My whole life, including my parents have been late type of people. I do enjoy the morning (pre 7am) air. But I just can’t seem to change my ways. Every time I’m successful and flipping it reverts back within a week or so. Anyone else have successfully switched from being a night human to a morning human?
You got any late night distractions like internet and games? If yes, just intentionally avoid them and meditate.
I stay up until 2:30 only because I can get out of bed at 10:30. I work 1-9 so I can do that. But I’m not getting away with shortchanging myself on sleep. Some can do that, some can’t. “Those people” can usually self-identify by the start of their partying years. Whether they’re used for actual partying or not.
Yes. I used to head to sleep by 2a, but I successfully converted to an early bird (waking by 4:45-5a). Actively changing my diet and eliminating junk, reading before sleep, and chugging water the moment the alarm goes off.
Yes, but it’s not sustainable in my opinion, unless you do it for a long time and body gets habituated to it
Yes - the point is to make it a habit.
Read something the other day. An executive died of cardiac arrest . 40-45 year old guy. Very very healthy with lots of exercise . Probably the only red sign - he slept very little. Sleep is very important for the functioning of the body, better not to cheat and always good to have at least 6-7 hours
You can. 1. Wake up at 5am and take a modafnil 2. Do step 1 for 30 days 3. Sleep at 10pm [even if your work is not finished and feel unproductive don’t care] 4. Plan your day and track the metric. (Ex: Do task 1 by 2pm. Finish it what ever focus it takes) 5. Being a night owl needs training your brain in the day and doing things in the day faster and with focus so that when you go to bed, it feels satisfying of having a productive and long day. I was a night owl and I wake up at 7 everyday from last 6months. I try to follow the above and the only blocker is my lethargy or lack of energy sometimes. I hope I make this 6 months thing to 60years.
Yeah. It’s totally genetic. That’s why the military lets certain recruits get up at 11:00am and some farmers work the late shift.
So I’ve never heard of MTI letting people sleep in??? Sign me up
One thing that helps is exercise. If you are physically tired it will be easier to sleep. Something else that is very helpful is Melatonin. If I don't feel tired at bed time I will pop one of those. They are extremely effective and don't make you groggy the next morning. Jury may be out on effects of long term use, but signs point to it being safer than most sleep solutions. If you go to bed on time you will wake up early, in general. But I will also set a few alarms as necessary...
Exercise, eating well, and less 🍻 helps. But don’t put in a 5 mile run right before bed. Give yourself and hour of chill time after exercise and a shower
Yes, switched several years ago. Feels normal.
How?
Started to wake up at the same time every day, week day or not. Then hot shower, to get my body going. And first few months I was hitting the gym right after. I was lucky that I didn’t have to drive to either gym or work, driving in that condition would be brutal.
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2:45 am, need to wake up at 7 am. No. :) I read somewhere that there is genetic component to a shifted cartatian cycle
Blame it on my teenage years playing mmorpgs
Yeah same here. Read that waaayyy back in the days because some people have to stay up late to guard their tribes from dangers. So it's some sort evolutionary type of thing. Idk, fact check that, too lazy to do that on my own.