• sithbelle@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    @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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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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

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    1 year ago

    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.

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    1 year ago

    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…

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      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 :)

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    1 year ago

    Yeah but who wants to go to bed at like 8:30? It’s still light out half the time.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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      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.