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While I have not, I have made an interesting realization. I used to like being a night person and hate being a morning person. My like of being a night person c

While I have not, I have made an interesting realization. I used to like being a night person and hate being a morning person. My like of being a night person comes from rare nights where I feel alive working on projects and it's amazing, but rare. However, I've realized my hate of being a morning person is incorrect. It all stems from a single thing - the alarm. When I wake up from an alarm, I feel a bit blah all day. I feel way better in the weekends when I sleep in. So my advice would be not to try to make the transition by setting your alarm super early, because then you'll feel miserable and give up. Instead, focus on going to bed as early as possible. Leave the computer at a certain point (or at least use Flux), and pick up a book and read or something else relaxing. If you can't avoid using an alarm, you could also try changing it. One thing that's helped me in general is a light alarm - 30 minutes before the alarm, it gradually starts turning a light on. Sometimes I wake up naturally to turn it off, and I feel better than waking to a blaring noise. The light alarm also doesn't use a standard alarm noise, it uses a noise like a flock of birds to wake me up. Another thing I've tried that's helped is a CD alarm, so that the blaring noise you wake up to is at least a pleasant song of your choice instead of annoying beeping.

finaliteration 8y ago
> One thing that's helped me in general is a light alarm - 30 minutes before the alarm, it gradually starts turning a light on. I can’t recommend this enough. I suffer from horrible seasonal depression which only makes getting out of bed during the darker months that much more difficult. I bought a light alarm last Winter and it was an amazing switch. Rather than waking up in an awful mood from a blaring alarm I wake up a few minutes before due to the light about 95% of the time and feel a lot less cranky and depressed in the morning.
gregmac 8y ago
A total human sleep cycle is about 90 to 110 minutes. Most important is that you'll feel most groggy if you wake up during the deep sleep parts of a cycle. I've found trying to set my alarm in about 90 minute increments (from when I think I'll fall asleep) helps a lot. For me, that means basically either 6 or 7.5 hours of sleep on weekdays. I also agree on the alarm. I use my phone, and have it set to gradually increase volume with a gentle noise - I change it occasionally, but typically choose something like birds chirping or piano music.. so long as it doesn't have abrupt loud sounds. These two things have helped me significantly with feeling decent when I first wake up. I'm still not a "morning person" but I'm at my, let's say, "average" level of productive by the time I'm at work in the morning.

finaliteration 8y ago

> One thing that's helped me in general is a light alarm - 30 minutes before the alarm, it gradually starts turning a light on. I can’t recommend this enough. I suffer from horrible seasonal depression which only makes getting out of bed during the darker months that much more difficult. I bought a light alarm last Winter and it was an amazing switch. Rather than waking up in an awful mood from a blaring alarm I wake up a few minutes before due to the light about 95% of the time and feel a lot less cranky and depressed in the morning.

gregmac 8y ago

A total human sleep cycle is about 90 to 110 minutes. Most important is that you'll feel most groggy if you wake up during the deep sleep parts of a cycle. I've found trying to set my alarm in about 90 minute increments (from when I think I'll fall asleep) helps a lot. For me, that means basically either 6 or 7.5 hours of sleep on weekdays. I also agree on the alarm. I use my phone, and have it set to gradually increase volume with a gentle noise - I change it occasionally, but typically choose something like birds chirping or piano music.. so long as it doesn't have abrupt loud sounds. These two things have helped me significantly with feeling decent when I first wake up. I'm still not a "morning person" but I'm at my, let's say, "average" level of productive by the time I'm at work in the morning.