• TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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    24 days ago

    Eat relatively healthy, stay hydrated, and get 7 hours of sleep.

    cracks a beer and stuffs a jalapeño popper in his gob

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    You can’t make yourself sleep. You can make yourself get up. Force yourself to get up early the going to bed early part will take care of itself.

    Oh and you should stop drinking liquids a couple of hours before bed. Unless your a man over 50, in that case if you want to sleep through the night you’ll have to avoid any fluids after Tuesday.

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      Force yourself to get up early the going to bed early part will take care of itself.

      Maybe for you, for me I get exhausted in the middle of the day, and when night rolls around I get a second wind that lasts until the wee hours anyway.

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      YMMV but personally, I’ve never found that no liquids thing to be good advice. My body seems to wake me up if I need to pee in between sleep cycles, and I have no problem getting back to sleep. But I can get busy and forget to drink enough, and then realize how thirsty I am as I’m getting ready for bed.

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    get 10-12 hours of sleep before, works like a charm, I get tired around 3pm and go to sleep at 7-8. wake up at 4-6 and have no free time. but I manage to get to school on time, and all I have to do is sacrifice my entire personal life.

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    So far it looks like the consensus is: wake up early and don’t feel like garbage. 😆

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      The masses do not always have the solution. Genetics is a harsh mistress. We are the ones that take the late watch. We protect the tribe at night. Today, we are despised unless we fulfill the meager agendas… But we are not without worth. Chin up, friends. We may have our day.

  • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Go to bed early if possible. Coffee if I can’t and then try to stay away from other humans till I can be less of an asshole.

    If I’m shifting my schedule, I’ll try and aim for 9 -10 hours in bed until my body adapts, then it’s back to the 6 to 7 I usually get.

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    24 days ago

    I do the classic where I get anxious about having to be up and actually alert, and don’t sleep as a result. Don’t really recommend.

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      What is your point of no return? For me it’s 3 in the morning. If I’m still awake, i better stay awake…

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    Pay attention to your sleep cycle, so you don’t wake up in the middle of deep sleep. And as others have said, wake up early the day before so it’s easier to fall asleep

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      I think I used to use this website to try to figure out when I should go to sleep based on when I needed to wake up. I eventually stopped because I got to where I could figure out 6, 7.5, or 9 hours + 15 minutes on my own (or even 3 or 4.5 hours if I made poor decisions about when I’m going to sleep). It seemed to help.

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    Get up. Don’t fuck around with snooze, those few extra minutes don’t help.

    Allow time to reward yourself for getting up. For me it’s word puzzles and coffee before I get ready.

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    My puppy. First thing at 0430, get up, take him out to pee, get dressed, go for a short walk, inside for training (all kibble is used to training), then hand him over to my wife at 0530. That hour really gets me going, but only because I want to give the puppy three best life, which also brings me joy!

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      for me the difficulty started in my 30s. before that 6:30 am daily with 2 years of 4am. zero problems and no energy drinks or excessive coffee outside of grade 11 and 12 of high school.

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    Actually go to bed very, very early. I don’t mean “23:00 instead of midnight” early, but at like 19:00. My body is used to going to bed at 22:00-23:00 and then 2 hours of videos and livestreams. Instead, it gets 3 hours till 22:00, at the end it slips into disbelief that it should sleep already, but finally slips into it at 22:00-23:00. And so, 8 hours of sleep at 6:00-8:00. And then either getting up, or resting till 9:00.