I think one of the ways you can start would be to try and get on a schedule. Get up at the same time every day. Force yourself to get up.
On my off days it's not uncommon for me to get up between 9 and 10. Sometimes even 11. But there are days when I'm working that I get up at 3am!
I'm lucky because I can handle that and make it work. I think you might be a bit different.
If your earliest class is at 8am, I'd start setting your alarm for at least 7am. Even if you only have these classes two days a week, set it for every weekday and get yourself on a schedule. Even if you don't go to bed until 4 or 5 am, get up at 7. You'll be tired as hell all day with only 2 or 3 hours of sleep, but you might find you'll be going to sleep earlier once you start getting up at the same time every day.
Also, take a look at your diet and exercise. Make sure you're eating your fruits and veggies and not just a bunch of college junk food. I know its hard. I survived on pizza, fried foods, macaroni and cheese, beer and liquor while I was in college (well at least my freshmen year since I was living with 3 straight frat boys
).
I'm also a finicky sleeper, and sometimes I'll take a tylenol PM, but I try not to do that too often because I'll wake up feeling groggy more times than not and we can't have that, especially if this bitch has got to go fly.
Another thing you can do if you want is keep a sleep diary. Start writing down when you turned the lights off, what time you fell asleep (what was the time you last looked at the clock), what times did you wake up in the night whether it be for a glass of water, to pee, or just to turn over. If you can remember any dreams write a quick description of those down too... and finally, write down when you wake up. If you ever go see a doctor for insomnia or other sleep related issues he'll most likely ask you to go home and do a sleep diary, so why not have one already started? We do have some medical professionals around JUB, and perhaps they would be interested in seeing this too.
If you have any other questions, post away and I (as well as our other members) would be glad to take a look at them!
Good Luck!!!
I have classes at 8 am, 9 am, and 9:30 pm. I suggested to myself that if I'm not showering then having an hour to wake up is fine.
But. One some days I'd wake up horny as a mother fucker and jack off from 30 minutes to 45 minutes. I could still get to class on time though. But things that I had to plan I either did not do and never ended up doing or postponed because of masturbation time. But the problem with that is masturbation I think makes you sleepy. Maybe I should masturbate earlier in the evenings if this is the case..
But sometimes you really can't walk around with a hard on and need some relief >_>"
But I don't think repeating yourself over and over again is necessary. Although it sure as hell feels good.
But it's distracting. That got me late to work sometimes too in the past. But I prefer waking up horny an hour before it's time for class instead of waking up when class in 10 minutes or when class has been over since 2 hours or so x_X
But if I can come up with some kind of schedule then it could possibly work out. Maybe my body just needs to realize the schedule.
Now that I think about it even more with school my body would always wake up 30 minutes or so before school or work began. I was late sometimes at waking up but like I said I had someone to wake me up then. But still my body knew what time to wake up.
Here my body is like "LOLZWTF" since it's waking up at 7, 8, 9, and on weekends 11, 1 pm, 2pm
It's going "Asadfsdafasfd"
There is still reason to be concerned though. How long?
How long will it take for my body to adjust. That's something crucial. If it takes too long then fuck I might already get kicked out of school and then that would be too late. In some ways I am serious about that. If I sleep through my classes or are late to them too much then I will get kicked out. But since now anyways I can't even remember when I wake to turn my alarm off which is unusual it's not something I have total control over.
I could make that work comet. I'm an insomniac
For a while I was. I ate in the cafetaria mostly pastas, some pizza, salads, and grape watery soda. But I've been eating out with friends more, missing lunch or dinner, and eating ramen, and now I'm eating in the other cafeteria where you can use your flex dollars or cash. And I have started getting pizzas from there now. But I can now use it at CVS, Port City Java, and Sonic. The other cafeteria is like a mini grocery store too. I have wondered if I should get breakfast one morning in the normal cafeteria and getting it to go and getting a cup and filling it up with milk then pouring it in the fridge. And going for lunch and dinner and at the end of the day having 3 cups of milk in my fridge. Then to go to other cafeteria and buy the breakfast bowls. LOLZ I ALMOST SAID BOWELS. Or if I really wanna go crazy with this I could get a container and fill it with cereal and take that to go. And that would last me a week or so.
