• nudny ekscentryk@szmer.info
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    1 year ago

    What worked for me to fix my sleeping schedule was replacing alarms with timers. Instead of a fixed alarm at 6 I switched to timers of varying length until I found my sweet spot. Also started lying in bed earlier. I found the timer sweet spot to be 7 hours 30 minutes, but now with my sleep schedule fixed I went back to alarms and currently am able to wake up by myself before my first alarm at 5:45

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      1 year ago

      That would be good, except my work doesn’t allow me sleeping in a timeframe more suitable for me, also I’m on a medication quite infamous for ruining people’s sleep (Depakene) with no way for me to switch (health care is terribly underfuded, and doctors don’t have time for “checking out a thing that could be fixed with a mattress”).

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      1 year ago

      How is a timer different from an alarm? Except more pressure to fall asleep immediately? Also just set your alarm for 7.5 hours ahead though?

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          But how? That’s assuming you fall asleep instantly, in which case you could just set an alarm. My issue is that i set the alarm but then can’t get my mind to quiet, and if anything the pressure of knowing that I had a ticking clock would make it worse. I already do that with rhe alarm.