I have an exam tomorrow at 9 and I still cant sleep!? It's 12 am?

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This is the second time! Usually when I have exams, I get way too nervous and excited for some reason, therefore making it harder for me to rest. I already watched a movie, drank some tea and now I'm just laying in my bed trying to sleep but I can't. 
2 days ago I had my Language exam and I legit stayed up till 4:15 then slept for 2 hours. This happens every time I have an exam. Can someone help me out ?? What should I do to fall asleep

anonymous · Accepted Answer

Actually, the solution is just to think of exam days the same as any other day.

Right now, you are allowing your ego-mind to treat exam days as somehow being 'different' than other days. You may well be getting lower-than-desired exam scores because of this.

(My answer does also indicate the fact that the *real* you is *not* your ego-mind. 
The *real* you can 'observe' the 'games' your ego-mind tries to 'play'. ;)

It's just another day at school. Nothing different about exam days. :)

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Anxiety arises from allowing the ego-mind to think about future possibilities. The 'problem' with that is that one can never know which of the future possibilities will come true, hence 'anxiety'. (It's actually somewhat related to the quantum physics concept of Heisenberg's 'uncertainty principal'.)

If you want to do well on exams, just treat exam days exactly the same as any other day.

My 'anxiety' comment was actually noted about 2600 years ago by the Chinese philosopher Lao-Tse (there are various spellings of his name) :

'If you are depressed, you are living in the past.
If you are anxious, you are living in the future. ............... <--- that's you
If you are content, you are living in the present moment.'

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I have an exam tomorrow at 9 and I still cant sleep!? It's 12 am?

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