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After having lots of thought, I decided it was time for me to go to bed at normal times instead of 4 in the morning playing games all night concidering Im going into the Marines. For the last 5 nights ive tryed to get to sleep at 10pm but have stayed awake lying in my bed doing nothing untill about 2 in the morning before I actully start to feel tired. So I have decided to go the other way round and stay up a day, a night and a day and hopfully after 2 full days exercise I should be exhausted and fall asleep at a normal time. I'm so tired now and its only 05:19! Another 16:41 hours to go untill I can go to sleep. Express your views freely, I'm not going to enjoy today .

I worked out if I made it, I would have been awake for 36 hours none stop . I normally get up at about 4pm but yestarday I got up at 10am to try and be tired for last night. I can't keep getting up a 4pm . I feel like Im in the airport or something and I don't even like coffee so no caffine for me .

You've f****d up your body clock that is why.

Naturally as a teenager your hormones are fecked as it is and the hormone that tells you it is dark and ready for sleep gets released about 2 hours after that of an adult. Hence you wake up later than adults as well.

Need to get into a rhythm of sleeping normally.

Once you've started your 30 weeks training i can't imagine you'll have any problems getting to sleep, all be it in a muddy ditch on Dartmoor covered in three inches of snow.

It's best to make chilling out and going to sleep a slow process with plenty of cues for your body, I have a patient who had sleep difficulties like yours (but without the afternoon wake up time). Told him that at night to start chilling out a couple hours before he wants to go bed, turning the lights down a bit as he watches tv and then about an hour or half hour before going to bed to have a hot choc as this will later provide the body with a cue to begin shutting down. Then finally going to bed and having a little bit of a read of a book before settling down to sleep and then waking up at a reasonable time. His sleep is fine now to the extent that he doesn't need the routine. Sorry for the long winded message!

Stinky wrote:After having lots of thought, I decided it was time for me to go to bed at normal times instead of 4 in the morning playing games all night concidering Im going into the Marines. For the last 5 nights ive tryed to get to sleep at 10pm but have stayed awake lying in my bed doing nothing untill about 2 in the morning before I actully start to feel tired. So I have decided to go the other way round and stay up a day, a night and a day and hopfully after 2 full days exercise I should be exhausted and fall asleep at a normal time. I'm so tired now and its only 05:19! Another 16:41 hours to go untill I can go to sleep. Express your views freely, I'm not going to enjoy today .

if i find myself going bed really late i set my alarm to wake me up at stupid aclock in the morning. so by all means stay up till 5. then set alarm for 9. and keep doing that and soo the lack of sleep will catch up wiht u. im exactaly ythe same.

I used to be the same in my youth , if I ever had any time off work I'd end up staying up until 2-4am and getting up around 12-2pm, now that I'm getting old I find I cant do it anymore, certainly not the staying in bed until 12-2pm anyway. I'm so old

In my job i'm used to a fecked body clock.
Working 6 hours on, 6 off, 24-7 really messes you up.
Even in my 6 hours off watch time, i'm lucky to get 5 hours kip.

I've managed 30 hours awake once when I joined my first Boat! But I had the incentive of a 3.5 grand a year pay rise and a 5 grand bonus

I never sleep - have not sleep for years...

might miss something...

Chuck Norris doesn't sleep... he waits.

born2rock86 wrote:Chuck Norris doesn't sleep... he waits.

baskie wrote:if i find myself going bed really late i set my alarm to wake me up at stupid aclock in the morning. so by all means stay up till 5. then set alarm for 9. and keep doing that and soo the lack of sleep will catch up wiht u. im exactaly ythe same.

since when is 9am stupid o'clock

When my business is busy I quite often work til 3 or 4am (sometimes later) ... still have to get up at 7.30am tho to get my daughter to school.

Stinky, you should take both Funky's and Baskie's advice ... get a routine for going to bed, and set an alarm clock for a sensible time - and get up when it goes off, however tired you still are. Eventually you'll get your body clock turned round.

get a fcuking job u hippy

Routine has to start with early morning wake up. Laying in will only make you stay up later and not being able to get to sleep.

If i lay in till 7/730am then i have trouble gettin to sleep before 12 at night.

Early morning starts is the way and its lovely listening to the early morning birds.

you listern to birds? queer ;)

no matter what time you go to bed always wake up early then you'll sleep well

ok so you wake up at 4pm (lazy git) and go to bed at say 4am, if you want to go to bed at 10 you have to wake up 6 hours earlier at say 10am