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Anonymous File :-(, x)
i was kind of in the same boat for a long time, i couldn't get to sleep before 3am no matter how hard i tried and it fucked me up when i had to get up early. it didn't matter if i was exhausted and had 2 hours sleep the previous night i still couldn't sleep until 3.
i found a couple of things helped: 1) reset body clock. the way i did this wasn't by going to sleep earlier, but by going to sleep later. it worked, and it's the only thing i found that works but it's very hard to do if you get woken up (you will be sleeping during the day) and you can't do it with commitments. eg. go to sleep at 3am, then 6am, then 9am, then 12 noon etc. one day at a time until you are within an hour or so of your ideal sleep time. then inch 10 mins a day toward that hour. 2) routine is important. i don't think it's the 30 mins reading to "relax" so much as it is to tell your body "yeh i remember doing this shit, that means i have to sleep". get into a going to sleep and waking up ritual, even if it's 15 mins on each end. 3) if you are tired as fuck waking up you are either not getting enough sleep (different people need different amounts, 8 hours may not be enough), are waking up at a fucked part of your cycle (try changing the alarm + or - 15 mins) or not used to it. set your alarm for 5 minutes from now. lay on your bed. when it goes off jump up and turn it off. set it for 5 minutes later. repeat. sounds stupid, but it trains you to just get the fuck up.
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