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RayB:
No, not in your PC -- in you!

My waking schedule has drifted to the point that I am not sleepy until late (just look, it's 3:30am!) and then have a really hard time waking up even with an alarm (snooZe!), waking now past noon.

I work from home, if anyone is wondering.

What are some methods of shifting my rhythm back so I'm waking at 9 and getting sleepy by midnight?

SNAAKE:
sleeping pill around 11pm

coffee around 8am

problem solved :dunno

newmanfamilyvlogs:
Start a bedtime ritual and stick to it. It sucks for the first week or so, but eventually your body is forced to adapt.

My wife had a similar issue, made worse by insomnia. We got in the habit of relaxing about an hour before bed, reading a book. Getting the bright light of a PC or cellphone screen out of your eyes earlier helps (similar to how bright lights have been used to help with depression). A book is a nice neutral reflectivity of the ambient light in the room. The other part is just setting a bed time for yourself and sticking to it. In bed, lights out. The first few weeks she'd lay there awake until 2 or 3, but then it quickly drifted closer to when we were actually going to bed. Same too with waking up. At first she was miserable and exhausted having only slept a few hours, but eventually the front end of sleep drifts forward.

And on that note, it's 6AM now, so I better go wake her up :P

Thenasty:
sex at 8pm and 10pm  ;D

dreaming by 11pm  ;)

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on January 28, 2011, 06:02:10 am ---Start a bedtime ritual and stick to it. It sucks for the first week or so, but eventually your body is forced to adapt.

--- End quote ---

Good suggestions, but let me just say that for many of us, that crap doesn't work!

I suffer from insomnia constantly due to various issues, and let me tell you, forcing yourself to sleep will only make it worse!  You are looking at the problem backwards.  You don't need to try to go to sleep early, you need to try to stay awake during the day.  Keep forcing yourself to stary awake when you want to be awake and don't worry about your sleeping hours.  Because your body will make you sleep regardless about your feelings on the matter, eventually your lack of sleep will make you "crash" and you'll sleep all night.  It's very frustrating to do and sometimes can take longer than a week, but it will work. 

That being said, in the winter time I actually prefer to sleep all morning and be up in the afternoon.  It's cold and nasty outside in the morning.  Why would you want to be awake for that?

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