<story><title>Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/02/25/early-riser-or-night-owl-new-study-may-help-to-explain-the-difference/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arcturus17</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve done everything too, and the only thing that works for me is sleeping pills. I think it&amp;#x27;s a very unpopular view nowadays (esp. after Why We Sleep), but a small dose of a benzodiazepine changes my life completely.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m in the midst of a full diagnostic course including cerebral scans, a sleep study and blood analysis, but my neurologist told me there&amp;#x27;s a good chance that nothing actionable will be revealed and that the pill will remain the best treatment for the rest of my life.&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to say to you:&lt;p&gt;(1) I feel you, it sucks to feel that you&amp;#x27;re underperforming b&amp;#x2F;c your clock is messed up, and what further sucks more is that people, especially the internet, will tell you you&amp;#x27;re doing something wrong, when you&amp;#x27;re actually a disciplined guy that has tried everything.&lt;p&gt;(2) Get pro help if you can. Seeing my GP and my neurologist is the first time I&amp;#x27;ve been assured that there&amp;#x27;s a good chance that this is something that&amp;#x27;s entirely out of my control, and that _actually feels good_.&lt;p&gt;(3) &amp;quot;If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain&amp;quot; - if you can&amp;#x27;t fix it just roll with it, that&amp;#x27;s what I&amp;#x27;ve done at times. I&amp;#x27;ve told a few of my bosses I&amp;#x27;m a night owl, and they&amp;#x27;ve fully respected it and given great freedom over my schedule.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;ve got plenty of options with your skillset... If you wanted to f&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;* off to the beach and code as a freelancer late at night I&amp;#x27;m guessing you could also go do that!</text></item><item><author>dijit</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been a night owl my whole life, with the exception of that period during secondary school where I was so depressed in the evenings I went to bed early and as a consequence woke up super early.&lt;p&gt;I have followed every advice, meditation (1yr), excercise (3*1.5hrs per week for 18 months), staving off screens after 18:00 (8mo), no caffiene, no sugar, no food of any kind, I also tried: too much food, cooling my body down before I go to bed, valerian root, sleeping pills, codeine, running before sleep.. absolutely positively everything.&lt;p&gt;Why? because there is a strongly negative view society has on me for waking up at nearly 9am every day, or staying at work longer into the evenings.&lt;p&gt;At some point I have to call it quits, it&amp;#x27;s not working.&lt;p&gt;(FWIW my brain &amp;quot;wakes up&amp;quot; at night, I get the majority of my best work done between midnight and 4am, and for 6 years now I have avoided being awake during that time for any reason.. but recently I let it happen for one night and the output was insane compared to my daily hours)&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Based on the comments here, I just need to have a kid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Anthony-G</author><text>I’ve upvoted your comment but I would disagree with saying “&lt;i&gt;your clock is messed up&lt;/i&gt;”. The OP’s clock is fine and acting as it it’s ‘programmed’ to. What’s messed up is the way society places a higher value on the circadian rhythms of early-risers over those of night owls.&lt;p&gt;I recall hearing a theory that having individuals with differing circadian rhythms within the same social group provided an evolutionary advantage as not all members of the group would be asleep – and consequently vulnerable to external dangers – at the same time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/02/25/early-riser-or-night-owl-new-study-may-help-to-explain-the-difference/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arcturus17</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve done everything too, and the only thing that works for me is sleeping pills. I think it&amp;#x27;s a very unpopular view nowadays (esp. after Why We Sleep), but a small dose of a benzodiazepine changes my life completely.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m in the midst of a full diagnostic course including cerebral scans, a sleep study and blood analysis, but my neurologist told me there&amp;#x27;s a good chance that nothing actionable will be revealed and that the pill will remain the best treatment for the rest of my life.&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to say to you:&lt;p&gt;(1) I feel you, it sucks to feel that you&amp;#x27;re underperforming b&amp;#x2F;c your clock is messed up, and what further sucks more is that people, especially the internet, will tell you you&amp;#x27;re doing something wrong, when you&amp;#x27;re actually a disciplined guy that has tried everything.&lt;p&gt;(2) Get pro help if you can. Seeing my GP and my neurologist is the first time I&amp;#x27;ve been assured that there&amp;#x27;s a good chance that this is something that&amp;#x27;s entirely out of my control, and that _actually feels good_.&lt;p&gt;(3) &amp;quot;If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain&amp;quot; - if you can&amp;#x27;t fix it just roll with it, that&amp;#x27;s what I&amp;#x27;ve done at times. I&amp;#x27;ve told a few of my bosses I&amp;#x27;m a night owl, and they&amp;#x27;ve fully respected it and given great freedom over my schedule.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;ve got plenty of options with your skillset... If you wanted to f&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;* off to the beach and code as a freelancer late at night I&amp;#x27;m guessing you could also go do that!</text></item><item><author>dijit</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been a night owl my whole life, with the exception of that period during secondary school where I was so depressed in the evenings I went to bed early and as a consequence woke up super early.&lt;p&gt;I have followed every advice, meditation (1yr), excercise (3*1.5hrs per week for 18 months), staving off screens after 18:00 (8mo), no caffiene, no sugar, no food of any kind, I also tried: too much food, cooling my body down before I go to bed, valerian root, sleeping pills, codeine, running before sleep.. absolutely positively everything.&lt;p&gt;Why? because there is a strongly negative view society has on me for waking up at nearly 9am every day, or staying at work longer into the evenings.&lt;p&gt;At some point I have to call it quits, it&amp;#x27;s not working.&lt;p&gt;(FWIW my brain &amp;quot;wakes up&amp;quot; at night, I get the majority of my best work done between midnight and 4am, and for 6 years now I have avoided being awake during that time for any reason.. but recently I let it happen for one night and the output was insane compared to my daily hours)&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Based on the comments here, I just need to have a kid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fluuuhi</author><text>I have thought about Benzos but to be honest, all the stories of addiction and old people becoming hazi&amp;#x2F;stupid (temporarily) frightens me.&lt;p&gt;I try to sleep through weed (indica). I&amp;#x27;m not to happy about it but that works more or less.</text></comment>