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I hate to circumvent such a well thought out and helpful post, but really, the key to sleeping well at night is as simple as having a meaningful day.

That may sound corny, sure, but seriously, that's what I've observed in my twenty-eight years of life. I find that medicating sleep problems in gener ...

I don't drink coffe or any other stimulant,
I bath at night,
My room is not a room, it's a gym, weights everywhere, a monkeybar right above my bed, a sandbag, pretty much my life is training, so i get more than enough exorcize.
My so called room is also full of books, so I read quite a bit.

My problem is not that i can't sleep, my problem is that at night I'm never sleepy, I only feel tired during the day, If I'm to go to bed at 8pm, I wake up at 10pm and feel like sleeping once i reach the morning, even If don't sleep for two days straight the moment i reach the night I feel like I could run a marathon... I don't know what to do, I just hate the morning.

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There is a chance your sleeping problems are a result of something you cannot change, however. There is a lot of individual variation in sleep patterns. Some people are naturally "night owls", tending to go to sleep late and wake late. Some people also have longer circadian rhythms than average (the circadian rhythm is supposed to be 24 hours long and it can be altered by exposure or lack of exposure to light) and differing levels/timing of hormones can also affect sleepiness. All these can contribute to sleep disorders, and if the sleep disorder is severe, just trying to change your habits may not help, and medical help may be necessary. If you were just a normal night owl I would not think much of it, but the degree of your sleep dysfunction sounds quite severe so I think it's quite important that if none of your efforts succeed in solving your sleep habits, you must go to a doctor and get screened for sleep disorders, which will allow you to receive professional advice and treatment if necessary.

The problem with the drugs is that my metabolism is fast, so most things don't work well, I tried a few things with my doctor for a while, but most didn't really help me much, and I don't want to start taking things that are too strong because I'm scared it might affect my daily life even more.

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I hate to circumvent such a well thought out and helpful post, but really, the key to sleeping well at night is as simple as having a meaningful day.

I'm sure many medical doctors as well as many sufferers of severe sleep disorders would beg to disagree (your statement itself can be immediately disproved due to the existence of the disease fatal familial insomnia). When you make such a sweeping generalisation about a medical condition, the implication is that those who suffer from that condition must be lazy or stupid for failing to have done something simple that could magically fix their problem. The reality is very different, and to suggest otherwise is to belittle the difficulties that many people face due to these disorders, and to make their lives all the harder because they are made to feel ashamed for not being able to fix their problem.

Having heard the same sorts of "opinions" about depression, from people with no medical knowledge of the topic who have only anecdotes to back up what they are saying, I can't say I have a very high tolerance for people making such statements.

@BlackOrion: It sounds like you have Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder, is that what your doctor diagnosed you with? You can try doing a little research to see if there are any other suggested treatments, but it sounds like it's very hard to treat. Is there any way you can change your work/school commitments to suit your sleep patterns? At the very least, I don't recommend skipping whole nights of sleep. Get as much sleep as you can, and then if you have had to wake up early and did not get many hours of sleep, you could try helping your tiredness by taking one or two small power naps during the day.

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Thanks a lot for the answer mogiks, I think I'm going to try napping, it might help. My problem right now is that I have an extended period of free time, due to certain circumstances, and it's making it harder to keep a reasonable sleep regimen. When I don't have as much free time I tend to be a little more organized with my sleep, but I still feel dead tired on the morning (regardless of how much I sleep the day before) and too energetic at night. To be honest I didn't want to go to a Doctor again because of how long I had been trying different medications with no good result, but I guess there are no such things a magical solutions.

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Does anybody knows how I can change my sleeping habits? Whenever I let my guard down the time I go to bed gets delayed, I can't help feeling energetic at night, I tend to stay awake a whole day and go to sleep the night of next one to correct this, but for some reason I no longer feel sleepy once i reach the night of the next day and I feel better sleeping during the day when I can.
I'm not sure what to do, and I don't want to go back to drugs.

PS: I'm not sure If i wrote what i wanted to write because I'm half dead right now.

With the running thing that was suggested, well I often hear that running or working out relieves stress. But seeing as you workout often, more exercise probably won't help.
(Forgot the other suggestions. On my phone, and too lazy to check.)

I feel like I'm a night owl sometimes, and can't go to bed at decent times. I'm wired at night, and I end up going to sleep late, and wake up groggy.
What works with me, I play a movie I've seen one too many times, lay down in bed, close my eyes and listen to the movie. Next thing I know I'm already asleep, and waking up in the morning. If I try to sleep in complete silence I end up restless, and literally in bed with my eyes closed for 2 hours. ( Not sleeping, I know I'm awake)
The only other thing I can suggest is to try to go to sleep one hour earlier than usual. This will take some time, but I used to go to bed at .. 4am 5? Now I'm getting sleepy at midnight or 1am.
Naps do help a bit, BUT I feel that since I nap sometimes in the daytime I wake up at 5 or 6 am that night ...

