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> Some people are early risers, wide awake at the crack of dawn. Others are night owls who can’t seem to get to bed until well after midnight and prefer to sleep in I am neither one of those? I hate waking up early and I dislike going to bed late. My preferred hours awake are 8:00AM-10PM; I found this to give me the most optimal amount of physical and mental energy throughout the day. Not sure why 10 hours of sleep w…
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Yes, people can adapt to different timezone. However what's interesting is that night owls will adapt based on their own circadian rhythm. If you are someone with delayed circadian rhythm, you would end up synchronizing to the local timezone but still fall asleep after midnight.
So the solution is to own 24 homes and move one timezone over each month?
I've been a night owl my whole life, with the exception of that period during secondary school where I was so depressed in the evenings I went to bed early and as a consequence woke up super early. I have followed every advice, meditation (1yr), excercise (3*1.5hrs per week for 18 months), staving off screens after 18:00 (8mo), no caffiene, no sugar, no food of any kind, I also tried: too much food, cooling my body d…
It's midnight here, I just had dinner with my gf, and after kissing her goodnight I'll come back to work, until about 4 am. Tomorrow I'm coming to office for the meeting at 5pm, so I'll have to wake up about 1pm. I'm delivering the product on time, cheaper then expected, and nobody gives a flying fuck where and when I'm doing it.
That’s why there is the classic stereotype of male teens waking up so late.
The only way to reset your circadian rhythm is sunlight as soon as you wake up in the morning! And melatonin at night
I've been a night owl my whole life, with the exception of that period during secondary school where I was so depressed in the evenings I went to bed early and as a consequence woke up super early. I have followed every advice, meditation (1yr), excercise (3*1.5hrs per week for 18 months), staving off screens after 18:00 (8mo), no caffiene, no sugar, no food of any kind, I also tried: too much food, cooling my body d…
Lifelong (51 years) night owl and morning hater. I got in trouble at work for being late and that was it for me. I have been getting up at 5:00 am for almost two years now. I don't leave for work until about 7:30 am. I do now enjoy the time in the morning before work and the desire to not miss that time has become extra motivation to get up in the morning. At first I did go to sleep between 9:00 - 10:00 pm every nigh…
How did you manage to go to sleep? I find that if I go to bed early all I do is lay in bed until 3am wide awake anyway.
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Yes, by the standards of most employers and schools it is very late. I am fortunate in that I can often sleep until past 8, and I'm much saner and healthier for it. But all through high school I had to get up at 6:30. Since I was _also_ an extreme night owl and used to do all my schoolwork after everyone else in my house was asleep, I'd usually get to bed by 1:30 or 2:00, which meant I was severely sleep-deprived all…
There are jobs in I.T., like emergency Server Admins for hospitals who get paid extra to work the "night shift". That might be worth looking into. Or if you live on the East Coast working Remote with a company in Pacific Time Zone. The thing that finally worked for me was finding out the amount of sleep I ABSOLUTELY needed to function. Which was about 4-5 hours. My body wants 8, but I can make it through the day with…
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What is IC work ? Seen it a lot around here lately but have no idea what that is.
I think he means "Individual Contributor". i.e., not management.
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I dunno if this is hyperbolic, but having a baby to fix a sleep schedule seems like an insanely complicated solution that carries a lot more side effects to a fairly trivial problem.
In case it wasn't clear (sarcasm is hard in text), this is not serious advice.