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16 Oct 2015, 8:59 pm

no matter how early i have to get up in the morning/how many consecutive days i have to get up at an early time, i rarely achieve a bedtime before 3 am. even if i shut off the lights and lay in bed doing nothing at 12, even if i've only gotten a maximum of 4 hours of sleep per night all week, i'll still not be able to sleep for a few hours at least.

so i try to schedule my life after noon so i have just enough time to get decent sleep, because if i don't i'll just fail at life. it sucks because people are always insisting that my sleeping cycle can just adapt to my waking cycle if i force myself to get up earlier, if i exercise in the morning, if i don't drink caffeine, if i don't eat past 7, if i establish a bedtime routine, if i don't allow electronics before bed, if i drink calming herbal tea, if i take sleeping pills, blahblahblah. i've spent years trying all those things and more, and my sleeping pattern has not adapted thus far. even when i've taken sleeping pills i've needed a dangerously high dose to get to sleep at an unnatural time.



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17 Oct 2015, 7:46 am

There were some good ideas shared in this thread about waking too early...maybe some of them will be helpful to you... http://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=293341&sid=8b9e70084793e01461b8da4cd3114e00

Good luck :D



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03 Nov 2015, 2:36 pm

glebel wrote:
Anyone here have an unusual pattern of sleeping? I go to bed fairly early, but I always wake up every 2-3 hours, then go back to sleep. This doesn't tire me out though, unless I wake up about 5 AM and go back to sleep. I always wake up at 6:15.


I have had that same sleep pattern from as early as I can remember (although the actual start time for sleep varied with my work schedule). When I was a kid, I would wake up in the middle of the night and freak myself out imagining that everyone else in the world could be dead (and not just sleeping). It's probably a good thing my sister snored, and that we shared a room. But I would still occasionally feel the need to sneak out of our room and listen to make sure our parents were still breathing. :roll:

If I'm stressed out (usually due to social confusion/anxiety) then the "waking" time in between may be lengthened to the point where I get ~2-4 hours a night of sleep.

Actually, if I remember correctly, this pattern of waking up and even staying awake in the middle of the night/early AM hours, then falling back asleep, was once a fairly common pattern in pre-industrial populations. I'm too lazy to google the references and link them, though :P