<p>I'm sure lots of you are going through this, where in our last few weeks before school starts we're trying to get as much sleep as possible. I can't speak for everone else, but I've adopted a really funky sleeping schedule. I've ALWAYS been a night owl, but I've goten pretty extreme to the point where I'm not tired at all until 3:30 am, and usually fall asleep around 4am, and then don't get up until like 2pm, and it starts all over again. I'll be going to school on the east coast, so I've got an extra 3 hours ahead to adjust to as well (equivilant of going to sleep at 7am and waking up at 5pm, basically turning totally nocturnal).</p>
<p>I know I need to get over this and fast because I don't want to go through that during orientation, so basically...</p>
<p>I've got the same problem, and usually what happens is school starts, and I do OK throughout the schoolday because I'm really excited, but then I'm really tired in the evening because I only got 2-3 hours of sleep the night before. Then I fall asleep at a decent hour, and let that night set the pace for the rest of the week, and hopefully the rest of the year, if I don't blow it too badly on the weekends.</p>
<p>Yeah I usually go to bed around 5 am and get up around 12 or 1. I have a job but it's a night job which is partly why I go to bed so late. But still, I could be going to bed at 2 or 3 am at least and not 5 am. Only problem I see with it is that my parents don't like that so I've been trying to adjust back again lately.</p>
<p>Your sleep habits sound like mine. I usually go to bed around 4, but lately it's been 5 or even 6. I then wake up at around 2. The latest has been 4:30.</p>
<p>The few times that I have gone to bed early (2 am), I end up lying in bed for over an hour before actually falling asleep. I'm guessing the easiest thing to do is to gradually sleep earlier, like 1 hour earlier each day.</p>
<p>Heh, if I try to go to sleep <em>earlier</em>, I end up just lying there... getting more and more frustrated... more and more awake... and probably actually falling asleep later. So I tend to just start getting up at a regular time and then go to sleep early more naturally 'cause I'm so tired...</p>
<p>I'm the same way, where if I try to go to sleep earlier (like mindnight or something) I just lie awake and get really restless, so maybe I'll try getting up earlier, setting all of the alarms around me and stuff, and then hopefully I'll be tired earlier...</p>
<p>There have been times when I have gone to sleep at 2 A.M, knowing that I need to wake up at 4:30 A.M. for work. During school last year, I usually slept at 11:30 P.M. and woke up at 5 A.M. All week. So I'm used to it. </p>
<p>I am actually trying to get to a point where I do not have to go to sleep anymore. That would be nice.</p>
<p>For me, the worst was when I had a paper route which required me to be up and ready to deliver newspapers at 4 a.m. every morning. It wasn't bad until I started getting a lot of homework and would stay up until 12 or 1 every night working/getting stressed out before finally going to sleep for about three hours. Plus, I didn't have time to take naps between my job and school, and I had extracurriculars afterschool. I became very paranoid and jumpy. The bright side was that it gave me a topic for my final psychology paper this year, for which I included a case study... "The effects of sleep deprivation on high school students." Easiest A+ I've gotten ever! :)</p>
<p>i stay up until the sun comes up…in Kali that’s around 6 and wake up around noon if possible or later</p>
<p>best way to change this habit fast…IMO, is to stay up for the rest of the day and do whatever it takes (maybe a nap or something), by midnight or before the end of that day, sleep schedule will be normal again</p>
<p>Ah, you'd adjust to life in Asia right now pretty well.</p>
<p>I suggest that you just stay up through the day and then crash between 8-11 PM the following day after being up for more than 24 hours. Then your body will start asking for more sleep earlier- you'll actually get up earlier- there is no way your body will sleep for more than 12 hours at a time. Do whatever you can to stay up- move around a lot. Eventually, you'll get back the sleep schedule that you'd like to have- it'lll take about a week or so.</p>
<p>No way my body can sleep for more than 12 hours? Ha! You obviously don't know me. During the summer I'm used to getting at least 11 hours, but there have been plenty of nights I've gotten 13 or 14. I know I can't keep that up forever, and I've got the same problem as all of you with the going to bed ridiculously late and then waking up late. I tried to take some nyquil to get me to go to bed earlier but that didn't really help. I guess I'll try the waking up earlier. But that sucks. Waking up at 10 for me is soo early. I guess its good I don't have any classes before 11.</p>
<p>I think equine- you should make sure you get like only 2 hours of sleep one night and then force yourself not to nap, or sleep until nighttime. that's a fast, good way to adjust to normal hours, because 7am-5pm east coast time-that's crazyyy, yet funny...</p>
<p>my sleep schedule gets messed up once a week during school and convieniently once a week right now (though only for one day while school is 5 days).</p>
<p>In school, it was always the sunday/monday transition that sucked unless I could drag myself out of bed early on sunday. I wouldnt be tired so I wouldnt be able to get much sleep but then monday night I would be extra tired.</p>
<p>Now that it's summer, I stay up late (playing WoW now) and sleep later. monday-thursday I work 3:30-9 so that plays fine with sleeping late but on saturday I have to show up at 8 so I just pull off less sleep and caffiene it up.</p>
<p>Ugh, same problem here. I've reverted to night owl, and classes start for me on the 29th. Drink some chamomile tea before bed (just don't drink too much; tea's notorious for making you go to the bathroom), don't use the computer or watch television for an hour or so before sleep time, and just try to relax. Not much else you can do.</p>