<p>I am having a lot of trouble of getting up early in the morning and going to bed early enough at night. My sleeping habit has been getting worse slowly since my freshman year and I am a junior now. Also in the begining of every semester, I could manage to have a healthy routine with the help of my jetlag (I am an international student) for a couple weeks. After the jetlag's effect worn off, I steadily return to my night owl habit. </p>
<p>For example, I went to bed around 4:30am in the morning today and slept through one lab and one lecture. I eventually got up around 2:45pm. And this has happend many many times with or without my morning classes. Getting up early in the morning is a really intense struggle for me. I have always been a person who needs a lot of sleep. So lack of sleep sure doesn't help me get up early. When I woke up to my alarm in the morning and the choice was between class and sleep in, my paralysing desire to fall back to sleep won more often. And mind you, sleep in for me usually means 1-2pm not the usual 11/12pm. </p>
<p>I realize that I need to go to bed early in order to get up early. But then my night owl habit kicks in. Procrastination sure doesn't help. But I feel both my biological clock and psychological clock have been put in a viscious cycle. After going to bed around 4am every day, that time becomes normal to me, anytime before that would seem "early" to me. Then I start going to bed even later, and then even 4am would start to feel early. It becomes impossible for me to even imagine going to bed at a truly normal time, like between 12 to 1am.</p>
<p>What's your sleep schedule like, and how do you make yourself go to bed early and get up early ?</p>
<p>Avoid taking naps at all costs. They can (at least for me) really throw off a sleeping cycle, even if you feel like you need one, fight through it.</p>
<p>I always do a relaxation routine of yoga before bed and drink “Sleepytime tea”, which is rumored to encourage restful sleeping. (Actually, the tea just tastes really good.)</p>
<p>If you go to bed with the TV or computer on, that could be disrupting your sleep. Or if you go to bed directly after watching TV or using the computer could be disruptive.</p>
<p>Before the desired bedtime, try taking a shower, listening to soothing music or reading a novel. You also have to put aside the things that keep you awake, don’t use your laptop in bed.</p>
<p>I dont have trouble sleeping at night…in fact in tend to sleep too much -six hours on average. I’m really gonna need to cut down on sleep in college. </p>
<p>Hey, we can help each other out this way, why don’t give me tips on staying away</p>
<p>If you force yourself to get up early 1 day (even if it means getting just a few hours of sleep that day) you should from then on be able to go to bed and wake up at a reasonable time right?</p>
<p>Personally what I do is I don’t turn my alarm off until I can actually get up out of bed, turn on a light, and turn off the alarm. If that means I remain in bed for a couple of minutes while the alarm is going, then it’s fine. It still lets me get up more quickly than hitting snooze or something. </p>
<p>However I’m the type of person who can usaually fall asleep in just a couple of minutes.</p>
<p>I used to go to bed very late and oversleep my 10 am classes. Then I decided to sign up for two 8am library shifts a week. I know I cannot miss them because I would lose my job, and getting up at 7:30am twice a week is enough to force me into a semi-regular sleeping schedule for the rest of the week. And it’s amazing how much more work I am getting done!</p>
<p>This may be extremely difficult to start, but I would suggest waking up at the same time every day. Force yourself to do it a few times in a row, and then it becomes easy, and you’ll start waking up before your alarm even goes off. It’s like any habit: once you get used to it, it becomes automatic. I have found that the number of hours I get is much less important than how consistent my sleep schedule is. </p>
<p>I am currently taking this class called Behavior Modification and Self Management through our psychology department which has been very helpful in learning techniques to break bad habits and create good ones. The book we use is “Self-Directed Behavior” by David Watson and Roland Tharp. I highly recommend this book, even if you won’t be able to take a class like mine.</p>
<p>I had a problem waking up early as well when I first started school and actually had to start attending my morning classes. I go to bed around the same time as you do because I work until 3am, so it’s not that I really have the choice of staying up or not–it’s mandatory for me.</p>
<p>What helped was setting my alarm clock two hours before I had to wake up, that way I’d wake up, hit the snooze button several times until I was finally awake. I’ve heard having it across the room also helps.</p>
<p>Getting up takes a lot of discipline and eventually you get into track. Try going to bed and hour earlier each week.</p>
<p>Sun-Thurs nights I go to bed before midnight. ALWAYS.
this way I can get up at 8-9am every morning. always.</p>
<p>I am a man of his priorities. I believe in getting things done. and then some.
college is a good place to practice the lifestyle of a CEO. look at how early some of them get up.</p>
<p>It just sounds like you’re lazy to me. Everyone loves sleep. It takes discipline to create good habits, and it sounds like you’re sorely lacking in that area.</p>
<p>You need to establish normal sleeping routine. It’s hard, and it will take some getting used to, but you need to let your body know when it’s time to wake up & when it’s time to sleep
The first day, it may be useful to just stay up all night & all day
a) You need to wake up at the same time every morning - (including weekends till you’re adjusted)
b) At the same time of night, go through the same steps (brush teeth, shower, change clothes, read for 5 min, get into bed etc…).
c) No naps during the day! No caffeine in the afternoon or evening! (Drink all you need in the morning )
d) Don’t hit the snooze. When the alarm goes off, get out of bed & start moving. You’re more likely to want to go back to sleep the longer you lie there.
e) Don’t use your bed for non-sleeping activities. When you lie down in bed, you body needs to know that means it’s sleep time - not time to watch tv or study.</p>
<p>hey, I’m still in high school but does your body really change in college? I don’t know any college students that can get up at 7 AM everyday while many of my high school friends can get up at 5:30 aM everyday sleeping at 12-2AM.</p>
<p>I know it’s a self discipline problem. It just seems that I need a lot MORE self discipline to get up early in the morning than most people I know.</p>
<p>Set your alarm clock ahead like 20-30 minutes, that does help in some cases. If I think It’s 6:50, and I know I have to leave by 7:00 to get somewhere on time (and I shower every morning) I get up so fast and get stuff done fast lol.</p>
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