<p>I love sleeping in, but when I have to wake up for something(like class) I'm always tired even if i sleep 8 plus hours. Any tips? for example, working out, lights, sounds, drinking lots of water. I think working out would help, but I haven't found time yet</p>
<p>New mattress.</p>
<p>hmm i have that same problem.</p>
<p>but then again, i have chronic fatigue syndrome.</p>
<p>what i've heard is that having a regular sleep pattern helps, but that's virtually impossible in college. also, don't watch tv/use the computer/listen to loud music 1-2 hours before sleep... working out before bed actually makes it worse, but working out when you first wake up for about 20 minutes can be helpful. (or take a cold shower... that will wake you up). </p>
<p>uhhh search on wikipedia or webmd, there are a lot of sleep tips there, i just can't remember them all.</p>
<p>Yep, pretty much always tired. It's not quite as bad now, and I noticed this weekend that I'm pretty much naturally waking up at 9am, which is good because I need to get up between 8-9 for classes and it's better if I just happen to wake up then, than if I have to set the alarm. But during high school and middle school, I was definitely dead tired every single week, most weekends, and for about the first 2 weeks of summer vacation. I need 9 hours of sleep or I can't stay awake in the afternoon...more if I was tired the day before. I find that making sure you go to bed and get up at the same time every day really helps...if I miss one day and stay up late I'm screwed up for a week or two.</p>
<p>I'm always tired.</p>
<p>Always.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure it's part of being a teenager; I expect it to pass eventually.</p>
<p>I find that there is a period of time after I go to bed where I will wake up tired. For me its like 7-9 hours. If I wake up 7-9 hours after I go to bed I'll wake up extremely tired. If I wake up before or after that amount of time I'll usually feel much more refreshed.</p>
<p>I have such a problem with sleeping lol. I am averaging like 8-12 hours a day (obviously dependent on THE day) and I ALWAYS feel tired waking up. I just wake up because I feel as if I've spent wayyy to much time in bed...</p>
<p>As for working out before bed, I haven't been to the gym in like three weeks but for the rest of the year I always worked out from 11-12 PM, and I would come back and just fall asleep. I don't know what constitutes working out for most people, but for me it's pushing the two-three body parts for that night to the max, hence extreme exhaustion. Of course, I work out to build body mass, not to stay in shape, so that might be a difference.</p>
<p>Eating/drinking something with tryptophan, like milk or turkey, before going to bed helps you fall sleep.</p>
<p>So does taking a hot shower about 90 minutes before bedtime.</p>
<p>Go in the sun for about 15 minutes after waking up.</p>
<p>Avoid alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine 4-6 hours before bedtime.</p>
<p>Do not exercise 4 hours before bedtime.</p>
<p>Now, I don't actually do a lot of these things myself, but I had to do a presentation on circadian rhythms and sleep cycles and I found a bunch of tips that I usually give to people that have trouble sleeping! I really should try more of those myself, I can have pretty bad insomnia sometimes (and by sometimes I mean every night).</p>
<p>work out in the morning, it really helps me.</p>
<p>It is not virtually impossible to have a regular sleep pattern in college. I majored in engineering, and later chemistry. It does, however, take a phenominal amount of WILL POWER. We like to trick ourselves into thinking that we have a lot of will power, or strong will power by thinking about the things we can do easily. It is the hard stuff, that is well...hard.</p>
<p>I'm not a morning person. I'm a night person. It takes a lot of effort for me to go to bed at 11pm. Right now it is way past the time i should be in bed. I used to feel very tired when i woke up and for years i contributed it to not being a morning person. This was...a mistake.</p>
<p>A lot of it can do with the room you sleep in. I live in boston, so it doesn't really get that dark at night where i live. My room faces east and the view is not obstructed by buildings for trees or anything. So it is easy for me to get up at 8am. Light comes pouring in the window and if i went to bed at 11 and had been doing so for a week or longer, i'm ready to wake up when light comes in the room. This is very conducive to someone who isn't even a morning person.</p>
<p>My freshman year as an engineer, i lived in this cement freshman dorm, the window faced north...right into the side of another building. It didn't get light in that room until around noon. This made it miserable for me to get up in the morning. I'd wake up to the irritating alarm. It would be dark and forboding looking and i'd feel miserable. Force myself into the shower and then into clothes, i'd go outside and it would be bright, but not the nice kind. More like the Lightsabre to the face shock of morning.</p>
<p>So there are somethings you can do to help yourself. Go to bed early, regularly, no matter how much you want to stay up and study or watch TV, be on the internet or whatever else you want to do. You can go the gym in the morning and hit the treadmill for half an hour that will help wake you up. But there are things you cannot change. You pretty much cannot get a new mattress, or change the layout of your building to get good sun early in the morning, and no matter how hard you want to try, you cannot make yourself a morning person.</p>
<p>The best advice is pay close attention when you pick your dorm to what direction the window faces. If you get good light into your room early in the morning, it makes it much easier to wake up.</p>
<p>yes. I don't have trouble getting to sleep, and I'm fine throughout the day, but it always takes me around 20 minutes to be fully awake even after getting up. it doesn't matter what time it is either.</p>
<p>Oh, man, right here. Every time I wake up, I always want to go right back to sleep.</p>
<p>I can totally relate with you on this. Just last nite I got a good 10hour rest (which is very rare for me), and I was still very tired. I had to force myself out of my bed just to get dress.</p>
<p>i usually don't go to classes that i NEED to take but that are earlier than 11am. I'm practically nocturnal so I regularly sleep at around 3 or 4am and wake up at like 10. The funny thing is, i STILL have a hard time waking up with ~7 hrs of sleep every day. I think waking up, no matter how much sleep uve had, will be tiring to some degree. COFFEE!!!!</p>
<p>man, waking up is like the hardest thing for me to do every day.</p>
<p>Gotta have the right sleep cycle. </p>
<p>I have to sleep 8 hours a day or I'm tired. If I sleep 10 hours I'll be tired =/ Which sucks!</p>
<p>This is sooo me... I don't know why either I'm tired all the time and I'm a lil worried.</p>
<p>Some ideas:
- 11PM-3AM are supposedly the best hours for sleep. Try including those hours.
- There's a wristwatch alarm that picks the best part of the sleep cycle to wake you up. You give it a range & it'll measure your bodily signs and do the calculus.
- Open your curtains. The sun wakes you up naturally, especially if you have a nice view.
- Get an early class with a MILF professor! Watch how you move in the morning whoO.</p>
<p>maybe u have diabetes. </p>
<p>i think i only had that problem duringhigh school where school starts soooooo freakin early...</p>
<p>Yeah HS sucked. Doesn't it suck to be woken up at 6:30 in the morning. Looking back I should have made a strategic withdrawal from ante-secoundary education....because nothing is worth that torture.</p>