gnn...

tired. Need more sleep.

Well, many hours of work to be manipulated out of waking up this early.

Study, work, etc. Not a happy life.

Ok..even if I fell asleep earlier- say, 7 pm. I would get..10 hours of sleep if I awoke at 5 am ( I can talk about why that logic doesn't really work another day.) Well, even if got 10 hours of sleep and wouldnt be tired, I would still get tired throughout the day because I am 'starting up' at an earlier time.

Rule= sleep isn't about hours. It's about how you use them. A comfortable 7 hours is better than a rocky 9. If you can get 7 hours of straight sleeping it is more comfortable than sleeping 4, staying up one hour, then sleeping another 5.

-oh, and something magical that happens= When you can sleep and have dreams, your bound to feel more awake in the morning. Why? Because your dreams usually occur a few minutes before you wake up...they only last a few minutes. Anyways, when you dream before you wake up, it gives your brain a chance to get started, and therefore you feel more "awake". Get it?

The final way to get more out of sleep...i think i have mentioned this before... is to wake up without an alarm clock. Yeah, waking up naturally is always better. The same reason why if you suddenly wake up at 3 am in the morning, you may not feel tired until you lie back down for 10 minutes and slow everything down. Our bodies have natural ways of waking us back up.

And finally, there is such a thing as too much sleep. If you arent doing any hard activities like workouts or long mental work, if you have a chance to "sleep in" it's really better if you don't. Anything over 10 hours isn't going to do you much justice. Yes, i've slept for over 12 hours before...you usually wake around 10 then go back to sleep for another 2 or 3 hours before hunger kicks in. Well, the only reason i say to not let yourself take the extra 2 or 3 hours or whatever ("second sleep"...if you do sleep for 12 hours straight, let it be. You may need it.") is because it throws off your schedual- even if its a weekend or something. You loose lots of time you could be doing other things, and you really wont feel a difference between 13 hours of sleep and your "magic number" (the average number of hours you sleep on your own without an alarm clock. Mine is around 9 or 10.)

Well, sleep well.

-kd