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[CharlotteDarcy]

Keep trying and help your body getting into a normal sleeping routine. If you continue to do this, it'll be a hard habit to break.

[emma007]

Try turning off your computer early. That helps me.

I also work an on call job, and I have had days when I will work a 12hr night shift have one day off and then work a 12hr day shift. If I work a night shift I typically get home at 8:00am. What I do is come home and sleep from 8:30am until 12:00pm or 1:00pm. Then I go to bed early that evening. That way I am too sleepy that I cannot make it through the day, but I am still tired enough to sleep at night (since I stayed up the whole night working haha). That gets me back on track as well. I hope that made sense.

[mz_imperfect]

I say, stay away from the computer and take a day where you stay up until a reasonable time to sleep. So you say that you sleep at 6 in the morning? Well, try to stay up the next day to correct your sleeping schedule. I know it sounds ridiculous and blah... but it's the only way I know how.

[k-man]

what you should do is, is stay up for a whole day. Like you say you sleep at 6am, well, just stay awake till 10pm or so the next day. That way you'll get back on track, works for me. oh, person above me suggested the same thing, yeah, do that.

[Honey.bee]

Fasten your sleeping routine. You need habitually make it happen somehow. Turn off the computer early and try going to bed that time. Don't force yourself to sleep though, it'll make you even more stressful. Or try making yourself really exhuasted before going to bed, that works for me.

[jedimindtricks]

Hahaha! Welcome to the Vampire Club!

This happens to me ALL the time, right before exam periods. That's because I just pointlessly stay up trying to study and end up doing other things. Then I sleep in the morning, wake up at like 3-4 in the afternoon. How I often approach my often messed up sleep pattern is to exercise a lot by running. By the time I come back and take a shower, I feel like I'm going to pass out.

I hope that helps?

[ageha]

What you need to do is to try and adjust your sleep cycle back to 'normal' because your body clock is now completely messed up.

I suggest that you skip an entire 'sleep' at 6am an try and stay awake for the whole day until around 9pm. You should be absolutely knackered by this point. However if you feel that you have got that 'buzz' from staying awake for waaay too long and you're hyper, do something like read, in bed, away from your computer until this nasty nausea-inducing tiredness hits you. Sleep until 7am and then GET OUT OF BED. If you can't do it, make someone turn the light on/draw the curtains open to let the sun in. Light naturally wakes you up.

Keep doing the above making sure you do not nap during the day even if you're tired, and eventually you'll be functioning on a normal clock. Make yourself go to bed at a set time everyday (so set yourself a target = before 11pm).

Once you're in bed, DO NOT CLOCK WATCH. It's makes you nervous and lessens the chances of you actually getting to sleep. Don't think about things, especially not the fact that you HAVE TO GO TO SLEEP. It'll make things a lot worse.

If it still doesn't fix itself, go to your family physician and ask to be referred to a sleep specialist. They'll record your sleeping/wake pattern and also maybe run tests on your hormone levels. Cortisol is supposed to peak around 8am where you're meant to feel the most awake.

[OMGJESSWTF]

hahaha
this has happens to me too (especially during breaks)
What works for me was I discipline myself to get in bed by 10 -12p.m. with the computer/tv/phone/etc turned off
it will take a while for you to fall asleep, but you just have to tough it out
it will probably take a few days to adjust, but you'll eventually start falling asleep earlier

some helpful tips:
-don't do anything too exciting before bedtime like playing shooting games, watching action movies, listening to loud music
-read for half an hour before bedtime (if you find a book you're interested in, reading won't seem like a "chore" at all)
-don't eat anything too sugary or caffeine like coffee, tea, soda

[x_Pres_Kitten_x]

Oh man, I'm in exactly the same boat.

Its 00:26am in the UK right now and I'm doing an all-nighter and staying up till 10pm to fix my messed up body clock

EYE BAG'S AHOY!

[azn_akim]

Any tips on how to stay awake during the day? I've been taking naps everyday from about 3:00 to 5:00 and now I can't stay awake during that time to save my life.

[jennayster]

lovesickles, you're just like me! I have a sleeping disorder called Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder. Go check it out. I just started taking in prescription melatonin and I'm also making an appointment with a psychiatrist .

[Iko.]

Lol! I'm the same... x_x except I can easily return to a normal routine since I can fall asleep at any time. For the sake of a healthy sleep routine, stay up for 24 hours and make sure that after 6pm and before midnight is the end of those hours, when you then can go to sleep.

If you have problems staying up while you're at home (since you are prone to fall asleep when you are bored) then go out and hang out with some friends or something.

You'll wake up the next morning, and get sleepy again around the same time. And make sure to SLEEP around this time, dont try to get past this time and stay up until 4-6 again.

[FiEnDmAkEr]

I used to have the same problem. It got so bad that I even got a nosebleed!!
It still happens over the weekends for me, but during the weekday I can go to sleep fine. Why? Because I joined a sport! I get home too late and I'm too tired to websurf for long, haha Also, doing a sport makes sleeping feel better... imo.

[italianplaya]

Haha, happens to me a lot too. If you wanna fix it just exercise a lot that day and get really tired, then once you go to bed you'll fall asleep.

[darae]

stay awake for a whole day and sleep at 10,11,12 at night. if you set a specific bedtime, your body will adapt to it. so you'll always get tired around that time and will fall asleep automatically.

try not to take naps and if you do take naps make sure it's an hour at max. and get up after an hour even though you want to sleep longer.

[Echoes]

Sleep less than you usually do, set the alarm 1-2 hrs earlier and force yourself to wake up, from there slowly fix your sleeping pattern or just go outside and do a lot of exercise until you're dead tired then head home and sleep

[suzie_q_012]

hm i think it's just.. a matter of training your body.
if you start to sleep .. say around~...
on the first 2 days, sleep around at least 1. then set your alarm at 6 am.
then cut down an hour
so for the next couple of days sleep around 12 and then set your alarm at 6 am.

afterwards i'm pretty sure your body will be like "OKAY! TIME TO SLEEP" at around 12-ish (or smthn0 and then "OKAY WAKING UP AT 6AM"

[Latitude]

don't know if i'd be help really since i hate sleep and get around 4 hrs of sleep per day lol

I'd say... just lay down in bed with the computer off then you'd fall asleep or something

[luxsandie]

I had the exact same problem and it went on for a year. Got home from school and fell asleep until 10 and then stayed up "doing homework" and then go to school. Really, those hours in the night I was balancing a laptop on the couch hand rest surfing soompi, watching reruns of CSI on TV and trying to answer a question during commercials. And when I didn't have any homework and tried to sleep during the night, I'd be so restless so I ended up watching CSI and soompi anyway.

What really broke me out of that habit was that I got a job. I couldn't be tired on the job because my brain would just be pulsing inside my skull. So eventually, I corrected my sleeping schedule and now I can barely stay up past 2 am. Which really sucks because I felt that I was way more productive during the night.

So I suggest that you find something that you really need to be well rested for. Like join an intramural team or get a job. Good luck!