I really recommend the 8pm to 3am sleep pattern. I’ve been having great success with this in my personal life. At least the 9pm to 4am sleep pattern, for those who aren’t ready to make the jump. I think 7pm to 2am is also good, but 6pm to 1am is a bit extreme. Above all, I think during the hours of 9pm, 10pm, 11pm and 12am, no one should be awake... See more
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I'm usually asleep from 5am to 6am, but when I wake up early I tend to enjoy it. Start the day slow. Watch the sunrise. Get a few things done before everyone else wakes up.
Meanwhile, I am often awake from 10pm to 11pm and I find that I tend to use the time poorly. Passively watching TV or scrolling on a screen. Late night... See more
I'm usually asleep from 5am to 6am, but when I wake up early I tend to enjoy it. Start the day slow. Watch the sunrise. Get a few things done before everyone else wakes up.
Meanwhile, I am often awake from 10pm to 11pm and I find that I tend to use the time poorly. Passively watching TV or scrolling on a screen. Late night... See more
In At Day's Close, the historian A. Roger Ekirch argues that, before the industrial revolution, it was normal to divide the night into two periods of sleep: the 'first’, or 'dead', sleep, lasting from the evening until the early hours of the morning; and the 'second', or morning', sleep, which took the slumberer safely to daybreak. In between,
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