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"early to rise, early to bed, socially dead"

TeMPOraL 9y ago
Social life is overrated anyway. I used to be "late to rise, late to bed, fuck parties, let me live in peace when everyone else sleeps and doesn't distract me with nonsense", but recently my SO beat some sense into me, and I'm slowly joining the "early to rise" crowd now.
- mtone 9y ago
  Care to share some of the arguments that made you change your views? For instance, wanting to build a family (having kids tends to force a morning schedule).
  - TeMPOraL 9y ago
    Wanting to be "in the same timezone" as her (she's an early bird). Plus wanting to start a family somewhat soon-ish.
joncrocks 9y ago
"Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy but socially dead." ...from the Animaniacs It's a different take on: "Early to bed and early to rise makes and man healthy, wealthy and wise"
tome 9y ago
Here's an idea. I'd be interested in fellow HNers thoughts on it. Get up really early, say 5am. Finish work perhaps 3pm. Sleep for four hours until 7pm. Go out, do other stuff, party as much as you like until 1am. Sleep. 8 hours sleep a day in 2 chunks of 4 hours. Would that work?
- CamelCaseName 9y ago
  This is called polyphasic sleep. Wikipedia can give you a much better understanding than I can: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep From personal experience when I tried this briefly in high school, I wasn't getting very deep sleep and just kept ending up tired. Perhaps if I had continued I would have adjusted, but I gave up after just one week.
- Jemmeh 9y ago
  I've done this sometimes, I think it's pretty dependent on you being able to fall asleep quickly. Which you can train yourself to do. But it would usually be more of a 3hr/4.5hr split to match with REM cycles. Or just 3&3. I felt fine. If anything I prefer it, but realistically I've found it hard to do while working 9-6. I end up wanting a sleep time in the afternoon. Sometimes I do 6hrs at night and take a nap on lunch for about 45minutes. This is okay, but hard to do outside of winter as it's too hot to sleep in my car.

Social life is overrated anyway. I used to be "late to rise, late to bed, fuck parties, let me live in peace when everyone else sleeps and doesn't distract me with nonsense", but recently my SO beat some sense into me, and I'm slowly joining the "early to rise" crowd now.

mtone 9y ago
Care to share some of the arguments that made you change your views? For instance, wanting to build a family (having kids tends to force a morning schedule).
- TeMPOraL 9y ago
  Wanting to be "in the same timezone" as her (she's an early bird). Plus wanting to start a family somewhat soon-ish.

joncrocks 9y ago

"Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy but socially dead." ...from the Animaniacs It's a different take on: "Early to bed and early to rise makes and man healthy, wealthy and wise"

tome 9y ago

Here's an idea. I'd be interested in fellow HNers thoughts on it. Get up really early, say 5am. Finish work perhaps 3pm. Sleep for four hours until 7pm. Go out, do other stuff, party as much as you like until 1am. Sleep. 8 hours sleep a day in 2 chunks of 4 hours. Would that work?

CamelCaseName 9y ago
This is called polyphasic sleep. Wikipedia can give you a much better understanding than I can: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep From personal experience when I tried this briefly in high school, I wasn't getting very deep sleep and just kept ending up tired. Perhaps if I had continued I would have adjusted, but I gave up after just one week.
Jemmeh 9y ago
I've done this sometimes, I think it's pretty dependent on you being able to fall asleep quickly. Which you can train yourself to do. But it would usually be more of a 3hr/4.5hr split to match with REM cycles. Or just 3&3. I felt fine. If anything I prefer it, but realistically I've found it hard to do while working 9-6. I end up wanting a sleep time in the afternoon. Sometimes I do 6hrs at night and take a nap on lunch for about 45minutes. This is okay, but hard to do outside of winter as it's too hot to sleep in my car.