No caffeine, work out, get outside around sundown, take like half a NyQuil dose at 10pm, read in bed.
This is the exact advice I’d give, maybe take a full nyquil dose
Lol, half a dose? More like 2-3 doses. Just watch the acetaminophen levels and you’re good.
Be active throughout the rest of the day. Then go to bed. You probably needed the sleep anyway so you’ll fall asleep again.
Give up on life. Hope for reincarnation so that I can do better the next go-around.
Procast-incarnation, the final form of enlightenment and eternal life.
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Set an alarm? Maybe I’m not understanding the problem. Set an alarm, get up when it goes off.
Wonder what happened to my kid and dog. Also rejoice that I can sleep in tomorrow.
c/nocontext
So a typical Sunday, then?
Stay up until 11 and get back on schedule.
I’d just deal with the lack of sleep and be tired the next day.
I’ll just skip the night 👍
Seriously this.
If you went to sleep the previous day at 0900 hours and woke up at 1500 hours, You’re not going to reset your circadian rhythm in an afternoon. It’s better to just stay up all night, and the next day, then at 22:00 hours go to sleep. No lights, no phone, no TV, just lay in bed until you fall asleep. And that should reset you.
Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep until 2200 hours.
If you need to, take energy drinks, do some jumping jacks, put tea bags under your lip like tobacco chew.
Assuming an 8 hour workday, and allowing an hour for getting ready in the morning and commuting to work, that means OP has been awake for 24 hours at the end of their work day. That’s a serious amount of sleep deprivation for one not used to it. Depending on the type of work and the commute I wouldn’t recommend that. Getting a little sleep is better than none, even if it doesn’t feel like that when getting up.
Get 4 hours of sleep and call it normal.
Sweet, just enough time to get hammered before bed.
Go to bed at 11. I don’t really see that as being that hard. Start prepping for sleep an hour ahead of time. Put down the screens and maybe read a book. Take some melatonin.
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Lmao literally did exactly that on Sunday. I slept until 3 because of a hangover, allowed myself to pull things together, and then did house work before running errands. Sleeping again at 11pm was easy
I find after drunk sleep I’m still tired anyway and can sleep even after monging out and eating crap all day
Take 2 benadryl at 9pm
I both accept my inevitable fate of exhaustion for tomorrow as well as I take a bunch of melatonin before I go to sleep that night
Is this hypothetical or did you goof?
This is the situation I am in right now. It hasn’t happened for months but I really needed to catch up on sleep, apparently. It used to happen all the time and I would just pull all nighters but that started giving me really bad anxiety when I’d have to go out into the world on no sleep.
Thinking I’ll just take whatever sleep I can get then force myself out of bed in the morning, and try not to lose the plot with the irritating people I have to deal with at college.
Does melatonin work well for you?
I also struggle with insomnia. Most people who take melatonin don’t understand how it works. They pop it right before bed and expect it to make them tired. It doesn’t induce sleepiness per se. That’s probably more of a placebo effect if people are popping it at bedtime. I’d talk to a doc about a prescription option if you regularly struggle with sleep. Something like Trazadone is pretty safe and not addictive.
For tonight, just accept that tomorrow will be tough. You’ll survive it though.
Yeah, it works really well for me, but I also have taken it since I was young whenever I needed/wanted it, so it might just work well for me. I’d recommend starting with like a 5mg, give it an hour to work, then if you still don’t feel tired, I’d take another one.
Worst case you’ll still have to deal with the shitty situation with a slight melatonin hangover (I warn you in advance that it can happen, but it usually only happens if you take too much and it can’t metabolize before you wake up. You’re just very sleepy until it’s done)
Best case, you end up going to bed earlier than normal and you feel fine in the morning.
Good luck!
