Any suggestions on how to start sleeping earlier?

[SirenDep]

I don't have insomnia. I can fall asleep, when I decide to do so. Though, I enjoy being awake when everyone else is sleeping. The house is quiet and I can read, try on outfits, watch movies, roam the internet etc. uninterrupted. This habit of mine is damaging my life and I want to stop it. The next day I can't wake up, I don't even respond to the alarm clock or my family trying to wake me up. I'm sleep deprived, always late and anxious. Every time I say I won't stay up late, then I end up doing the same.

[Prakbio]

Try to go early in bed around 10 pm switch off lights and start counting in reverse from thousand in reverse way (1000,999,998...1) I use to do this. And still never completed from 1000-1. But rule is:
1. Go to bed early as said
2. Press each finger tips about ten times.
3. Start counting and if you commit a single mistake start reverse counting from 1000.* ie you have to reverse count without any mistake.

[erigut3]

Eat your last meal of the day four to five hours before the time you want to fall asleep fight the urge to snack late at night this will keep you up later and another tip would be buy yourself a pair of orange safety glasses wear these two hours before bedtime and you will produce melatonin to help you fall asleep earlier

[RationalLioness]

Yes. I would suggest doing what I do--tire myself out and then go to bed. So if you want to sleep at 10 at night, I would stay away for the whole time until it gets near that time. That way, you'll be rested in the morning and won't be tired until the next night. :)

Also.. NO NAPS. If you're like me, taking a nap ruins your sleep schedule. My "naps" are 5-6 hours.

[SirenDep]

I don't nap, it ruins me as well. The problem is I don't get sleepy until it's too late

[mikemx55]

Exercise till you feel a bit tired (quats or sit ups for instance), take a shower, go to bed early, masturbate and sleep like a baby.

[SirenDep]

all this doesn't work. I noticed every time I stay up late, it's because of being in the internet. the only thing that works is if I don't open the laptop at all and say to myself to do nothing and sleep, but it's not so easy to change habits. I just say to myself a bit more and then I'll sleep, and suddently its 4 in the morning..