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Recently I've been staying up all night until about 5am or so and then sleeping until 1pm. So I'm basically sleeping all morning, but am awake all night. I've decided to "reset" my sleep schedule to get back to normal. In order to do this, I'm going to try and stay up all night and all day without sleeping, and then just crash at like 7pm or 8pm.
It's currently 5:43am. I'm pretty sleepy right now, but once I get passed this initial sleepiness, I will be able to stay away for awhile. I plan on studying until its time to sleep, but studying makes me sleepy so meh. Anyhow, this is the most effective way I can think of on getting my schedule back to normal. If I'm off by a few hours, I wouldn't do something this drastic, but since I'm off by like 7 hours this should hopefully work.
So here's to an all-nighter (or is it an all-dayer?). (If you know of other methods to "reset" your schedule, let me know what you do)
Edits:
Take 1: I failed my attempt. I went to lay down on the floor and study and at around 8am, I ended up falling asleep right there on the floor. I woke up at 11am and realized that I fell asleep and failed, and then I went back to sleep and woke up at 3pm. Right now its 4:25pm.
My new plan is to sleep as early as I can tonight, and then just set my alarm tomorrow morning for 9am and force myself to wake up no matter what. Even though I will only get like 3 hours of sleep, it's still easier than trying to stay up all night and day. I'll post an update to let you know how this second attempt will work.
Take 2: Went to sleep at around 4am and set the alarm for 9:30am. I moved my alarm clock across the room instead of keeping it on my bed frame so that I would have to walk across the room to turn it off. It ended up working and I woke up at that time. Since I had less sleep last night, I will go to sleep early today because I will be tired more sooner. This method is actually easier than staying up all night and all day.
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Coffee? Or just try eating your meals regularly (like breakfast at 8am..etc..) and hopefully your body slowly adjusts to your needs. Also during the day if you get tired, go out in the sun and try to look at bright things often.
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You'd be surprised how much this technique actually doesn't work.
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On June 26 2010 21:55 FortuneSyn wrote:
You'd be surprised how much this technique actually doesn't work.
May not work for you, but it works really well for me. I've used it a couple of times before and it lasts for a long time. At one point I was sleeping at 8pm and waking up at 5am every day. But as time goes on and you start sleeping later and later every night, you eventually go back to normal schedule and then back to beyond normal (which is what I'm in now).
Your body needs to rest, and it will force to you rest eventually. Once you generate the "start" time, your body naturally only functions for a certain amount of hours before you begin to feel tired and sleep again. And since you woke up early, this time will also be early. Hence, the schedule resets.
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Ya this doesn't work for me. I usually eat dinner at 7-8pm every night (which is 12 hours before I want to wake up), and despite not eating anything since then until 5am, my internal clock doesn't get reset. It might just be me though because I'm a pretty light eater and food doesn't really affect me much.
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On June 26 2010 21:55 FortuneSyn wrote:
You'd be surprised how much this technique actually doesn't work.
works fine for me. but sometimes, if i get reallly sleep at say, 3 pm and can't last until 9pm, i just go to sleep at 3 pm, wake up at say, midnight. then the next day, i can manage to stay up until 9pm. so basically, spreading out the "reset" over 2 days instead of 1 day.
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Depending on how long you've been doing the nocturnal sleep routine, one all-nighter might not fix your schedule. I did this for about two months straight when I was in school, and it did not get fixed even though I regularly pulled all nighters for projects (this eventually worked out because I'm now in Japan XD). I think it's more or less a conscious decision, if you want to right your ways, just don't stay up for the sake of staying up.
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On June 26 2010 22:22 Cambium wrote:
Depending on how long you've been doing the nocturnal sleep routine, one all-nighter might not fix your schedule. I did this for about two months straight when I was in school, and it did not get fixed even though I regularly pulled all nighters for projects (this eventually worked out because I'm now in Japan XD). I think it's more or less a conscious decision, if you want to right your ways, just don't stay up for the sake of staying up.
http://parentingsquad.com/easy-way-to-reset-your-sleep-cycle-stop-eating
this is for you then.
in other words, before you wake up at 8am, make sure not to eat dinner the previous night.
