Going to bed?

Hub

I think I have a problem. Its always 2 or 3am when I get to bed. Im usually up a 9am. Is anyone else like this. I cant keep doing this. I say I'll go to bed at 11 or 12 but always stay up. I end up sleeping for a few hours the next day

mokeymokey

same problum here im never in bed before 2 a.m and im always up at 9.30 a.m i feel lik e**** for the day but i cant sleep any earlier

Riamfada

Well if you go to bed. Turn off the lights you will fall asleep. Have a drink that knocks me out

Hub

When I lived at home, on school holidays with no part time job, I used to stay up until 5am easily and then fall out of bed at 2 or 3pm. A sh1t way to live.

Id love to be able to fall into bed at 11 and be asleep in 15 minutes. There was a time...ah those were the days...

Endurance Man

Hehe, i go to bed at about 2-3 every nite, but then i sleep till 1-2 . I would be a complete wreck if i had to wake at 9. Seriously, could not function at all .

bounty_hunter

I have the same problem, though I have no right to complain really because it's my own fault. All it takes is a bit of willpower to stop doing it.
It's the retraining your body to get back to an appropriate sleeping pattern that's annoying.

Hub

Yeah. If I get up early and not sleep in the afternoon that should sort it but once 12 comes your still up, before you knowit its 1,2 and...2:47am

Endurance Man

If i lived a normal life and had to be up at 8 i would not stay up this late, my life would come to a stand still if i did.
The main reason i do stay up this late is i play some of my best CSS at this hour , and most of the servers are kid free at this hour to .

Goodshape

Endurance Man wrote:

The main reason i do stay up this late is i play some of my best CSS at this hour , and most of the servers are kid free at this hour to .

Yea, those Cascading Style Sheets can keep you up 'till all hours.

Best time to code is between 2 and 6 am. Officially*






*not officially.

funk-you

only sleep for 6 hours max for a week and dont take any naps etc....then every time you go to bed it will be because you're tired and not because you have to from then on.

dont fall asleep with anything on in the room-tv/radio.

i used to be the exact same but ive been working nights for the past 14 months and have found out that you dont NEED to sleep any more than 6-8 hours unless you've been awake for an extremely long time before you go to sleep but of course take at least 1 day a week and have a bit of a lie in.*







*any more than 10 hours is just plain lazy, get up and enjoy the day.

-Funk

NoDayBut2Day

I used to do that. Now I can only look forward to those days when I'm on summer or winter holidays.

Now, I go to bed at the latest 1. :rolleyes: And I still get up at 7. Not much difference, but hey...

Pighead

Pighead loves his sleep.Absolutely adores it.When i have nothing to do and I'm off work for a while i get the bed ready for some Ultra-Power Naps. Whole days and nights.The epic dreams i have as a result are something else.

All you lot tend to dream in half hour episodes waking up before the ending arrives. Pighead dreams take in character profiles,movi soundtracks and special deleted scenes that didnt make the final cut.
Hitler ran his army's on only four hours sleep a night. The Fcuker.No way i would have stood for that crap.Give me at least double that Adolf or i'm out of here.
Why should I Pighead" he probably would have said
It's been scientificaly proven that people who sleep more have stronger immune systems ya big eejit.Its not only benifitting me,it benefits everybody. :rolleyes:

Our man in Havana

I work the night shift 4 nights a week, 10.5 hour shifts. I don't get any more than 5 hours sleep a day. But on Fridays you have to catch up on the lost sleep as funk says. On a friday I usually go to bed around 1 or 2 pm till 6pm get up for 3to 4 hours and then back to bed for a full nights rest. So really Friday is a dead loss to me.

