Problem.

[Caro]

I've always loved sleep, but this is getting ridiculous. I think I might have a medical problem. For the last month or so, I have been sleeping like crazy. I started staying up late every night, passing out at 2 - 4 am. I'm kind of naturally nocturnal anyways, so this wasn't a problem. I'd sleep until noon or 2 and feel fine about it. But lately.... the last few weeks....

I've been trying to go to bed earlier - not working. The earliest I can seem to fall asleep is just after 2. The problem is this - I'm sleeping at least 12 hours every night. I try to get up after 8, 10 or even 12 hours but I'm just so tired and the sleep feels so damn good. If I try to wake up after only 8 hours of sleep, I just wobble until I find a comfortable position and pass out again. I used to be able to do just fine on 6 - 8 hours of sleep a night! Now it's not uncommon for me to sleep 12, 14 or even 15 hours a night. I went to bed at 2:30 last night and was so happy to get up at 10:30.... but immediately I fell back asleep and didn't wake up until just now... 3:45.

I'm really kind of freaked out about it. I feel like I have cancer or something. It's not right to be this tired - I don't think I'm well. I have a doctor appointment in a few weeks, hopefully they can tell me I just have a vitamin deficiency or something. But in a week and a half I have to go through 2 vigorous days of scuba diving - getting up at 5 am, spending 12 hours working my ass off instead of sleeping - God it makes me want to cry just thinking about it. I know I will be painfullyu tired - and I don't know what to do about it!

Help.....

[Weedguru_Fire_Inside]

i've been doing that lately, yet i have no problem with it at all.

[moonpuppy]

i sleep for hours and hours if left to my own devices. I normally squeeze in 10 hours a night, unless i absolutely have to get up.

might be a post holidays thing

[13laze]

i wish i could sleep more than 8 hours and not wake up with a bloody head ache

[cutthecashflow]

Go to the doc get some good sleeping pills. They will put you to sleep at any desired time.

The joys of chemistry.

[bong man]

5 to 6 hours is just good enough for me

[Caro]

Last night I couldn't get to sleep until 5 am, but somehow I was able to wake up reasonably early, at 12:45. This relieved me. Regularly sleeping for 15 hours stresses me out.

[XxEGeorge27xX]

Well its winter here now and I always sleep way more in the winter then in warmer months. That's just me though.

[clashcityrocker]

Wow Caro you and me have this in common, definetly. Since Im not in school for a while, and I am unemployed, I have no problem staying up late into the night. When I go to sleep I just know if I dont try and control my biological clock, when school comes around Im going to be totally fucked.

I would NOT reccomend sleeping pills. If you must, use tranquilizers. Take one earlier in the night (8 or 9 o clock) and expect to sleep 12-16 hours.

Another alternative option, which I've never tried (but thought of) is to just keep doing what you're doing, until your biological clock catches up with itself (does that make sense?)

[weedguru tom]

you cannot go backwards to get your body clock in order, you must go fowards, say you went to bed at 8 lastnight goto bed at 9 the next and 10 the next 11 the night after, till you go rigth around and you at the time you wanna start sleepin`, its grooling, but it works.

[WeedGuru_Flow]

drink alot of coffee? eat more fruits ?

I'm doing it the other way around, i used to fall asleep as soon as I hit the sack, but now i spend 1.30-2 hours lying awake in my bed trying to get to sleep :/

[Caro]

I took a sleeping pill last night, passed out hard at 9 pm, slept until 10:30

Tom I disagree, you're saying I should stay up all night and pass out early the next evening. I always rotate the clock backwards.

[jonny cockeral]

it'll probably work either way, i would only use the pills in emergencys.

if you wake up early and feel like going back to sleep try drinking coffee as soon as you wake

[weedguru tom]

or go for a 'cold' shower

[Caro]

Last night: 2:30 to 12:30. This is an improvement! I almost went back to sleep when I woke up, and I was tired to the point of being dizzy, but I slammed a few cups of coffee, roasted a bowl and now I feel great!