This is really critical I found, but also is making a resolution to follow it when I get home every night.
I started making alarms for things a few years ago, and now I have alarms for everything. It’s great. I never have to worry about forgetting anything because at this point I make an alarm reflexively any time there’s a thing I need to remember in the future.
I do this too but with tasks on Google calendar. I don’t know how I used to get by without it, and honestly looking back, I didn’t.
i just make lists of lists
I got cats. In the evening they meow and paw at me to tell me to go to bed because they want to use me as a heating pad to lay down on.
And in the morning they tap my face to tell me it’s time to get up and feed them.out of curiosity… how often do you wake up to cat butthole in your face?
In other words, they trained you.
I just hope I’m a good boy!
They will feed you mice once they think you are good enough and ready.
Then I must be the goodest boy. They even bring them to me still alive, to teach me how to hunt.
Congratulations. You’re being catified. You may now lick your bunghole while keeping eye contact.
I do this and then proceed to dismiss it every single night.
My phone even has a dedicated vibration noise which only rings for the „go to bed alarm“ I hate it every time
Daily trauma event
On weekend days I just chuckle at the alarm
I had this, but then I started to ignore it. Or I kept pressing snooze.
I do too but I do go to bed eventually.
Sure, me as well. But sometimes it’s 3 at night
An alarm? Like just one? I have at least a dozen for going to sleep and waking up.
I use a snooze time of 10 mins to keep reminding me.
And taking meds, going to work, meeting in 20, meeting in 5, meeting in 1 minute, go eat…
maybe try reverse order?..
eat, take meds, go to work, meetings, meetings about meetings, same 'ol same 'ol, day in day out.
what day is it again?
Why not both?!
Why not Zoidberg?
I go to bed now because I stay more normal that way and avoid spiraling into darkness when I stay on a healthy routine.
I use sleep as android for this. Besides sleep tracking, you can tell it how many hours per night you want to sleep, and it can give you bedtime notifications based on that.
and now I lay awake looking at an app to tell me how much “quality” sleep I had the last week.
instead of the actual quality of sleep I had and whom I had wild dreams about.
Yeah, I don’t really use it for that. I like the “captchas” it has (little excersises you have to do to shut off your alarm), and it automatically moves your alarm back by Max 30 minutes to better align with rem cycles. Also the bedtime reminders are really useful to me.
What is that? An app?
Yep: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep
Looks like you actually need the pro unlock for it to be usable now, wasn’t like that when I first started using it.
Edit: never mind, I would not recommend this app anymore. I once got a lifetime unlock for less than 6 euros, it’s 100 now.
I have no problem going to bed, its falling asleep thats hard. If i get a case of the yawns or feel a touch tired, i have maybe a 30 minute window to take advantage of that.
This might sound extreme but it took my partner and I deciding to have large meals for breakfast and lunch and then not eating after 1pm. There’s this health YouTuber Bryan Johnson who tries to perfect sleep, and this is one of his strategies.
Digestion speeds up heart rate, so ensuring your stomach is empty around 9 lowers it significantly and helps make you super sleepy.
We’d usually have a light breakfast, something simple like a couple eggs for lunch, then a massive meal in the evening. Freeing up the evening is super liberating because usually we’re burnt out after work but still need to cook. We basically reverse this schedule.
Meal prep is somewhat important to pull this off, but we’re finding easier meals as we go. Helps to cook in the morning as you are well rested. Bananas around 5pm are fine if you need a boost because they digest in under an hour.
We now fall asleep within 10 minutes of going to bed (meds or no meds) and wake up without an alarm between 5-6am. We then either cook, game, or work on personal projects with full energy.
That sounds great. Unfortunately i doubt I could manage that lifestyle. I live alone and work 50-60 hours a week on a fluctuating schedule so it is very difficult for me to meal plan most days. I often get just 1 day off a week. On top of that i have a fast metabolism and work a physically demanding trade job. I find I can’t eat too heavy for breakfast or lunch otherwise i end up sluggish.
Due to my fast metabolism and physical job, I am underweight for my height despite above average calorie intake. I tend to do as you did and eat a larger meal in the evening, I’ll often actually eat 2 servings about 1 hour apart. However i find that the digestion doesn’t keep me up too much, at least compared to the nausea and cramping i experience with an empty stomach. There have been many long days where i try to go to bed skipping dinner and inevitably end up cooking at like 11pm to shut my stomach up and end the nausea.
On top of that, i live in a cold climate and find digesting food overnight can help keep me warm. I keep my place pretty chilly to save energy, both for financial and environmental reasons. Digesting overnight is especially useful if I’m camping in the shoulder seasons or winter.
I find the best strategy for me has been to wear myself out enough both mentally and physically to get a good sleep. On days where i am worn out and actually go to bed when i feel tired 10 minutes is roughly what it would take for me to sleep. My long hours are probably the biggest factor in my sleep issues, somewhat counter intuitively, because I need to “unpack” my day mentally after getting home, which may not be until 9 some days. It also doesn’t leave a ton of extra room to wear myself out if I haven’t yet. My body will basically vibrate and legs will bounce and shake if i need more physical wearing out.
I may try your strategy if i think i can work with enough food before the evening but i doubt I’ll be able to consume enough calories and still be able to work effeciently. I’d say about half the calories i eat are in the evening and thats with a breakfast and lunch that satiate me but don’t leave me sluggish. I also work on the road so bathrooms aren’t often available. Larger meals in the morning could shift my movements, which tend to happen in morning or early evening, to mid day, which could be problematic.
Yup. Best part, it often happens at 6 pm.
And won’t get another shot until 3 am, even if I’m already days behind on sleep.
The bedtime reminders on the Apple watch are a godsend. Not as obnoxious as an alarm, not as ignorable as a reminder. It’s just unique enough that I’m gonna notice it.
I set a 4:20 alarm, time to smoke a joint…
That hour of the day is strange … I joke about this meme and make fun of it … I don’t smoke weed but I make fun of the culture around it … I also don’t judge people for it, people can do what they like.
But at least every second or third day, I’ll glance at my watch, or the clock on the wall and for whatever reason … it’s 4:20 or 4:19 or 4:21 … and I’ll think to myself that I must be doing it to myself. And about four or five times in the past few months, I’d wake in the middle of the night and look over at my clock … and it’s freakin 4:20
I don’t consciously think about it but it seems to happen more often than it should.
That might be a case of frequency illusion. A common example is how when someone gets a new car, they might start noticing that car model more often on the streets, and it happens because of the cognitive biases related to selective attention and/or memory.
wild. I’ve always heard it as selective attention
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Selective_attention&redirect=no
I guess we’re not so different you and I.
Maybe … but just this afternoon, I was cooking and turned on a bunch of timers for different dishes I was making … I went to turn off the timer for my main dish on the stove … when the timer cleared and showed the time of day … it was 4:20pm
You wake up multiple times every night, everyone does. You just don’t remember it in the morning.
Unless you see something that is memorable.
I have 3 alarm to go to bed…
Honestly that never occured to me. But pre meds alarms in general just gave me anxiety so who knows. Maybe it woulda worked
