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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
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meeple
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NeoIllusions
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MisterD
Germany1338 Posts
Now i don't know your natural sleep time, you might know it yourself or you shuold try to find out by going a week without alarm (although you probably can't do that anymore now that you need to be awake at certain times). But when you suddenly sleep 11 hours if you just don't have your alarm set for one day, i would strongly suspect that you just sleep to short every day. To adjust your sleep starting time: I find staying up longer is usually easier than sleeping earlier, you might just want to not sleep one night at all and then go to sleep one day later at the proper time (or maybe a bit earlier to allow some catching up on the lost night). Ideally do this before the weekend (if you have those free) so you have two days to use for adapting and normalizing. What certainly doesn't work is just going to sleep 6 hours earlier than usual and then sticking with it. You need to at least gradually adjust it like one or two hours a day over the course of a week, if you want to go by the sleeping earlier instead of staying awake through a whole night. other than that, check the search here, i remember a bunch of good threads about sleeping, insomnia etc. on TL, read those and see what tips you can find there  | ||
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Loser777
1931 Posts
On July 05 2012 18:56 MisterD wrote: try sleeping longer than 6h30m a night? since i'm writing on my masters thesis and don't have to get up at any specific time as i work from home, i currently don't use an alarm at all. On my own, i wake up somewhere between 7 and 9 hours sleep every day. I guess it's no problem pushing this down towards 7 hours a day using an alarm, but lowering even further is probably not good. Now i don't know your natural sleep time, you might know it yourself or you shuold try to find out by going a week without alarm (although you probably can't do that anymore now that you need to be awake at certain times). But when you suddenly sleep 11 hours if you just don't have your alarm set for one day, i would strongly suspect that you just sleep to short every day. To adjust your sleep starting time: I find staying up longer is usually easier than sleeping earlier, you might just want to not sleep one night at all and then go to sleep one day later at the proper time (or maybe a bit earlier to allow some catching up on the lost night). Ideally do this before the weekend (if you have those free) so you have two days to use for adapting and normalizing. What certainly doesn't work is just going to sleep 6 hours earlier than usual and then sticking with it. You need to at least gradually adjust it like one or two hours a day over the course of a week, if you want to go by the sleeping earlier instead of staying awake through a whole night. other than that, check the search here, i remember a bunch of good threads about sleeping, insomnia etc. on TL, read those and see what tips you can find there How do you stay regulated without any external demands? I don't think it's possible for me to limit myself to <10 hours if I don't have something I HAVE to get up for. Usually if my sleep schedule isn't working for when I need to get up I'll just sleep at my usual (late time), wake up tired, force myself not to take naps, and then go to bed at a sane time for when I need to get up. | ||
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endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
And also because if I sleep at 11:30, when am I supposed to play BW ? And nighttime rules, everything feels so quite and soothing. Sorry if my post doesn't really help you  | ||
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Nytefish
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
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Steveling
Greece10806 Posts
Trying to tough it out and go without sleep for 24. Oh dear. | ||
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Heh_
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Aerisky
United States12129 Posts
Another thing you can do is exercise and expose yourself to daylight as much you can during the day, and then at night use flux on your computer to get you sleepy by exposing you to higher-wavelength light. Actually works quite well for me. | ||
Rekrul
Korea (South)17174 Posts
way harder than intercontinental jetlag which can be fixed easily by staying up till ur flight, sleeping on plane, and getting drunk upon arrival | ||
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OpticalShot
Canada6330 Posts
Welcome to old man life. *edit: oops sorry, missed the "need much help" phrase from the OP. Tough it out for the first week, and by the second week your body will auto-sleep at midnight. Less rage less whine more acceptance do it sir raffles! | ||
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
On July 05 2012 21:01 Aerisky wrote: I've heard not eating for a 16 hour period before you want to wake up helps. I've never tried it though. Another thing you can do is exercise and expose yourself to daylight as much you can during the day, and then at night use flux on your computer to get you sleepy by exposing you to higher-wavelength light. Actually works quite well for me. Flux doesn't do anything besides lessen the strain on my eyes. | ||
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brian
United States9642 Posts
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brian
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Lokk
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MisterD
Germany1338 Posts
On July 05 2012 19:20 Loser777 wrote: How do you stay regulated without any external demands? I don't think it's possible for me to limit myself to <10 hours if I don't have something I HAVE to get up for. i don't regulate anything. I go to bed somewhere between 1 and 3 am depending on how many new posts the funny pictures thread has (and various other content  ), and just wake up the next morning, after what turns out to be 7 to 9 hours of having slept. sometimes 10 or 11 if i have to catch up a bit, but basically that's it. i guess the important part is to not stay awake until you are completely tired, but to just keep a semi regular go to bed time. I *could* stay up another two or three hours longer usually without feeling to tired, i'd probably sleep longer then, too, and drift into a 27 hour day routine or something like that, but i don't want that. so i just go to bed at around the same time every day and that works out fine. Sure, maybe i sleep an hour more per day than i have to, but not being woken up by an alarm every day is sooo much more relaxed x) | ||
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Aerisky
United States12129 Posts
On July 05 2012 22:44 Roffles wrote: Flux doesn't do anything besides lessen the strain on my eyes. Ah, I see. It lessens the strain on my eyes too and but also helps me get sleepy as it gets darker. Try exercising in the sunlight more, that can really straighten your sleep clock out and help you get tired so you can sleep earlier. I'm usually too lazy to go do so but if you build a regular pattern of just going for a short run or something like that, you can get healthier and help yourself sleep at night too. Another thing is not to take naps during the day if you can so you're tired earlier. Best of luck, hope the advice you get in the responses do help you out >.< | ||
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