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.
Some people are just genetically nocturnal.
Sure. See Step (4).
Although, you tend to require (or, at least, feel inclined towards) less sleep as you age.
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.
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 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.
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
Get a dog. I’m now forced to get up early to take it out, otherwise it will pee on my bed.
(Do not actually get a pet if you cannot take care of them.)
Also, children will do this to you.
(DO NOT actually have children if you are just trying to wake up earlier.)
A tamagotchi will also do this.
(DO get a tamagotchi if you are trying to wake earlier)
Did the trick for me!
my kid has started waking up later…
that quiet time before everyone else wakes up 👍
Even better, try two puppies. Sleep will be your last problem now.
For those actually wanting to do it: you start with the morning, not with the bed time. Regardless of when you go to sleep, gotta force yourself up a the time you want to wake. By the time 10p rolls around, now you’re ready for sleep. But you’re gonna start off with a very sleepy day.
Plus it helps to meditate before sleeping as it’ll increase the sleepiness before hitting the bed
Exaxtly. I similarly feel that keeping a regular wakeup time is more effective than going to bed at a regular time.
Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy but socially dead.
“Early to bed and early to rise makes Jack’s wife go out with other guys” - The Warner Brothers
Get a kid between 1-4 years old
Get a newborn and you won’t have to worry about sleeping at all!
Work in a manual labor job so you’re tired enough that you actually WANT to go to bed at 10
I wish I got to wake up at 6 when I worked a manual labor job. It was more like 4:45
This just happened naturally to me as I got old…
100%. Getting up after 8 just feels like wasting the day now.
I honestly don’t even enjoy the thought of being in bed with the sun up these days. Plus I’m in a semi desert climate so the cool air in the morning is almost intoxicating.
Same, I can’t wait to get out of bed in the morning. No use laying there awake when I can have some quiet time for myself with a cup of coffee.
Get a job with consistent hours that suit that kind of sleeping schedule.
Or do what I did, and find a job with hours they already fit your sleep habits. You can still stay up all night go to bed at 5 am every day, when your shift starts at 2! :D
Have kids
Just keep going to bed later and later until you run the clock around.
I’m reading this at 11pm so don’t ask me
3:30 am here
It was the fucking worst but I started waking up early every day and then I added running to it. After about 6 months I fully transformed into a morning person. The second I retire, I’m going back, I miss the night.
Batman?
At least I used to be.
maintain a routine. Actually get up when your first alarm sounds. Do real physical activity during the day (every day, but less on off days is ok). Don’t consume stimulants within 8 hours of bedtime. Don’t consume too much depressants (this includes alcohol). DO NOT TAKE A SCREEN TO BED WITH YOU.
Hit most of these and you should be ok. If you’re doing all of them and it still isn’t working, maybe see a doctor.
Usually I will use a screen in bed, it helps me get to s
oh no chuck norris got to him before he could finish his sentence 😞
Just a THC infusion.
While this might help initially, I don’t think it would modify your sleep cycle. I’ve been a heavy pot smoker for 20+ years. The only thing that ended up changing my sleep cycle was getting old. I wake with the sun now.
Drugs. No seriously. Functioning like a normal human requires drugs. Oh and lots of therapy. That helps two
That helps two
Who else is it going to help?
That’s not a normal experience. Most people don’t require drugs to go to sleep at 10, just an earlier shift and good discipline
