Adjusting My Sleeping Pattern
Muh, i'm too tired to actually write much, so this'll be brief.
As it stands, my sleeping pattern is screwed. I wake up between 1-3pm and i'm never asleep until at least 6am.
I can't find any way to change this. If i go to bed earlier or try to sleep, i just lie awake, i just can't fall asleep any earlier. And i've tried setting my alarm for an earlier time (10-11am) but when i wake at that time i just unconsciously switch off the alarm clock and i'm fast asleep again before i know it.
So basically, does anyone have any ideas what i should do to alter my sleeping pattern?
As it stands, my sleeping pattern is screwed. I wake up between 1-3pm and i'm never asleep until at least 6am.
I can't find any way to change this. If i go to bed earlier or try to sleep, i just lie awake, i just can't fall asleep any earlier. And i've tried setting my alarm for an earlier time (10-11am) but when i wake at that time i just unconsciously switch off the alarm clock and i'm fast asleep again before i know it.
So basically, does anyone have any ideas what i should do to alter my sleeping pattern?
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maybe that only works for me.
My current sleep pattern is acctually worse than that <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> Every weekday, 2am-7:30 am, every weekend 2am to 2pm.
That'll wake ANYONE up.
I've found that with myself, I need to have a *reason* to get up earlier than 2pm. Right now I never wake up before 2, but I know that as soon as I start working (next week) that I'll start waking up at around 8am every morning without fail because I have somewhere to go.
Most people these days are just too pumped up to use a normal schedule. It's been shown in studies that a significant percentage of people actually settle into a 36 hour daily cycle when deprived of any method to check what time it is for an extended period.
I've found that with myself, I need to have a *reason* to get up earlier than 2pm. Right now I never wake up before 2, but I know that as soon as I start working (next week) that I'll start waking up at around 8am every morning without fail because I have somewhere to go.
Most people these days are just too pumped up to use a normal schedule. It's been shown in studies that a significant percentage of people actually settle into a 36 hour daily cycle when deprived of any method to check what time it is for an extended period. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Proof that were originally from another planet?
I THINK SO!
WTH ppl, is it really that hard?
If you went out and ran like 3 miles at a decent pace (asuming that you don't run often), then I guarantee you, you will be wiped out by the time you get some food in you.
I had a horrible sleeping pattern until I went to this football camp. We had 3 practices a day, and we pretty much ran the whole entire time (or did somthing active). Now i'm in bed by 11:00 pm but I wake up at like 8:00 am. It's bad to have a build up of energy before you go to bed...
Hope this helps... <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I've got it set to run WinAMP at maximum volume. Since I have my machine hooked up to a surround-sound full room stereo, that's pretty damn loud.
Since I don't want to wake up to having no ears every day, I have two alarm clocks... a little one by the bed, and a noisier one across the room. If I turn both of those off, the stereo blasts me out of bed.
Usually I leave it set to something vulgar or annoying, so I'm sure to WANT to turn it off as soon as possible. I've actually slept through 'pleasant' playlists at 70DB in the past. :b
I've found that with myself, I need to have a *reason* to get up earlier than 2pm. Right now I never wake up before 2, but I know that as soon as I start working (next week) that I'll start waking up at around 8am every morning without fail because I have somewhere to go.
Most people these days are just too pumped up to use a normal schedule. It's been shown in studies that a significant percentage of people actually settle into a 36 hour daily cycle when deprived of any method to check what time it is for an extended period. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
[WHO]Them is right. You have to have a reason and actually want to. If you're wanting to get up earlier just because you feel like a slob, tough luck it's not going to help you. I just broke this cycle myself and I did it by accidentally staying up during the day and going to bed at a reasonable hour. I wake up every day at 8 am now.
Get a job you bum!
AM static is very, very annoying because you don't get nice, even whitenoise like FM and random channels will phase in and out (random voices)
either that or get someone to do one of the following at [whenever]:
- place ice on your forehead/groin
- place water on your face
- plug your nose (works all the time, somewhat amusing to see ^^)
- slap you with a kilo/pound of raw fish
Bring out the big guns.
I present to you...
