out of whack sleep schedule

Easy solution:
Get one Ambien. I hate to sound like a pharmaceutical shill, but it's the only sleep med that has worked for me.

Effortful fix:
Get a bunch of exercise, at least 3x/week.

Alcohol and caffeine will disrupt the shit out of your sleep cycle.

When I've had jobs that required earlier rising I've accommodated them, but I think this is really my natural preference. One guy I work with absolutely loves the 7:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m. shift and lives in fear of someone taking it away from him. There was a story in the NYT a few months ago about how there are probably an equal number of early risers and night people, and the night people have kind of gotten a bad rap. Evolutionarily, it probably worked out to have some people who stayed up really late, kept the fire going, kept a lookout, whatever.

I'm pretty sure it's just going to be this way until a firm schedule is established by some external force (JOB). Alternative: creative a fake job fo yourself, and schedule early meetings.

sleep till you wake up, probably still in the middle of the night but hopefully a bit later than the time before. again, stay up as long as possible.

repeat this until you wake up at the desired morning time. 8am?

then go to bed at 10pm, doesnt matter if you dont sleep right away but rest and get comfortable and set your alarm for 8am and stick to it for a week til your body gets used to the routine

avoid caffeine, avoid eating right before sleep, avoid the internet right before bed!

thats what i did and im basically back to normal

since i have a 9-5ish job, my sleep schedule usually stays pretty constant. the only thing that's annoying is if i'm exhausted after work and try to take a quick nap from say 7pm-8pm, and i end up waking up at midnight, not tired enough to go to sleep again until 5am. then i'm waking up to go to work on 2-3 hours of sleep, which means i'll probably be really tired after work again. it's pretty easy to fix on the weekend though.

Ned dude this is a not a proper night's sleep ;)

i get my eight hours in from four p.m. till midnight, something along the lines of 'think tank' and 'quarantine.' productive as ever, though i've truncated a lot of my ties to the outside world for the time being.

5 AM EST: wake up in NYC
6 AM EST: taxi to LGA, fly to Seattle via Chicago (I had 6 chicken mcnuggets from mcdonald's for breakfast. not a smart move)
2 PM PST: work. blech. coffee.
5:30 PM: ferry to bainbridge island to see some friends
8 PM: finally home. exhausted. but I drank too much coffee at work to fall asleep now, so I'm screwed.

It was super windy on the ferry, though, and I got some great shots of my dog with his hair blowing all over. So funny looking!

ugh, i fell asleep after getting home from having indian food (got in around 9pm) and woke up at 1am. i was really excited about falling asleep before midnight for the first time this week, but i ended up having a fucked-up dream. it was prob. good that i woke up, because i realized i was still dressed and the lights were on.

I don't sleep, I drink coffee take adderall instead. These websites ain't gonna design themselves, you know.

i had a big indian dinner last night and had the opposite problem: couldn't fall asleep until 3am. (was trying to get up at 6am, otherwise wouldn't have cared)

whenever i'm off of school for at least 5 days i lapse into 6AM - 3PM sleep schedule

im in a 5-2 zone right now -- which suxxx cuz i have to work @ 9 tomorrow

yeah i know -- nite folks!!!!!!!!

even out of school now i try to get up around 9 - sometimes works, sometimes doesn't

I've fallen into a really bad 1AM-6AM not-enough-sleep thing, a couple of weeks of that and I'm a walking disaster. My maximum attention span is about ten seconds right now, if I really focus. Sorta hurts to do that though.

I don't sleep, I take adderall instead. These websites ain't gonna design themselves, you know.

I should have this emblazoned on the back of a jacket.

Or, my headstone.

haha, it seems we may share a similar dilemma (& profession, perhaps). good to know, good to know..

I fell asleep from 4-7pm yesterday and was therefore up last night until 4am. As I now have to wake at 7am on Saturdays to assist on farmers' market stall, I should normalize soon. I'm one of those people who only needs about 6 hours of sleep any given night and it would be nice for this to happen between 1am and 7am.

i have to get up stupid early for work & then i'm overtired all week and sometimes use it as justification to be a little short with people & extra opinionated. i think it works. SO HAPPY for the weekend now, since i actually have time to catch up on sleep

god i would sacrifice a toe to be able to fall asleep and wake up when i wanted

I can fall asleep, but lately I can't STAY asleep. Woke up at 2am, again at 5am, laid in bed until 7. Now, lying around in a sleepy haze under a feather comforter is FAR from the worst thing in the world, but then why do I still feel tired by 3pm??

I don't have curtains so most days I get up at 11 at the latest no matter what time I'm in bed. Kinda creating a problem as the last few nights I haven't gotten to bed til like 6.

im on a 10pm-7am shift right now, which is irritating and doesnt really get me the sleep i need, plus i live in a studio w/ my girlfriend so i spend 2 hrs creeping around in the morning trying not to wake her up before i go to work

this week has been especially bad because i started monday with a hangover and feeling ill the entire day (4 drinks is all it takes) and it's been wicked humid in dc so it feels like it's hard to breathe, almost

GMT+1, GMT-4, GMT-7, GMT+2, five flights, two 5+ hour bus journeys, 8am starts half the time, and suitcase living for the next ten days. particularly looking forward to career-defining 1 hour talk i am giving the day i arrive in CA. yaow!

flight that starts all this leaves at 10am on sunday morning, so i thought i'd prepare myself for this ordeal by attending a wedding + evening reception tomorrow. sheesh. i need to sleeeeeeep.

so very tired

I stayed up all night and day yesterday, then slept 12+ hours and woke up at about 9:15 this morning, hopefully my schedule is reset. Gotta get up at 4:00am next Saturday to pick my gf up from the airport so I'm gonna set my alarm for 8:00am all week and with a little willpower I think I'll stay in line. Seeing Flipper the night before, no idea how late that'll keep me out, could be disastrous.

I have to fix this somehow. Up again and don't think sleep will be happening any time soon.

o hai

you too? welcome.

college fucks up the sleep schedule so much. there's no incentive for sleep cuz you can just nap basically whenever

shiftwork rules

and sucks

but at different times

Minestrone soup at 4:30 in the morning. Another night.

sun tea is ruining me

urgh

been up for 22 hours now, after three hours sleep following the wedding reception. my eyes they sting.

What this planet needs is an eight-day week, 21 hours per.

rong

six-day week, 28 hours per

how many days you work then mookieproof

four ten-hour days imo

you know, if i had a full-time job

seems fair...

...i a had A job.

lol good morning

Been falling asleep in the middle of the day (2 or 3 hours) for about 5 years now. Sometimes there's a stretch of weeks where I can stay awake all day but I generally hear habits only stick after 3 months.

This seems to happen to loads of old people and a few of my friends have this problem.

Very reluctant to take medicine for this.