Fix my sleep schedule

D: it’s 6:40 as we speak
and I have not slept
this is the time normal people WAKE UP
but no!!!! I’m stuck in whats begining to feel like the twilight zone!
its been about 3 weeks like this
and I CANT STAND IT!!!
the only problem, is that I have tooo much to do, so I cant actually do the whole “stay up all day” thing until NEXT WEEK and I’m afraid it’ll be too late by then and I’ll be officialy nocturnal!
my family and friends are all scared for my health and I am too!!
D:
I MISS MY OLD SLEEPING PATTERN!!!!

Not sure what my excuse was for being too tired to wake up when I was offered a chance to have a car today at 10am or when my alarm went off at 11. That 4:15 bedtime can’t have anything to do with it…

Ok, I’m down to no excuses for my horrid sleep schedule. It is never normal and I cannot figureout what to do to fix it. Sleep aids don’t work and not eating before bed hasn’t done the trick…I think I need to be tired when it is time for bed. This all started when I was promoted from an automotive body repair person to the shop manager spot that I have now. My body used to be tired when I got home and I would fall asleep and wake up normally. Now, since I am not very active at work…I am not tired at all when I come home. I proceed to get on the internet and play computer games and never actually get tired. In the past…the times I DO get to work on time..I was totally drunk the night before and wake up without any issues. Problem is…I don’t drink very much. I slept 13 hrs. yesterday and 15 hrs. today. Both through work and I need to fix this now.

I don’t know how this happens, but it sucks. As soon as summer hit, I was napping at all the wrong times, staying out too late, tossing and turning in bed, the whole deal—I even slept past work one morning ‘cause I couldn’t wake up. I have LITERALLY stayed up until 5:00, 6:00, even 10:00 in the morning, only to wake back up around dinner time. This is NOT healthy and I am totally wasting my summer because everyone is out and about while I am getting my “night’s” sleep while the sun is out.

When I actually try to fall asleep at a more normal time, I just toss and turn (yes, I’ve even tried counting sheep—laaaaame and totally ineffective as presumed.) Chamomile, turkey, warm milk, music, boring books, back rubs, meditation, cuddling with my dog….none of it puts me to sleep.

Help me! I’d absolutely love to go out and buy a pack of sleeping pills but I’m not sure if that stuff is just found in drugstores, or what?

I’m calling this done, even though I’m not exactly waking up every day at normal human times. But when the winter is dark and gloomy, and I have no 9am job to run off to, it seems pointless to punish myself too hard.

These days I fall asleep between midnight and 1am, and wake up pretty regularly between 9 and 10, and no naps. That seems like a reasonable amount of sleep, and I’m not sleeping so late that it’s hard to get errands done.

I’ve tried so hard to fix my schedule and even when I fix it for a day or two it just gets &#$ed up again. My pattern this winter is to wake up between 3 and 4 AM and be super productive until I get sleepy around 1 PM and take 1-2 hour nap. Then I get up and do fun stuff. I get sleepy again around 9 PM, and the cycle continues. Since I am a writer who works from home and my spouse is also at home, this crazy schedule doesn’t seem to be negatively affecting my life. So I am going to give up trying to “fix” it until such time as it seems to me to be really “broken.”

To bed at 2 last night, up at 9:30. I’m calling it an improvement. It’s not ideal, but at least it’s in the realm of vaguely human.

ugh. Woke up yesterday at 7am, but I felt it all day. After a big lunch, I wound up napping for 2-3 hours in the evening. Then I was up until 3am with the worries, and woke up this morning at eleven.

Not good.

But I’ve been sleeping regular hours for some time now.

Still a bit exhausted by the previous night, I was in bed last night by 11:30 and asleep by midnight. Slept soundly all night, woke up at 8:30. Now let’s see if I can keep this up.