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BillieTheBot
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I've got a bloody awful sleeping pattern.
Usually it involves going to bed at 3am and getting up at about 1pm.
Last night I went to sleep at 9pm and woke at 1am, only to stay awake for ages, and then sleep sometime before waking up at somewhere between 11am-1pm.
Any ideas of how to combat this?
Usually it involves going to bed at 3am and getting up at about 1pm.
Last night I went to sleep at 9pm and woke at 1am, only to stay awake for ages, and then sleep sometime before waking up at somewhere between 11am-1pm.
Any ideas of how to combat this?
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what do you do all day?
what do you eat?
Drugs? Alcohol?
Stresses...
PM if you want
I study most of the time.
Food...umm a pretty balanced diet.
No drugs, alcohol now and then (not *that* often)
Stresses...I'm in a permanently bad mood for some reason or another, not sure if that helps...
Did think of caffeine, but don't drink that much caffinated coffee any more.
cheers
Set a more regular sleeping pattern by going to bed at a set time for a few nights, and see how you get on. Sweet dreams.
Get/drag yourself out of bed by 8am, but try not to use caffine to kick start yourself
bad mood - well probably part of messed up sleep patterns and will hoefully resolve itself.
Try the atkins diet or the zone diet. you could have high cortisol which you can bring down with diet. breathing exercises rock are really worth trying.
hope this helps
being a bad sleeper sucks - lots of nights i've been tired yet unable to sleep til 5am, then up at 7 for college. tis not nice
Hope it helps.
I thought you werent supposed to eat late
Do you ever sit here yawning Seed? if you do as soon as you start yawning unplug and get straight off to bed. sometimes I can be sat yawning my head off but still sit here and then you kind of get passed that tired stage and you wake up again.
I hate it when I cant sleep which isnt that often. Soon as my head hits the pillow im out like a light
A contributing factor is probably the fact that I don't *have* to get up in the morning...so I don't. I'll sort it
true, but were not talking about a massive meal here, but something like 1/2 doz grapes and 1/2 doz almonds.
just enough to stop blood sugar level crashing overnight and to prevent either waking up at 3 am and being wide awake or feeling like you have been driven over by bus during the night.
also magnesium at bed time works really well (it is a deep tissue relaxer)
You probably just think too much, that's my problem I'm always thinking all the time and it keeps me up - A friend of mine says I'm always inventing things and I should write them down, so I did - I expected a list of about 15 things - it came to 35 - worse still whilst writing the list I thought up another 20 - now I have a list with nearly 90 inventions and ways to improve products... Once I went to work for a company and I didn't like the way they were doing things, so I kept on thinking about ways to improve their operations anyway two weeks later the solution hit me .. I told them what I thought and they loved the idea (although I think the boss was a little pissed he didn't think of it himself) .. we carried it out and it saved them like £200,000 and tripled the number of new customer that signed up to the service.
Anyway I'm gonna enter the inventing competiton the BBC are running and hopelly all those nights of no sleep will pay off!!
If I tried to go alseep at like 11 it would take me hours to get off to sleep. Have to tried Nightol?
Before you got to bed don't do these:
Smoke.
Drink Coffie/Coke/Red Bull or anything with caffine.
Eat large amounts
Clear your mind of anything that's worring you.
Try having a work out or do somthing that's gonna knacker you out abit
St John's Wort might help make you more relaxed or supplements based on yeast - I think the idea is it makes you feel full and content - something like that.
I think a little nightcap can help some people get to sleep.
Alternatively move to spain or one of those countries that have siesta's!!
Id suggest going to bed half an hour or an hour earlier, for a week, then half an hour or an hour earlier again etc etc. within a few months you should be going to bed at a reasonable time and you would have hardly noticed the transition.
The best advice on the tape was to make sure you get up early and set an alarm clock to wake you up at 8am or whatever.
If you sleep in late then of course you'll go to bed late, so force yourself to get up at an earlier time and you'll be sleepier earlier as well.
If you want to stay up late and sleep in then as long as you can whats the problem.
However if its causing you problems then try and get into a routine, exercise during the day, not only will that generaly help with your mood but help you sleep better too. Caffine does last a very long time in some people, I cant have any after about 4pm if I want to even attempt to sleep before 12. But then I dont sleep well what ever.
Nytol does work, well sort off, but its only a temp thing, dont bother using it all the time.
A little drink can help, I find that some good quality congac can help me sleep, but drink too much, otherwise it wont help.
People are right, the doctor wont give you any pills, and even if he/she does you do NOT want to use them on a long term basis.