I've turned nocturnal.

[Emusaurus]

I went on winter break for a few weeks and I staid up until 6am every night and woke up at 3pm. Then school started, I didn't prepare myself at all for it and the first day I didn't sleep at all. This happened the second day and then I'm here, I didn't sleep at all last night and I slept from 4:18pm to 11pm, I have school in the morning too and I don't wanna keep this cycle going, can someone help? lol

[Dataanti]

if you slept from 4pm to 11pm, just slowly start pushing it back, today go to bed at 5 tomorrow at 6.

 

you seem to be already past the toughest part, being wanting to sleep in the morning

 

or if you want to achieve it quickly, today have a nice active day, tire your self out and force your self to stay awake until at least 8 or 9, just dont sit down pretty much, keep busy

[dizmo]

stayed*

 

Just drink some caffeine and stay up. Pretty much the only thing you can do is try and reset your sleeping pattern.

 

[Guest]

Use Melatonin 20mg capsules before going to bed for 3-7 days. Buy at your local pharmacy. If you find you still can’t sleep, try other sleeping tablets (real ones), or a mixture of 1 tablespoon honey, 1oz brandy, fill cup with warm milk.

 

Remember no blue light, no eating 3hrs before bed, no exercise 2 hrs before bed.

 

resetting your body clock can take up to 10 days.

 

go to bed 9:00-11:00pm sleep till 5:00-9:00am. Do not force yourself to sleep.

 

If you are struggling to get to sleep, you may be drinking too much caffeine, not having enough exercise or/and bad diet. Too much screen time has this effect too. 

[KuJoe]

One of us, one of us, one of us! 

[TacoSenpai]

You've become a creature of the night...AND THE BELMONT CLAN WILL HUNT THE NIGHT!

[SansVarnic]

11 hours ago, Emusaurus said:

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Best way I have found when I have to swap from day to night is simple drink a little extra water and pull a 24hr day. Old Military trick.

You will feel off the next day or so until you adjust. Just make sur you make yourself go to bed on time and set an alarm to wake you at the appropriate time.

It all boils down to self-discipline at this point.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

How easily one can reset their body clock can vary greatly from person to person. Despite having ADHD (people with ADHD are often "night owls" and sleep better during the day than at night), I used be able to switch from working a late shift at work to working an early shift without too many problems.

 

Most of my life, however, I worked early shifts. When I retired from the job I get my pension and medical from, I worked third shift in a convenience store for a short while to supplement my pension while waiting for Social Security to kick in. I gradually began having a harder and harder time adjusting to being up during the day on weekends. Even though its been nine years since I quit the convenience store, I still frequently go through extended bouts of what I "affectionately" call "shift lag" (after "jet lag") where I can't sleep at night but sleep like a baby during the day. I have to force myself to stay up (not exactly awake) during the day for several days to a week or two to get over a bout of shift lag. It's hard to do since I can't trust myself to drive, use power tools, etc. during that time and I get bored easily (remember the ADHD). Being a flatulent geriatric definitely doesn't help. Neither does the great wasteland called daytime TV.

 

Btw, the only effects caffeine have on me is addiction, excessive trips to the loo since it's a diuretic (and my doctor already has me on one) and, if I have enough of it at one time, heartburn. It will not give me a buzz, make me more alert, nor give me the jitters (often common with people with ADHD). When I'm addicted to it and don't get my morning fix (at least a can of caffeinated soda), I get a whammer of a headache worse than a migraine ( a migraine is worse onbly because of the nausea that comes with it). Withdrawal can take as much as five days of misery from the headache. I have been on the caffeine wagon for several years now and miss it like a root-canal without Novocain.

[aezakmi]

can't you attend night school?

 

like who tf decided you have to get up at 7 and go to bed at 22 and be a nice NPC?

 

I go to bed at like 4-5 and get up at 12-13 and attend uni from 19 to 23 and my life's perfectly normal

[FadedCrown]

13 minutes ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

How easily one can reset their body clock can vary greatly from person to person. Despite having ADHD (people with ADHD are often "night owls" and sleep better during the day than at night), I used be able to switch from working a late shift at work to working an early shift without too many problems.

 

Most of my life, however, I worked early shifts. When I retired from the job I get my pension and medical from, I worked third shift in a convenience store for a short while to supplement my pension while waiting for Social Security to kick in. I gradually began having a harder and harder time adjusting to being up during the day on weekends. Even though its been nine years since I quit the convenience store, I still frequently go through extended bouts of what I "affectionately" call "shift lag" (after "jet lag") where I can't sleep at night but sleep like a baby during the day. I have to force myself to stay up (not exactly awake) during the day for several days to a week or two to get over a bout of shift lag. It's hard to do since I can't trust myself to drive, use power tools, etc. during that time and I get bored easily (remember the ADHD). Being a flatulent geriatric definitely doesn't help. Neither does the great wasteland called daytime TV.

 

Btw, the only effects caffeine have on me is addiction, excessive trips to the loo since it's a diuretic (and my doctor already has me on one) and, if I have enough of it at one time, heartburn. It will not give me a buzz, make me more alert, nor give me the jitters (often common with people with ADHD). When I'm addicted to it and don't get my morning fix (at least a can of caffeinated soda), I get a whammer of a headache worse than a migraine ( a migraine is worse onbly because of the nausea that comes with it). Withdrawal can take as much as five days of misery from the headache. I have been on the caffeine wagon for several years now and miss it like a root-canal without Novocain.

I also have ADHD, caffeine can also in my experience extend my medicine when I need to do homework, but it kills any chance of falling asleep before 11 pm.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

6 minutes ago, FadedCrown said:

I also have ADHD, caffeine can also in my experience extend my medicine when I need to do homework, but it kills any chance of falling asleep before 11 pm.

Note that I said caffeine often won't keep people with ADHD awake, make them alert, etc. ADHD is a broad spectrum of symptoms which not all people with ADHD will have all of nor will they have them to the same degree when they do have them. Sensitivity to caffeine will vary from person to person with ADHD and and not every one affected by it will be affected in all the same ways. The same is true of hyperactivity, attention deficit, impulsivity, etc. One saying describing people with ADHD is, "If you meet one person with ADHD, you have met one person with ADHD." Some may be fairly functional (like me; I was functional enough that I didn't even get diagnosed with it until I was in my early fifties, almost twenty years ago, and I was a Psych major way back in college) to needing a "keeper" for their entire lives.

[Canada EH]

18 hours ago, Emusaurus said:

I staid up until 6am every night and woke up at 3pm.

Hahahahahahahahaha

Isnt it wonderful to be preteen/teenager.

Hopefully you will learn from your mistakes from now on.

Were you drinking every night?

I just shake my head at 6am go to bed and wake up at 3pm, nonsense!