erm i've been staying up til like 4 all summer and i need to get back to a normal sleep schedule by next sunday because school is starting, i've been trying to fall asleep at like 11 these past few weeks but i haven't been able to and i don't want to be staying up til dawn on school nights so do you know how i can fall asleep earlier lolzzzzz.

Don't go to bed tonight at all tonight. Then you will be sleepy by 11pm tomorrow.

Go to bed tonight when you are tired (which Im guessing will be around 4am lol), but set your alarm for 8 or 9am. Do that for a few days, then sooner or later your body will give in and youll want to go to bed a lot earlier. Also, try relaxing before you go to bed. I know it sounds ultra lame, but one night before I went to sleep, I did these stretches/meditation for about 5 min. and just took deep slow breathes, and it really calmed me down.

Originally posted by ¤I Love Clay Aiken¤
Go to bed tonight when you are tired (which Im guessing will be around 4am lol), but set your alarm for 8 or 9am. Do that for a few days, then sooner or later your body will give in and youll want to go to bed a lot earlier. Also, try relaxing before you go to bed. I know it sounds ultra lame, but one night before I went to sleep, I did these stretches/meditation for about 5 min. and just took deep slow breathes, and it really calmed me down. Excellent advice. I guess I don't really need to be in here, lol.

But I know what you're going through... now I'm on a kick of staying up past my usual 4:30, and falling asleep at around 6 AM. (At least I have more time to get my schedule together. :p )

Originally posted by ¤I Love Clay Aiken¤
Go to bed tonight when you are tired (which Im guessing will be around 4am lol), but set your alarm for 8 or 9am.. That's what I've been doing lately.

Originally posted by AllIWantIsYourClutch
That's what I've been doing lately. Me too, cept I usually turn my alarm off -.-. But Im working more days, so on my days off I let myself sleep in. I try not to sleep past 11 or 12 though, because then Ill be up all night.

Plus if I wake up early, people will bug me. Seriously, my parents will have me do things or my nephew (who we watch during his vacation til school starts up) will bug me to play with him all day. So I just try and go unnoticed in my room like a hermit.

Originally posted by ¤I Love Clay Aiken¤
Go to bed tonight when you are tired (which Im guessing will be around 4am lol), but set your alarm for 8 or 9am. Do that for a few days, then sooner or later your body will give in and youll want to go to bed a lot earlier.

I'm trying to do that too. Even though I have nowhere to go.

Originally posted by AllIWantIsYourClutch
That's what I've been doing lately. I've done it myself... the bad news is, with me... once I wake up early, I always say "Well, I'll start this tomorrow instead" and I sleep in more. I have ended up doing that everyday until school starts.

Sarah, don't be like me. :grr:

all this talk is making me sleepy. damnit i have to get up for school tomorrow

Take melatonin, if you have any around. You can pick up a jar at your local kmart or walmart...

Melatonin is supposed to make you sleepy. I had to take them after I got home from England to help me get back into my normal sleeping schedule and not England's, due to the fact school was still in session and I had to be back by the next day.

Originally posted by I am Him
Don't go to bed tonight at all tonight. Then you will be sleepy by 11pm tomorrow.
i've tried that, i always fall asleep in the daytime.

Originally posted by ¤I Love Clay Aiken¤
Go to bed tonight when you are tired (which Im guessing will be around 4am lol), but set your alarm for 8 or 9am.
I'd be WAAAAY too lazy to do that. seriously, my dad wakes me up at 12 and i'm always so tired i just go back to sleep for like 2 more hours and i can't control myself.

Originally posted by safety pin
I'd be WAAAAY too lazy to do that. seriously, my dad wakes me up at 12 and i'm always so tired i just go back to sleep for like 2 more hours and i can't control myself. *slaps around* It doesnt matter woman! MAKE yourself get up. Seriously, put your alarm at the other end of the room so you actually have to move. Then make yourself go to the bathroom or whatever. It really wouldnt matter what time you woke up.. youre still gonna feel groggy. And if you get TOO much sleep, youre gonna be slow and groggy all day.

Originally posted by safety pin
i've tried that, i always fall asleep in the daytime.

Drink a Red Bull.

Unfortunately, the only thing that's helping me regulate my sleep patterns and insomnia are medications.

I'm on Trazodone, an anti-depressant, and Zyprexa, an anti-psychotic to help me sleep... among all of my other medicines. Perhaps you should look into seeing a psychiatrist if your sleeping problems are getting intense. He/she will probably prescribe you an anti-depressant. They don't really prescribe barbiturates anymore- they're too damn dangerous.

Force yourself to go to sleep earlier :happyface Yeah...we get used to certain sleep patterns so the only way to get your body used to another one is just to go to sleep earlier until you actually start getting tired at that time...well, not until...stay that way till next summer :)

I've been trying already...and school's still a month away for me. Takes me hours to fall asleep. I just keep tossing and turning...course...it's like that for me either way.

I used to be on a pretty good sleeping schedule after being in Europe for about a week and a half...I was still used to European time, so I could sleep at around 12 then get up at 8 or 9ish...PERFECT for school, right? Then a few nights ago I had friends sleep over and we ended up sleeping around 4:30...so now I'm back to my old sleeping patterns. Blah. This whole summer I've slept around 3, then I wake up at 12. Sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less.

