<p>We all know that getting adequate sleep is vital to academic performance, but I'm having some trouble with that.</p>
<p>While I do my best to avoid sugar/caffeine after lunch, naps during the day, and television at night, I'm having trouble staying asleep throughout the night. I wake up approximately 3-5 times in the night, only to start to get into deep sleep a couple hours before I have to wake up. That sucks, seriously.</p>
<p>When I'm at school, I often have these awful yawns that feel quite comfortable, the feeling of an overworked person (who is just beginning the day).</p>
<p>What can I do about this? This is a problem I really don't need.</p>
<p>Are you going to sleep very late at night? Because that may affect the quality of your sleep. If you go to bed at a normal time and are still waking up constantly, I think may be stressed (about school, workload, etc.).</p>
<p>Try taking 5 min before bed to calm down a little…meditate.</p>
<p>Another thing you can try is white noise or binaural beats music. I used to wake up randomly at night for no reason, and listening to that has helped me sleep better. I actually felt I had more energy throughout the day. Try looking up the Meditation Podcast, White Noise Meditation, or Holosync program (this one’s very expensive, actually).</p>
<p>One possible reason could be that you’re not yet accustomed to where you’re living. Normally, I sleep really well at night and last year I went away on my own to this physics camp and I barely slept the first few nights. I was so paranoid because I didn’t know a soul, I wasn’t sure what my roommate was like, I kept thinking that someone might sneak into the room and do God knows what. lol. When I settled in it was fine.</p>
<p>Another reason could be, as zizi said, that you’re going to bed too late.</p>
<p>As for a solution, I find that when if I stretch for ~10 minutes just before going to bed, I sleep like a log. Stretch your legs and arms, roll your neck around a bit and if you can, do 1 or 2 crab backs (like in gymnastics) for your back. Hopefully this helps.</p>
<p>I had this problem in summer college too, but not anymore. </p>
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<p>At Summer@Brown, I went to bed at around 1 or 1:30. Nowadays I go to bed at around 11:30 or 12, and I have less trouble sleeping. </p>
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<p>For some people it keeps them awake. I tend to take a shower (helps release tension and relaxes your body) and then surf on the Internet casually for a few minutes or so with the lights off (no games) right before going to bed.</p>
<p>Although it spoils eventually, I always drink a small glass of milk before going to bed. Maybe its a security thing with a placebo effect, but it works for me. Otherwise, it is very difficult for me to go to sleep. Meditation sounds like a great idea too.</p>