I just wanted to feel rested in the morning for a change!
Congratulations, you are now an “early riser.” Enjoy the hours from 4-6 am where nothing happens and nobody bothers you (unless you have kids…)
I used to love this. Arrive at work around 06h (getting up at 4:30, 1h drive), do loads of work without noise or people bothering me. Downside was I would go to bed around 21h so my social life was shit as most of my friends work until late and are down to chill from around 20h. Even during weekends this day-night cycle meant my social life was shit. Also my colleagues never saw me starting work so early, so they would always look angry and I would always have to defend myself when leaving early every day. But I could do a week’s work in a single day this way and I could enjoy the day during sunlight when I got home making me feel less stressed by work in general. It didn’t feel like my daily life consisted of being a work slave, more like I had something useful to do in the first half of the day and loads of time to relax, be creative and active the other half.
It’s crazy how much more you can get done in one calm uninterrupted hour than in a whole very active afternoon.
Find new early morning friends. Meeting up at dennys for coffee and pancakes hits different at 4:30
I have very deep connections with my friends. Not something you just make with anyone new. We’ve been through so much together. We’re there for each other through better and through worse. Even though my life is horrible and I’m completely fucked up and broken, I feel rich with the friendships I have, as not many people can say they have as many friends as I have, with the deep connections my friends and I share.
Now I don’t work anymore, I’m struggling to survive with PTSD due to military deployment (which is an organisation which goes against everything what I stand for, but somehow I ended up there, stuck for 15 years. I’m an anarchist, can you believe it?), together with autism, depression and apparently a personality disorder, highly likely some ADHD, which is a perfect cocktail to make everything untreatable and worse.
But now I have time to see my friends again, who support me, and who I can support so I can feel a purpose in life again.
Sorry for making this extremity heavy all of a sudden, but I felt I needed to explain why I would never trade any of my friends for anything in the world.
This is my preferred schedule but now with a baby I can’t make it to work by 6 anymore. We commute together so everyone getting ready then dropping off baby at my moms then dropping off wife at her work. Then working 8 hours then do the reverse to get back home by like 6pm. Though on the weekends I do get a few solid hours of alone time between 6 and 9 to stare at my desktop wondering what to do
Ah, but that’s why I don’t get a baby. I’m fine with my kittens haha
Same is true after 10 p.m.
Wish I could get 6 hours, jelly. Just got 4 and woke up
Might be all the coke your name refers to?
Good morning. 5 for me!
I did this but I fell asleep an hour after I got in bed and woke up an hour before my alarm and have been sitting here for the past hour trying to fall back asleep. Why am I like this 🙃
I saw this article in NY Times about Magnesium and sleep.
It ended that problem for me. You don’t need to consume it often or in any specific form. But it helps with this kind of sleeplessness.
Edit: Corrected link - here it is in long form: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/well/mind/magnesium-supplements-for-sleep.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb&ngrp=mnp&pvid=C5DB8121-ABC4-410F-BB31-F4468F62120C
Is your link okay? Seems like it misses punctuation.
Thanks
I need to take magnesium also, I read shit about how you can easily overdo it and whatnot, but I am a big guy and if I dont take it then I rather quickly get cramps, IIRC anxiety and/or stress uses up magnesium in your body, probably why I need to supplement it.
I kinda need to take it everyday, sometimes twice a day.
I always wake up like 3 hours early and then start to get sleepy again about 30 minutes before I’m supposed to get up for work…
These are symptoms of depression
Insomnia by early morning awakenings. It can be caused by many things, including depression (but not only depression).
Brain: Ok sure, oh btw by ‘morning’ you mean 3AM right?
Also Brain: Oh, you went to sleep late? Well you usually wake up at 6 am, so it’s time to wake up!
My problem is when I try to go to sleep earlier, I wake up mere hours later like my brain thinks it was supposed to be a nap instead, and then I struggle to get back to sleep.
Just take melatonin until you feel tired enough at that time. Should be 2-3 days max.
Melatonin makes it worse because it’ll help me get to sleep but then wear off around the time I would wake up in the middle of the night.
What has helped somewhat is adding edibles. In my state I had to get a license for them, but it has helped me stay asleep.
Working 60 hours a week taught myself to only sleep about 6 hours to claw back a little personal time. Shit’s fucked up.
I need to sleep I can’t get no sleep
See, what I do is intentionally sleep six hours and then, before work, have a 90 minute siesta. Seems to be working out well 👍
My people! I’m always asked if I’m a morning or night person and my answer is both.
I fell asleep accidentally at 5pm yesterday, wokeup to move to the bed and slept until work time at 4:15am
Do some reading for an hour, hour and a half, and then lay back down. You’ll most likely fall back asleep for a couple more hours of some of the most restful sleep you’ve ever had.
Segmented sleeping is the bomb.
I’m currently trying an EMS-/TENS-device for getting back to sleep in the very early morning hours (the manual gave advice where to place the electrodes to support sleep). Worked surprisingly well the first nights, got back to sleep within 20 minutes and slept till alarm time (and was able to remember my dreams which is a nice extra of good sleeping).
Don’t know if this is some sort of placebo effect - and honestly wouldn’t care as long as I get to sleep longer.
I had a long day yesterday, so I went to bed an hour earlier than I usually do.
Woke up over 2 hours before my alarm this morning and couldn’t fall back asleep 🤦
This is so true, except it’s not my brain anymore but my kittens telling me to wake up by holding a world wrestling competition on top of me until I wake up, get out of bed and feed them. So there’s no room for “Ah fuck. Well, I’ll just turn around for half an hour” as you’re already out of bed and downstairs.
Six hours would be amazing.
