When I was younger I stayed up late and woke up late and there was pretty much nothing I could do to change that without severe cognitive impact. That’s still my current default sleeping schedule.
Now that I’ve gotten older (mid 40′s), I find that over a few days I can pretty much adjust my sleep schedule to wake when I want to. I don’t require an alarm. My Fitbit tells me I get high quality sleep.
I wish I could explain this, but I didn’t take any conscious action to make this happen. My best explanation is just changes to my body as I age.
Another side effect of (what I guess to be) aging on sleep that I’ve experienced is that I get tired 3 to 6 hours before I should go to sleep. I say “should” because even if I went to bed when I started feeling tired I’d still only sleep 8 hours.
I really, really hate this as it makes a significant chunk of my day significtly less productive.
I’ve always hated naps because when I take one it doesn’t really seem to help anything, but I really need to do some experimentation and see if there’s some nap schedule that helps.
When I was younger I stayed up late and woke up late and there was pretty much nothing I could do to change that without severe cognitive impact. That’s still my current default sleeping schedule.
Now that I’ve gotten older (mid 40′s), I find that over a few days I can pretty much adjust my sleep schedule to wake when I want to. I don’t require an alarm. My Fitbit tells me I get high quality sleep.
I wish I could explain this, but I didn’t take any conscious action to make this happen. My best explanation is just changes to my body as I age.
Another side effect of (what I guess to be) aging on sleep that I’ve experienced is that I get tired 3 to 6 hours before I should go to sleep. I say “should” because even if I went to bed when I started feeling tired I’d still only sleep 8 hours.
I really, really hate this as it makes a significant chunk of my day significtly less productive.
I apologize for the unsolicited suggestion, but have you tried taking naps?
Good suggestion!
I’ve always hated naps because when I take one it doesn’t really seem to help anything, but I really need to do some experimentation and see if there’s some nap schedule that helps.