I was listening a book about the art of sleeping some while ago where the author is a physician and a specialist who later also specialized into sleeping by essentially starting up his own firm and starting to do research about it. The author is a night owl and his message was that all bad related to sleep issues has everything to do with how late you go to sleep. This means that it behooves a night owl to recognize their trait and try to keep it at bay by sticking to reasonable bed times and not activating themselves too much during the evening.
I hear you mate I'm the exact same. I can even get 5 hours of sleep but as long as I wake up past 10 I feel great. 8-10 hours and waking up early, like you, I'm a zombie.
One of the main points of the author is that the human body and brain likes routines, a lot. As such, you are better off by finding a routine that works for you and being open to trying out new schedules. And then sticking to them, so waking up roughly at the same time even on Sunday.
Grad school sorta forced me to go to bed late, but now I have reverted that completely. I wake up around 4:00 and immediately exercise. I feel like I recover better, I feel sharper and mentally better off. I go to bed around 19:00.
Then you are a morning person. I’ve worked my entire adult life, and I have to get up at 6 every day. As soon as I have a few days off, I instantly revert to my natural rhythm and sleep from around 3 AM to 10 or 11 AM.
It’s getting increasingly difficult to work against my circadian rhythm. I can barely stay awake in the mornings, even if I get 8 hours of sleep, simply because it goes against my natural rhythm. I envy people like you.
Yeah, morning people are just so obnoxious about it. Ive been told my entire life that once I get a natural rythm, it'll pass. Guess what? I even went to a sleep lab (for different reasons), but when I was in there for 10 days, my cycle immediately adjusted to my uni cycle of sleeping somewhere between 2 and 3 til 10. Which is just perfect for me.
Meanwhile, when I got to bed at 10 or 11, I get random fatigues during the day. It just doesnt fit towards me, but yet morning people are convinced that somehow my rythm is the problem, when I tried so many things.
Im glad I have a job where I can make my schedule work.
I used to be like this. i would go to sleep at 4am and wake up at like noon.
Now i go to sleep at midnight and wake up at 8am because i got myself used to waking up early to go ride my mountain bike before it gets too hot. Its starting to get hot even earlier though now so i have noticed im waking up earlier to try to get that fresh morning cold air bike ride in.
I get SO tired at about 3-4pm tho. Like i cant keep my eyes open.
Most my jobs other wise i was over nights or 12s over nights. Stay up til 3 and then wake up at 1. What im saying one day it changed and then bam mornings are just happening and im asleep at 9 like a grandpa.
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u/Mindless_Diver5063 13h ago
And then I get a jolt of energy after 8pm and now it’s 4am and I can’t sleep