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Just been trying to sleep early to wake up eat and surprisingly it's not working for me. Even if I sleep at 4 AM, I'd leave mt bed at 8 AM. Or, when I slept before midnight, I still woke up at 8 AM. But this isn't really the culture in my family, nor it's seen as normal in the society here.

Just posting a poll to see if it's Stackers' inherent behaviour or I'm running out of (our) lane.

So, what time do you generally get up?

4 AM4.5%
5 AM9.1%
6 AM18.2%
7 AM4.5%
8 AM18.2%
After 8 AM 45.5%
22 votes \ poll ended

Really depends on the timezone I'm in! With most my colleagues between Euro and Pacific time, I tend to get up early when on the Western side of the Atlantic, and late when I'm on the Eastern side.

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Ufff!! Must be tough for you to cope with. We have single timezone here but I wonder how would I react if I went to far East in India where the Sun rises at least 2 hours before where I actually live.

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It's just hard when I switch west->east so I take a day of recovery after, mostly because those are often red-eye flights. It comes much more naturally the other direction.

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That's obviously my bigger concern too. Although I won't just travel in planes from west to east, I'll still have to adjust big time. 1 day rest is a good idea, I might need more.

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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 1 Aug

It depends on a lot of things. Until my mid 30s I did this across 3 continents - literally across the world - once every other week. It was ok to just skip a night and tough it out once a week, but that's not been possible for a longer time for me now. So I just try to be rested as much as possible pre-flight nowadays and then minimize downtime to 1 day. Not drinking in-flight helps a lot because you sleep better. Flying business is a prerequisite though; flying coach I would probably need more than a day too.

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Yeah. I too take rest before commencing longer travels. It just helps a lot especially now when I'm +35,

Seems like my body nerds a better approach towards my sleeping or waking up habit.

I've always thought that a man can complete his sleep anytime, the timing and duration is different for everyone. Now if I don't sleep for around 7 hours, I feel tired but before I almost always use to sleep 4-5 hours and then working too, never felt so.

I'm trying to adopt to at least 5 AM routine but for some of the other reason I hardly fall asleep before 2 AM on any day.

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4am

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How do you do it? I mean Aardvarks are just nocturnal! ,;)

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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 1 Aug

My cat wakes me up. It's miserable

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Ahh! They are really too rude and always behave like the master of you. That's why I don't have them now.
Currently I have a couple of parrots, couple of dogs, a tortoise, Pigeons, even a pair of peacocks at my village house.

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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 2 Aug

These days I wake up between 6-7am.

When I used to work playing gigs later at night I got up around 10am. I tried to be in bed before 3am. Some of the other musicians would go to bed at 7am and wake up around 3pm.

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I can understand it. We too have a tradition of whole night music playing, not letting sleep anyone. These are religious ceremonies but DJ play too loud everywhere.

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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @sudonaka 1 Aug

I am lazy

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You my bro....haha

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I actually wake up at 5 a.m.
I have the advantage of being self-employed, so on my days off, I do get up after 9 a.m.
I have a 2-year-old who doesn't like to go to sleep early at night.
It's a struggle to get her to sleep at the end of the day.

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I too have a better advantage of being retired and have a toddler but I don't think these have anything to say in my waking up late.

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You're right.

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An old Chinese proverb “no man who wakes up before the sun 365 days a year is a poor man”

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It's hard to be motivated to get up. Just so tired anymore.

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Try creatine and maybe quit coffee for a month

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @j7hB75 2 Aug

Yeah, heavily rely on coffee in the morning. How is creatine better?

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No I don’t mean replacement, I suggest trying creatine as an addition to your current routine- try it out for a month added to coffee in mornings.

Or separately consider resetting caffeine tolerance if appropriate. Will be at least 1 week very difficult

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