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used to do this a lot when my schedual was fucked beyond believe cuz id stay up all night AND watch proleague ;P (go to bed around 1 pm)
worked half the time.
5 AM is probably an easy fix by just cutting back daily
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I've only had to do this once, and it worked great. It helps if you have stuff that you have to do during the day. Don't drive, though. :/
And my sleeping schedule was worse. Go to sleep at 7:15 AM, wake up at 5 PM.
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On June 26 2010 22:10 GrayArea wrote:Show nested quote +On June 26 2010 21:55 FortuneSyn wrote:
You'd be surprised how much this technique actually doesn't work. May not work for you, but it works really well for me. I've used it a couple of times before and it lasts for a long time. At one point I was sleeping at 8pm and waking up at 5am every day. But as time goes on and you start sleeping later and later every night, you eventually go back to normal schedule and then back to beyond normal (which is what I'm in now). Your body needs to rest, and it will force to you rest eventually. Once you generate the "start" time, your body naturally only functions for a certain amount of hours before you begin to feel tired and sleep again. And since you woke up early, this time will also be early. Hence, the schedule resets.
The older/more ingrained the pattern gets the more staying up doesn't work.
PROTIP: When you do go to sleep somewhere, make sure it's in a place that gets a lot of sun in the morning. Exposure to a ridiculous amount of sunshine in the mornings really help wake you up.
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Does not work. All nighters sometimes work for me.
EDIT: Then again I'm not able to eat breakfast at the time I want to wake up, only 3 hours later. So the 16-18 hours I go maybe don't work as intended? I don't know.
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On June 26 2010 22:47 d3_crescentia wrote:Show nested quote +On June 26 2010 22:10 GrayArea wrote:On June 26 2010 21:55 FortuneSyn wrote:
You'd be surprised how much this technique actually doesn't work. May not work for you, but it works really well for me. I've used it a couple of times before and it lasts for a long time. At one point I was sleeping at 8pm and waking up at 5am every day. But as time goes on and you start sleeping later and later every night, you eventually go back to normal schedule and then back to beyond normal (which is what I'm in now). Your body needs to rest, and it will force to you rest eventually. Once you generate the "start" time, your body naturally only functions for a certain amount of hours before you begin to feel tired and sleep again. And since you woke up early, this time will also be early. Hence, the schedule resets. The older/more ingrained the pattern gets the more staying up doesn't work. PROTIP: When you do go to sleep somewhere, make sure it's in a place that gets a lot of sun in the morning. Exposure to a ridiculous amount of sunshine in the mornings really help wake you up.
The sunlight thing does actually help. I should keep my blinds open before I sleep so the sun helps me get up more easily in the morning.
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try as hard as you can to fall asleep, if you do it right you wont be able to
otherwise i just stay up all day until about 8~ then i go to sleep and everything is fixed
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in my experience this works only if you set your alarm to wake up in the morning at the time you want to wake up. 7pm or 8pm might be a bit early... just go to sleep at the time you want to sleep at normally and wake up at the time you want to wake up normally. if anything, go to sleep ~1 hour earlier so you can catch up on the sleep you're missing
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I have always heard the best way to maintain a sleep schedule is just to sleep when you feel tired but always wake up at the same time; after awhile you will start waking up just before the alarm.
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yea I do this all the time when my CR gets out of hand. I read that eating thing long time ago but never tried it along with pullin all nighters. I'll try it this next time when I decide to fix my sleep. Problem with me though, is I don't eat regularly/on a routine anyways.
Goodluck GrayArea, I know the hardest part is from 10am-3pm when the sun is brightest. The funny thing too, is once you pass that part and dusk settles in, it almost feels like you don't even need to sleep anymore.
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It's very odd how it works for me.
5am - 3pm is the hardest time to stay awake for me. your body was used to getting that REM at 5, so it lets you know hardcore that you gotta sleep. Later on you sort of forget.
So then at 7pm, i decide to go to bed. I have no clue why this happens, but I end up waking at some ridiculous time like 3:00am and i dont feel sleepy until that 5am-3pm once again.
If I fuck up just a little bit and sleep at 1am or 2am, then im out all the way till 1-2pm.
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