So,it's half four in the morning...

QueenOfLeon

Monzo wrote: »

Going to bed at 2am isn't such a good idea when you've spent the last month or so going to bed around 4am. As such I lay awake for several hours before finally succumbing to sleep around five. I then proceeded to wake up half a dozen times during the morning, eventually getting up ten minutes ago. /o\

I think thats what happened me, I went to bed at 1, had possibly the worst nights sleep ever waking up every half hour, then I sleep til 4 :rolleyes:

**Timbuk2**

One surefire way of fixing your sleeping pattern is

1. Go to bed whenever tired
2. Wake up whenever you want to wake up in future, no matter how little sleep you need to do this. FORCE yourself out of bed - set 3 alarms if you have to.
3. Proceed through day as a zombie.
4. Go to bed whenever tired, ideally 16 hours after you got up, which should be 8 hours before you WISH to get up.

This usually fixes your sleeping pattern unless you have a sleep disorder or something! The hardest bit is getting up in the morning though with inadequate sleep.

Apparently, the way to maintain a healthy sleep schedule is to keep your 'waking-up' time fixed (even on weekends), but only to go to bed when tired. Your body will 'adjust' and you will be tired at the right time to allow you to have enough sleep to be well-rested for your wake-up time (which may vary above or below 8 hours).

amacachi

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

One surefire way of fixing your sleeping pattern is

1. Go to bed whenever tired
2. Wake up whenever you want to wake up in future, no matter how little sleep you need to do this. FORCE yourself out of bed - set 3 alarms if you have to.
3. Proceed through day as a zombie.
4. Go to bed whenever tired, ideally 16 hours after you got up, which should be 8 hours before you WISH to get up.

This usually fixes your sleeping pattern unless you have a sleep disorder or something! The hardest bit is getting up in the morning though with inadequate sleep.

Apparently, the way to maintain a healthy sleep schedule is to keep your 'waking-up' time fixed (even on weekends), but only to go to bed when tired. Your body will 'adjust' and you will be tired at the right time to allow you to have enough sleep to be well-rested for your wake-up time (which may vary above or below 8 hours).

LOL, three alarms. If it's been less than 8 hours since I fell asleep it usually takes at least 5 alarms and fcuk knows how many people calling me to wake me. Often I can't find my phone because I hide it when I go to bed so that I have to get up to turn it off but usually I do that and move it and don't even remember waking up so have no idea where it is. I'm just broken in general tbh, a few nights during college term with feck all kip, will look forward to catching up but then sleep for 20 minutes on the bus home and be up til 3 or 4am.
Hopefully by the time I'm finished college the economy will be truly worldwide and I can work for a company based in California because I've basically been on their timezone for the last 6 years.

QueenOfLeon

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

One surefire way of fixing your sleeping pattern is

1. Go to bed whenever tired
2. Wake up whenever you want to wake up in future, no matter how little sleep you need to do this. FORCE yourself out of bed - set 3 alarms if you have to.
3. Proceed through day as a zombie.
4. Go to bed whenever tired, ideally 16 hours after you got up, which should be 8 hours before you WISH to get up.

But see, I do this, a lot. Go to bed at 4am when I'm working at 8am, therefore forcing myself out of bed and proceeding through day as a zombie. But then, 4am the next morning I'm still up!

**Timbuk2**

Hmm maybe the plan isn't foolproof. Especially since I set my alarm for 9.30 this morning, and got up at 1. I need more alarms, or better my iPod Dock Alarm - which is currently in Dublin!

My phone alarm just annoys me. Sometimes I can get out of bed, turn off the alarm, and get back to bed while still half-asleep - it has happened that I wake up with the alarm de-activated but I can never remember actually doing it.

What we need is an alarm that makes you solve a puzzle or something to turn it off - like the Ravenclaw common-room door (HP nerd!).

I think there's alarms that vibrate the whole bed when they go off, and others that run away and you have to catch them. Chances are you'd just 'adjust' to the new alarm and it would stop being effective after a while.

QueenOfLeon

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

What we need is an alarm that makes you solve a puzzle or something to turn it off - like the Ravenclaw common-room door (HP nerd!).

I think there's alarms that vibrate the whole bed when they go off, and others that run away and you have to catch them. Chances are you'd just 'adjust' to the new alarm and it would stop being effective after a while.

I've seen one that shoots a rocket across the room and you have to go get it to turn the thing off....that sorta thing could do the trick, but then I'm always afraid of annoying my housemates by having a really loud alarm going off for ages if I'm getting up earlier than them.

