Changing my sleep pattern

[jkkkk]

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Spend a lot of time outside in the sun. It helps you normalize your sleep schedule. Best way I've found to recover b/n time zones.

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Interesting, I may just try this.

[Leaky Eye]

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wtf. go to bed earlier

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Doesn't work. If you're a 9-5er, have you ever tried going to sleep at 6pm? You end up lying in bed staring at the ceiling for hours.

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You are right. Your body could never adjust. I wonder if people who fly across many time zones have figured something out.

[XXXNoahXXX]

some people claim success with melatonin in shifting their sleep cycles. melatonin is widely available at any vitamin store. might want to do some googling.

[Jay Riall]

There's no real rocket science to this atall imo, its just going to take a few days, thats all there is too it. Missing a night of sleep doesn't do much for the transition btw.

[IdealFugacity]

I work shift work where I work 6 AM to 6 PM 2-4 days, have 2-4 days off, and work 6 PM - 6 AM 2-4 days, repeat for a few months.

Tough it out, OP...

[1aguilas]

you can buy a certain bright light to help train yourself when to go to sleep, i forget what it's called though

[pookvis]

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There's no real rocket science to this atall imo, its just going to take a few days, thats all there is too it. Missing a night of sleep doesn't do much for the transition btw.

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I completely disagree. i usually miss a nights sleep, then sleep for like 10-12 hours, and then can go to bed whenever i want the next night anyway.

in any case im sure the easy of any sleep transition depends greatly on the sleeper.

[daryn]

i guess i'm pretty lucky in that i can totally sleep on command at any hour of the day, regardless of how much sleep i've had previously.

[rja87]

This doesn't work for me at all, during the summer I wouldn't be able to fall asleep until about 830am...so in the days before school started I tried staying up a full day, but that just resulted in me only sleeping for like 3 hours then waking up at like 2am and not falling asleep again til 8...first day of classes I had a class at 9, since then I haven't been able to sleep for more than a stretch of 3 hours at any time =/

[jkkkk]

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some people claim success with melatonin in shifting their sleep cycles. melatonin is widely available at any vitamin store. might want to do some googling.

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I will, thanks.

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There's no real rocket science to this atall imo

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You're right, there isn't, this thread is simply intended to find out which techniques people have found most effective.