I'm becoming an insomniac

[billyjex]

and it's pissing me off.

Seriously, even when I have school, I go to bed at 3 am the earliest and if I don't have class I wake up at 2 pm.

It's 3:30am right now and all I want to do is go to bed but I'm not tired.

Are there any sleeping pills I can take? I seriously want to get my body clock on a somewhat better schedule. I feel like a loser.

And please no "go to a testicular cancer meeting" responses thank you.

[nicky g]

Go to bed anyway. I often feel like that but usually go to sleep fairly quickly once the lights are out. Get up early and try to maintain a regular sleeping schedule. It's really easy to go on a wild loop where you end up watching crap on TV (or the internet) tioll 5 in the morning, and then sleeping till 2 in the afternoon; I did it plenty at college. It didn't bother me but if it bothers you, the only way out of it is to force yourself to get up in the morning. Sleeping pills are not a good solution.

[thatpfunk]

Join the club. Valerian root works ok, but nothing great. Ambium (sp) works extremely well if you can get a hold of it. Drinking a night cap and reading helps sometimes.

[Popinjay]

There's like a new Time or Newsweek or something out that's all about sleep.

[Lazymeatball]

So you're getting a full 11 hours of sleep a night/morning. That's hardly insomnia. Anyway, as to your problem, my highly uneducated opinion is that you aren't doing enough in the day to tire yourself out. Get up early and go to all your classes, or go jogging or something, when you accomplish stuff during the day, you sleep at night. I know it personally, it's very easy to stay up all night watching tv, playing video games, or reading crap on the internet. These activites stimulate the brain enough, but don't exhaust any energy. I had the same problem as you until I got a full time job working 11pm to 7am.

[nicky g]

Yeah doing exercise definitely helps. If you find jogging, gyming etc boring, try a martial art. As does having a job (though that's the sort of help I could do without).

[wonderwes]

Sleep is always important. I have the sleeping schedule of a meth abuser. Few keys to make yourself sleepy. First, I highly agree on the tiring out post. You must physically be tired for your mind to want to go to sleep. 2nd, if you drink any caffiene, try to make a cut of time for those drinks per day. 3rd, go buy some melatonin in the store. It should be where all the vitamins are. Melatonin is a different kind of sleep aid.
In yo' brain, melatonin is naturally produced in your head. When you eat a melatonin pill, its like giving your body an extra shot of what it was naturally gets to put you out. When you wake up, you feel someone what sleepy, but actual sunlight absorbed by your skin helps melatonin fade out of your system. Neat.

It also never hurts if you are getting sex each night by some hot female. Not me though. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[billyjex]

Yeah, i'm sure a GF would regulate me pretty well with some sweet lovin, but that ain't happening these days.

Anyways, yeah, my hardest part for me is getting up in the morning. I set my alarm, for say noon, and turn it off and just go back to sleep. I don't know, I'm working on it.

I use to exercise nearly everyday, and yeah, that helps. I need to get back into the game.

[AncientPC]

Put the alarm clock in another room and turn it up really really loud.

It's the only way I can wake up. Even if I set my alarm clock to go off on the other side of the room I sleep walk to turn it off and fall back asleep.

[bugstud]

drink until you pass out