Lack of sleeping affecting my morning classes.

[Quirin]

Hello!

I've started University this year and every morning around 8-9am I have a chemistry lecture. Now, I'm okay at chemistry. Some of it I understand, some of it I don't. But I usually go to bed around 11:30pm-12:30am and wake up around 6:30-7:30am, have a coffee and head to University. I'm sitting there in class, ready to learn. But I am just so damn tired. I can barely keep my eyes open. And it is affecting my ability to learn properly. Now I know what the cause is to me being tired which I think is a lack of sleep. My flatmate is up till about 2:30am in the morning raiding on WoW. He uses speakers and turns them up really loud. I have to shut his door and my door but it still doesn't work. And he complains about it like no tomorrow, saying it isn't loud etc when clearly it fucking is. I wake up during the night numerous times and it isn't good. He also doesn't like using headphones.

How can I get more sleep/prevent myself from waking up and getting extremely tired.

[Catta]

Say that you will buy him a decent set of gaming headphones if he promises to use them after 24:00.

[vep]

First: talk to your roommate.
Second: have you thought about making some other changes? For example, a proper diet can give you more energy to go through the day. Eating something like an apple before class would work.
Also, there might be some other things getting in the way except just the lack of sleep. Maybe also take two days in a week to go to bed earlier or have afternoon naps. Dunno

[Quirin]

Say that you will buy him a decent set of gaming headphones if he promises to use them after 24:00.

I've suggested it but he says he hates headphones and will never use them.

---------- Post added 2013-03-11 at 08:19 PM ----------

First: talk to your roommate.
Second: have you thought about making some other changes? For example, a proper diet can give you more energy to go through the day. Eating something like an apple before class would work.
Also, there might be some other things getting in the way except just the lack of sleep. Maybe also take two days in a week to go to bed earlier or have afternoon naps. Dunno

I work out everyday and eat relatively well for a Uni student so I don't think it's that.

[Badpaladin]

Your roommate is a dick if this is what's happening.

Don't wanna move out until the term is over, but when it is get on that immediately. For now all you can do is stick with it and see if you can fall asleep around 10:30pm to get a few more hours. Whatever you do, even if it gets worse, don't pull any kind of "revenge" stunt. It'll only make things worse.

As far as the Chemistry goes, go to some walk-in tutoring (if your school has that) sessions.

[Quirin]

Your roommate is a dick if this is what's happening.

Don't wanna move out until the term is over, but when it is get on that immediately. For now all you can do is stick with it and see if you can fall asleep around 10:30pm to get a few more hours. Whatever you do, even if it gets worse, don't pull any kind of "revenge" stunt. It'll only make things worse.

As far as the Chemistry goes, go to some walk-in tutoring (if your school has that) sessions.

Yeah, I'll have to start going to bed early. Luckily Uni for me ends in June so I just have to hold out until then.

[Arainie]

Who the hell raids with speakers?
It's the most annoying combination ever with any voice communication, no decent microphone can keep all of the noise out. I've global muted people several times on my vent during raids if they use speakers while talking.

[Nanaboostme]

Okay its not the lack of sleep thats affecting you, 6-7 hours of sleep is decent. Clearly your roommate is not giving you enough REM sleep. You just have to talk to your roommate, tell him him you're having trouble sleeping and maybe if he could keep it down or play somewhere private where you can sleep.

[Deleted]

Well the probleem is pritty obvious, not only is it harder to get to sleep with random sounds. If you, and you said you did, wake up serveral times in your sleep it means that you aren't getting in REM, and this is where you get the "real" sleep, if you don't get enouf REM sleep you aren't getting rested.
A sulution, well... have you and your roommate make a compromi or something.. or yea.. let him STFU, because it's kinda dickey to do that kinda stuff...

[Quirin]

Okay its not the lack of sleep thats affecting you, 6-7 hours of sleep is decent. Clearly your roommate is not giving you enough REM sleep. You just have to talk to your roommate, tell him him you're having trouble sleeping and maybe if he could keep it down or play somewhere private where you can sleep.

What's REM sleep?

[Badpaladin]

What's REM sleep?

In short, the sleep that actually matters. If you end up waking up at an odd time with respect to how your body's sleep cycles are then you can be significantly more groggy than usual.

[Deleted]

REM sleep, is Rapit Eye Movement Sleep. This is takes place in the middle of your sleep ciclus, this is where the brain gets it's true rest, it sorts things and gets clear. In this state there is also no dreaming, this al takes place right before you wake up. A healhy REM time is around 4/5 hour if im correct (im not totally sure)

[Quirin]

Ah I see. Well I think I'll just have to go to bed early and hopefully the extra hour or two compensates for waking up sometimes.

[Zorgen]

You know what you do? You wait until he goes to bed at 3:00 am or whenever he goes to bed, and you blast your speakers as loud as he blasts his. You wake him up during his sleep and see how he likes it!

My roommate wakes up at 4:00 am for work and he used to make such a racket, so I started making noise at 11:00 pm before I go to bed while he's sleeping and he did not like that one bit, but now we are both quiet and respectful of eachothers sleep.

My neighbors used to be extremely loud with their TV and yelling at each other, so I started by banging on the wall, but they would just bang right back, then I got more aggressive with my banging.. I was even ready to knock on their door and tell them to keep the noise to a respectful level, this isn't a club were you can blast your music. Now they make very little noise, nothing I can't deal with.

You just have to be aggressive.

Cleaning and chores is another story.

[schwank05]

I usually ran on 4.5-5 hours the entire time through College with no issues and keep to the same sleep schedule to this day, I have the same problems if I get 6+ hours of sleep in a night and Im extremely tired the entire next day figure that one out. I had some roommates that liked to play Guitar Hero all night back then and found the best way was to not try to sleep when they were awake, I got better sleep staying up until 1-2am and getting 4.5-5 hours than I did if I went to bed a tsay 9-10 pm and got woke up several times in a night.

[Badpaladin]

You just have to be aggressive.

That's a really great way to screw things up badly.

[Snaige]

Invest in a few brands of earplugs, try quite a few till you find what is comfortable for your ears if the noise he is making wakes you up at night. When I first started university and moved in with other people, earplugs was the first thing I got. However a few weeks later I noticed that if I want to sleep, I will fall asleep even if there is a party in the room nearby, or if my roommate is using a blowdryer near my bed. If I wake up from a noise other than a bomb explosion or something, then I am not tired enough to sleep. However some people like you are very light sleepers. This is why I think earplugs should help.

[My Body is Ready]

May I suggest ear plugs? Or even go to bed at a normal hour?

[Jaynith]

Alternatively, you could pick up a cheap bottle of melatonin. Its the natural chemical the body produces to promote sleepiness. 3-6mg a night should be enough to keep you asleep.

[Deleted]

Talk to him again, ask him very nicely and explain the situation.
If he persists, then get a little angry at him, make him know you are really annoyed and will not tolerate it.
If he does it a third time, cut the fucking wires on his speakers.