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Hmm another sleep article. I'll share what I do. After being in the Army for a while, and waking up at 430 and going to bed at close to midnight for a long tim
by remarkEon 7y ago
Hmm another sleep article.
I'll share what I do. After being in the Army for a while, and waking up at 430 and going to bed at close to midnight for a long time during the week (there's no real "sleep schedule" overseas though) I've been working on tuning my sleep cycle for the seasons to great success. Over the last year I've been slightly altering my alarm each night based on when sunrise is (plus going to bed earlier/later as the days lengthen/shorten), and it's significantly improved how quickly I fall asleep, how easily I get out of bed in the morning, and how rested I feel. I'm not a huge "fitness tracker" guy (still analog in that regard, with a notebook for workouts instead of some app or a spreadsheet). No idea if there's any science behind any of what I'm doing and frankly I don't care. It works great for me.
- xixixao 7y agoCan you add more details on how you handle seasons? This is something I've been wondering about. Do you shorten/lengthen your sleep? Or just shift it to always wake up at sunrise? I think shifting seasons might be one "natural" thing which our biology is not "naturally" attuned to, and a fixed-length day would probably be better (maybe we'll have it in the future on a space colony, by I digress).
- remarkEon 7y agoI think it's as simple as I sleep more in the winter and less in the summer and about the same between spring and fall. Not anything crazy. It's probably an average of ~7 hours in the summers and 8+ in the winter. I live in a high latitude city and last year I figured I'd just try it, given how much more light we get in the summer. Work is a little hard to accommodate in the winter sometimes, but otherwise I think I'll probably do this for the rest of my life.
- pythonpatrol 7y agoCan you detail it more? Sounds like I'd benefit from this way of sleeping.
- remarkEon 7y agoI should really just build an alarm app for this. Basically I just look up when sunrise is the night before, and move my alarm back 1-2 minutes for it. In the summer I'll go to bed a few minutes later each night until the solstice, then reverse. All I'm doing is chasing the sunrise and sunset (with an offset for sunset).
- keyle 7y agoI'm like you. It's great, but here in the summer, sunrise is at 4:15. It's a tad early to get up. I do feel good in winter though waking up with the sunrise. I think Apple's bed time is a pretty good tool for this.