Lately I have been staying awake late to the point where I am only sleeping 3 to 5 hours a day. I have fallen asleep while commuting to work, I have been sitting at work staring at the screen for minutes while doing nothing until someone "wakes me up", I constantly mess up sentences and omit words when writing and I haven't worked out as much as I should.

What can I do to get back some self control in this area?

It's already 1:13 here, but I don't feel like sleeping at all. I want to surf some more and read all those books that I still need to read!

If you find a way to correct this, let me know. My sleep schedule has turned to shit recently and I get about 4 hours of sleep a day.

Going by only the title, since you are "loosing control", you should cease doing so immediately and reassert it. However, you clearly meant "losing control", which suits your actual post.

Foobaria said:
Going by only the title, since you are "loosing control", you should cease doing so immediately and reassert it. However, you clearly meant "losing control", which suits your actual post.

My English is the worst!

Der_Traubenfuchs said:
My English is the worst!

That's okay. I'm bilingual: I speak English and bad English.

English and 48 65 78

furballs_dc said:
48 65 78

0AN?

Foobaria said:
0AN?

57 61 74 3F

^U^K

It would've helped if I were looking at the hex column. >_<

Just start drinking beer until you pass out.

Foobaria said:
^U^K

It would've helped if I were looking at the hex column. >_<

50 56 52 54 B4 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 08 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Get a friend to punch you until you're KO'd. Or do something reeally boring

furballs_dc said:
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49 20 64 6F 6E 27 74 20 67 65 74 20 69 74 20 3A 2F

Xch3l said:
Get a friend to punch you until you're KO'd. Or do something reeally boring

49 20 64 6F 6E 27 74 20 67 65 74 20 69 74 20 3A 2F

49 74 27 73 20 61 20 70 76 72 20 74 65 78 74 75 72 65 2E 20 48 65 61 64 65 72 20 69 73 20 31 36 20 62 79 74 65 73 2E 20 54 68 65 20 69 6D 61 67 65 20 69 73 20 38 78 38 2E

I bet you whippersnappers don't even know what ^U^K does. *old*

hex.hex
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

furballs_dc said:
49 74 27 73 20 61 20 70 76 72 20 74 65 78 74 75 72 65 2E 20 48 65 61 64 65 72 20 69 73 20 31 36 20 62 79 74 65 73 2E 20 54 68 65 20 69 6D 61 67 65 20 69 73 20 38 78 38 2E

I kinda thought so, but who needs a 8x8 black (or white) image?

Foobaria said:
I bet you whippersnappers don't even know what ^U^K does. *old*

Ctrl+U Ctrl+K
Function? iDunno

E:\ @furballs_dc: Did you noticed that you missed 0x14 at the hex.hex?

On the bash command line, ^U deletes to start of line and ^K deletes to end of line. ^U^K is "fuck, let me try that again". :P

Foobaria said:
On the bash command line, ^U deletes to start of line and ^K deletes to end of line. ^U^K is "fuck, let me try that again". :P

Lemmy Guess, Linux? If so, then that's the problem...

Xch3l said:
Lemmy Guess, Linux? If so, then that's the problem...

Linux is a kernel. If you meant to type "GNU/Linux", then yes. Which should have been blindingly obvious, since I said "bash".

I work in catering which means that every week they tell me when I'll be working. It can start anywhere from 7am and end as late as 3am. So, it's hard to get any kind of sleeping pattern down.
I tried to keep myself regular for a good long while, settling into patterns maybe for a couple weeks at most before i had some ridiculous shift.

Know what I do now? I sleep when I'm tired and wake when I'm not. Trying to force yourself into a routine only results in stress.
Remember what Bob Marley tells us: Don't worry, be happy.

I've dealt with sleep issues before too, and unfortunately my "medicine" isn't legal, save for in a few states. Another less favored choice is booze, but it sucks needing to use that to sleep. :I

Sounds like a mild case of DSPS (Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome). Basically what's happening is your circadian rhythm (the thing that makes you sleepy/wakeful each day) has been elongated beyond its regular 24-hour cycle, probably to somewhere around 25 to 26 hours. This is, of course, a problem because most of the rest of the world (including your job) runs on a 24 hour day/night period.

So what can you do?

Well, as you've seen, trying to just mash the one into the other doesn't work too well, so you're going to have to find a way to shrink your internal clock back down to 24 hours. The easiest way to do this is to reduce your exposure to zeitgebers (the signals around you that let your body know what it should be doing) that are telling your body it should be awake, especially when it should be getting ready to sleep. Your biggest targets are probably going to be bright lights, loud noise, and social interaction. In addition, things like an irregular eating and exercise schedule can confuse your body as to what time it thinks it is.

TLDR:

Turn off the lights and reduce your computer monitor's brightness in the evenings, get a pair of earmuffs or nice noise-reducing headphones if you live somewhere busy, try to spend some time alone before you go to bed (that means internet forums too =.=), and do your best to eat and exercise at the same times each day. If none of that works, you may want to see an actual somnologist. Good luck.

