I am a recovering addict. The addiction: staying up late. Conflict: I have stuff I want or need to do, I waste time, and end up doing it until all hours of the night. Climax: a few weeks ago I was up till 6 writing a paper due the next day. I had had the assignment for at least a week or two. I resolved to change my life around. Resolution: well, I try to go to bed earlier. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Like most rehabilitating addicts, I sometimes have relapses. But one step of my self-prescribed program has been to keep a log of when I go to sleep and when I get up. I figured maybe I could shame myself into earlier bedtimes. Has it worked? judge for yourself - here is a week's worth of sleep patterns:
10/12/07 2:36 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
10/13/17 1:54 a.m. - 9:31 a.m.
10/14/07 1:09 a.m. - 8:05 a.m.
10/15/07 12:12 a.m. - 6:33 a.m.
10/16/07 11:44 p.m. - 9:45 a.m.
10/17/07 4:09 a.m. - 8:52 a.m.
10/18/07 2:07 a.m. - 8:20 a.m.
10/19/07 12:58 a.m. - 12:26 p.m.
I had a beautiful pattern going for five days running - each day to bed earlier than the last, even getting to sleep once in the P.M. THEN, I had the midterms. So that's a relapse. But the twelve hours last night helped, I think.
So there you have it, my friends. I need help. But I'm getting there...
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"I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, cause I'm Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late. 'What about getting up after five hours sleep?', oh that's Morning Guy's problem. That's not my problem, I'm Night Guy. I stay up as late as I want. So you get up in the morning, you're exhausted, groggy--ooh I hate that Night Guy! See, Night Guy always screws Morning Guy. There's nothing Morning Guy can do. The only thing Morning Guy can do is try and oversleep often enough so that Day Guy looses his job and Night Guy has no money to go out anymore."
-Jerry Seinfeld
haha that's amazing!
Sleep, dearest sally, it changes your world.
Oh no, that sounds a lot like me...last night was the first time in probably a week that I went to bed before midnight. Maybe I should try your method of keeping a log. Or I could forbid myself from getting on my computer after 11pm...
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