Dizzyblabla

I work days and nights, but I can usually get to sleep very easily. I'm finished in half an hour, and in an hour, I'll be asleep (traffic permitting!). But then I have work on Friday morning at 7am, so I have to switch from nights to days very quickly, so I'll go out tonight, get to bed at about 3am, sleep, get up early then, say 10am, and then I'm back to days again already!
Although, when I swap from days to nights it's harder, I try to go out the night before and sleep it in the day I have to be at work at 7pm, it doesn't usually work, so I end up being awake from about 10 or 11am til 7.30 am the following morning... not good

Cabaal

don't stay up using the PC,
about 1hr - 45min before you plan to go to sleep turn off your pc etc this will help you get to sleep

NoDayBut2Day

Cabaal wrote:

don't stay up using the PC,
about 1hr - 45min before you plan to go to sleep turn off your pc etc this will help you get to sleep

Yeah, most of the time, when I'm up, I'm on the computer... it's addicting.. haha

daveg

It's all about your internal bodyclock. You people can't sleep because your bodies are tuned to sleep at 2,3,4am or whatever. Spend a couple of nights going to bed at 11pm set and alarm for 7am. I guarentee you your body clock will adjust.

I've the opposite problem. I start work @ 7:30am so my bodyclock is adjusted to go to bed at 11pm. It's a bítch at the weekend or when you go on the beer and you still wake at 6:30am.

Red Alert

use windows task scheduler to invoke the shutdown command. first thing i'd do to my pc in a new job!

rainbow kirby

Pretty much no matter what, I don't get asleep until about 1.30am. Which is really annoying when I have to be up at 6.45am to make it to college for 9am 2 days a week, and 7.45am another 2 days... Currently I'm running on about 4-5 weeks of sleep deprivation.
Thankfully, I'm not in work until 2pm this Saturday... LIE-IN!!!

Ronan|Raven

Same as the OP really. I go asleep at about 2am every night and im up again at 7am. I feel grand until about 4pm where I start to get drowsy. It is all self caused in my case. I goto bed at 10pm but end up watching various films/tv shows.

ferdi

i wish i was in bed right now as i'm very hungover.

usually dont sleep til 2ish, up at 8

Rb

I'm up between 7:30 and 9 every morning, go to college, work etc but I still never seem to be able to sleep until around 3 or 4 am
I've tried going to bed at 11 but still couldn't get to sleep til 4, then got back up at half seven, went to bed the following night at 11 and AGAIN was awake til 4.
I never get a lie on either, college all week and then work every weekend

Cake Fiend

I bet the people who are complaining about not being able to sleep are doing any or all of the below:

• Drinking tea, coffee or cola in the afternoon
• Not getting much exercise during the day
• Working in fluorescent light
• Watching TV before bed
• Taking naps during the day

Try to cut out as many of the above as possible and see if it makes a difference.

In other news, in 6 years on boards, this is the first time I've ever used the list thingy!

Kêrmêttê

Very interesting article about sleep and sleep patterns => clicky linky

According to this article... some people are morning people and some are night owls... tis genetic!

I think, as you get older your metabolism changes and with that your sleep patterns and sleep requirements change too.

In my younger days I could manage a couple of hours sleep a night and be able to do a full days work no problem day after day...
But in now that I'm getting a bit older it seems that my body starts to shut down at about 10.30pm-ish.
I slow down... get a bit groggy... and eventually I'll shut down and fail to make any sense at all (do I ever? )

If I'm awake past my proper sleepy-time and I start this bodily shut-down, I'll end up dropping stuff, talking extreme shoite (I've been know to say whole sentences backwards) and loose all co-ordination and judgment while driving - heaven help me and my passangers if I've to drive home from anywhere in this state! :eek:

I ALWAYS wake up at 2/3am for a run to the loo and get back to sleep ... then there's another break in my sleep for a loo trip at 6/7am... then I either get up if I want to be in work early... or I doze/watch a bit of tv in bed til 7.30am-ish and then get up. I've had this sleep pattern for about 14 years now... and its never really changed.
In fact... I can count on one hand the number of times I've had a full nights sleep with no break. It doesn't matter to me... I still feel refreshed and fine the in the morning.

I can manage a couple of late nights during the week. After a few drinks, or still being out and about, I don't seem to notice the onset of the bodily shut-down... but I will end up sleeping most of the next day away. If I've to go to work after a late night I will manage most of the day fine... but will start to slow down at about 3pm and will have to go to bed for a little nap when I get home after work.

