My body only allows me to sleep, at most, six hours in a row. It fucking sucks.
@Jamixthedestroyer My husband and stepmom are that way. Sun’s out, and they’re up and chipper. Meanwhile, I don’t even begin to feel tired until around 2am, and the mornings are just a bright, miserable blur.
I’m a mix of both. I go to sleep at 2am and wake up at 7am tired af and not able to sleep again.
I’m this person. It’s fucking annoying. I want to sleep. I really do. But nope. I haven’t used an alarm clock in 30 years. In fact, if I do, I will hit snooze until I’ve overslept. But I can wake up for a 3am flight no problem. I can lie down for 20 minutes, be asleep in 30 seconds and then wake up in 20 minutes. It’s a weird and mostly useless superpower.
Yeah but who wants to go to bed at like 8:30? It’s still light out half the time.
I go to sleep at 5 am and wake up at 8 am and cry 😭
Yeah…getting older is why this bullshit happens.
I used to have deep, deep sleep and could sleep until 10am if my schedule permitted.
After I hit my 40s I always wake up at 5-6am. Always. Still tired, just can’t fall back to sleep. Hate it.
I think those “up early” Dads and Grandpas are full of crap. They want to sleep in too, but their stupid old bodies won’t let them, so they act like the’re so awesome for being up early. At, least, that’s what I do…
“Early bird gets the worm”, or some other nonsense.
But the second mouse gets the cheese.
For real though, it’s habit. They didn’t naturally start that way. They just kept doing it that the body eventually “learned” to set their sleeping rhythm to that schedule.
Everyone has a different natural circadian. Sure you can force yourself to go to bed at a time when your body doesn’t want to and try to “train” yourself, but really you’ll just be tired all the time. Your body does not learn a new time, you just get used to being tired.
I guess everyone is different. I used to wake up at 2am for gym + morning shifts. Eventually I woke up before my alarm consistently. I didn’t feel tired.
These days, I wake up at 7am most days and feel just like I did when I woke up at 2am.
