system runs the risk of critters coming up the hard way.

Jam it back in, in the dark.