<span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>The TOTALLYSCREWED <a href='http://www.totallyscrewed.net/newsite/other.htm' target='_blank'>HAPPY MORNING WAKEUP KIT</a>.</span> <PLEASE read warning in description below>
[edit]To give proper credit: this was taken from <a href='http://www.totallyscrewed.net' target='_blank'>TotallyScrewed.net</a>, who also brought us such bloody atrocities as Zombie Smashers X, the now-disappeared Matrix Smashers X, Blood Zero, and several newer games I just noticed are up. To quote the description of the Happy Morning Wakeup Kit:
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->This is basically a glorified alarm clock, but with the added bonus of severe psychological scarring! Crank the volume way up, set your wake up time, and you will wake up! Be warned, disturbing images are involved.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Once again, I must emphasize my hesitation in promoting such intense tools for waking yourself up. I'm not just saying it <i>may</i> contain psychologically-damaging content. I'm saying it <i>definitely does</i> contain scarring content as warned, the sort I'd probably lock or delete a topic for if it was more directly-linked.
[edit2]And in case it wasn't obvious enough by now, the link isn't work or family-friendly. It's not teletubbies. It's not Barney the Fuzzy Purple Dinosaur. It's intended to wake you up, and it does so rather disturbingly.
Force yourself to wake up in the morning, say, 10am. Yes, you'll be a zombie all through the day. Try to go to sleep at a sane time in the evening, don't worry too much about not being able to get to sleep. When you do go to bed, don't focus on trying to get to sleep. Just forcus on relaxing. Don't watch the clock, in fact, turn it so you can't see it.
After long enough, you'll be tired enough hat it'll be damn near impossibe to <i>not</i> fall asleep. And, if all else fails, take sleeping tablets (oh, about sleeping tablets, the ones I sometimes use are a damn sight more powerful than they make themselves out to be. An adult dose is one tablet; I still feel sedate the next day after a <i>quarter</i>. But I digress.)
Oddly enough, once natural light (sunlight or a reasonable facsimile thereof) was applied to ANY portion of their body, their sleep schedule immediately reset to a 24-hour day. And it didn't matter where... one subject was 'lighted' on the arm, another on the back, another on the back of the knee, or inner thigh. They all reset.
One useful bit of information I took out of psychology classes was information about how the human body deals with sleep.
Even if you're laying in bed, with your mind operating at a million rpm, if your eyes are closed and you're in a 'restful' orientation, you're still getting rest. You'll eventually be able to use this to reorient yourself.
Humans sleep in 90-minute intervals. It takes that long to phase through the four stages of sleep, pop up to REM, and then start back into the first phase. If you sleep for 4:30, 6, 7:30, or 9 hours, you'll wake more rested and 'awake' than if you tried to get the stereotypical 8 hours' sleep.
<b>Sleeping for 8 hours is NOT what your body needs!</b>
Unfortunate side-effect: I've used this for so long that I find it near-impossible to sleep for any other amount of time, including 'cat naps'. If I'm out, I'm out for 6 hours. If left undisturbed (and had an interesting day) I won't wake up for 9.
On the up side, I'm much more awake when I am. On the down side, being woken up during 'interim' times leaves me extremely groggy. This may just be from forgetting how it is to wake up at those times, or possibly a physiological adjustment to getting 'proper' sleep making 'improper' sleep more debilitating.
Meh. No matter how much I sleep the only way I find myself alert in the mornings is if I've been awake all night and my mind is active (ie: gaming, coding, etc)
One or more cups of coffee in the morning really helps too, there's something about a hot drink that helps me wake up...
I only said it was a significant percentage, not all of humanity or even the majority.
The original study I saw about people falling into the 36 hour cycle was on discovery a year or two ago, so here's some other material to cite.
<a href='http://www.sleephomepages.org/sleepsyllabus/fr-g.html' target='_blank'>http://www.sleephomepages.org/sleepsyllabus/fr-g.html</a>
specifically - "Internal Desynchronization"
lmao...
Then again, pills are always welcome friends. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Yeah this is the best way. Just go out and run a few miles and you'll be sleepy much earlier than 6 am.
Of course, I'm the master hypocrite here; I just woke up 2 hours ago... at 2:00 am. My day kept getting later and later... waking up at 11 am... 1 pm... 4 pm.... 10 pm... now at 2:00 am, let my day begin lol! Pretty soon I'll be back on a normal schedule again I guess. That's another way <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Edit: got my ams and pms confused, of course