Step 2) Have a real socio-economic incentive to get up at 6am.
Step 3) Stop drinking caffeine after 4pm. Stop drinking booze after 8pm. (Stop drinking booze entirely, even)
Step 4) Gene Therapy
Step 5) Find out if you snore. If you’re snoring, you’re not going to get enough sleep during the night, which will make you groggy af in the early morning.
Step 6) At 6am, when your alarm clock goes off, it helps if you really, really, really need to pee.
Some people are just genetically nocturnal. I had one grandparent who was early to bed. Everyone else in my family is somewhere between 12 and 2 am. As we get older we seem to need less and less sleep though. By 70, my nan was averaging 4 hours. Up to bed at 1, up a 5am to teach her 6am colege classes.
My other grandma slept 3x 2 hour bouts thought the day my whole life. 2hr nap around lunch, another after dinner, then shed be up til 2am, and ‘go to bed’ just to be back up around 4am. I think that had somwthing to do with her living most her life off the grid and having a wood stove got heat her whole life.
I have a little theory for why that is. I think back when we were tribes, having a certain percentage of the population be comfortable staying awake during the night helped protect us from other animals during the night.
I genuinely like going to bed at like 11am to noon and getting up around 7pm to 9pm. Sadly there’s not a lot of career advancement in the jobs that hire for those hours, and I’ve got student loans to pay.
In my experience, you can fudge the weekends by an hour or so and you’ll be fine. But yes, if you’re sleeping till noon on Saturday and Sunday, your circadian rhythm will be fucked on Monday morning.
I don’t have problems getting up early on the weekends at all. I cut out like 4 hours of sleep on the weekends without issues. I think the problem is that on weekdays I have to get up to go to work.
4 doesn’t seem to be a real thing because the only gene therapy for sleep that I could find were trials centered around GT for sleep apnea.
Listing gene therapy like you can just go to the doctor and request it is pretty disingenuous since insurance companies will make you jump through 10,000 hoops before even attempting something as expensive as gene therapy.
5 is a sleep apnea thing. i snore (very lightly unless i’m congested) but don’t have sleep apnea. snoring can be an indicator, but there’s not a 1:1 correlation
Step 1) Exit Puberty
Step 2) Have a real socio-economic incentive to get up at 6am.
Step 3) Stop drinking caffeine after 4pm. Stop drinking booze after 8pm. (Stop drinking booze entirely, even)
Step 4) Gene Therapy
Step 5) Find out if you snore. If you’re snoring, you’re not going to get enough sleep during the night, which will make you groggy af in the early morning.
Step 6) At 6am, when your alarm clock goes off, it helps if you really, really, really need to pee.
Step 6. Got it just drink before bed but then still have to piss middle of the night and then refill bladder mid night.
Step 7: as soon as you get up, eat a meal. It helps set your internal alarm clock.
Sorry I literally cannot. It makes me feel sick if I eat less than 1-2 hours after waking up.
i feel like then I’d be going back to sleep
Yeah a nap right after a breakfast and coffee, but before the caffeine hits is my perfect unemployed morning.
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Some people are just genetically nocturnal. I had one grandparent who was early to bed. Everyone else in my family is somewhere between 12 and 2 am. As we get older we seem to need less and less sleep though. By 70, my nan was averaging 4 hours. Up to bed at 1, up a 5am to teach her 6am colege classes.
My other grandma slept 3x 2 hour bouts thought the day my whole life. 2hr nap around lunch, another after dinner, then shed be up til 2am, and ‘go to bed’ just to be back up around 4am. I think that had somwthing to do with her living most her life off the grid and having a wood stove got heat her whole life.
Sure. See Step (4).
Although, you tend to require (or, at least, feel inclined towards) less sleep as you age.
Better than needing to piss is waking up freezing cause your feet are out of the covers
I have a little theory for why that is. I think back when we were tribes, having a certain percentage of the population be comfortable staying awake during the night helped protect us from other animals during the night.
But then why are we not seeing people who genuinely like to go to bed at 8 pm and wake up at 3 am for the 2nd shift?
I genuinely like going to bed at like 11am to noon and getting up around 7pm to 9pm. Sadly there’s not a lot of career advancement in the jobs that hire for those hours, and I’ve got student loans to pay.
I see you’ve not met my partner’s father
Capitalism.
You’re missing one big step and that is consistently keep this routine. For best results you have to keep it going through the weekends as well.
In my experience, you can fudge the weekends by an hour or so and you’ll be fine. But yes, if you’re sleeping till noon on Saturday and Sunday, your circadian rhythm will be fucked on Monday morning.
I don’t have problems getting up early on the weekends at all. I cut out like 4 hours of sleep on the weekends without issues. I think the problem is that on weekdays I have to get up to go to work.
Explain 4 please. And with 5, if you do snore, then what? How do you solve it?
4 doesn’t seem to be a real thing because the only gene therapy for sleep that I could find were trials centered around GT for sleep apnea.
Listing gene therapy like you can just go to the doctor and request it is pretty disingenuous since insurance companies will make you jump through 10,000 hoops before even attempting something as expensive as gene therapy.
5 is a sleep apnea thing. i snore (very lightly unless i’m congested) but don’t have sleep apnea. snoring can be an indicator, but there’s not a 1:1 correlation