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Isn’t your chronotype fairly mutable though? With some dedication and a couple weeks you can adjust to waking up whenever. Especially at college age. Obviously
by sk1pper 9y ago
Isn’t your chronotype fairly mutable though? With some dedication and a couple weeks you can adjust to waking up whenever. Especially at college age.
Obviously lifestyle could be limiting if you’re trying to start waking up at 6am, but if you’re optimizing for GPA, then you’re gonna have to make lifestyle sacrifices anyway
- Retric 9y agoIf you are willing to use window blackout blinds and sunlamps on timers then it's not that hard. However, in collage with a roommate that's not necessarily possible.
- PeterStuer 9y agoI did that. It took me seven years, so 'a couple of weeks' is a bit of an understatement.
- darkkindness 9y agoIn practice, it's just a little slightly harder than you say, when you have a roommate who shuts the blinds every morning and keeps a white desk light on at night.
- Symmetry 9y agoThat's only somewhat true. If you're exposed to sunlight during the day, much brighter than a lit room, it will tend to have an influence on your circadian rhythm. You might be able to sleep at arbitrary offsets but the quality of your sleep will suffer. Though wearing sunglasses when outside during the morning will help you get to sleep later and wearing them outside during the afternoon will help you sleep earlier. And I'm not aware of research showing a problem with shifting your sleep to arbitrary offsets if you're never exposed to sunlight, though that might have other bad effects.