The trick is a consistent sleep schedule. Consistently getting sunlight within the first hour of waking up helps a lot too, and taking time to wind down, dim lights, like an hour before bed
Also have a bottle of water in your bedroom near you that you can drink in the morning, it helps you wake up
And another bottle you can heat up so you can sit on a hot water bottle. There are few pleasures like a warm butt. Also another bottle for pissin.
How am I supposed to get sunlight when I start work at 6:00 but sunrise isn’t until 8:00
Get a sunrise alarm, I bought one half a year ago and it works wonders, waking up is so much easier. (I also have to wake up before 6)
You have to wake up at the end of a REM cycle, or you’ll wake up feeling groggy and tired.
I’ve given up giving people sleep tips on Lemmy. You go into any detail or suggest they have to change their habits, and they react like you killed their dog.
No sleep tips I followed ever made me feel rested if I went to sleep before 12PM. The only way is to take a nap and sleep from 1AM to 7AM. Nobody suggests doing that though, for some reason…
Gotta acknowledge that these tips work for people who have average sleep habits, ones least likely to have bad sleep habits.
Such a pattern is common in Spain, called “Siesta”.
I used to do this before my days got busier, now I aim for one 6-8 hour block at night.
You can also look into “polyphasic sleep” - which doesn’t actually work unless you get enough sleep though.
Siesta, and what you do is “biphasic sleep” - two phases.
I get ten hours of sleep. I wake up feeling tired and have to go to work.
I get three hours of sleep. I wake up feeling tired and have to go to work, but I got an additional 7 hours of gaming in and extended my free time. Win.
And then people complain that “you’re not healthy”. I feel way healthier and happier with more free time thank you very much.
I mean, I still average out to 7-8hrs of sleep over the entire week… I just make it up on Friday thru Sunday nights.
I have a window of perfection. If I sleep less the 4 hours I’m dead tired in the morning, if I sleep more then 7 hours I am dead in the morning, but for some reason if I get 5, 6 or 7 I’ll be up and at em no issue at all
Have you tried 12 hours?
