Am I sick?

[ClickBuster]

I can't stay awake in the day. I try for a month now to get up early, work in the day and then go to bed at night, but I just can't do it! I'm half asleep, half awake all day and eventually go to bed at 6-7pm. Then I get up again about 1am, fresh and ready for work and I'm living like this for more than a year now...

I just don't get it, please advice!

-- Andrew

[MrMaryLou]

Sounds to me like your body clock needs a kick try staying up for 24hrs and going to bed when you would want to start going to bed that use to help me

[RawAlex]

Stop all coffee and other stimulants. Stay up as long as you can until you get to the time you want to sleep at. Sleep for the time you need to sleep, make sure you have an alarm set and wake up on time. Do this for a few days.

Your body clock is off in left field, you need to drag it back.

Alex

[ClickBuster]

Sounds like a strategy. I've tried staying awake for more than 24h to adjust my body clock, but it didn't work every time and again I ended living in the same time zone after a week later. How do you manage to keep your working hours the same as there're weekends and such, when you go out with friends and end up waking up at 4pm satuday afternoon?

[cd34]

or adjust your day around your current schedule. I think my body is on a 30 hr clock which doesn't jive with a lot of client interaction. So, every once in a while I get quite off-kilter.

Really, you might just need to jump-start things by staying up and getting up at a set time, until you get things back on track. Depending on your social calendar, you might just live with it for a while and work when you are productive.

Sometimes the brain doesn't do well when there aren't perceived goals being completed. If you've been working on a project for an extended period of time where there is no short-term goal reached, consider setting some mini-goals that you can accomplish.

Many different reasons for it. Get outside, exercise, do something different, take a few days off, etc.

[Qon]

face it, you're a vampire

[Greenguy]

I take a nice relaxing 15-20 minute nap in the middle of the day & I love it

[Cleo]

The spin of the earth is all wrong.

Best I can tell is I'm from another planet that had a much faster spin.

I would probable do much better with about a 20 hour spin.

[Useless]

Some weeks I don't go to bed before 1am, others I can't say up past 10pm. Either way, I have to get up in the morning to prep the kids for school and take them there as well. When I find myself slipping into a late night schedule, I just do as Alex said, drop the coffee and hope for the best.

I still think you're sick, but not because of your sleep schedule. |clown|

[Agent]

I've been going to bed at 4AM and waking up around noon a lot this year. That seems to be my favorite sleep schedule. I used to love waking up at 3PM and going to bed around 7AM or 8 when I worked MS tech support. It felt like a 9-5 minus the social life.

[cd34]

When I was younger, I always thought being a Bartender would be the perfect job.

If I couldn't get up by 7pm, then there was something seriously wrong with my life.

[ClickBuster]

Bartender is still my dream job Generally for the idea of meeting new people every day (night)... I decided not to sleep today, I hope that won't wake up on the keyboard LOL

[Mishi]

This may make you feel better: You are not alone.

[RawAlex]

oh yeah, if you can, get some sunshine in your day. That can really help reset the body clock.

Alex

[cd34]

That is another good point. One of my employees had trouble staying on 'clock' and I had him replace his lightbulbs with some Compact Fluorescent bulbs that had a 4100K temperature. I think some companies sell 'Natural Light' bulbs, but, its worth a try. Brian has been much more productive since.

[ClickBuster]

PEOPLE!

I stayed up all day yesterday and just I woke up at 6AM (no alarm clock). I think it's great! RawAlex, thanks for reminding me for the "no coffee" thing, it worked out perfectly.

GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY!