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Why couldn't you have stopped it? Wouldn't going to bed earlier have helped?

• gwern 17y ago
  If the melatonin isn't being secreted earlier, no, it wouldn't. If the melatonin isn't there, it isn't there. The only way willpower or just going to bed earlier would help is if he had used the willpower to go buy some melatonin supplements* and then went to bed earlier. It only takes a few instances of going to bed early, moping around for an hour or two, and still not getting a good night's sleep, before one rationally decides to just stay up later. * or similar technological hack, like blue glasses