Sleeping Problems

Hello!

I have had the problem lately of frequently 'sleeping in'. Not necessarily missing anything important, or missing anything at all, because of these extra long lie-ins but it's definitely turning into a bad habit.

The feeling of not having to set an alarm for the morning is blissful! Nothing will ever beat that feeling when you can go to sleep and you don't have to count how many hours of sleep you can get before you have to wake up to go out to a class or a meeting. 

The only problem is, because I haven't been setting any alarms, I've not been waking up until the late hours of the morning... sometimes even the early hours of the afternoon. Although this sounds amazing (and is at the time) you start to realise it's a problem when you go to bed at, let's saaaay, 11pm and you. Can't. Sleep. Then you spend the next hour tossing and turning knowing you have something important that you have to be up early for. Then you spend the next hour counting how many hours of sleep you're going to get if you go to sleep at the precise minute. The next hour you spend frustrated which only makes your chances of sleep even less because you're waking yourself up more by thinking of how much you wish you could just sleep. And so it goes on, in that exact same cycle.

Even when you know you don't have anything to do the next day so it doesn't really matter how late you're up and what time you go to sleep, you stay up later either reading or on the internet, social networking, writing, something that's stopping you from sleeping. This something means that, when you do eventually get to sleep in the early hours of the morning, you wake up even later in the day and the whole thing is repeated again the next night. It never ends. 

So, when I've had to get up early the past few days I've felt like a zombified version of myself, more socially inept than normal, walking around thinking shop floors look like comfy places to sleep - what does it matter if people stare at you or you get trampled on, at least you'd be sleeping...?

It's been a tired few days, in case you can't tell, and yet once again, I'm sitting writing this post and watching countless YouTube videos at the same time and it's nearly half-eleven at night, so the chances of me going to sleep anytime soon are slim. I need help!

Katie x