What else is a college student supposed to do who has an on campus job where they have less then 5 hours a week -_-
But I need to take advantage of those flex dollars. Even if I do have some money in the bank. Since I'm barely making anything then once the money's gone I can't get it back.
..Erm back on topic.
Yeah I should try to eat more salads or get some lean cuisine tv dinners. Those are damn good and have vegetables. Healthy choice is good too. I used to fucking live off TV dinners growing up. It feels weird not eating them anymore.
I thought about taking medicine once like cough medicine to sleep. But if I take medicine to solve a problem that isn't illness related (On a physical level) then how does that make me any different from people who drink, smoke, and do drugs to solve their problems or sleep.
Plus I suppose it's not healthy to get addicted to something like that.
I just have always had a hard time sleeping. But oddly enough for this dorm life segment I can sleep in my bed. At home I'd sit in my bed or lay there for hours trying to sleep.
But the minute I get on my bed I pretty much am gone. But the problem is that the motivation or reason to get into bed. It's so much easier to just sit in this chair and bitch about my life and problems and lose myself in music I suppose.
Sometimes I will just here and stare at the screen and zone out. For some reason the idea of going into bed at night feels like the end. Not of life or anythign drastic like that. I mean it's the end of this day. Everything I've experienced through this day I see on my side of the line. As soon as I put my body on that bed and fall asleep I cross that line to the next day. And when I try to look back the next day or think about the previous day it's not the same. Because there is distance between the days and the mindset has changed somewhat. Hopefully for the good. And I don't like that. I like to try to deal with things or think of things before I go to bed. But I can do that for hours or so and if I can't or get too frustrated I tell myself that I can't right now and gotta sleep. And the next day what happened the previous night seems sort of blurry. Or if something important happened the previous night then I feel sort of numb and confused.
Eh whatever I look at things differently.
Comet you clever man..
You were somewhat thinking what I was thinking. Last night and in class today I was thinking. "What if I took a picture of my clock and the desk before I went to sleep. Then I could tell if my hand really did set it off because I would have moved it. And then I can take a picture in the morning."
OR BETTER YET!
If I put something like a dab of tooth paste, marinara sauce, or something on the snooze button and the on and off switch.
Then when I wake up if my fingers or the bed or the pajamas I am in have a bit of a red mark then that will prove that I am turning it off in my sleep.
That's what I really need to find out right now. There have been times i admit where something seems like a dream and I feel someone come into my room or I imagine that someone wakes me up but then I think it's just a dream. I've done that in the past but even though it's blurry I can still somewhat remember it. The fact that I can't remember turning off my alarm now means that my memory is fucked up or I'm doing it without realizing it.
A sleep diary?
I can barely remember anything when I wake up. My mind isn't so vivid. All I can remember is something about their being a spider on my head and it being brushed up. And being in some odd town with a train or something. I forgot the people who were there. But in my dreams it felt so clear and vivid. But it felt more like thoughts and ideas more then something visual. But that is my style anyways.
I could attempt something like that. But I'm not sure how well it would go. Suppose it wouldn't hurt too much to try.
Partly another reason why I posted this on JUB. Psychologists ain't cheap and you have to make appointments
Oh..you mean noting what I do before I go to sleep..
That's not a bad idea..
I wonder if I do something like a sleep diary if I should make a new thread for that or do this one. Oddly enough I don't really care about being observed. Not sure if I should or not. If it's for my benefit then it's fine.
fallenangel said:
Have you had your Iron levels checked? I've had this problem before where I've been horribly tired and I've actually managed to somehow turn my alarm off in my sleep.
Go speak to your local GP about it, even if you only cover your sleeping/exhaustion problem, it will help
Iron Levels?
I donno what the hell that is. What's a GP?
If Iron levels help. Then I'll try that. I'll look that up. That GP thing as well..
Since they both are unclear to me.
