Wouldn't you like to rise up earlier and see the sun rise? But for some, getting up early seems to be less of a priority. They are losing out on a long list of benefits that they can get by waking up earlier.
Getting up several hours before work or school provides you more time to prepare or compose yourself. This well-earned time can be used by exercising and going to the gym, which should be best done earlier in the day. Or you can pass the morning traffic by travelling earlier than usual, saving you from all the car smoke in the process. Some people also consider morning to be their most efficient part of the day because of less distraction and it helps them focus more.
That's only a small list of what you can get if you get up earlier. Hopefully you would wake up earlier with the help of the tips that follows.
Get to bed much earlier. Many of people lowball the usefulness of going to bed early. The chance of us rising up later doubles the later we go to bed due to our body's need to rest. For typical adult, 7 to 8 hours is the best amount of sleep, though this is different for person to person. It is best to feel your body's need and change your sleeping hours as needed.
Choose an alarm clock that fits you best. An efficient alarm clock is one that will force you straight up the moment it goes off. Try experimenting with different types of alarms, starting from the loudest and work your way down. Putting your alarm clock away from your bed where you can't reach it will be beneficial as well. This is so you cannot turn it off and go back to sleep again.
Stand up from your bed fast. Don't waste any time in going out of your room as soon as you feel awake. Chances are you will be going back to sleep again if you stay long inside your room. Remeber to be careful not to hit the door on your way out.
Remove stress before calling it a night. This will give you a good reason to wake up earlier and aid you in sleeping too. A couple of hours before sleeping, review your day and identify problems and worries that you may have and create an action plan to solve these the following day. This may help open and place your mind at ease and also motivate you to begin your day earlier.
Schedule your sleep efficiently. Right finding out what sleeping habits works for you, stick with it and do not quit. Self-discipline and determination is the main key here. You can start getting up early if you commit to it.
Frequently Asked Questions
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QUESTION:
What can I do about not being able to sleep?
First of all, I do have sleep apnea, if you're not aware of what that is, then read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_apnea and then to make it worse, I have insomnia, which is caused by sleep apnea in my case.Normally I only get about 2-3 hours of sleep a day, or 4 if I'm lucky. What sucks about this is that I fall asleep between the hours of 2 A.M. and 6 A.M. and I have to wake up @ 7 in the morning to get ready for school by 8, then after that I have to work a 7 hour shift at mcdonalds and be out at 11 and then i go home and stare at the ceiling and try anything i can to sleep. and the cycle continues.
The thing is, I don't take medication for it because I feel like I'm already on too much medication (allergies, migraine meds, anti-anxiety, etc), and I don't want to become addicted to any sleeping meds.
I just don't know what to do anymore because it's not only affecting me, it's affecting my mother and my schoolwork/performance, and this is the most important year of my educational life, my senior year of high school.
In addition, I don't know if this has anything to do with, like sub-consciously, but my dad died three years ago, and in the month leading up to this death, I could never sleep well at all, the same way I am now, but the night he passed away, I had never slept so great in my entire life. And I think I might still have some weird feeling about sleep being connected with bad things that might happen that i could've helped prevent. I don't know though.
Any suggestions besides medication?
Thanks in advance!
I said specifically, I don't want to use medication. I've used it in the past and it's done nothing for me. And I also don't want to take the risk of getting addicted.
I have had two sleep study tests done, one without the CPAP mask, and one a few months later with it.And I do have the choice, well did have the choice of using it, but I also could not handle sleeping with it. So, that's another difficulty right there.
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I'm sorry you can't sleep. I had insomnia for a few years and it really can make you feel like you're going insane. Some people can handle three or four hours of sleep while others need up to eight.If all of the medicines you are taking are prescription then it might not be the best idea to nock some of them off the "in use". Ie, you could probably safely get rid of your allergy meds and buy over the counter sleeping pills to use every so often. (Be careful, these too can be addicting). That's how I solved my sleeping problem.
Another option could really be to get real sleeping pills and, despite the addiction, it's better then getting no sleep at such a crucial time in your life. If you do wind up addicted, then talk to your doctor when you think you are ready to be weaned off of them and he/she will give you excellent advise as well as a semi-program and less dosages.
