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I've read a lot of articles and even a book on healthy sleep. I generally understand how sleep works and I have desperately tried to make myself a morning perso
by pavelludiq 18y ago
I've read a lot of articles and even a book on healthy sleep. I generally understand how sleep works and I have desperately tried to make myself a morning person. I have to wake up in 6:30 am for school and i usually feel good for an hour or two and then i get sleepy. I take a monster coffee dose and try to go through school without sleeping trough it(im not the only one, at least 6 people from my class are night people) I handle it somehow until 1:30 pm and go home and im sleepy. But i just start wasting time until 5:00 pm and go jogging and an between 6:00pm and 8:00 pm i usually fall asleep and wake up between 9:00 pm and 11:00 pm. Weird. i fall asleep between 1:00 am and 3:30 am. Sometimes when i go to sleep i stay awake for a really long time, i don't know how long. Anyway i managed that by forcing myself to NOT think in bed. The bed is my favorite thinking place and i don't think here any more. And i manage pretty well i guess, im a pretty energetic person. The only problem is that i know someday i will burn out and this schedule will fall on top of me and crush me. So the summer is going to be hard, because i won't have to wake up for school. I usually wake up at noon and no alarm works on me, i just go back to bed because i don't care. But at least i don't drink coffee so it balances it's self. Anyway don't try to drink yourself to bed like i tried with alcohol. It comes back to haunt you in the morning. Pill's i don't like taking any at all. So im just cursed.
- SteveC 18y agoHow did you force yourself not to think in bed? My brother who can fall asleep in a few minutes says he can do this but I've never been able to do it once. My mind just wanders the second I lie down.
- pavelludiq 18y agoA few months ago i started meditating. Im not that much in to it, but i learned how to concentrate for a while on something(eg. my breathing) And in bed i just concentrate on something like that, don't brutforce yourself not to think, just take your mind away from it. It doesn't always work, but im getting better and better.
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y agoFor me the trick to overcoming the constantly running thoughts was to take Rozerem, which is a drug designed to compensate for melatonin deficiencies. It works pretty well for me. I can usually fall asleep in under a half hour when I take it properly.
- brentr 18y agoI am the exact same way you are. My brain tends to kick into high gear around the exact same time that society dictates that I go to bed. The only thing I have found to help me is some form of sleeping pills. I'm not sure what they are doing to my body, but it's really the only way I can fall asleep after 8 pm. I've always wondered if there was a job out there for me that didn't involve working the third shift in some factory, but I have not found a tech or finance job offering the third shift. Until I do find this type of job, it looks like I will need to continue taking sleeping pills.