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K, I tend to ignore my parents constant harassment/lame attempts to try and get me to go to bed (like unplugging the modem, which makes me lol since I'm the one who set up our internet connection), but I'm getting that nagging feeling that staying up till 4:00 - 4:30ish can't be good for me.
I can't really help it; there's just too much fun stuff to do, and I find that I do my best work at these quiet times at night (reading, songwriting, any other passing fancy). Plus now that university's done for the year and I don't start work till July, there's absolutely no reason for me to get up before noon.
Even so, I've tried to stop, but every time I look at the clock to go to bed a little bit earlier, 3 hours seem to have gone by and it's 4. I'm gonna try again today, but I bet I'll still be up too late.
So who else is in my boat, and what the hell do I do now? My body's probably too adjusted to even try going to bed earlier. Better yet, what fun stuff do people like doing when the world's sleeping?
EDIT: As I could have guessed, many of you share my 'problem', if you wish to call it that. And since the world works in mysterious ways, the day after I made this post, lifehacker made an article on how to fix your sleep cycle, as thundertoss pointed out. So give it a read if you want to join me in seeing the sunrise one day, lol. I hear it's the bee's knees 
Lifehacker's article
To make this even more fun, let's make a poll!!!
Poll: What time do you go to bed?before 2 (185) 27% before midnight (LAME ;) ) (156) 22% before 5 (139) 20% before 3 (93) 13% I don't go to bed (68) 10% before 4 (54) 8% 695 total votes Your vote: What time do you go to bed? (Vote): before midnight (LAME ;) )
(Vote): before 2
(Vote): before 3
(Vote): before 4
(Vote): before 5
(Vote): I don't go to bed
Thank you, FrozenArbiter!
btw, it's 4:09 and I've failed, lol.
I think I'm gonna try waking up early (on Thursday, I'm also a procrastinator) and really exercising it up. I'm even considering a morning thing like jogging. Who knows, maybe I'll meet hot chicks. Keep those comments coming!
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United States44374 Posts
If you stay up until 4am you'll not get up until midday and miss half the daylight hours. You're not getting any more time than you would otherwise and the timing you're having is worse. Listen to your parents.
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im in your same boat. most of the time im in front of the computer gaming, surfing, messing around when im supposed to be sleeping..i really need to change this habit ,its not good in the long run.
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Try being more active during the day (maybe sports/working out/etc.) so at night you will feel tired and go to bed at the right time. I think when we don't have anything to do, we conserve more energy and feel like staying up later because we don't feel sleepy. By tiring yourself out more, you can eliminate/improve your staying up late condition.
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i have work at 8:30 and its 3 so i feel u
edit: you're gonna wanna start getting on a regular schedule as work nears because it's tough to adjust right away. start exercising during the day more regularly and you'll be able to sleep better
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Canada5565 Posts
On May 26 2010 15:40 rA.BreeZe wrote:
find a nice book to read
I agree, when I want to go to sleep, unless I'm exhausted, I read my book in bed. Slowly your body relaxes and you should be tired enough to fall sleep soon unless you weren't tired at all to begin with.
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oh my god i do this all the fucking time
I find that if there's stuff I know that needs to be done sometime in the future i just stay up for the day and go to sleep a few hours earlier than a normal to compensate (like 7 or 8 PM).
And then I stay up late for no reason again after and the process repeats itself
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before nighttime load up about 20 videos of SC and stuff or other stuff you like to watch
download replays, etc.
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
I have the same issue as you do. I try to fix my sleeping schedule and sleep early (around 1-2), but I just time ticking away so fast when it gets to 2 or 3 AM. I'd suggest just trying to slowly get to bed earlier, or do stuff during the day so you feel tired when it's time to sleep.
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i've developed a bad habit of doing pset late into the night. now that school's over, and i see 3am, i always feel like it's too early to sleep, so I'll just waste more time browsing the web.
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The best way to get to sleep is just get all resolute and decide to do work. The minute I open up a textbook or start an assignment I fall right asleep.
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There's only one way to fix this. When i used to stay up to 4am to watch korean pro games the only way i got to my normal sleep schedule again was to pull an all nighter until like 11 pm the next day. Then go to sleep. It's much easier when you skip a day. Also music helps me sleep sometimes.
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The worst feeling one is trying to do the all nighter, staying awake as long as possible till u get to 10PM or whatever and pass out. lol probe got it in b4 me
The problem is when you give up around like... 6PM
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It's a really bad habit really. I always sleep around 2-4am since high school started. I would always sleep through all the morning classes. But now that I'm in uni I actually have all my courses at night so I can get 8hours of sleep regardless of when I sleep. It'll be a pain to adjust in the future though when I have a 9 to 5 job.
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I got that problem for quite some time, since i'm without work for a while. The time really depends on what's going on, like sometimes I start watching Proleague at 6am (usually I fall asleep during it) and sometimes I just go to bed around 3am and watch a movie, trying to sleep.
Occasionally I try to get back into normal rhytm by pulling an all nighter (like right now) but usually I fall back to the old habit after 2 or 3 days.
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I can stay up till 6am if I don't have school, sometimes even if I do. This semester I've only got one day at which I start at 8:30 though, the two other days start at 13:30 and 12:30 so I can pull it off.
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Before school ended I would go to sleep in the 11-2 block usually. Now I'm typically falling asleep around 4 am.
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I do not stay up on a regular basis.
Be honest. What do you do when you stay up??
I try my best to go to bed around 11:00 so i wake up nicely every morning with the alarm. its working alright and I feel quite good. This MIGHT explain why I find school ridiculously easy (high school anyways), I do not gain weight (people generally eat when they stay up).
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Its 9.30 am here, and i haven't went 2 bed yet. But thats maybe becuz i woke up at 7 pm yesterday
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