My sleep cycle has slipped now that I’m back living with parents. (It’s currently 4:30 am and I’m writing this instead of going to bed.) Two possibly related factors:
I like to shower shortly before bed; or more accurately, I feel I should shower once a day and I rarely shower early. My parents also stay up late, and they get annoyed if I don’t warn them before I shower and give them a chance to use the bathroom. The result of this seems to be that I wait until they’re in bed before I shower.
I use my bed as storage space more than I did at university, possibly because I have less/oddly shaped floorspace. Before I can go to bed I need to move everything off it.
Maybe you could change to showering in the morning. And what sort of things are you keeping on the bed? If they aren’t things you use all the time, maybe you could put them under the bed instead.
Maybe you could change to showering in the morning.
I don’t particularly want to add showering to my morning routine, but today I did shower between lunch and dinner, which is something.
what sort of things are you keeping on the bed?
Usually things that I put somewhere inconvenient the night before. In particular my chair, and for the past few nights the top of my suitcase. But yesterday I put enough clothes into my suitcase that I can’t shut it any more, so I seem to have found somewhere less inconvenient for the things I was putting on top of it. (I may have moved them into my suitcase.) So right now it’s mostly just a pile of documents from my chair, which is what I’m used to. I can just pick up the whole pile and move it without thinking about where to put anything.
But it depends what I’ve been doing through the day; yesterday it was particularly bad because I received a package of electrical components.
My sleep cycle has slipped now that I’m back living with parents. (It’s currently 4:30 am and I’m writing this instead of going to bed.) Two possibly related factors:
I like to shower shortly before bed; or more accurately, I feel I should shower once a day and I rarely shower early. My parents also stay up late, and they get annoyed if I don’t warn them before I shower and give them a chance to use the bathroom. The result of this seems to be that I wait until they’re in bed before I shower.
I use my bed as storage space more than I did at university, possibly because I have less/oddly shaped floorspace. Before I can go to bed I need to move everything off it.
Maybe you could change to showering in the morning. And what sort of things are you keeping on the bed? If they aren’t things you use all the time, maybe you could put them under the bed instead.
I don’t particularly want to add showering to my morning routine, but today I did shower between lunch and dinner, which is something.
Usually things that I put somewhere inconvenient the night before. In particular my chair, and for the past few nights the top of my suitcase. But yesterday I put enough clothes into my suitcase that I can’t shut it any more, so I seem to have found somewhere less inconvenient for the things I was putting on top of it. (I may have moved them into my suitcase.) So right now it’s mostly just a pile of documents from my chair, which is what I’m used to. I can just pick up the whole pile and move it without thinking about where to put anything.
But it depends what I’ve been doing through the day; yesterday it was particularly bad because I received a package of electrical components.
http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin#self-discipline
This really helps if you set yourself a reminder at a reasonable time and if your meta-akrasia is sufficiently low.
I have been using melatonin, but not to force myself to go to bed. I’ll try that tonight if I’m still up at 4am.