<p>I have this rather odd sleeping pattern, if you can call it a pattern. I sleep for a couple of hours after school, work until about 2 in the morning, and sleep for 4 more hours, or I work until about 1 and wake up at 5 again to do work. This is all accomplished through the use of a very very loud alarm clock radio.</p>
<p>I'm concerned about how I'm going to be able to do this once I live at school. Are there any other people whose alarm clocks go off at odd times of day/night? Is there some way that I can wake myself up w/o waking everyone else up?</p>
<p>Ooh, that's bad for you. Don't they say that you need the long periods of sleep to feel rested? It's a bad cycle: you're not rested so you need to nap, and then since you napped, you can't sleep or don't have time to shut out the lights for hours, and then you go to bed late and you're not well rested again. Sometimes I fall into that, but it's bad. Try to break out of it.</p>
<p>frozen-tears, it may SOUND like a good routine but your body does it's repairing when you sleep. if sleep is interrupted, it takes longer to get to the REM cycle and thus, you aren't getting as good of a sleep as you would be if you just slept for a huge chunk. </p>
<p>but...if you need a solution, use a cell phone and keep it right next to you. i don't know if there's a "vibrate" alarm option, but it may not even work if you aren't a light sleeper. my best advice is to get sleep all at once. your body has it's own clock and will wake up when it's fully rested.</p>