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.
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.
It is currently 02:14 in my timezone as I’m writing this. Make of that what you will.
Around 10-6 (2200-0600)
I have two young kids, so it’s a little skewed to keep them functioning. I’ve always been an early top bed person, but as I’ve gotten older, my wake-up’s have gotten consistently earlier.
The problem I have nowadays is staying asleep. A life in the military has made it easy to get up even when I’m exhausted, but tough to settle down and go back to sleep. I find that consistent exercise is critical to my sleep schedule. As long as I exercise, I can stay asleep through the night. If my workout schedule gets off, I have a lot of 0400 wakeups.
When I’m stressed I can have really bad middle-of-night insomnia. A few months ago it was terrible. I came across an article about some guy who said to only go to bed when tired and to get up at the same time every morning no matter what. It was hellish while I did it, but after a week or so it started to work. Then after about two weeks, I set a bedtime schedule for myself while still keeping the same wake-up time. Since then, if I do wake in the middle of the night, I treat it like meditation (with the idea that meditation counts as rest) and just lay there focusing on my breathing. I haven’t had a three-hour awake time since, and usually it’s not more than 20-30 minutes.
This is actually really helpful. I have frequent nighttime awakenings, and it’s getting so bad that I want to sleep a lot during the day. Maybe I’ll give exercise a go, I haven’t tried it as a solution for insomnia yet.
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
I struggle a lot with sleep schedule and end up tending towards being nocturnal lol. I end up just staying up all night/day to “reset” it and go to sleep at a regular hour.
the important thing is to just try to make sure you go to sleep at the same time each night (once it’s fixed).
Fucked becasue it’s too hot right now, I can only fall asleep a couple of hours before I need to wake up again
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 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 a 2 year old and a 3 month old, so needless to say I don’t have a sleep schedule.
It’s been awful lately. I generally only have insomnia when I have irl problems so I’m currently trying to sort those out as best as I can and better sleep should follow suit.
I think mine is fine, i average 6 hours, sometimes more, sometimes less, not even alarm based since i’m having some off time at the moment, it’s just what i feel comfortable with. though when i start my new job i might tighten it a little.
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.
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Absolutely terrible, honestly. Usually sleep from around 6am-2pm or so. I’m a big night owl in general, but my ideal would be around 2-3am to 10-11am.
What is this schedule thing you speak of?
