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I need several hours at night to fall asleep
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Well, when I'm not able to fall asleep, I basically tell myself "so, I'm not going to fall asleep? Fine. I'm going to make this time productive then. I'm not giong to waste my time trying to sleep, I'm just going to stay awake with my eyes closed and solve this problem I'm working on" So then I use that time that I am not able to fall asleeping thinking about things productivly, like if I am working on some problem, like a homework problem, or figuring something interesing out... because it seems that forcing myself to sleep just makes it harder to fall asleep anyway. While I have my eyes closed I am activly thinking hard about the problem.
And the weird thing is, is that if I don't fight staying up, and just using that time to think about things in a productive manner, I usually end up wearing myself out and fall asleep faster, or even if i don't fall asleep until a couple of hours, I don't feel like I missed out on sleep, I actually feel rested fine, as if I had actually been sleeping during that time that I had my eyes closed and activity thinking about some problem. And plus that time is not wasted because you are thinking about something in a productive manner.
You also need spend about 10 hours to find out what you really want in life, so that you have some reason to change.