@Jamixthedestroyer My husband and stepmom are that way. Sun's out, and they're up and chipper. Meanwhile, I don't even begin to feel tired until around 2am, and the mornings are just a bright, miserable blur.
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I'm a mix of both. I go to sleep at 2am and wake up at 7am tired af and not able to sleep again.
My body only allows me to sleep, at most, six hours in a row. It fucking sucks.
Same, I usually wake up in 6 hours and am tired all day. But I can't go to sleep after I wake up once.
It truly does. And I can't really nap for some reason either.
It's a great excuse for naps though
Yeah, really wouldn't mind, if as a society, we could go back to mid-day-naps being a normal concept.
I’m this person. It’s fucking annoying. I want to sleep. I really do. But nope. I haven’t used an alarm clock in 30 years. In fact, if I do, I will hit snooze until I’ve overslept. But I can wake up for a 3am flight no problem. I can lie down for 20 minutes, be asleep in 30 seconds and then wake up in 20 minutes. It’s a weird and mostly useless superpower.
If I have to be awake at a certain time, inside my dreams I'd be always reminding myself to be awake at that time. Not the best sleep, but at least im where and when I need to be
I think that’s the ticket. You must say vigilant at all times, even when sleeping.
Lately it's mostly nightmares and waking up angry because I'm exhausted but completely unable to sleep...
I have this one weird trick that doctors hate. I wake up at 5am bc I get so massively blazed every night that I fall asleep at 9pm. I feel great, man.
I feel you.
I feel man
I also wake up at 5-6am for no reason. I have a 7am alarm.for a reason but my body just loves to mess with me.
Yeah...getting older is why this bullshit happens.
I used to have deep, deep sleep and could sleep until 10am if my schedule permitted.
After I hit my 40s I always wake up at 5-6am. Always. Still tired, just can't fall back to sleep. Hate it.
I think those "up early" Dads and Grandpas are full of crap. They want to sleep in too, but their stupid old bodies won't let them, so they act like the're so awesome for being up early. At, least, that's what I do...
I think you are onto something. I fall asleep around 8 PM and wake up around 5 am. Not that I want to but I can be sitting in the couch and just fall asleep. It started happening in my late 30s. In my 20s, I would be out drinking till 4 am, go to bed, wake up after 3 hours and feel great. Old man issues are real :)
"Early bird gets the worm", or some other nonsense.
But the second mouse gets the cheese.
Yeah but who wants to go to bed at like 8:30? It's still light out half the time.
I go to sleep at 5 am and wake up at 8 am and cry 😭
Dang! Do you take naps? Or sleep in on weekends?
We aint getting the full 8. I can go to bed at 10pm or 1am and still my body acts like I drank 3 red bulls at 530 on the dot. I would like to find my bodies snooze button.
I just sleep like shit, 23 and wake up most nights to pee, then a couple times just because and I'll stay awake an hour or so each time. I fucking hate my body.
As soon as one light beam touches my skin, my body wakes up, and there’s no going back to sleep until the evening.
Plant body gang
For real though, it's habit. They didn't naturally start that way. They just kept doing it that the body eventually "learned" to set their sleeping rhythm to that schedule.
Everyone has a different natural circadian. Sure you can force yourself to go to bed at a time when your body doesn't want to and try to "train" yourself, but really you'll just be tired all the time. Your body does not learn a new time, you just get used to being tired.
I guess everyone is different. I used to wake up at 2am for gym + morning shifts. Eventually I woke up before my alarm consistently. I didn't feel tired.
These days, I wake up at 7am most days and feel just like I did when I woke up at 2am.
Nope, they've always been that way, no training required. My husband can go to bed at 4am and will still wake up when the sun comes out.
If left to my own devices, I run on about a 28 hour day and will eventually go fully nocturnal. That said, I have trained myself to go to bed at 2 and wake up at 10. But if I try to go to bed at 9pm so I can wake up at 5am, all that will happen is that I toss and turn until 2 am, then wake up at 5. No amount of training will fix that. I averaged 4 hours of sleep per night back when I was in school, simply because I could not go to sleep that early.
So while training is absolutely possible, I think you're underestimating the power of the natural circadian rhythm and how people react to it.
Rise @ 0445 for work on Monday - Thursday. Body fucks me over the other days by trying to stay in "routine".
Good sleeping habits provide this miracle, among others.