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mogiks's posts contain some great advice. I think the best course of action would be to try to reset your sleep cycle by keeping a good sleep routine and hygiene for now. Here's a sound article on how to get back into the right rhythm - including a list of factors that might disturb your sleep and ideas on how to avoid them:

How to Reboot Your Sleep Cycle and Get the Rest You Deserve

If you are convinced that there's absolutely no way to fix this problem after you've given it your all over the course of several weeks, you could go to a major hospital with a sleep laboratory to get your individual sleep patterns analysed. If you're really suffering from a sleeping disorder, such an analysis might help the physicians find the right treatment for you. However, you should treat this as one of the last measures to take since it may take up lots of energy and patience until you get some decent results.

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Still recovering from food poisoning a couple a couple days ago, apparently due to second hand/acquired lactase deficiency I can't eat or drink anything with dairy in it.

Would anyone know how long it would take before my stomach recovers enough to eat or drink dairy again?

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Still recovering from food poisoning a couple a couple days ago, apparently due to second hand/acquired lactase deficiency I can't eat or drink anything with dairy in it.

Would anyone know how long it would take before my stomach recovers enough to eat or drink dairy again?

While I can't tell you that for sure, I do have lactose intolerance so I can advice you a few things you can do to avoid getting sick while you recover.
The most expensive but also best all around is drinking and eating goat milk and products made out of goat milk, it's a lot easier to digest than regular milk and quite tasty.
The second best Is lactose reduced milk, it's expensive (not as much as goat milk but still a bit more compared to regular milk) but it's great for cooking, it's not "missing" the lactose, it just processed to to transform it into simpler sugars, making it naturally sweat and great for cooking
The third option is soy milk, it's not for everybody and you can't use it for all the stuff you do with regular milk, but It's cheaper than the other two options (depending where you live tough) and it's the healthiest for people with lactose intolerance. You "can" cook with it, but it's not advised since it has a very characteristics flavour that might not be to everyone tastes.

Hope that's at least a bit useful.

Randomly, Sheep milk is fine for lactose intolerant people but pretty rare.

Is it appropiate or not to refer to someone's who under gone a transgender surgery as transgender or is that offensive to the person? Is it only inofffensive to refer to them as male/female(what they went to surgery to do)?

Also, are volumes bigger in Japan? I'm curious because they seem the same size as US manga volumes when I see them in Japanese bookstores, but when they're scanned they look huge, whereas when a manga is scanned from the English translation, they scan both pages at ones; the pages look smaller. Or do most scanlation groups scan manga magazines? And if they do is it easy for them to convert colored ink to black?

....And what year is the extent to be considered rude by replying to an old post?(like replying to a post from 2010 for instance)

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Thank you for the replies! I only knew about lactose-free milk and didn't realize there were so many other options!

I can only answer part of your question, Jolty Febe, since I have bought a few Japanese tankobon directly from Japan before. Compared to English translated manga, Japanese manga pages are thinner and more cheap-looking and the size of paper is usually smaller too. But when scanning it, it's easy to make the paper appear bigger digitally by cropping and zooming on it. And if you scan in greyscale and level it in Photoshop, it can easily make the ink look blacker.

And personally I don't really think there is a strict rule to replying old threads as long as the question hasn't been answered yet.

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Is it appropiate or not to refer to someone's who under gone a transgender surgery as transgender or is that offensive to the person? Is it only inofffensive to refer to them as male/female(what they went to surgery to do)?

If you are talking about a specific trans person you know, I think as a general rule you should follow their example. If they identify as a woman, call them a woman, female, use she and her. If you're unsure, just ask what they want to be called. They shouldn't get angry about your question unless you are rude.

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I was looking up what constitutes as acoustic music on Wikipedia, and at the bottom of the article it said wind instruments were avoided because "primarily because of their association with commercial, electrified styles."

I have never associated wind instruments with electric music so I don't understand what this mean. Would anyone mind explaining to me what this means please? And does this mean wind instruments aren't considered acoustic?

Honestly, I've never heard of anything like that regarding wind instruments, but then I wouldn't consider myself all that musically knowledgeable. That said, I also wouldn't put too much stock in an uncited one-liner at the end of a Wikipedia article that obviously needs a lot of work.

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I was looking up what constitutes as acoustic music on Wikipedia, and at the bottom of the article it said wind instruments were avoided because "primarily because of their association with commercial, electrified styles."

I have never associated wind instruments with electric music so I do ...

I suppose they are talking about Jazz, or other similar styles, where wind instruments (the most well known, due to the Simpson, being the Saxophone) are married to electric instruments.

In case electrified means Electronic music, then it must reference to the type of sounds that are generally used in mixes, because they often contain several wind instruments
For an example try using Superlooper, you might notice that most of the sounds, and the most notorious ones, that can be used to make the music are wind based.

I'm mostly guessing though

How can you tell when you've crossed that line of "inspired by" to "copying" ?

( I'm writing a story, and there's this one part I'm toying with adding, but I finding that it's too similar to a manga I've read once. It's making me think 'Am I copying the original idea or am I just inspired by it' ....
I mean it just makes me think, there's hardly any original works out there. Something is similar/copying something else. but where's the point where you would say that's outright plagiarism or something. )

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How can you tell when you've crossed that line of "inspired by" to "copying" ?

( I'm writing a story, and there's this one part I'm toying with adding, but I finding that it's too similar to a manga I've read once. It's making me think 'Am I copying the original idea or am I just ...

That's why writers use disclaimers.

If you already have doubts about whether you are blatantly copying something or not, it's most likely because you already are - to some extent. Darn that conscience.

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