Regular Sleeping Patterns

[Nick]

Who else here has a problem with keeping a regular sleeping pattern?

I have had this problem for pretty much all my life. Some of my earliest memories are of staying awake in bed for ages and ages and then not wanting to wake up in the morning. In school, I had to wake up at a fixed time but I'd always end up falling asleep later than I should have. Whether I had enough sleep the previous night was usually irrelevant.

Now I'm unemployed and I am trying to keep a regular sleep cycle but every day I wake up at a different time to the previous day. I think it's because my body runs on a +-26hour sleeping cycle.

What do you guys do to keep yourself on a regular sleep cycle. Do you set an alarm? Never drink caffeine? Not play games or use the internet after a certain time? How effective is it? What do you suggest? etc...

I'm currently on a role with kicking bad habits and replacing them with better ones. Keeping a regular sleeping pattern could possibly be the best habit to have in my opinion.

[juggernaut92]

Well what I recommend you do is go on the Primal Blueprint Diet. I have personally been on it and it is simply amazing. You have higher energy levels and you get great sleep. Basically it like a modified paleo diet. Eat more animals, eat more plants, cut the carbs, cut the wheat, etc. Read the book and that will get you started on what you need to do.

I also try to go to sleep at exactly the same time every night and that way I usually wake up at the same time in the morning. I usually go to sleep at midnight. I like to read a book an hour before bedtime. For some reason, reading a book makes me feel a little sleepy and after an hour of reading I hit the bed and drift off to sleep. This worked for me so it might work for you as well.

[George]

My personal experience when it comes to sleeping patterns is that you need to have some kind of responsbility to get up in the morning. If you are unemployed or a student, just the idea that you 'want' to get up isn't enough. You really need to have to get up in the morning to be somewhere, otherwise you are held responsible for not being there. 9/10 cases this means having a job or a commitment to other people where you need to be somewhere at a certian time/place in the morning/same time daily.

In my opinion this is the key to mantaining a sleeping pattern. When you don't have a commitment/responsiblity to get you up in the morning at the same time daily, it can become very hard on will power alone to go to bed at the same time every night when you dont actually have to be up in the morning.