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Re: How I became a morning person

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Post by LifeQuestioner »

spacehome wrote: post #46
LifeQuestioner wrote: post #34

To him a night owl is up till midnight. To me, midnight is super duper early. I struggle to sleep before 5am. At midnight I wake up and have been known to gut clean the entire house then. Even if i've been awake for over 24 hours i wake up at night. I cycle around my sleeping pattern often, i'll get up at 3am. I'll try and get it slowly to 5am wake up, then 7am - normal time. I can usually keep it there for about a w…

Just curious - what do your coffee consumption and exercise pattern look like?

I don't drink tea or coffee - i'm not usually on time enough even for a morning one :).

Play badminton once a week. Street dance one a week. Bike to the train station for work every morning (only bike 15 mins each way though). Meditation 15 minutes every evening after work.

Re: How I became a morning person

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Post by brandonmenc »

psykovsky wrote: post #44
brandonmenc wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've noticed the same thing re: lifting late. I get the best sleep when I go to bed immediately after lifting.

You guys should try sex one day...

You missed the comment about "nighttime cardio" keeping one awake.

Re: How I became a morning person

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Post by LifeQuestioner »

spacehome wrote: post #46
LifeQuestioner wrote: post #34

To him a night owl is up till midnight. To me, midnight is super duper early. I struggle to sleep before 5am. At midnight I wake up and have been known to gut clean the entire house then. Even if i've been awake for over 24 hours i wake up at night. I cycle around my sleeping pattern often, i'll get up at 3am. I'll try and get it slowly to 5am wake up, then 7am - normal time. I can usually keep it there for about a w…

Just curious - what do your coffee consumption and exercise pattern look like?

I should add that even as a baby, I was awake all night and slept during the day.

Re: How I became a morning person

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Post by jacalata »

usaphp wrote: post #38
oh_sigh wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you read the part about how he wanted to sync his schedule with his wifes schedule, so they could spend more time together?

If his wife is on morning meetings anyway - what's the point of waking up early for him? They probably see each other after her work anyway, he was awake at that time even when he had a night owl schedule. I don't see how he won any time by shifting his schedule, he still needs to do work, he just does it now while his wife is at work, before he used to work when she was sleeping.

From my own experience - he was probably getting up later, going to work later, and getting home a while after her, which is where the real 'time together' was gained (him leaving work earlier). Also a lot of people like to be winding down and going to bed together, which doesn't work if one of you is going to be up for another four hours.

Re: How I became a morning person

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Post by rev_bird »

rorykoehler wrote: post #28
rloc wrote: post #18

I tried that but can't fight my need to make the day last longer. I'm also quite productive late night. It makes me eat more in the evening and skip breakfast the next day (at the opposite of most nutritionists recommendations). The main issue with being a late night worker is that for most of us it means starring at a screen and this affects sleep in a bad way.

There are plenty of apps to mitigate screen caused sleep disturbance. I am using f.lux on osx at the moment and it works quite well.

I use redshift on Fedora, which works perfectly for me. The big gap at the moment is my phone screen -- f.lux and Apple not getting along has made it much tougher to read on my phone at night without getting stuck awake.

Re: How I became a morning person

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Post by rev_bird »

louprado wrote: post #37
radicalbyte wrote: post #3

Having kids did it for me.

And reaching out to my father did it for me. Earlier this year I had a deadline and asked him to call at 5AM every day for a few weeks. But we since kept it up as an excuse to talk to each other daily. We barely spoke once a year prior to that. The phone call starts off with him ordering me to enable my speaker phone, then drop and do push-ups and sit-ups while simultaneously reciting a poem/pledge/prayer/mantra.. ba…

This is beautiful.

Re: How I became a morning person

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Post by LifeQuestioner »

dharma1 wrote: post #45
brandonmenc wrote: post #9

I've given up on this. A single late night will derail your schedule for a couple weeks (if you're being honest with yourself about how much sleep you need.)

Yes, you have to be rigorous. Or if you have a late night, compensate with a daytime nap

And then have no chance of sleeping that night :)

Re: How I became a morning person

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Post by enobrev »

LifeQuestioner wrote: post #34

To him a night owl is up till midnight. To me, midnight is super duper early. I struggle to sleep before 5am. At midnight I wake up and have been known to gut clean the entire house then. Even if i've been awake for over 24 hours i wake up at night. I cycle around my sleeping pattern often, i'll get up at 3am. I'll try and get it slowly to 5am wake up, then 7am - normal time. I can usually keep it there for about a w…

I have a similar sleeping pattern. Over time it tends to shift a couple hours. For instance, I slept from 9am until about 330PM today. By Tuesday it will likely be closer to 11am until 5 or 6pm.

It will occasionally adjust itself to something more "normal" but never for more than a week before it starts rolling again.

I work remotely and my wife is a bartender, so it's never much of a problem for me. When I interact with clients I usually end up with a multi-sleep schedule where I'll sleep for 3-4 hour stretches. As long as I don't force it in any direction it doesn't really have an adverse affect besides the occasional weirdness of not being sure if it's 6am or 6pm at certain times of the year because the sunlight is about the same.

It normalizes for me when camping as well. I went on a 3 week road trip this summer with just under half our nights in a tent and pretty much fell asleep by midnight at the latest every night.

Re: How I became a morning person

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Post by kelnos »

usaphp wrote: post #38
oh_sigh wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you read the part about how he wanted to sync his schedule with his wifes schedule, so they could spend more time together?

If his wife is on morning meetings anyway - what's the point of waking up early for him? They probably see each other after her work anyway, he was awake at that time even when he had a night owl schedule. I don't see how he won any time by shifting his schedule, he still needs to do work, he just does it now while his wife is at work, before he used to work when she was sleeping.

I assumed he meant that his wife would get home at say 5pm, while he, with his later schedule, work work until say 7pm (and then perhaps more later when she's asleep). So by shifting his schedule earlier perhaps he stops working at 5pm as well and gets 2 more hours with her.
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