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The quality of my sleep has improved greatly and I actually feel rested / awake in the morning. 8AM-12PM is now my most productive time and I am still in disbelief that I have switched over.
My nickname is Sleepy (the brazilian version Soneca") due to sleeping almost every class at highschool, which was from 7h30am to 12h30.
Later I would work much beetter later in the afternoon and sleep until after noon on weekends.
Then I noticed after my 30s that I was becoming a morning person.
Today I wake up with the sunlight (something unimagible for my younger self). And I am very productive in the mornings, working on my own project from 6am to 8am everyday before going to my day job
I began making the change in January and was fully morning-person by mid-February. I'm thoroughly enjoying it, and would highly, highly recommend it. The key for me was having both a reason to wake up, and a reason to go to sleep. To have a shot of waking up on time in the morning, you unsurprisingly need to go to sleep about 8 hours before you want to wake up. Part of the kick for me was the realization that the lat…
This cannot be stressed enough. Nowadays, I have started going to the gym. I need to wake up by 6.30am to ensure that I can get enough exercise before office.
The way to transition is to pick time for bed, and for waking up. It will probably suck at first. You'll have a hard time falling asleep and/or a hard time waking up. If you wake up consistently at the same time your body will adjust.
( I never drink coffee )
The surprising thing is that I cannot tell you how this affected me because it did not. I did the switch a few times easily. Now that I think of it, I have never been bothered by time zones either (I used to constantly travel worldwide east and west bound for a few years).
I never had problems to sleep (neither in time nor quality)
This maybe means that some people are not impacted to much by dlrrp cycles and that just giving a try to something else may be a great experience (I loved my owl cycle, though I had obviously zero social interactions at that time)