Rb

• Drinking tea, coffee or cola in the afternoon - Don't drink any of them.
• Not getting much exercise during the day - few hours in the gym on top of college and work 2 evenings.
• Working in fluorescent light - Nope
• Watching TV before bed - Rarely
• Taking naps during the day - Nope

Tazz T

Having a baby cures all symptoms of sleeplessness.

Before I couldn't get to sleep before 1/2am now, I'm asleep in 5 minutes. I can easily go to bed at 10pm and not wake up until 8am. Unfortunately, the baby wakes at least twice during that period.

dundalk cailin

when i was at home, i had to be dragged out of bed in the morn even if i wen to bed early. now i have to get up myself r i miss coll. here, i have to get up at 6.30 - 6.45 for college at 8, thats 5.30 irish time!! at home it didn help that i was out socialicin at the wkend so my sleep patterns were all over the place, if i had coll r work the next morn

also i have the room in comlete darkness goin to sleep, i put my alarm one corner of the room and the phone the other to ensure i get up to turn off the alarm!

Nimrod's Son

I try to get to bed by 12 (unless I'm out) and usually I'll read for half an hour and then conk out. Up for 8.30, not too shabby.

WellyJ

Goodshape wrote:

Yea, those Cascading Style Sheets can keep you up 'till all hours.

Best time to code is between 2 and 6 am. Officially*






*not officially.

Brilliant

Somnus

Nimrod's Son wrote:

I try to get to bed by 12 (unless I'm out) and usually I'll read for half an hour and then conk out. Up for 8.30, not too shabby.

Yeah, same here.
i'd say just do some excercise or something before trying to sleep,and maybe out on some music.
if i'm ever lying in bed listening to music i'm out in 15 minutes

*Angel*

Drinking coffee before I go to bed has NO effect on my ability to sleep, perhaps this is because I'm always knackered but I dunno, I find I have to drink coffee to stay awake and compensate for my tendency of going to bed pretty late.

Easiest way to sleep is make yourself tired, just get a few hrs of sleep one night and then you should have no problem going to sleep earlier the next night.

OfflerCrocGod

I'm never in bed before 4 am I suppose being an unemployed lazy bum doesn't help

Rb

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

an unemployed lazy bum

That's what I want to be when I grow up!oh living the dream....

CathyMoran

Normally go to bed around 12-12.30 and get up at 6.30 during the week, at the weekend I get up at 10.00. I like having another "day" after work plus I get extra get up and go after 11pm.

jrey1981

Normally I am a night owl, getting up lunchtime or later and going to bed 2 - 5am due to lack of routine. Only way I can get up early at the moment is by having no sleep one night, then working a long day and trying to change the times my body feels tired.

Have done this today...working on autopilot.

nesf

I've the issue of being a very deep sleeper (read sleeping through several alarms and/or someone trying to wake me) and being unable to sleep till very late. I've been this way all my life, without caffene, alcohol, TV or computers I'm the same. Half my family are the same, getting to sleep early doesn't happen much.

Sleeping tablets don't work in the long term, and other tablets that encourage a more "natural sleep" (ie through drowsiness caused by other factors such as anti-hystamines etc) also don't work in the long term.

I can and do quite regularily, go to sleep and wake 14-16 hours later.

Not a happy place tbh.

20 Times 20 Times

Hub wrote:

I think I have a problem. Its always 2 or 3am when I get to bed. Im usually up a 9am. Is anyone else like this. I cant keep doing this. I say I'll go to bed at 11 or 12 but always stay up. I end up sleeping for a few hours the next day

You think tis is abd ask ropedrink his sleeping habits.Now that is bizarre

Hub

Drinking tea, coffee or cola in the afternoon-Sometimes but I try not to.

Not getting much exercise during the day-Hehheh you don't get abs like these by being F*cking lazy, dude!! *Points to abs*

Working in fluorescent light-No

Watching TV before bed-Yes

Taking naps during the day-Ohhhh yeah :cool:

Civilian_Target

Exercise. Do it right and you'll want to be in bed by 12!