For school, I'm going to TRY this year to sleep at 11:30 and wake up at 7.

Originally posted by safety pin



I'd be WAAAAY too lazy to do that. seriously, my dad wakes me up at 12 and i'm always so tired i just go back to sleep for like 2 more hours and i can't control myself. \


Have him throw a bucket of water on you.

I've changed my sleeping habits a bit, too. I used to stay up until 4 am every night. Now, I've cut back to about 2 am most nights. Sometimes a little after 1 am. And, I've also been getting used to getting up at 11 am every day. It's a start. I'll gradually work at going to sleep around 8pm and getting up at 7am or so. I swear, I need that much sleep. And, it's only summer. In winter I'm actually much worse in getting up early. In winter I'll be like a hibernating mouse or something.

I have to get up at 4:30 AM to go to work (yeah, it sucks) so I try not to mess with my sleep schedule on weekends. I may give myself some extra time, but I still get up early.

If however I stay out late, my whole sleep schedule will be messed up, because I will still wake up early!


;)

its 3:26 am, i was trying to go to sleep about 20 minutes ago but i started thinking about something really funny and i started laughing and it made me not tired and hyper. so im staying up as late as i can. haha.

I'm a night owl, but I'm in the process of going to bed and getting up earlier. I was on the 4am to noon deal, but I've got it down to 2:30am to 10:30. My goal is 12am to 8.

I was born a night owl. Even as a child, I liked to stay up late and sleep late.

Originally posted by safety pin
its 3:26 am, i was trying to go to sleep about 20 minutes ago but i started thinking about something really funny and i started laughing and it made me not tired and hyper. so im staying up as late as i can. haha.
i made it to 5:30. -_-

Originally posted by Janice
I'm a night owl, but I'm in the process of going to bed and getting up earlier. I was on the 4am to noon deal, but I've got it down to 2:30am to 10:30. My goal is 12am to 8.

I was born a night owl. Even as a child, I liked to stay up late and sleep late. Me too! When I was little my dad worked from 2 PM to 11 PM, so we all stayed up late in the 80s. I didn't go to bed earlier than 1am (or later) on a regular basis until 1st grade. Yay, for PM kindergarden (that gave me an extra year of staying up late). And NOW... yay for late college schedules. :cheer:

Originally posted by safety pin
i made it to 5:30. -_- You're not suppose to get later at this point! :o

JK. I say just keep doing what you're doing. So what if you fall asleep the first day of school? Schools sucks anyways.

Originally posted by Cashodeen
You're not suppose to get later at this point! :o

JK. I say just keep doing what you're doing. So what if you fall asleep the first day of school? Schools sucks anyways.
haha yeah. i wish somehow i could have gotten my history teacher last year for something this year. i fell asleep in his class ALL the time and he didn't care. probably because he thought i was cool because i like metallica. :birthday:

ok it doesnt look like ill be able to fall asleep tonight. it's almost 2am, a little while ago i was tired so i started falling asleep but i started remembering funny things and laughing really hard, and i couldnt get it off my mind. like hwne i wrote down something obscene about the wizard of oz when i was 6.. and when we were singing at the nursing home and that deaf lady was yelling over us. ahahaha. (i know the nursing home thing isnt funny but im immature and i think it is so :grr: to all you cranky bitches who have your panties in a bunch over it)

so.. i was falling asleep a little while ago. until i started hearing noises and felt someone sit down on my bed and it scared the f-ck out of me. now its 4am and im not tired. this is how i know jesus hates me. if he didnt he wouldnt let all this **** happen to interfere with important stuff. bitch.

haha ok last night i stayed up til 7 on my laptop and woke up at 9 and since then i havent been tired at all.

Originally posted by safety pin
so.. i was falling asleep a little while ago. until i started hearing noises and felt someone sit down on my bed and f-ck me.

So who was it that sat down on your bed?

Originally posted by I am Him
So who was it that sat down on your bed?
hell if i know, i was the only one in there.

Originally posted by I am Him
Don't go to bed tonight at all tonight. Then you will be sleepy by 11pm tomorrow.Hehe that doesnt work for me....... I have a very had time sleeping.... So much RF in the air now and the fact I have so much Anxiety it makes it very hard to sleep......

My sleeping hours are my Best Hours of the day....I even slept good when I worked for the 40 some yrs I went to a job....Sleep Is Healing Time.

Dude you can get HELP if you reach out for some.....anyone can for that matter....

Thank you Carole :)

When I was in a mental instituion one time for 72Hr observation they gave me stuff that knocked me out flat!! -- I dont know what it was,but it was better than anything in the store you can get!! (I hid it in my mouth and threw it out when they werent looking and it still knocked me out)

I had told a teacher I was gonna do it and she called them......I didnt like the place I was at so I found a window that didnt have its blocker on top so I jimmied it open and left........ (After I escaped they finally fixed that window and put a plastic covering over all the windows (Plexiglass I think))

Ah man!!