I might be nocturnal....

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Well, it's 5am here and I'm still awake. I'm not tired.
Last night I shut down my computer at 4:30. I couldn't fall asleep for 45 minutes.
I'm sleeping till like 1pm--when my mom wakes me up! Who knows how late I'd be sleeping were I not woken up.</p>

<p>What do I DO???</p>

<p>This problem sort of started cropping up midway through the first semester. It's fine and dandy during winter break, but obviously this sort of a schedule does not jibe with AP Calc BC at 7:30 AM (yikes...). I'm just not tired till really late. IDK. I'm pretty sure my sleep cycle is off.... Circadian rhythms and melatonin secretion and that sort of thing.</p>

<p>Commiserate-rs? Any takers? (ooh, I'm clever--a rhyme!!!)</p>

<p>I just had a terrible thought--some of you East Coasters are probably already awake!!! :(</p>

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<p>It’s a pretty simple problem to solve, really. Adjusting your sleeping habits is a lot like adjusting to jet lag. Imagine yourself moving to the east coast. You need to sleep 3 hours earlier than you normally do, so you’ll have to adjust by sleeping at say, 12 AM while your body thinks it’s 9 PM. Go to bed at 2 AM first, then 1 AM and then 12 AM. The night before, try not to get too much sleep and exercise as much as you can. You still have time before school starts, right?</p>

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<p>Ha. I’ve been telling one of my friends that he must be nocturnal!</p>

<p>but yeah, what R3d3mpti0n said.</p>

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<p>Acquire melatonin pills, use said pills to fix your circadian rhythm.</p>

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<p>i slept at like 2:30 yesterday</p>

<p>its just that I dont have an incentive to wake up so I just sleep in</p>

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<p>start working out.</p>

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<p>Oh me too. I went to bed at 7:30 AM this morning. Yesterday 6 something.</p>

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<p>i heard that if you stare at computer screen/television screens for an extended amount of time, its harder to fall asleep.</p>

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<p>School starts on Monday.</p>

<p>I got my wisdom teeth out a week and a half ago and have not been allowed to do strenuous exercise, so maybe once I can go to the gym again it might help.</p>

<p>I guess I’ll just try to go to bed earlier and turn off the computer??? I dunno haha it’s just sort of frustrating because I don’t feel at all tired…</p>

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<p>I went to bed at 7:15 this morning</p>

<p>School starts Tuesday though :D</p>

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<p>Once someone figures out an answer, let me know :(.</p>

<p>^School doesn’t start for me for almost another full month, yay :p!</p>

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<p>I had the opposite problem during winter break.</p>

<p>Sleep at 6:30 pm, wake up at 6 pm. -__-</p>

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<p>How is that the opposite problem? To me it sounds like you were sleeping for like 24 hours… I think I’m missing something. Did you mean wake up at 6 am?</p>

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<p>OOPS.</p>

<p>I meant 6 am. I am currently not hibernating. -__-</p>

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<p>I have a similar problem. I try to go to sleep at ~3 on most nights, but it takes me around half an hour to actually fall asleep. Sleep 'til 2 in the afternoon and my mom gets mad. I don’t know how I’ll survive when school starts up again.</p>

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<p>Today I went to bed at 6am. I felt sorta bad lol…</p>

<p>My mom woke me up at 12 and I had only slept 6 hours! I felt really lazy too. Oh well.</p>