Can't get no sleep.

[Omikron009]

Last winter break I became nocturnal over the course of about two weeks. You know what I did when I went back to school and had to wake up at 7:30? I just did. I rose to the challenge.

 

[Miumaru]

All the time. My family acts like I dont sleep at all though. I still sleep the same amount, just at different times. It mostly depends if I have anywhere to be for long periods of time and if I stay up late for stuff....like playing DOOM (I and II) all night.

 

[Nick of Blades]

I usually stay up until about 1 or 2 o'clock browsing The Escapist forums, and surfing the web. This is what summer does to me...

 

[Kpt._Rob]

Drink butt-loads of coffee in the middle of the day so that don't fall asleep then, and then you'll be DOUBLY exhausted when it's night, and you can get back on your normal sleeping pattern.

This is what we call a bad idea. And I say that as someone who knows a thing or two about sleeping problems... And bad ideas... I made the monumentally stupid decision once to try and trip diphenhydramine (a chemical you know by a couple of names, benadryl and unisom [yeah, it's the same compound in different packages]). As you might imagine, abnormally high doses of a chemical that is often used as a sleep aid make you incredibly tired, but if you soldier through it you might find, as I did, that when you finally do fall asleep, you wake up four hours later, unable to fall asleep for the next two days even though you want to sleep more than anything else in the entire world.

... I was suggesting he use coffee to keep himself AWAKE, not put himself to sleep.

No, I know excatly what you were suggesting. It's something I tried myself before I read what experts had to say on the issue. What I'm saying is that if you are having sleeping problems, it is a bad idea to drink coffee at any time of the day, regardless of whether or not that's the time you want to go to sleep. The way it affects the body's systems is not conducive to establishing healthy sleep patterns.