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Re: How I became a morning person

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Post by collyw »

mbrock wrote: post #80

Lots of people seem to have significant "difficulties" with sleeping and waking, or at least a strong preference that demands willpower and tricks and habituation to steer away from. My body just doesn't really seem to care. If travel or work demands it, I can pretty easily get up at any time in the morning. Usually I enjoy it. I almost always wake up right away if I've set an alarm, and have little inclination to sn…

I always find people who claim they can't function before a certan hour kind of dumb. Suggest that they go to bed an hour or two earlier, and they claim that they can't sleep. Yet twice a year we shift our schedules by an hour and usually after a couple of days no one notices.

I used to came out with the same sories until travelling in Chile and Peru. There is a two hour time difference at some points of the year, even though they are on the same longitude. After a couple of days I didn't notice, and I realised it's just a number that you are becoming attached to.

Re: How I became a morning person

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Post by wslh »

danieltillett wrote: post #83
wslh wrote: post #70

How I became a morning person? I had kids! They completely resynced my whole day. I don't know if this works for everybody but It worked for me and I can't belive now how I could take lunch at 5pm before.

Your kids must have been rather different to mine - I didn't become a morning person - just a perpetually tired person.

I can't compare just using HN! but I can say that I also go to sleep earlier.

Re: How I became a morning person

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Post by daxfohl »

It's funny how things like this seem so ... having trouble finding the word ... "meaningful" ... almost "philosophical" ... to non-parents.

Have a kid. Then you get what you can take what you can get of the hours, minutes, seconds you can find (and/or create) of the hours, minutes, seconds of the day, and you just deal with it.

Re: How I became a morning person

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Post by kbart »

outlace wrote: post #73
kelnos wrote: post #62

I always roll my eyes a little bit when people say they get extra "free hours" by waking up earlier. In this case it works for the OP, because he has another motive, which is syncing his schedule with his wife so he can spend more time with her. But the extra hours don't come from nowhere... you need to compensate by losing a comparable amount of time at night. My waking hours are usually 10-11am until 2-5am. It's no…

We're products of evolution and thus we have physiologic reasons to have our sleep/wake cycles tuned to the sun. There's a decent amount of scientific evidence in favor of "sun-conscious" sleep patterns. e.g. this review article http://www.nature.com/nrendo/journal/v12/n1/full/nrendo.2015...

Sun cycle varies widely during a year i.e. Sun rises at ~8.30am and sets at ~4pm here now, so do you really imply I should sleep 17 hours a day? Similarly, I should get up before 5am at summer. I agree that, ideally, yes, we should align with the Sun cycle, but as many things in real world, it's just not possible or practical.

Re: How I became a morning person

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Post by whiteshadow »

kelvin0 wrote: post #36
rhpistole wrote: post #19

Give up coffee, work out regularly, go to bed at the same time every night, get tested for sleep apnea. Changed my life.

This makes perfect sense, why downvotes? It's maybe not for everyone, but keeping a regular and consistent 'beat' works for most things.

Exactly. This is a much more sane and healthy approach than the whole sugar and coffee rhetoric, to say the least.

Re: How I became a morning person

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Post by palmer_eldritch »

marktangotango wrote: post #79
corbet wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what I came here to say too. The damn kids now happily sleep until noon, but I just can't anymore. Grumble.

oooh, parent porn, when does this start? My 1 and 3 year old are up at 5am every day...

Just wait until they're teenagers.

But you might not find it that exciting then, having teenage kids has its own drawbacks.

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Post by [deleted] »

douche wrote: post #128
kpil wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe so. I guess it's one of the symptoms of depression. There is also research that indicates that school results improve, and the students report that they feel better if the school starts later in the day, in sync with what appears to be their natural clock. So maybe there is a correlation, but the causation might be just the opposite unless we are talking about clinically depressed people (that I don't want to t…

I wish we could implement the siesta. I find I'm most productive from about 6 am to 11 am, and then again from 5 pm to midnight. The middle part of the day is kind of a waste, but I have to be on the clock then.

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Re: How I became a morning person

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Post by oh_sigh »

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.

His wife wakes up at 5AM, works until 5PM, and then goes to bed at 9:30PM.

Previously, he woke up at 10AM, worked until 8PM, and went to bed around 2AM.

That gives husband and wife 1.5 hours together per day, maximum. Probably less when you factor in chores, cooking, etc.

If husband mvoes his schedule to 5AM also, and works until 5PM, then goes to bed at 9:30, then now he and his wife have a maximum of 4.5 hours together per day.

Do you understand now?

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