Xch3l said:
E:\ @furballs_dc: Did you noticed that you missed 0x14 at the hex.hex?

Derp. What I get for making it manually I guess.

It always starts like this. First you don't sleep normally. You stay more and more longer in front of your pc. Then you start to desynchronize with real time, to the point you don't remember what day or month is it. If you cross that line: welcome to the dark side.

Beneficial effect of the dark side:

-Unlimited time to do what you want
-No one to stop you doing anything
-Everything doesn't matter

Disadvantages effects of the dark side:

-Fired from your job
-family has quit (unless they are on the dark side too)
-cash is gone
-potential weight gaining
-Forgetting what the sun is
-General degradation of you health by lack of physical exercises, lack of sleep and lack of a appropriate nourishment

MaShCr said:
Sounds like a mild case of DSPS (Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome). Basically what's happening is your circadian rhythm (the thing that makes you sleepy/wakeful each day) has been elongated beyond its regular 24-hour cycle, probably to somewhere around 25 to 26 hours. This is, of course, a problem because most of the rest of the world (including your job) runs on a 24 hour day/night period.

So what can you do?

Well, as you've seen, trying to just mash the one into the other doesn't work too well, so you're going to have to find a way to shrink your internal clock back down to 24 hours. The easiest way to do this is to reduce your exposure to zeitgebers (the signals around you that let your body know what it should be doing) that are telling your body it should be awake, especially when it should be getting ready to sleep. Your biggest targets are probably going to be bright lights, loud noise, and social interaction. In addition, things like an irregular eating and exercise schedule can confuse your body as to what time it thinks it is.

TLDR:

Turn off the lights and reduce your computer monitor's brightness in the evenings, get a pair of earmuffs or nice noise-reducing headphones if you live somewhere busy, try to spend some time alone before you go to bed (that means internet forums too =.=), and do your best to eat and exercise at the same times each day. If none of that works, you may want to see an actual somnologist. Good luck.

This, you can also hard reset the clock but you shouldn't do this every other week.
To hardreset, stay awake for 24h hours, start eating at the time you are supposed to wake up normally, get the last meal with some easy wine approx. 3-4 hours before you are supposed to go to sleep (based on how long you normally sleep).
An example would be, you need to get up at 8 o'clock AM, stay awake from friday evening to saturday morning, first meal at 8 o'clock AM, if you need 9h of sleep, last meal needs to be around 7-8 o'clock PM.
Then do what MashCr said, make sure you are alone, in a dark, slightly cold, good ventilated room without noises and then go to sleep at around 10-11 PM.
Also, get away from any sort of display 2 hours before you want to sleep and do something boring like reading a book, this helps you to relax your eyes, don't grab a big meal, rather only a glass of milk before sleep.
Afterwards, keep the times you wake up and go to sleep as constant as possible.
Oh, caffeine needs 4-6 hours to get out of your blood, taurine up to 10-12 hours, plan these drinks in if you want to consume them.

Good luck.

Hah, I usually don't mind a hectic sleep schedule, I can run off almost nothing...that was, until I got back to finishing classes and working out. Now my mood and state of awareness are being destroyed by this awful way in which I find time to sleep. To make this worse, due to an unfortunate series of events, I now have to start looking for a new job as well. Yay.

...I should probably get to sleep...like now.

Zzzzzzzzz.....

TheHuskyK9 said:
Zzzzzzzzz.....

=z.z=

furballs_dc said:
=z.z=

-.- zzzzzzzz.....

TheHuskyK9 said:
-.- zzzzzzzz.....

Me And You And Pikachu

I got real bad sleep problem, doctor said it's because I was taking my meds past noon, which I guess is a bad thing. Add that to time change and I average about 1 to 2 hours of sleep a day, but somehow I manage to function properly, or at least I think I do, for all I know I'm in a coma right now and typing this with my mind

Xch3l said:
I kinda thought so, but who needs a 8x8 black (or white) image?

Ctrl+U Ctrl+K
Function? iDunno

E:\ @furballs_dc: Did you noticed that you missed 0x14 at the hex.hex?

how the hell do you know what he's saying?

Hey, just go to the store and pick up some melatonin

Shit really works, at least for me.
Basically its like insulin for sleep.

(Jayfeather) said:
Basically its like insulin for sleep.

analogies, ladies and gentlemen

null0010 said:
analogies, ladies and gentlemen

yes. Its a hormone that regulates a bodily function, JUST LIKE INSULIN. It also is in function with an opposite hormone that wakes you up, just like glucagon is used to raise the blood glucose level.

Or the traditional, Grandma way: Drink warm milk never worked for me though

PheagleAdler said:
how the hell do you know what he's saying?

48 45 58 20 45 64 69 74 6F 72 HEX Editor

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furballs_dc said:
4D 79 20 6D 61 69 6E 20 6F 6E 65 20 69 73 20 48 78 44 2E

My main one is HxD.

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copycat >_> I use it too! :P