Just grow older. At 45 you’ll start turning into one automatically
I am in my 60s now. I figure this will start to kick in any day now.
I just use an NFC tag.
Now I can’t turn off my alarm unless I get up, leave my bedroom, and go to my living room to scan the NFC tag on my wall.
I’ve tried both making puzzles for myself (like locking alarm off in a PC case) and math challenges. Both of those failed and were only inducing somnambulism in me.
it requires doing it over and over again and accepting that it’s gonna make you feel kinda shitty. I’m at my best by 11am. When I used to work overnight til 5am, 11am was when I woke up. When I worked bars 5-close, 11am. Now that I work a 9-5, I’m physically there at 9, but I’m useless til 11am. When I fall asleep has changed as my schedule did, for each of those schedules I was in bed at 6am, 4am and midnight respectively. But when the machinery came online has never changed: 11am.
I had an evening job from 2014 to 2016, so my lunch would be at about 22:00, and I still get hungry around that time as if my body’s expecting a meal.
Discipline
Adjust the times at which you eat, and make sure those times are consistent. Sleeping habits will follow way more easily if you adjust eating times along with them.
A schedule
For some people life will take a fat steaming shit on your schedule, I wish it was that simple.
ITT people find reasons it’s not their fault they don’t sleep at night when statistically speaking most of them actually just need to find the self control to turn off the fucking screens at night and let your body find its natural rhythm.
It’s literally genetic.
I would explain the evolutionary pressures that resulted in this adaptation and the societal factors that has resulted in completely ignoring this segment of humanity.
But the fact that you feel so fucking cute and intelligent posting from your little high horse while being completely wrong is so goddamn funny and you probably don’t have the capability to understand anyway.
In conclusion, maybe the person with a room temperature IQ shouldn’t be making false accusations at people that already follow your useless advice?
i thought i was a natural “night owl” because of comments like yours… until i didn’t have electricity. suddenly im up and down with the sun and feeling rested and stable instead of sleeping 4am to noon and feeling shitty and depressed. i won’t argue that natural cycles vary by individual, but how many people are fucking themselves up like that assuming it’s just natural for them, like i was? you went straight to feeling attacked and lashing out, maybe log off instead of arbitrarily deciding you know what’s in your DNA and jumping up people’s asses about it when they describe how it works for most people despite what they prefer to tell themselves. try logging off and sleeping when humans evolved to sleep, it might help with that extreme sensitivity.
also lol imagine believing in IQ. dumbass.
Yoooooo i had a nice long extended hospital stay that inadvertently did just this.
My natural waking hours are 10am - 3am.
every cunt and his dog still ragged my arse for not adhering to the dogma though.
How to become a morning person according to this thread:
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Stop using drugs.
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Use drugs to go to sleep.
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Go to bed at 10.
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Go to bed at 10 and fail to fall asleep.
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Just wake up at 6.
I’ve tried all of those suggestions, they worked but also didn’t. Now my sleep schedule is so borked.
Eh, everyone’s a little different, and for some it may well be impossible.
Real answer is conditioning, with most of the suggestions being means to get that rolling. The unwritten part is while you’re conditioning youself, you’re probably gonna be miserable for a while, unless you’re one of us folks with a genetic legacy of farmers and soldiers.
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That person here. Just force a yourself to get up at 6 for a few a weeks and your body will adjust. Also, use drugs to sleep.
Thank you James.
Work on a mine site and get used to waking up at 4:30 for a 5:30 start to the work day. Then sleep in.
Have you tried going to sleep at 10 and waking up at 6? It sounds obvious, but you’d be amazed at how many people never do the obvious thing. Like forgetting to plug in a computer and wondering why it doesn’t come on when the power button is pressed.
Yes. Spent a month in a ward with a fixed regiment. Never got used to it, and my sleep cycles were all over the place. By the end of the month I was starving because I was missing so many meals, and it was overall torturous.
If you have the means, you might want to consider seeing a sleep specialist and having a sleep study done.
There’s a lot of things that can cause irregular sleep cycles like that and a sleep specialist can see what your brain is doing while you’re asleep. That helps you and your doctor figure out a treatment plan depending on what they see on the results.
I checked and it seems like in my area they only do checks that I already know the results of. Stuff like SpO2 analysis, or checks for snoring and sleep paralysis, which I don’t have any problems with. I figured that I’m just drifting towards sleeping at somewhere around 6AM with the morning sunrise, and in the last years it was consistent across different time zones. I’m usually completely fine and working around this, and my workplaces thankfully had been quite loyal to me being consistently late as long as I got the job done, for which I always stayed last. It’s just the stuff that is built for morning people that throws me off hard, like appointments at 9AM that I can only realistically meet by staying awake even later.
Oh man that sounds rough. Sorry the specialists in your aren’t equipped to check your REM cycles and things of that nature.
It sounds like a frustrating situation to live with and I’m not sure I have any advice other than ask your doctor about shift work disorder.
What you’re experiencing sounds very similar to what happens to people who work 3rd shift for a long time and can’t get their sleep schedule back on a day time=awake schedule.
Sleep issues are incredibly complex however and its something a doctor who has your medical history can better address, but having some terminology to describe your symptoms can help them help you. I hope you find a solution soon
Step 1, wake up at 6. Step 2, go to bed at 10. Step 3, repeat.
Requires rote repetition
It helps to establish a routine for going to bed. For example, set a nightly reminder on your phone 15-30 minutes before bedtime that it’s time to wind things down. Don’t have anything caffeinated after 5 pm or so.
As others have said, it’s simply a matter of discipline and getting used to it. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll become a morning person. How you wake up and when you wake up are two different things. I’m a morning person in that I wake up easily, but I go to sleep at 1 and wake up at 9.
