How do you fix your sleeping patterns?

<p>I can't help but wonder, how do you fix your summer sleeping schedule getting back to school?</p>

<p>I sleep anytime between 4 am-5 am now (mainly because of Ramadan, eating and drinking as much as possible before morning prayers at around 5) :D I can do this since school doesnt start until September 25th :P</p>

<p>Well I slept from 10-2 and I’ve been up for 2 1/2 hours so I need help myself. Only issue is, I have school in 28 hours. :l</p>

<p>go to bed at whatever time you’re going to sleep in the summer, but force yourself to wake up at 7. you’ll be so tired by night that you’ll crash at 10. voila – fixed!</p>

<p>^ Yeah, that’s what I do. Night before school started, I slept at 1. First night of school, I slept at 2. Last night (second night of school), I slept at 9. And I was still tired today :|</p>

<p>^ Problem with that is you’ll probably be tired still when you wake up. I stayed up for like 28 hours once this summer and slept for almost 20 hours after, lol. </p>

<p>IMO if you’re trying to fix your sleeping schedule this close to school, just start going to bed at the right times even if you don’t fall asleep, and then make sure you’re awake for school. The lack of sleep should help you get to sleep earlier. You shouldn’t have that much homework at the beginning of the school year too, right? So you can just finish whatever you have when you get home and sleep way early.</p>

<p>Don’t eat for about 20 hours. Then, two hours before you want to sleep eat a big meal. You’ll be very sleepy then.</p>

<p>Stay up really late when I have to wake up around 8 the next morning. I’ll be so tired by 10 that’s when I’ll go to bed.</p>

<p>eHow has some pretty good methods of how to go to sleep and sleep deeply. These are important things to remember before trying to retrain your sleep paterns:

  1. The less light, the better.
  2. Don’t eat sugar or drink caffeinated drinks at night.
  3. Don’t force yourself to go to sleep. Tossing around on bed awake is counterproductive. Go to sleep when you feel tired.</p>

<p>If you want to go to sleep earlier, go to sleep 15 minutes earlier than your “tired time”. Each night go to bed 15 minutes earlier than the last, until you have reached the sleeping time you want.</p>

<p>I’ve used melatonin pills to try to regulate my schedule when I was younger. It doesn’t work for everyone.</p>

<p>ask your parents to shut off your internet at 12 :D</p>

<p>just ignore them until school starts and sleep normally until you are forced to wake up for school</p>

<p>Play Starcraft 2. On Adderall. Seriously, it sometimes actually works. :stuck_out_tongue: Sometimes the best way to fix your sleep schedule is to mess it up first. </p>

<p>But I’m weird.</p>

<p>Lots of physical activity. Marching band had me running and sweating and exerting myself all day 2 weeks ago, now Badminton practice has me putting in serious workouts each day. I get home and have to rest my body. If I can, I put it off until a reasonable sleeping hour(10 or 11) then sleep soundly for anywhere from 6 to 10 hours. </p>

<p>That said, my academic schedule won’t be allowing for many 10 o’clock bedtimes this year ^_^</p>

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You just described my week.</p>

<p>Pull an all nighter.</p>

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<p>Ambien, of course.</p>

<p>^^That looks like fun!</p>

<p>I can’t tell if you’re talking about ambien or not. But it’s great fun. and a very helpful sleep aid.</p>

<p>^^^^ haha, thats cool, but im not sure it works…</p>

<p>Actually unlike most people I have absolutely no trouble with sleeping patters. I can go to bed at 8am and sleep until 4pm on a sunday, then go to bed again at 12pm and wake up at 7 on Monday, with no problem…</p>