school help: I have problems sleeping. - Help.com

Izzy007 wrote:
tried countin sheep…:)

Doesn’t work.

Fraggedmeme wrote:
3. Get rid of anything that causes you to overthink prior to sleeping, and/or remove items that you use prior to sleep. Basically stop doing certain activities that you do 3 hours prior to sleeping. This may seem inefficient, but it isn’t. You can replace those activities with something else, perhaps exercise/meditation or any other form of physical activity, like perhaps cleaning your room, washing dishes, etc. Activities that involve social networks will probably keep you up more than others.

7. This isn’t a tip it is more advice on sleeping. People seem to find that sleeping must be natural or that people must sleep at predetermined times. Sleep seems to hold little questions to it, at least for most people, so you should of course explore yourself and sleep. Figure things out, this is of course a progress of growth. It is something that needs to be learned through experience and experimentation. I wish you good luck.

Thank you, I have quoted the ones I find most useful :)

3: I’m pretty much always on facebook just before I go to bed. I should stop that.
But even if I’m not, I still overthink - I am a bit of a thinker, no matter how blonde I am lol.

7: I can’t sleep at the natural time.
My mum, and school both stop that.
My natural time to sleep is about 5am-12am.
Obviously, if I need to be at school at 8:30am, I can’t do that.

Fraggedmeme wrote:
A new note.

When I said exploration and experimentation of sleep, I mean try number 6 and/or other ways to stay awake during the day. This will help you how to make sleeping habits and thereby sleep when you want to.

There are some other tips, like I spent two hours prior to sleeping simply lying in my bed thinking. It can be about anything and generally after lying there and thinking about say physics or psychology, I will begin to fall asleep.

One time, when I was really crunched for time, I adopted a military style sleeping pattern. I would sleep thirty minutes - one hour at a time. But my total sleep time per day was 4 hours-5 hours, which is a dramatic difference from my normal sleep time of nine hours. I didn’t feel sleepy, but it was rather hard to budget the time this way.

You can also attempt to set new sleeping patterns by NOT sleeping at your natural time. Then allowing the sleepiness to build up to a point where it becomes almost unbearable, at which point you then go to sleep at the predetermined time. This works too. I wish you luck.

I simply can’t.
Because of school.

stubbsk wrote:
Have you thought maybe you don’t the sleep? or are you having trouble with concentration, etc? Not everyone is the same and maybe if you’ve been away from school for a while when you return you might fall back into a routine.
Sorry I didn’t check my post before I replied. I meant do you NEED the sleep?

I need sleep.
Everyone does.
It is school that is causing the problem.

tommysize wrote:
if you have a tv in your bedroom chuck it out.
if you have a pc in your bedroom chuck it out.
if you have anything in your bedroom other than a bed chuck it out.

This is quite…
…impractical.
I have 2 tvs in my room, but like…they are both off and one I can’t even see.

The thing that makes me start to get tired at 3AM…
My body clock.