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On February 24 2012 14:43 Luepert wrote:
man my sleeping schedule is so frickin messed up. go to bed anywhere between midnight and 3 and get up at 6 every morning. I randomly procrastinated a paper and literally did my first all nighter earlier this week. Then as soon as I got home from school at 4, I slept till 9, then studied till 5 and then slept till 6. The next day I sleep from 3-6 and now everyday I'm wide awake late at night and tired all day, I "wake up" around 10 PM. I don't know how to fix this.
You know what you do?
You pull another all-nighter to try and reset your sleep cycle.
Hahahhaa FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE
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Totally agreed. I really like your blogs haji, keep them coming!
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thedeadhaji
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On February 25 2012 00:38 Tipany wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2012 14:43 Luepert wrote:
man my sleeping schedule is so frickin messed up. go to bed anywhere between midnight and 3 and get up at 6 every morning. I randomly procrastinated a paper and literally did my first all nighter earlier this week. Then as soon as I got home from school at 4, I slept till 9, then studied till 5 and then slept till 6. The next day I sleep from 3-6 and now everyday I'm wide awake late at night and tired all day, I "wake up" around 10 PM. I don't know how to fix this. You know what you do? You pull another all-nighter to try and reset your sleep cycle. Hahahhaa FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE
OR you sleep for 16 hours I guess? 
I have various ways of fixing my own sleep schedule when it gets out of whack, but none of them are particularly efficient. They're certainly not good enough to share here with confidence.
The best way to fight the illness (like most other things) is prevention for sure. Be in a healthy routine and don't let yourself deviate from it. I think one reason why college is so hard in this regard, is because we have different daily schedules for each day of the week. HS and working life is relatively easier because you typically have a similar routine 5 days of the week.
The real challenge is going to sleep early on Fri/Sat evenings, and waking up early on Sat/Sun. It really does feel awesome when you manage to wake up early on a Saturday and you start off the day with something decent like reading a book. By the time its 1pm, you realize how long you've been awake, how (relatively) productive you've been, and how much longer you have in the SAME DAY to do more awesome stuff 
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I tend to destroy my sleep pattern every week - In fact I don't even have a sleep pattern
I'll stay awake until about 6am or 7am most weekends. Then on Sunday night i'll pull an all nighter and go to work on 0hours sleep. When Monday night comes, I'm so dead inside that I sleep from around 7pm to 7am. Nothing beats a 12hour sleep to bring you back to life xD
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I used to suck at sleep but now I've been pretty good about getting to sleep... at 2... to 3 am every night. Close enough. Though it's a bitch when I try to fall asleep after a sick losing stream in BW.
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What is this? A blog post for HTML parsers? Yes I was going to make a blog post about the same thing but it seems haji already has.
For most young adults, the status quo is to stay up into the wee hours of the night. Whether it hours be procrastinatory or productive in nature, makes no difference; we seem to be naturally inclined to stay awake, rather than go to sleep. It's a rather curious phenomenon, one that I feel has resulted in us requiring courage to go to sleep early in the night[1].
Suppose it's 10pm on a weekday, and you're browsing some sites online. You're not being particularly productive in the grand scheme of things, but you're being entertained and you're soaking up new (possibly superfluous) information. Worldly pleasures are at your fingertips. You feel a little bit of fatigue, but you're unlikely to let that convince you to go to sleep so early into the night. You subconsciously feel as if you'd waste a few hours by going to sleep so early. There's so much more you can do by continuing to browse and click away. Naturally, the notion of sleeping now is cast aside.
Suppose it's midnight on a weekday. You're a student. You're studying. You have dozens of pages that you have to read by the day after tomorrow, as well as a handful of assignments that are due in the next two to three days. You don't have any immediate deadlines tomorrow. You're feeling pretty tired, operating at maybe 60-70% efficiency. Do you go to sleep? Of course not! You're managing to output something, albeit at a reduced efficiency. The natural inclination is to keep on chugging. It's mental inertia, if you will[2].
It's not like we're likely to be productive at this hour of night, and yet we talk ourselves into staying awake. Staying awake is a known commodity. We know what to expect. If we sleep, who knows what will happen? Who knows how productive we will be in the morning? Who knows if we can even wake up earlier? Moreover, it feels good to keep hacking away at our task. We don't want to sleep in such a state, even if it's 2am. That is, unless we physically can't take it anymore.
We've been trained through our youth and young adulthood to defy our body's signals and continue toiling until the early hours of the night. If the body's nature is to go to sleep early, then it is the mind's nature to continue on course, even if it contradicts the body's desires. Productivity? Efficiency? Such "logic" doesn't enter the picture.
Having been molded into this behavior, it is no longer natural for most of us to go to sleep earlier than absolutely necessary, as demanded by our bodies or our schedules the next day. However, it is in most cases undeniable that going to sleep earlier would be a boon to our productivity and overall happiness (by virtue of our health), both short term and long term. In such a world, it takes strength and courage to defy convention and sleep early. But for those of us who enjoy the act of sleeping and enjoy being active in the morning, such a change in routine can be life-changing.
[1] I imagine it's slightly easier for women, who have the beauty sleep motivator.
[2] I am extremely guilty of both these examples. Things were particularly bad when I was a student.
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