You know that rule “shut down all screens” 1 hour before sleep, but there’s always something to watch/to program etc. Have you found the discipline to do it regularly?
How do you deal with the going-out in the evening, if you strive to wake up at that time?
Do you have some interesting/intense routine like running, which was quite common in american movies?
Go to bed early. Easiest trick in the world.
You can also drink a bit of fluids before bed so your body naturally wakes up fairly early, the old Native American trick.
Weak bladders beware, with this one trick you will wake up early. Not the way you want.
Go to bed at 9 pm. Get used to going to bed at that time. Your body will adjust.
brush your teeth and go to bed early and don’t eat at least two hours before sleeping. Mostly though its the alarm. 6am is a big boundary for me and waking up before is just… fuuuuuuuuucccccccckkkkkkkkk… Im not talking preference. My preference is to wake up whenever but stupid modern world dominated by clocks and schedules. sigh.
Travel to a different time zone (-4hr), stay for 3 days, and come back. Hard set your bio clock :3
You gotta prioritize sleep, that’s the only answer.
I just got to bed as soon as my kids do, me.
I used to do this when I had a 1.5 hours commute (one way). If you can avoid it, don’t do it. The world is not built for people that have to get up at 5 and be in bed by 10. I would run on 6.5 hours of sleep on average and I was constantly exhausted.
If you’re a developer like me, it affects your productivity as well as your health. I would carpool, so I could nod off for a few winks on the way home. Sometimes when I was the one driving. It’s bad for you. Don’t do it.
If you must do it, the key is to make it a habit. Go to bed at the same time every night. Give yourself enough time to fall asleep and get a full 7-8 hours. Put away devices. Avoid any caffeine and alcohol after lunch. Get in shape if you can, it will help you sleep better. Avoid spicy foods in the evenings.
Stick to the schedule even on weekends, or at least don’t try to make up for lost sleep then. It doesn’t work.
You can still tinker, but you will have little time except weekends. Write down your ideas during the week and then hit the ground running when you have free time.
Don’t forget to take time for yourself, family and touching some grass. Your computers will always be there. People will not.
Biological alarm clock. AKA my kids wake me up.
I was going to say the same, ours wakes up way too early, and I’m looking forward to the teenage years when they want to sleep in and I get to wake em up.
you all dont just wake up every 90 minutes no matter what?
does your brain run some kind of watchdog daemon?
Get a sleep study done you might need medication or a CPAP
Go to bed reasonably early. The thing to watch/code/play will be there tomorrow. If you want to go out at night, do it on weekends. As for waking up, I’m used to it now (and my alarm clock app makes me solve a math problem to shut up :)) but long ago when I had trouble waking up, I’d put the alarm clock on a table on the other side of the room so I’d have to get up and walk over to shut it off. By the time that was done, blood is flowing and I’m awake.
I wake up at 5-5:30 every day without an alarm. I always get into bed an hour before I need to sleep and read a book while listening to lofi. It helps to calm me down and put me in a sleepy mood. I don’t have a tv in the bedroom, which helps eliminate possible distractions. Just keep doing it every day for a while and your body will get used to the schedule.
My cats wake me up in the morning around the same time, regardless of when I go to bed.
i don’t. do you really have to get up at 5!?
I’m very much so on this team. Single digit hours are too early, frankly.
Alcohol in the evenings, cocaine for breakfast. ;p
Seriously though, melatonin in the evenings can help you drift off in conjunction with the no screen time. Alarms every 15 minutes in the morning, first one around two hours before clocking in so you got time to hit snooze a couple times and poop and shower, get dressed and still have commute time.
I force myself out of bed, stretch, down a glass of water, take my shower, then make an espresso. Each step gives me just enough energy to do the next step, and no more, and the espresso lasts only long enough to get to work and down another coffee.
My first meetings are at 6am, so I usually get up around 4am. I use two alarms because I’m fairly sleepy deprived. And I play on my phone for like 20 min while I wake up.
