Dear SW fountain of all knowledge...I cannot sleep.
I'm not sure how it started, but I'll go to sleep and wake up at the weirdest times. It makes me feel so out of it, keeps me from being productive at all, and it just won't work when I start school.
Last night I went to bed at midnight, couldn't sleep, tossed and turned till after 6 am, slept from about 7 to 11 am, and fell back asleep sometime after noon. Now it's 6 pm, I just woke up, and I feel SO out of it. And frustrated that I just pissed the whole day away and couldn't fall asleep last night.
Ideally I would sleep from 3 am (as soon as I get home from work) to 9 am on weekdays, and from 5 am (again, after work) to 11 am on weekends. 6-7 hours is what makes me feel best...anything less, or more, and I feel groggy and like I'm slogging through jello.
I think the problem is that I can't fall asleep when I go to bed. So then by the time it's time to get up, THEN I'm finally sleepy and I fall asleep when I should be getting up.
I know it takes 21-28 days to break a habit and replace it with a new one, so I've just got to train my body to fall asleep around 2-3 am and get up 6-7 hours later.
I think I need something to help me do that though. Can anyone recommend a natural/herbal sleep aid? I don't want to take chemical sleep meds, even OTC stuff like tylenol PM. I hate taking pills. I tried Valerian, but it didn't do much. Can it be combined with something else to be more effective? Is there anything else I could try?
Or, if anyone else has successfully trained themselves back onto a regular sleep schedule, how did you do it?





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