<story><title>Kill the Alarm Clock (2017)</title><url>https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Kill_the_alarm_clock</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gjulianm</author><text>Honestly, I don&amp;#x27;t really know why this article is focused on the alarm clock instead of in getting the necessary sleep. I need an alarm clock because if I don&amp;#x27;t have it, I enter a loop of &amp;quot;sleep until late - go to sleep late because I&amp;#x27;m not tired - sleep until later&amp;quot;, all without sleeping less than eight hours. In extended holidays without alarm clocks my waking hour would shift to three hours gradually, but consistently. (and before anyone says it, exercise just makes me sleep more so it doesn&amp;#x27;t solve the issue). So yeah, I need an alarm clock or something that wakes me up.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d focus more on actually getting the necessary sleep, and also in not using caffeine regularly. In a new job where coffee was free, I started noticing that I was very drowsy on the evenings after lunch, and also happened in the weekend mornings. Turns out I was drinking a minimum of two coffees in the morning and my body had become used to having that caffeine, and without it I didn&amp;#x27;t work properly. I fully removed coffee from my diet and after a few weeks I returned to normal. If you are one of those people that &amp;quot;can&amp;#x27;t function without coffee&amp;quot;, try removing it completely and see what happens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhh__</author><text>Even with an alarm I find that I almost immediately fall into a cycle of waking up at later than 7PM if I don&amp;#x27;t stop myself - I don&amp;#x27;t even go to bed that late sometimes, exercise or not.&lt;p&gt;Its the only superpower I actually want - to be able to just turn myself off like lightswitch. My brain itself is fairly happy just sort of thinking about compilers or field theory and stuff like that when going to sleep but I physically cannot stop myself from putting my fingers in yet another pie when I&amp;#x27;m awake so I end up in this hyperfocused state in bursts of an hour or two and then I won&amp;#x27;t be going to bed possibly ever.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I&amp;#x27;m completely fine, sometimes the only way I&amp;#x27;m getting up before 12AM is if I haven&amp;#x27;t slept a second. Even more annoying is that I have no vices other than tea - ADHD has been bandied around at me in the past, could be something like that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Kill the Alarm Clock (2017)</title><url>https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Kill_the_alarm_clock</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gjulianm</author><text>Honestly, I don&amp;#x27;t really know why this article is focused on the alarm clock instead of in getting the necessary sleep. I need an alarm clock because if I don&amp;#x27;t have it, I enter a loop of &amp;quot;sleep until late - go to sleep late because I&amp;#x27;m not tired - sleep until later&amp;quot;, all without sleeping less than eight hours. In extended holidays without alarm clocks my waking hour would shift to three hours gradually, but consistently. (and before anyone says it, exercise just makes me sleep more so it doesn&amp;#x27;t solve the issue). So yeah, I need an alarm clock or something that wakes me up.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d focus more on actually getting the necessary sleep, and also in not using caffeine regularly. In a new job where coffee was free, I started noticing that I was very drowsy on the evenings after lunch, and also happened in the weekend mornings. Turns out I was drinking a minimum of two coffees in the morning and my body had become used to having that caffeine, and without it I didn&amp;#x27;t work properly. I fully removed coffee from my diet and after a few weeks I returned to normal. If you are one of those people that &amp;quot;can&amp;#x27;t function without coffee&amp;quot;, try removing it completely and see what happens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehnto</author><text>I am the same, and also weight lift and ride bikes so it&amp;#x27;s not from lack of exercise either.&lt;p&gt;My sleep cycle drifts naturally forward, and it has lead to many weird issues. I don&amp;#x27;t fit in a 9-5, at least not without feeling like shit for 80% of the day, being basically useless during the 9-5 portion.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m happiest when I just let it happen, and accept that for some portion of the time I am essentially a night-shift worker. But I&amp;#x27;m not totally satisfied with that, either. I would love to be up at 9am and down at 1am every day, I think that&amp;#x27;s the sweet spot. But inevitably 1am becomes 2am, 3am, 4am, 5am, and at about 7am I will just stay up for 24 hours and start all over. This happens over the course of a month or so.</text></comment>