Comments on: How to Reset Your Body Clock

By: Tim Bits

Tim Bits — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:19:01 +0000

I think my body is WAY out of whack. I didn’t get a wink of sleep last night, and basically pulled an all-nighter Friday night at a friend’s house and woke up sometime in the afternoon Saturday. Since then, I’ve been awake at night and sleeping during the day. I’m going to try staying awake all day and going to bed when I normally do. Hopefully tomorrow my body will be back to what it was before I messed it up. But thanks for the tips, I shall keep them in mind, Tim Bitz

By: kyeho

kyeho — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:27:19 +0000

You would be so lucky for it to "take a couple of days" to rectify the problem. I found myself in this situation and it took months not days. 18 months in fact.

Whatever else you do you MUST get outside for a walk at 7am to let the light get into your eyes. Nothing else will do it.

Secondly you must eat regular meals. Eating regular meals is critical in resetting your body clock.

Going to sleep - allow yourself a certain number of regular hours and sleep those hours in bed. Take a melatonin tablet and also Insomin-X on the market in Australia is a good herbal remedy. No other herbal remedies have worked for me and neither has stillnox etc. prescription stuff.

COMBINE light into your eyes 7am for 20 mins with 3 regular meals a day at regular times and go to bed at the same time each night.

Get caffeine out of your system, choose something else. It's taken me 18 months to get rid of caffeine and it certainly helps with sleep.

The regularity of light, meals and a definite sleeping time set aside will do it ... eventually.

Best of luck. I feel great now ... Kyeho

By: John Hudson

John Hudson — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:20:48 +0000

I dont know how to explain it I dont feel sleepy at all during the night. I also find it hard to sleep during the day. When I do fall asleep I sleep past my normal hours. When I wake up, I am still exhausted and want to fall right back to sleep. I know my biological is all messed up. I am worried. Lately, my nights have been sleepless and I find myself not getting as tired as much during the day. I am worried that if it is possibly my biological clock is at risk of breaking. What I am asking is, how do I fix this so I can go back to a normal six to eight hour sleep rotation?

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:22:42 +0000

I used to go to sleep at normal hours despite my mild depression in the past, but quite recently 1-2 years ago I've had extreme anxiety, stress and severe depression which has only lead my sleep habits downhill. I now usually go to bed at 4 AM and wake up some time round 1 or 2 PM, and no matter how hard I try it won't be cured. I think it's a complex mixture of light, depression, anxiety, excess cortisol, excess adrenaline and other excess hormones.

~But oh well I like the darkness I guess~

By: Elliot

Elliot — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:55:19 +0000

HELP!!! I am in the hospitality industry, so i am used to working late nights then waking up in the afternoon. I am on holidays at the moment and wont go back to work for about another month. I have found myself that i cant go to bed till 3 am! how can i reset my body clock to that of a normal person?

Thanks

By: How to Avoid the After-holiday Slump

How to Avoid the After-holiday Slump — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:01:28 +0000

[...] clocks have adjusted to a later waking up time. If this has happened to you, make sure to try and reset your body clock back to suit your ideal sleeping hours before the regular workweek [...]

By: lyn

lyn — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:11:37 +0000

I’m interested in :
. eating regular meals in helping to reset the body clock
. early morning exercise starting at 7am for 20 mins without fail for 3 weeks letting light into the eyes
. fact there are two sleep periods at night and if you miss the first then know when the second sleep phase will come
. use of melatonin .. I have been told it doesn’t work
. the single amino acid which apparently if lacking can cause disturbances to the circadian cycle
Anyone care to discuss these specifically?
Lyn

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:35:31 +0000

My body clock has always been broken. Even as a child I never slept well.

By: AndrewAlan.com » Me and my body clock

AndrewAlan.com » Me and my body clock — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:35:01 +0000

[...] Jul, 2008 Uncategorized Web Worker Daily and my recent UK trip inspired me to write this post. I’ve never been one for that sleep [...]

By: Celine Roque

Celine Roque — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:02:24 +0000

Rich – are you referring to what I read on the weekends that keep me up all night? I read all sorts of things, mostly fiction and almost anything I can get my hands on. But the instance I was referring to, I was reading “Art and Lies” by Jeanette Winterson.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:10:08 +0000

No clock tips. But I’d like to know what your reading? :o)

By: links for 2008-07-04 at Ip’s.

links for 2008-07-04 at Ip’s. — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:47:27 +0000

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By: Ellie

Ellie — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:32:14 +0000

I take medication that makes me soooooooooo sleepy! So, I have (under my doctor’s supervision) tinkered with the times I take my medicine to ensure that I can now get sleep during normal times (i.e. night time) rather than all day!

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:10:39 +0000

I have Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, but didn’t know it was a medical condition until recently. I’ve spent years trying to work “normally” with a body that’s on a 4PM-8AM schedule. Although I kept beating myself up for not being able to reset my sleep schedule, I eventually became a freelancer working from home, one of the most common ways of accommodating DSPS.

You can’t imagine the relief I felt when I learned that it was a medical issue, not my fault, and that it has a name. Though there is medication that can help, I accept and embrace my DSPS and have found that it works perfectly to live 4PM-8AM; I sleep when others work, and work when others sleep, and the evening is free for social activities and the like.

My advice is, if you’ve been struggling with a sleep schedule that doesn’t match your time zone for months or years, and nothing you try (including sedatives) helps you reset it, see your doctor and ask about a sleep disorder. They’re not the best publicized of conditions, so you may want to do a little research and take it with you. The peace of mind that comes from learning you’re not alone and it isn’t the result of personal weakness is indescribably liberating.

By: Tal Ater

Tal Ater — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:04:34 +0000

I've been suffering from a similar condition called Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome, which basically meant I was going to sleep each day a couple of hours later then the day before, causing my days to shift wildly between being up at 4am one weeks and then at 4pm the next one. What Celine is describing in this article is more like Delayed sleep phase syndrome, a similar but different condition. I was lucky to be diagnosed by Dr. Yaron Dagan (the same Dr. Dagan who wrote half the articles referenced on the DSPS page on Wikipedia), and prescribed Melatonin which I now take daily and has really saved me from a life of bad sleep, and constant jetlag like tiredness. If you are suffering from something like this for more than a few months, and can't fix it... It may be more than a symptom of your web working life style... Get it checked by a good sleep doctor (there's very little awareness of these syndromes in the general MD community). If anyone has any questions, I'd love to help. This thing was ruining my life, and a simple treatment did miracles to me.

By: Marcin Grodzicki

Marcin Grodzicki — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:01:43 +0000

Also check out http://www.powerfulsleep.com for other sleep performance techniques. But do use mailinator or other service for signup, as their web design screams ‘spam’.