As for the possibility of it being a phsycological misconception of your mind, it very well could be. Many people, subconciously mind you, have sleeping disorders like insomnia because of previous tramautic situations. The only way to know for certain is to have your sleeping patterns tested by someone authorized to do so. But of course, this is assuming you have health insurance and the time to have regular visits with said scientist for a few weeks or more.
At this point, I would talk to a doctor. Even just calling and asking a nurse about the possibility of using over the counter sleeping meds combined with all of your others will be incredibly helpful.
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Why do I not sleep well?
I have a friend that keeps telling me that I have sleep apnea, but I do not believe him. I am moderately athletic and my resting blood pressure is 117/73 with a BPM of 60. Sometimes at night I have trouble falling asleep and could be awake for up to 2 hours after I lie down. I sometimes take naps during the day if I am feeling fairly sleepy, but I am always active and using energy. I have a healthy diet as well and never eat anything shortly before bed. Also, I may wake up 3 to 5 times per night, but most of the time just one or 2, but I rarely sleep all night. I have minor allergies, but I do not have any breathing conditions that I know of. When I try to fall asleep I constantly have things going through my head whether I think about my day, the future, or other people/events. I also wouldn't consider myself a very sound individual either. I normally wake up at night when I realize a dream isn't going the way I want it or sometimes randomly for seemingly no reason. I normally don't have a hard time falling back to sleep after I wake up at night. Earlier in the summer I tried out the Uberman sleep schedule ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep ) for about 5 weeks and I felt better on that schedule than I had since early high school. I am now 20 years old. I do not get enough REM sleep at night and it is beginning to worry me a little. Does anyone know what could be wrong with me?-
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You may have minor insomnia. Insomnia is a mental disorder that keeps people from being able to sleep even if tired. Try talking to a doctor or psychologist about this, and also consider taking melatonin, a natural chemical your body produces that increase drowsiness. Do a little research on insomnia to see if you may have this, but talk to a doctor for proper diognosis.
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QUESTION:
What motivates people to commit science fraud and AGW fraud?
Why has there been so much misconduct around AGW in regard to data collection? Do they have the same motives as some of these people in other science fields?Richard Eastell - Actonel Affair; resigned after allegations of financial irregularities; (Medicine) (citations linked from)
Woo-Suk Hwang (Hwang Woo-Suk) (cloning)
Leo A. Paquette (chemistry)
Karen M. Ruggiero (social psychology), fabricated data on 240 participants in a study supported by NIH
Albert Steinschneider - Sleep apnea, SIDS
Kazunari Taira (molecular biology)
Malcolm Pearce / Geoffrey Chamberlain - Fraudulent description of successful reimplantation of ectopic pregnancy
Dr H. Zhong, Professor T. Liu and their co-workers at Jinggangshan University have retracted numerous papers published in Acta Crystallographica following systematic checking which revealed that the organic structures claimed in these papers were impossible or implausible. The supporting data appeared to have been taken from valid cases which had then been altered by substituting different atoms into the structures.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_misconduct
What is it about science fraud that is so alluring? Money? Power? Notoriety
I find it a bit entertaining that a guilty dog will bow up and bark the loudest of all.-
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as others have said, the cause is money.
however, clearly it's not grant money.
it's money paid by the energy industry.
,000 if you can get a paper published in a peer reviewed journal that questions, not even denies, global warming.don't you find it interesting that of literally millions of scientists you could only find 8?
i'll grant that if you spent enough time, you could probably find a few more.
what is that? something less than 0.001%
if you were doing polling, and had a 0.001% uncertainty factor, that would be amazing.many continue to claim massive fraud.
when i was a kid, mom said to me, "Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead."
really, truly, there is not a fraud, or cover up, or scheme, or anything else, that is hiding evidence that global warming is not true.
people do make mistakes.
many people really would like to understand every nuance of climate change.
maybe that will happen some day.
many people would like to understand every nuance of human physiology.
but we don't wait until that happens to take some medicine when we're sick.
the treatment of cancer is relatively barbaric.
the only justification is that it's better than the disease.what is clear today is that CO2 is causing the earth to retain energy.
if there is any fraud at all, it's where the money is. the energy industry.
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