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[yaklin]

When I don't have food readily available, it is not hungry; however, when I do have food available, it is no longer hungry. Also, and this is the major one, when I lay down to go to sleep, my body won't let me sleep till 3 or 4 in the morning, then it starts bitching to me about how it didn't get enough sleep.
How much longer until I can just cut out my brain and put it into another body that isn't so annoying or, if all bodies are like that, a robot?

[Urist Imiknorris]

I have the same sleep issues, but they're mostly from my brain not shutting up about whatever game I was last playing.

[Darvi]

When I don't have food readily available, it is not hungry; however, when I do have food available, it is no longer hungry. Also, and this is the major one, when I lay down to go to sleep, my body won't let me sleep till 3 or 4 in the morning, then it starts bitching to me about how it didn't get enough sleep.
How much longer until I can just cut out my brain and put it into another body that isn't so annoying or, if all bodies are like that, a robot?

My thoughts exactly.




Humans should evolve to become nocturnal or something.

[Cthulhu]

Be more active.  Spending all day on the computer causes poor sleeping habits.  Or, if that's too much work, take melatonin.

Who has two tentacles and uses the second piece of advice here?

This squid!

[Ottofar]

I have the same sleep issues, but they're mostly from my brain not shutting up about whatever game I was last playing.

Yeah, you should stop playing about 1-2 hours before you go to sleep.

Try also listening to music.

And about the hungriness,when you're hungry long enough, you no longer feel hungry. After about 6 hours the feeling returns, however.

[Levi]

This is going to sound stupid, but if you have any blue LED's in the room you are sleeping in, cover them with duct-tape or something.  I normally sleep pretty good but blue LED's keep me awake.  If nothing else it doesn't hurt to try. 

[Luke_Prowler]

I agree with the others that watching TV or playing games right before bed is going to keep you up. If you really need to go to bed, read something boring like a dictionary. 

[GlyphGryph]

If I want to go to bed early, all I have to do is have no electronics or artificial lighting, and then stay outside until the sunset, and BANG I'm inside and asleep by 8:30.

And I usually have trouble going to bed before midnight.
Actually spending a good portion of the day outside, especially if I get up around dawn, makes it even more likely for me to get to sleep early.

The problem is just that I never WANT to go sleep.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Humans should evolve to become nocturnal or something.

You can become nocturnal with relative ease if you try, I've done it accidentally more than once. That's why people can work graveyard shifts and sleep during the day. Of course, it's just as easy to become diurnal again. Our circadian rhythm isn't set in stone, it's just that society tends to force everyone into a single sleep schedual so that we can all be awake at the same time.

In addition:

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The vast majority of people are constantly Monophasic, of course. I myself have gone Biphasic a couple of times, but it never lasts.

[Aramco]

This is going to sound stupid, but if you have any blue LED's in the room you are sleeping in, cover them with duct-tape or something.  I normally sleep pretty good but blue LED's keep me awake.  If nothing else it doesn't hurt to try. 

I read somewhere that green light is the hardest to sleep with, so try turning off anything with a green light on it.

[Levi]

This is going to sound stupid, but if you have any blue LED's in the room you are sleeping in, cover them with duct-tape or something.  I normally sleep pretty good but blue LED's keep me awake.  If nothing else it doesn't hurt to try. 

I read somewhere that green light is the hardest to sleep with, so try turning off anything with a green light on it.

Weird, green doesn't bother me at all.  Maybe they aren't as bright as the blue ones though.  One blue led on my computer pretty much lights up the whole room, while my three green LED's don't light up the room much at all.

[malimbar04]

Red lights don't hurt your nightvision, which is why star maps generally use red lights. Green hurts it some, blue is worse, and of course white and combinations thereof are worse than that.

The more likely culprit though:
The big thing to remember is to go to sleep at the same time every night, and do nothing else in bed. Don't read there, don't play on a laptop, and don't lie down for hours while thinkign about something else. Your mind should reflexively think of sleep when it's in bed.

If you are trying to set up a sleep schedule, go to bed at a certain time and stay there for half an hour. If you're still not asleep then get up, read, and go back to bed in another 15 minuets to half hour. "read" btw means a book, not anything with a backlight. lights, particulary anything non-red, irritates your eyes enough to draw you out of sleep.

Also, don't eat or drink anything but water before bed. Lots of biology here, but basically your body doesn't want to sleep after eating.

Exercise helps a lot, but only if it's exhausting or regular. A lazy person who does a few jumping jacks before bed might actually be more awake after exercise. If you do it regularly though, your body will be able to relax a lot easier. That in turn makes sleep really easy to come by.

It should take about 6 weeks to get a body fully into the new sleep cycle.