<p>During this break, I'm having troubles sleeping for longer than 3 hours. I am not having trouble falling asleep but the staying asleep is troublesome. It sucks to go to bed at 12am and waking up at 3 am or 4 am and finding yourself just lie their in disgust. I usually stay up until like 10 am then maybe fall asleep for another 3 or 4 hours. This stinks, how to fix my sleeping habit.. ITS BEEN A LONG 3 WEEKS.</p>
<p>You might consider what is causing your inability to stay asleep.
Are you taking any medications, drugs, or alcohol?
Prior to having this problem, what were your sleep patterns like?
Has there been a recent change in your lifestyle?
Are you or have you recently been under a lot of stress; for example, were finals or your last semester especially stressful followed by trouble at home?</p>
<p>One behavioral fix you could try is to force yourself to do a chore every time you wake up between midnight at 8 or 9am (unless you need to for an activity or something, of course). One way this can work is that if you wake up in the middle of the night, you don't let yourself go to bed again until you've cleaned your entire bathroom. Assuming you dislike cleaning your bathroom, this will condition you to stay asleep.</p>
<p>Get some excercise during the day.</p>
<p>You could also try marijuana, masturbation, or watching the lifetime network.</p>
<p>ElBarto summed it up</p>
<p>During break, my sleeping schedule is messed up. That's because I sleep for many hours. I would sleep at 3AM and wake up at noon. Then another day, I would sleep at 10AM and wake up at noon or earlier. One way I tried fixing a problem similar to yours was to sleep at the same time, or for the same number of hours everyday.</p>
<p>melatonin?</p>
<p>Exercise helps a lot, but not right before you go to bed.</p>
<p>All the questions apumic gave are great things to ask yourself. You may also want to ask yourself "What is the first thing I think of when I wake up?" because that may give you some idea if stress is triggering the problem.</p>
<p>As someone who went through just about the same thing last year, what I learned is that there are a few things that are really important to try and do...because obviously something isn't allowing your body to calm down the way it used to.</p>
<p>This sounds stupid, but check to make sure you have the right atmosphere to sleep. Lights off, no sounds/maybe some white noise or music if you'd like, comfy bed.</p>
<p>Take an hour or so to calm yourself down before bed. I'd find that I was doing schoolwork right up until I'd hop into bed and then I'd wake up with physics problems running through my head and that would just keep going in a vicious cycle all night. Now I watch TV or read for fun before bed.</p>
<p>Keep the same sleep habits when you go back and forth between school. I swear, the only people who change their sleep habits drastically between school/home are those who are chronically tired to begin with. It's important to create a habit of going to bed/waking up. For me I get up at 8 am everyday. I usually go to bed at 11. If I go to bed at 2, I still get up at 8 and that's too bad. And it's really worked because that's what my body's used to. (I understand I sleep alot for a college student so if 6-7 hours a night works for you than that's totally normal, I believe).</p>
<p>You may want to see a doctor and see what they can do for you. I tried melatonin for awhile and that seemed to help for about a week, but after that my problems started creeping back up. I also went through a fair share of sleeping pills before finding one that worked really well for me. Stick to pills like ambien/sonata/lunesta...the newer pills with less side effects basically...it may take a few prescriptions but one is bound to help you sleep through the night. The important thing is to not abuse them. My doctor would give me a prescription for 10 at a time, and advise me to take them for 5 days straight or so...because chances are something has gotten your body out of the habit of sleeping for those certain hours and you just need something to get you back into it. I'd take them for 5 days at a time and I'd get right back into things without the whole sleeping pill dependency. Just do you research/talk to a doctor and do things right.</p>
<p>Good luck...I know what you're going through and its MISERABLE.</p>
<p>are you like this during school too? maybe your body is too used to waking up every few hours.</p>
<p>I've had this problem during the first few days I'm back, but it eventually solved itself. If you try to get on a more regular sleep schedule, it will help. Among other things, here are some tips:</p>
<p>1) If you wake up at 5 or 6 am, stay up and don't go back to sleep. It's easier to stay awake longer and then fall asleep (like if you wake up at 5 and then don't go to bed until 11pm or midnight) than it is to sleep longer, stay awake a little during the day, and then go to sleep again (probably similar to what you're trying to do).</p>
<p>2) Do stuff during the day- during break you're probably not as active as you are during school. Exercise may help, but I've found that just getting out of the house and getting things accomplished help you sleep a lot better.</p>
<p>I accept that I have insomnia, order some cookies, and move on.</p>
<p>when life gives you lemons,.....</p>
<p>My problem is, I don't HAVE any sleeping habits. I sleep when I'm tired. Whether or not that's at 3 in the morning or 2 in the afternoon isn't important. If I'm feeling tired and I have a class in 3 hours, I just take a 2 hour nap and then go to class and then nap again if I'm too tired. Although this is really bad.....I had times when I got to class and was too dizzy to know what the hell I was doing. So usually it goes like this: I stay up for 2 days in a row, then sleep like 14 hours, and then stay up another night, and then take 3 little naps, and then sleep a full 7 hours, and then roll around in bed till 3 in the afternoon, not get to sleep till 7AM the next morning, and then roll out of bed at 5PM....well, you get the idea.</p>
<p>I actually have trouble sleeping and getting up at a set time. Because I usually make that decision intuitively, unless I have something I need to get up for, like a class.</p>