The 6AM Problem.

Started by Ryz October 9th, 2015 2:08 AM
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Ryz

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Posted April 2nd, 2018
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7.6 Years
Ever had one of those nights where you lay in bed for hours and can't sleep? You had no caffeine or sugar or anything to keep you awake? Well that's whats going on with me now. Can't sleep worth crap. I lied in bed for hours. I didn't feel like working on RMXP. So I decided to browse PC.Tell me some of your up all night stories.

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I'm in the same boat, but that's usually because I've become so addicted to sleep-aids that I just cannot naturally fall asleep unless I've been up for more than 20 hours. So, what do I do? Well, I SHOULD spend this time doing something. Work on my capstone so I'm no longer falling behind. Play a video game. Watch a movie. But no, I do absolutely nothing but stare at the ceiling because somehow I'm so bored that I can't find anything to do except be bored.

Ryz

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North Carolina
Seen September 16th, 2022
Posted April 2nd, 2018
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7.6 Years
I'm in the same boat, but that's usually because I've become so addicted to sleep-aids that I just cannot naturally fall asleep unless I've been up for more than 20 hours. So, what do I do? Well, I SHOULD spend this time doing something. Work on my capstone so I'm no longer falling behind. Play a video game. Watch a movie. But no, I do absolutely nothing but stare at the ceiling because somehow I'm so bored that I can't find anything to do except be bored.
I know. Sometimes I get so bored that I just stare at my computer for 45 mins and not even realize that 45 mins have gone by.
6:33AM here.
Probably gonna cut the lights off and try and get some sleep before the sun comes up.
Ugh.Got a long day of working on RMXP. Well. At least I'm getting stuff done on it. FYI: RMXP Means RPG-Maker XP. Only version Pokemon Essentials runs on.
School bus just drove by my house.... why do they make kids get up so early...
Anyway. I'm off to bed.

Gotta love Link. To all the people who call Link Zelda. I hate you.
For me it'd be more of "The 4am problem" as I'm up at 6am by default. xD;

Sometimes I have this problem, if I'm running things over in my mind, although I think a lot of the time I pass out from exhaustion without realising it and wake up hours later thinking only a small amount of time has passed. Sleep doesn't mean very much if you don't think you've actually slept and don't feel refreshed. Usually I only develop insomnia when I'm ill, though.

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Whenever it isn't a school night, I'll wind up staying awake to ridiculous hours doing absolutely nothing; it's 5:50 AM right now, and the only thing I've been up to besides staring at my computer screen is eating junk food in bed. I always stay up late when I don't have school the next day because I feel as though I'd be wasting a night I could be spending on leisure otherwise. :c I'm only just now starting to get tired after staying up all night, so I'll probably end up crashing as soon as I post.
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This happens quite a bit due to my insomnia. I just get up and browse online when it happens, since just laying in bed can be annoying. I'll usually come on here or tumblr.
The bad thing is though that I tend to automatically drink coffee whenever I get up, which doesn't help.

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Alfieri

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Happened to me a few times. Best thing to do is drink some chamomile tea and then lay in bed trying my best not to think about anything. I've learned that the more my mind races about theories, the less likely I am to fall asleep.

Crystal Berry

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Posted December 19th, 2019
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That usually happens to me whenever I'm stressed out, overly excited, or thinking too much. Sometimes I struggle to fall asleep just because it's sleep, and sleep isn't an arbitrary process for most people. I can't just randomly decide I want to sleep and fall asleep immediately because it takes time, and if I try to sleep earlier than 3 AM my body almost always wakes me up WAY too early so I can only get good rest when I'm incredibly tired.

Nolafus

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That used to happen to me all the time, but then I got a better sleep schedule and now it only happens when I just thought of a new story element, or something equally as exciting. Then I usually turn on my lamp, and work on whatever I'm thinking about for a few hours until I'm exhausted. I may be tired at work the next day, but since I work with caffeine for a living, that doesn't tend to worry me as much.
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Sometimes if I got to to bed late, I tend to get up too early. There have times where I have gone to bed in the 10s and woken up around 1 or 2 in the morning. I don't have a problem getting up at 6 AM since that is my normal wake up time.
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I sometimes go to bed before midnight, but other times I am up till 4am like last night. It depends on my anxiety and my neck pain. I try to get up early and go to bed early but it doesn't always happen. I hate staying up later than midnight.
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I've had that happen plenty of times, usually when I have to be up early (I tend to go to bed late), and my mind's like "but I'm not ready to sleep yet!" Kind of annoying, but it basically just means I'll get back up after like half an hour or so (or even sooner, if I can definitely feel I won't be falling asleep anytime soon), to go do something else. No use in lying there if there's something else I could be doing that would calm my mind down.

...And then there are some nights where I just get so engrossed in doing something that I realize it's suddenly like 4:30 am and oh god I should probably go to sleep now. :P

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This only happens to me if I had coffee during the day (caffeine works way too well for me). And when I was like super into Minecraft. I was frequently on the server until 4-5am at one point.

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When I try to sleep because of school or work in the morning, sometimes I can't and just spend the whole night binge watching my shows on Netflix. BUT when I don't have work or school the next day I fall asleep at 1am and end up sleeping while watching my shows :(
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I'm such a light sleeper that almost anything, a light, a sound, being too warm, will wake me up or keep me from falling asleep. So lots of nights I'm in bed and I can't sleep because *something* is keeping me awake. Sometimes I just close my eyes and try to rest at least so that even if I'm dead tired the next day I can still sort of function. Other times I just go to get a snack and watch TV or something to try to make myself tired.

Livewire

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If i've had a big day or if I work late (10-11), I usually find that I'm a bit too wound up from running around at work and being mentally aware so I usually don't fall asleep for a few hours after I get home, regardless of caffeine consumption, lol.

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If I'm up all night, I'm usually working on something, be it writing, video editing, work research, you name it.

I've actually pulled zero all-nighters back when I was in school (well, once every so often I might stay up until the crack of dawn, but that's usually because I can sleep in that day).

But if I have no reason to stay up, I usually end up falling asleep naturally. Most recently was two weeks ago when I took off from work for a couple days to "de-stress":

Thursday: Didn't go to sleep until 11 a.m. (28 hours awake). Woke up at 1 a.m. on Friday (14 hours of sleep) o_O
Friday: Went back to bed at 8 p.m. (20 hours awake).
Saturday: Proceeded to wake up at 4 a.m. on Saturday (8 hours of sleep). Went out to visit family for much of the day, came back home and stayed up writing, programming and editing art until 6 a.m. on Sunday (26 hours awake).
Sunday: Woke up at 2 p.m. (8 hours of sleep) to continue working.

Sleep schedule readjusted back to normal by Sunday night/Monday.

Desinishon

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I just got lost in any pokemon game or hack I am playing until I start feeling dizzy. But I never gives up so until I didn't reach the destination I want to go in game I just can't sleep. Now it is midnight here. I probably going to sleep because I have to work in my hack and school (aaah give me nightmares).

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15.4 Years
It happens to me every now and then, it is even worse when you have something like college in the morning. I find listening to music helps in those situations.

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I'm always finding myself looking at something fun on the internet, but sometimes it leaves me tired depending on if I'm in the mood to sleep or not.
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