How do you fix your internal clock when you've shifted it so much that you're going to bed when you should be getting up?

Hi JA, I have that problem. When I was in the work force I never had to use an alarm clock, my internal body clock was always spot on, but now that I've been retired I find myself all messed up, lol. Sometimes I'll get just 4 hours sleep and then nap for a couple in the daytime, it's crazy, but's Ize ain't complain'en. Whoa!!!

It's most likely just as gradual a process as what took place to get you where you are now. There probably aren't any tricks, no magic wand.

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I drift into that unless I consciously avoid it.  You have to set an alarm and wake the same time each day.  That is the only way.  You will start going to bed earlier.....you won't be able to avoid it.  You'll be so tired and sleepy.  It can take about two weeks to get there.  Good luck. 

I always thought retired folks took naps because of being old.  That's not it at all.  It from staying up all night.  ;)

lol

My neighbors do that. I think they're in their 70s. There have been plenty of times we've both heard the same noise at 1 or 2 am and have gone to investigate. We'll wind up sitting outside and shooting the breeze for an hour in the middle of the night. lol

Bah. -_-

Shoot. 

Wait, you're dismissing my response? MY response?????
Grrrrrr!

:|

Give me a magic wand and I'll undismiss it. ;)

Stay up a full day and go to sleep when i want to be going to sleep everyday.

Summer is part of my problem. I don't have to get up, so I don't. I had a deadline last week that I was scrambling to meet and I stayed up until 5am to finish the work. This morning my daughter was waking up just as I was going to bed. O_o I will probably just pick a day and not sleep at all so I can go to bed at a normal hour.

That's what I was just saying I'm probably going to do. :)

Both my parents became real night owls as they age.  I'm afraid I am the same darn way.  The older I get, the more I don't conk out at a decent hour.

I don't have any answers since this is a huge problem with me as well. 

I will be reading everyone else and hoping for a few helpful hints.  

Stay awake and then go to bed early.  If that makes any sense.

My internal clock has been on the fritz since birth.

That's so dirty.
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Please let me know if you find out.

It works. I work overnight shift and keep crazy hours. This is how i reset myself.