I usually fall asleep around 22:30-23 and have to wake up around 6 for school. I’m a night person so I can’t really get to sleep before that. Also, the sound of my alarm is physically painful so I tend to be half-awake a while before it in anxious anticipation. High schoolers (I’m USian) need more sleep than most people, so I feel miserable on less than nine hours and deteriorate throughout the week. Idk how some people do it on even less sleep. My head buzzes and I can’t focus most of the time during the school day. On weekends I used to get 11-12 hours to make up for my sleep debt, but I haven’t been able to since daylight savings time. I can now barely get ten hours a lot of the time, leaving me tired enough to have a strong tendency to go on social media without much energy for else.

Any advice? I can provide more information if necessary.

    • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      Morning people exist, there’s just not too many it seems. Yet that’s what the system wants us to be. I recall Benjamin Franklin said something about going to bed early and waking up early and superior qualities or something, so it’s not new. Ig you’re lucky.

      • sammer510 [none/use name]
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        5 months ago

        It's all about life style. I work 3 am to noon Monday to Friday so you best believe on my weekends I am up at like 5-6 am because those are the only days I actually get to do stuff in the morning. I like to spend my weekends out hiking and rockhounding and stuff so it's best to start early and get the most out of the day. Once you work full time you start to value the mornings you do have free a lot more.

        • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
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          5 months ago

          It is most certainly not about lifestyle. There is literally a genetic component to when your body wants to sleep. Back in the hunter gatherer times this was evolutionarily valuable because more people could keep watch at night. Now, everyone is expected to get up at 6 am and for some of us it is excruciating, every single day.

          • sammer510 [none/use name]
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            5 months ago

            And for some of us it isn't excruciating at all. Almost like different people can have different Circadian rhythms. Almost like it doesn't fucking matter what people used to do in hunter gatherer societies. Almost like everyone has different genetics and might not need exactly similar amounts of sleep. Almost like you can learn to adapt to different sleep schedules over time. Crazy right. Lmfao

            • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
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              5 months ago

              "And for some of us it isn't excruciating at all" yeah so maybe organizing society in a way that a lot of people find unbearable because some people find it personally ok is... idk, fucked up? You can continue getting up at 6 am, just don't make it the societal requirement you fucking clown. Jesus Christ do you only think about yourself?