I too would and have found the fan going annoying.

Once the doctor was going to recommend sleeping tablets, but my reservations were thus -

I am a single parent, alone in the house with two young children.

When they turn in their sleep I am practically awake. This I feel in someways is a good thing that I sleep so light, because if there was a problem I would be jumping out of bed, before my brain caught up.

If I was to take sleeping tablets which send me off into a deep sleep - the kids would have to fend for themselves, if tey couldn't wake me up.

The thought is far too scary.

So I declined having tablets, even if they would have done me the world of good.

I do sleep really well whenever I am out of the city and in rural and country ares etc. I tend to prefer animal noises rather than sirens, traffic, drunken yobbos shouting etc