Kells...

Ye I have one off them it goes off the shelf and hides.

QueenOfLeon

TroutFisher wrote: »

Ye I have one off them it goes off the shelf and hides.

Does it work?

Bottleopener

I've built up a resistance to my phone's alarm, I really need to get a new alarm fast =P

jumpguy

I wish there was an alarm that only turns off after you've gotten dressed...the rest are futile. Even placing my phone alarm across my bedroom so I have to get up and turn it off doesn't work. I just curse past-me for being so damn annoying, and go back to bed... :P

Lawliet

I use to put my alarm clock on the other side of the room, but then one dark morning, while half asleep I managed to sprain my ankle looking for the stupid thing. So from now on all alarms stay within arms reach of the bed!

Kells...

QueenOfLeon wrote: »

Does it work?

Yea its really really loud and then one I have I programed a song on it that I hate to repeat

QueenOfLeon

My phone stupidly allows its alarm to be turned off by hitting any button. It should have some sort of complicated puzzle that you have to complete before it shuts up, then at least my brain would be awake...

Jay P

Ugh, it's late. For me anyway... I've just spent the last three hours reading stuff on cracked.com

cheesefiend

Jay P wrote: »

Ugh, it's late. For me anyway... I've just spent the last three hours reading stuff on cracked.com

Robert Brockway and craptions

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

I wish Swaim still made Cracked TV. It hasnt been as funny since he changed it.

bythewoods

Just home, but gonna try sleep now. Yeah. Now.

Not in 6 hours time. Night !

bythewoods

bythewoods wrote: »

Just home, but gonna try sleep now. Yeah. Now.

Not in 6 hours time. Night !

FML

Pigwidgeon

Can't sleep. Clown will eat me.

**Timbuk2**

So I have been getting up between 1-2 pm every day for the last two weeks (except for one miraculous day I was up at 11, not that anything productive was done that day). I have to adjust quickly so that I am up by 7.30am on Monday and Tuesday. Should be doable, if I wasn't still awake at 3.40am.

QueenOfLeon

I would try that but I know I'm gunna fail :pac: I would hope that having to get up at 7 for work on Sunday will set me up for Monday but I think we're going out that night....:-/

**Timbuk2**

QueenOfLeon wrote: »

I would try that but I know I'm gunna fail :pac: I would hope that having to get up at 7 for work on Sunday will set me up for Monday but I think we're going out that night....:-/

I always find it slightly odd that if I go out some night, I'd probably be in bed earlier than I am usually. I'd usually be at home around 3, and I head straight for bed when I go home. If I don't go out I could be up until 4, or later! Although you never feel as well-rested after sleeping after a night-out, usually due to a hangover or just general tiredness.

Last summer though my sleep schedule was great for ages - I always got up early and went to bed early.

Ginja Ninja

I may or may not have spent half the night playing wow because I'm in dublin and won't have to be up tomorrow.

So what if I'm pathetic, you shut up! ¬.¬

MrMojoRising

i've just drank 12 cans of bulmers and i'm wide awake. they've completely defeated the purpose they were bought for :mad:

QueenOfLeon

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

I always find it slightly odd that if I go out some night, I'd probably be in bed earlier than I am usually. I'd usually be at home around 3, and I head straight for bed when I go home. If I don't go out I could be up until 4, or later! Although you never feel as well-rested after sleeping after a night-out, usually due to a hangover or just general tiredness.

Haha I know! I don't even know why I bother using the excuse of getting in too late for not going out, since I'd easily be up til then anyway. And yet I'd still feel guilty for going out when I have college work to do, but not guilty about staying up on the internet for hours...

amacachi

FFS, only about 5 hours sleep yesterday then up all day and bed at about 11. Woke up at least 6 times during the night and not getting back asleep this time. Gonna be a long fcukin day now.

suitcasepink

Ermm even though I left at 2 I was watching the clock I was wake until 4:50ish then I slept until 6am, then I slept again to 8:30 before getting up at 10:30

I think my 12 hour sleep the night before was too much.. Im not designed to get much sleep or something

jefreywithonef

Last night's delay in falling asleep resulted from having a song caught in my head, and having mindless thoughts gnawing away at my brain such as 'do I have any jam back in my college house?' and 'how would a blind man know if his jam had blue mould on it or not?' Back in the day I could just set my head down on the pillow and submit to sleep right away.

cheesefiend

Monday morning is going to be painful.

QueenOfLeon

Just put on my dinner. My sleeping pattern isn't the only thing thats messed around!