As I predicted, I had similar troubles to the ones I described in the past tonight.
I went to bed at 11pm and the last recall of being awake is at around 2.30am.
I experienced accelerated heart rate and strong waves of hot. Ended up sleeping shirtless, with the window spread open and the fan on. I’ve come to the conclusion that all of this must be psychological, because during the holidays I slept just well in the same room and bed without experiencing any of this.
Luckily, I faced the thing with a different mindset: I wasn’t emotional about it as I had been the first time(s), I was a little annoyed but decided to abstain from giving too many fucks. I don’t feel very tired at all having slept only for 4 hours so maybe it isn’t that big of a deal as I had initially made it, but there is definitely something going on, whether I decide to care or not.
@Irishman92 Probably not school itself, but more having to wake up at 6.40am whereas my brain really wants to stay awake till 1am and then sleep till 10am (I love weekends for this very reason: I love it when I come back home at midnight on Fridays and Saturdays and I know I still have some spare time to relax, text friends and gf, watch a couple of videos on yt, and then go to sleep knowing that the morning will be stress-free–a feeling I don’t have on weekdays evenings)
Well than its an easy fix. Albeit a time consuming one.
You need to create a routine before bed. Do this on weekdays and weekends (important). I suggest a warm shower that you turn down to cool at the end, brush teeth than read a chapter of a book in bed.
You need to do this routine fairly late at night to start. Maybe midnight or maybe a bit later.
Every week drop the routine by half an hour (trial this as it may need to become 15min). Stop reducing when you feel rested (maybe around 10pm).
You gotta stop sleeping in so late on weekends. I know it sucks, I used to sleep until lunchtime+ every weekend when I was young. But try to wake up and get up by 8-830 at the latest.
For the next couple months I would suggest no excessively late nights. Maybe no later than 2am. Even on weekends. Especially on weekends.
It’s a pain in the arse, but developing sleep issues early in life (or anytime really) is a much bigger pain in the arse.
One thought though, I’m not questioning your suggestion at all.
However, I always felt like my sleep pattern was really good: I have always been able to sleep under any conditions, no matter how big a difference between weekdays and weekends, and I always fell asleep after going to bed without any problems.
In fact, I used to brag about my sleep habits and my ability to get up upon waking up with no problems at all because I always felt rested.
All of this came out of the blue, without any change to my lifestyle.
I am an anxious person by nature, and I believe that my recent anxiety might have something to do with my gf. I am a weird person: I tend to care about myself and myself only at times, and depending on my mood it’s very easy for me to not give fucks about people. But then again, I have moments when I start to stress about things and get irrationally nervous about stuff that is way smaller than how bad it makes me feel.
So although there’s nothing wrong in my relationship right now, I found myself getting VERY anxious (like when you feel a weight on your chest and you breathe more heavily) thinking about her. This only happens at night before sleeping and leads me as a consequence to fear not being able to fall asleep and, sure enough, my mind keeps racing and I can’t sleep.
Then the feeling of anxiety wears off and I relax, but I still don’t get to sleep
but we have to go too school to get a job, to work all years long to buy things, eat and feel comfortable…get up early in the morning will be a part of your life …