Posts Tagged ‘stay up late’

5-7-09 - Off Track with bad sleep habits

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Thursday (Wednesday into Thursday)
Started Relaxation time: 1:35pm
Got in Bed to read by: 1:45pm
Turned out lights to sleep by: 2:05am
Guesstimate of when I fell asleep: 2:45am
Guesstimate of when I woke up: 6:30am
Had alarm set to: X:XXam
Got out of Bed at: 10:15am
Total Time I slept: 4 Hours and XX Minutes

Well, I was totally off track last night.  My mind was racing, and I didn’t bother to try to slow it down. I stayed on the computer doing stuff, but it was healthy.  As I’ve always known my mind thinks the best in the wee hours of the am, so it was cool to just stay up without letting the thought of having to go to sleep come in.  This is obviously NOT a good thing to do regularly if I am trying to stick to an earlier pattern.

Tonight I am going to try to go to sleep at a more reasonable time, and wake up after about 7 or 8 hours of being in bed.

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5-4-09 - Sunday night drag, and white noise fan

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Monday (Sunday into Monday)
Started Relaxation time: 2:05pm
Got in Bed to read by: 2:15pm
Turned out lights to sleep by: 2:20am
Guesstimate of when I fell asleep: 3:00am
Guesstimate of when I woke up: 5:30am
Had alarm set to: 9:45am
Got out of Bed at: 10:15am
Total Time I slept: 2 Hours and XX Minutes

A typical sunday night, once the night came I didn’t want to go to sleep so I stayed up, cleaned my room a bit, and surfed the net till the wee hours of the am.  Around 2:00am I decided to start shutting everything down and hop in bed.  I decided to keep my little fan on low to see if the white noise would help me sleep.  Unfortunately I was up only a few hours after going to sleep, and I was semi-awake it a crazy daze the rest of the morning in and out of sleep.  I wish I had just gotten up and turned off the fan because the noise was bothering me.

It was real hard to get out of bed in the morning and I ended up staying in bed longer than I was hoping for.  I NEED to stay strong and force myself to stay on a routine, and most importantly follow my computers off by a specific time rule, and do the breathing and relaxation techniques once in bed.

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3-27-09 - Stayed up too late reading

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Thursday (Thursday into Friday)
Started Relaxation time:        1:45am
Got in Bed to read by:         1:45am
Turned out lights to sleep by:     2:50am
Guesstimate of when I fell asleep: 3:30am
Guesstimate of when I woke up:  7:00am
Had alarm set to:            9:30am
Got out of Bed at:            10:30am
Total Time I slept:            3 Hours and 30 Minutes

Last night I worked till past midnight. I was making great progress and everything felt good so I decided to just keep on going.  Around 1:45am I was feeling really tired so I figured I would get in bed.  I received a new book today and I want to get it read within a few short days, so I stayed up to read it.  By 2:45am my eyes were nearly closing and I was dead tired.   I turned out the lights, but it still took me a little while to finally fall alseep.

I first woke up around 7:00am to some type of noise, maybe the people that rent upstairs?  Not sure if it was them the first time, but I know they made noise the rest of the morning till at least 9:30.  I finally decided around 9:30 to get ear plugs so I could try to get at least close to 1 more hour of sleep. I managed to dose off a tiny bit, but then got up around 10:40.

It is am amazingly sunny day so right when I opened the shades I started to feel better and awake, but overall I am really tired feeling today.  The best thing to do is to stick to the computer turn off time every night, and i’ll be more in tune to fall asleep.

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