Discussion: Insomnia

Jeiboy

Study your lessons, and you will sleep

it works ;

zach

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Originally posted by berberocka

Study your lessons, and you will sleep

it works ;

I'm not in school right now though.

I have a month left of summer.

Owl

I start school in about two weeks, but my sleeping schedule is all messed up. I usually go to sleep at around 5 AM.

zach

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Originally posted by Owl

I start school in about two weeks, but my sleeping schedule is all messed up. I usually go to sleep at around 5 AM.

I just, for some reason, can't sleep during the night anymore. I can stay up all night and be not tired at all, but once it hits around 10am, I basically die. Then I wake up at around 9pm - 1am.

I'll pray for you.

I have a bit more time left.

Jeiboy

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Originally posted by zach

I'm not in school right now though.

I have a month left of summer.

Oh then do anything that bores the hell out of you

xLovatoEve

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Originally posted by zach

I just, for some reason, can't sleep during the night anymore. I can stay up all night and be not tired at all, but once it hits around 10am, I basically die. Then I wake up at around 9pm - 1am.

I'll pray for you.

I have a bit more time left.

My life

bleuwaffle

I woke up at 9 PM, it's making my life miserable

getback

Listen to classical music

It will help you

and raise you IQ too

Behava

The url doesn't work, but i saved this almost a year ago. Try to set an 8 to 12 hour period of the day, everyday, that you eat or drink absolutely nothing. Your body will adapt to sleep at this time because your metabolism is not being activated by anything. I had a similar problem not too long ago.

Also, try to refrain from screen for at least 2 hours before going to sleep. And try to find areas that suit your sleep needs. I know i need dark and cold, for example, to sleep well.

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Not eating for 12-16 hours can help people quickly reset their sleep-wake
cycle, according to a new study from the Harvard Medical
School. This discovery can drastically improve a person's ability to
cope with jet lag or adjust to working late shifts.
Scientists have long known that our circadian rhythm is regulated by
our exposure to light. Now they have found a second "food clock" that
takes over when we are hungry. This mechanism probably evolved to
make sure starving mammals don't go to sleep when they should be
foraging for food.
The lead researcher Clifford Saper explains:
The neat thing about this second clock is that it can override the main
clock ... and you should just flip into that new time zone in one
day.
It usually takes people a week to fully adjust to a new time zone or
sleeping schedule. To think that this new "food clock" hack can help
you change your internal clock in one day is mind boggling.

How does it work?

Simply stop eating during the 12-16 hour period before you want to be
awake. Once you start eating again, your internal clock will be reset as
though it is the start of a new day. Your body will consider the time
you break your fast as your new "morning."
For example, if you want to start waking up at 2:00 am, you should
start fasting between 10:00 am or 2:00 pm the previous day, and
don't break your fast until you wake up at 2:00 am. Make sure you eat
a nice healthy meal to jump start your system.
Another example: If you are traveling from Los Angeles to Tokyo,
figure out when breakfast is served in Tokyo, and don't eat for the 12-
16 hours before Tokyo's breakfast time.

Why does this work?

Like everything else in our evolutionary history, it has to do with
survival:
"For a small mammal, finding food on a daily basis is a critical mission.
Even a few days of starvation, a common threat in natural
environments, may result in death," the study said.
"Hence, it is adaptive for animals to have a secondary "master clock"
that can allow the animal to switch its behavioral patterns rapidly after
a period of starvation to maximize the opportunity of finding food
sources at the same time on following days."
The shift is a survival mechanism in small mammals that forces them
to change their sleeping patterns, Fuller suggests. One starvation
cycle is enough to override the traditional light-based circadian
clock, the study suggests.
"This new timepiece enables animals to switch their sleep and wake
schedules in order to maximize their opportunity of finding food."
"A period of fasting with no food at all for about 16 hours is enough to
engage this new clock," says Saper.
"So, in this case, simply avoiding any food on the plane, and then
eating as soon as you land, should help you to adjust — and avoid
some of the uncomfortable feelings of jet lag." CBC (quoting study
published in the May 22 issue of Science.

Jeiboy

zach is banned?

?

psychodj

I start school Monday and I don't know what to do. I'm such a mess right now.

Ahmed.

I have been on the most messed up schedule ever! I sleep at like 11 AM and wake up at like 8 PM. It's so weird, and my dark circles are getting worst

Hooligan

I don't have insomnia, I just don't sleep at night. I get sleepy around 5 or 6 am then wake up around like 3 p.m. It is a damn mess, but It's my life.

J a y

My insomnia is terrible.

sirgreendown

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Originally posted by Hooligan

I don't have insomnia, I just don't sleep at night. I get sleepy around 5 or 6 am then wake up around like 3 p.m. It is a damn mess, but It's my life.

Exact same

-mUsIcLoVeR-

Lately, I've been having pretty bad cases of insomnia.

I think mines are caused of anxiety and stress.

BvwBvw

I used to have insomnia caused by stress & anxiety, I eventually wore out of it though. It was the worst year and a half of my life, walking around the house & moving around inside my bed for hours to try and get a night's sleep.

Get $leazy

I go to bed around 11/12am and I usually don't fall asleep until 5/6/7am and wakeup around 2pm

This needs to stop before school

JasperX

It's already 2:38 am in my country, but I can't sleep..... I still have work tomorrow at 8

Anyway, I decide to stay up, and wait for the closing ceremony of Olympics, which will start in 30 mins.