Over the summer i slept really late. somewhere between 3:00-6:00 am. Schools about to start and i need to sleep earlier. I go to bed really early like 8:00-10:00pm i just cant sleep! i lay in bed for hours and then start reading. what should i do???? (i dont wanna take sleeping pills!)
2007-08-17 18:08:10 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Begin walking your schedule back to your school schedule. MAKE yourself get up at school-time at least 2 days before, then make yourself be active in the AM (try doing housework for your mother or something), and stay awake until a reasonable bedtime. Then make yourself go to bed at a decent bedtime. Make a little bedtime routine, maybe a bath, drink some Sleepytime tea or warm milk with honey. It will be better for you if you can get yourself back on schedule before school starts, otherwise you'll be a zombie for the first few days.
2007-08-17 18:29:01 · answer #1 · answered by Singinganddancing 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you have the time, start incrementing the time you fall asleep back from your present 3-6 until you're at the routine you want for school.
If you're short on time, it's actually faster (but not as healthy) to do the opposite and extend your bedtime repeatedly for several hours until you've reached 8-10.
In both cases, you'll find falling asleep much easier if you do some form of exercising during the day. Even going for a walk will help (although it's super hot out this time of year, so maybe you can find something different). Don't do it just before you want to fall asleep, as you'll be adrenaline filled.
Lying in bed while you're fully alert doesn't help at all. You must be drowsy in order for your brain to allow itself to be shut off. With that in mind, get up out of bed if you can't fall asleep and do something else until you feel the need to fall asleep. Lying in bed fully alert with thoughts running through your head will cause you to become used to doing so while in bed. Your brain will start associating your bed with "think time" instead of "sleep time".
2007-08-17 18:21:16 · answer #2 · answered by StGabriel 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well if you mean you go to sleep around 3-6 then you need to work yourself into a different schedule. You have to not sleep late into the day and do things during the day that will make you tired and want to go to sleep at a decent time. And if that sounds too hard you'll just have to suck it up and take the sleeping pills, in either case you should be fine.
2007-08-17 18:16:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give up all caffeine if you drink it first of all. Forget drugs for sleeping. Eventually your sleep cycle will adjust. Over the weekend before school on Mon., try getting just a few hours sleep. Then the next night go to bed early. Don't break they cyle of going to bed early and getting up early until your body adjusts to the new hours.
2007-08-17 18:16:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
easy, go to sleep at about 1 am, so you can actually fall asleep, and wake up at 5 am, or whenever you need to. Then that day you go to sleep when you feel tired, which should be about 11 maybe even 10.
2007-08-17 18:17:52 · answer #5 · answered by babsa_90 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
usually, i just cut the hours of sleep that i get for about a week, so that i'm really really tired. its exhausting but then by the time i have to go to bed early, i am so tired that i can easily fall asleep.
2007-08-20 15:10:40 · answer #6 · answered by Kim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