How well do you guys sleep? My current sleep schedule is the worst it has ever been and I’m not sure how I should go about fixing it.
Currently working overtime and it’s forcing me into a 9pm to 530am sleep schedule
I feel like I couldn’t maintain that if I wasn’t working so much but at the moment I feel great because of it
Same for me, except it’s regular work hours. When the shop opens at 6, 5:30 is the absolute latest I can push sleep lol
Recently I’ve been experimenting with staying up till 11 (re, watching a show) and it hasn’t been going well. I think I really do need that magic 8 hours
Mine’s go to bed at 2-5am and wake up at 10-11am
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Classic nightowl schedule. I love the peaceful nights.
Completely and utterly fucked.
Funnily enough, if I screw it just a bit more I’ll almost loop around and fix it.
What is this schedule thing you speak of?
It’s a mess. But then so is my life, kind of. For things like this, once you’ve ruled out potential medical issues, there’s often some other underlying cause in your life. I’m sure my messy life situation is one for me
Mine IS medical. Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder.
Turns out an eye sensor - which registers the sunrise and sends the notification to the brain - has a factory defect, and as a result my mind and body never knows what time it is, stays awake and gets sleepy whenever it feels like it.
Pretty good. 11 PM - 7 AM M-F. On weekends I’ll stay up later/sleep in later.
mine’s quite bad at the moment due to outside causes, but after years of insomnia for the past year i’ve actually got it working well, 11pm-8am!! What helped me was a psychiatrist and sleeping pills to get the schedule roughly in place, paired with really strict sleep hygiene (no screens, etc) and trying to get enough free time in the day to have fun and exercise.
trying to get enough free time in the day to have fun and exercise.
I know that’s the real problem for me right now.
honestly more than sleep hygiene, this probably made the biggest difference for me. if i don’t have fun, my brain wouldn’t shut off to sleep; and if i don’t exercise at all i just don’t get tired. you can try all the scheduling in the world, trying to sleep when neither brain nor body wants to is just pointless.
I go to sleep around 11:00 to 12:30 PM and wake up 6:00 AM if it is a weekday, otherwise around 8:00 AM.
I have no idea what your situation is but you might look into getting a sleep study it could be sleep apnea. if that’s what it is a cpap could help
All over the place.
I sleep usually from 7 to 8 hours. I aim for 8-9 but sometimes stay up to watch programs live and such. I used to always have trouble sleeping or getting back to sleep… As an anxious person I often self medicated with alcohol. Which as we know makes sleep terrible. Especially on the daily.
And we’ll, yeah it’s probably cliche at this point but I never have been more relaxed, slept better, fall asleep faster, than when I quit booze. And EVEN BETTER, on all accounts when I started smoking weed in the evenings. If it’s legal where you are, I highly suggest some edibles at least, or some CBD of you’re averse to thc. It really does wonders.
Was just about to suggest this. I’ve got insomnia and cannabis in the correct dosage has been the most effective with the least negative side effects for me personally.
I try to get 7.5h of sleep in practice - but in reality. Weeknights are usually 2am - 8:30am (not enough). So then on Saturday I naturally sleep 10 or 11 hours straight to catch up to the lost Z’s throughout the week. As a night-owl, but fully employed and accountable at work, it’s a difficult game to play - And I’m sure I will pay for it as I get older.
1am-8:30am ish
No qualms here - tho if I’m tired earlier (once or twice a week) then that’s great
The is the way.
It’s early enough to not be a shock getting up earlier, but late enough to not feel bad for staying up late on the weekend.
As I’ve gotten older I’ve tried to even out my sleep schedule - it used to be much worse than it is now. That said, it’s pretty rare for me to get more than 6 hours of sleep, and typically that’s enough.
Most nights I go to bed between 11 and 12, and I get up between 5:30 and 6:30 weekdays. Weekends I’ll sleep till around 7 but never later than 8.
I do around 10:30 to 5:30, which would be okay, except I wake up a lot throughout the night, almost always starting between 2:30 and 3:00. This past week, my first wake-up has been even earlier, around 1:30.
