Roski,

There are different kinds of light therapy. I think what you tried sounds like dawn simulation - is the light on a timer so it starts dim and gradually gets brighter, until time to wake up? For that, it starts while you are asleep so your eyes would be closed until you wake up.

What I do is use a light box in the morning. The light is received visually, so your eyes have to be open to do any good. With delayed circadian rhythm you need to do it in the morning, although evening light therapy is used for advanced circadian rhythm. If it is reversed it will adjust your internal clock the wrong direction. Since delayed circadian rhythm means that you stay up late and then often have difficulty getting up in the morning, you use a schedule starting the light therapy in the afternoon and gradually moving it back as you start waking up earlier. Since I'm definitely not a morning person I had my doubts about that, but it did work. My pattern was to stay up later and later each night by 3 or 4 hours until I wasn't even going to bed by the time my kids were getting up in the morning, so I skipped a day and started over again.

You can find more information at the website where I got my light box. <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.apollohealth.com/index.html>http://www.apollohealth.com/index.html</A> That was where I got the schedule to follow to start.

I am a psychology student and I want to be a psychologist. I essentially had my BA finished 12 years ago, but left a loose end so I didn't get my diploma when I would have graduated. So I'm a fifth year senior right now - I didn't have to take more classes but it's hard to get into grad school and I thought I would have a better chance if I had some current work and references.

Good luck to you too - if you are on your third year you are almost done! Hang in there. Let's stick together.

Wendy

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