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Posted on 11-21-11 01:54:50 PM Link | Quote
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i think that explains why, even though i'd sometimes get 4 and a half hours of sleep, i feel wide awake in the morning (though REALLY shitty later in the day)

excited to try this out tonight! shooting for 1am while waking up at 7

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Posted on 11-21-11 02:18:22 PM Link | Quote
I have to get up at 6am so these were my suggested sleep times:

You should try to fall asleep at one of the following times:

9:00 PM or 10:30 PM or 12:00 AM or 1:30 AM


10:30pm is too early since most nights we have shows to watch at 10pm. But I guess I could try 12:00am and start trying to sleep at 11:45. The sleep cycles thing probably explains why I wake up at 5:30 or so sometimes and feel like its time to get up.

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Posted on 11-21-11 02:38:43 PM Link | Quote
That's interesting. I didn't know before about sleep cycles and how you feel tired waking up in the middle of one. Although I seem to feel tired every time I wake up

It doesn't help that I often take about an hour to fall asleep if anything's bothering me or stressing me out. Sometimes longer.

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Posted on 11-21-11 03:13:54 PM Link | Quote
Putting in 8:15, close to my usual wake up time:
11:05 PM or 12:35 AM or 2:05 AM or 3:35 AM

Hm, and I usually fall asleep around 1~1:30 (assuming I go to bed some time after 12), so maybe that's a factor in why I'm always so tired when I wake up... interesting.

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Posted on 11-21-11 03:23:31 PM Link | Quote
I'd like to get up at 7, but I seem to more naturally wake up at 8. Doesn't help that I tend to get tired before the day is done and take a nap, then be unable to get to sleep until like 1 AM.

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Posted on 11-21-11 07:36:39 PM Link | Quote
You should try to fall asleep at one of the following times:

5:00 AM or 6:30 AM or 8:00 AM or 9:30 AM

Hell, I tend to hit this anyway. Not bad.

Of course, I'll have to do a huge schedule shift at some point, but this one works well for the moment.

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Posted on 11-21-11 08:39:13 PM Link | Quote
Oh man, this is great. I can't wait to make use of this.

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Posted on 11-22-11 01:29:22 AM Link | Quote
I've known about this for years now (I think I read it on wikipedia), I always try to sleep either 7.5 or 9 hours (5 or 6 cycles). If I don't go by the cycles, I always wake up exhausted, and I've noticed the difference a lot. So yeah, it really does work.
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Posted on 11-22-11 02:53:41 AM Link | Quote
I tend to go to bed no later than 3:00 in the morning, and I typically like to wake up around 11:00 - 11:30.

I really don't like doing the morning as no one's ever actually around and the morning just goes slow as fuck. If I have to wake up early for work or something, that's a whole 'nother story, but I don't really go to bed on those days unless I take some Melatonin. =/

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Posted on 11-22-11 03:19:36 AM Link | Quote
Tell me how useful this is. It's a crapshoot for me... I can either wake up refreshed or dead tired, no idea if that has to do with waking up in-between sleep cycles or whatnot.

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Posted on 11-22-11 05:05:29 AM Link | Quote
Very seldom do I actually wake up being refreshed. I guess you can consider yourself lucky in that aspect in some ways, Colin.

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Posted on 11-22-11 06:12:14 AM Link | Quote
This website is just convincing me to go to bed later than I really should. ._.

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Posted on 11-22-11 02:36:42 PM Link | Quote
Well, last night seemed to give some credibility to this sleep cycle method. I fell asleep sometime around 11:30pm (I pass out easily enough in 2-3 minutes if I'm tired). Lo and behold, my body woke me up at 5:30am thinking it was time to get up. But since I didn't want to get up 30 minutes early, I went back to sleep until my alarm clock went off.

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Posted on 11-22-11 02:56:47 PM Link | Quote
I'm just gonna jump in here to confirm that yes sleep-cycles are real, and abiding to them helps out a lot.


I learned a lot about this when I did a bi-phasic sleep pattern a few years ago.

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Posted on 11-22-11 04:32:26 PM Link | Quote
I wonder how sleep cycles would apply to polyphasic sleep, now ... I'm guessing the body learns to enter them faster, or something.

Of course, with how time-dependent things are and the fact that jobs and such make such a schedule very difficult to follow, I'm not shocked that it doesn't seem to be that well-known. I'm sure that some people have made great use of it, though.

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Posted on 11-23-11 01:42:47 AM Link | Quote




Since I am putting in 6:40 AM for school, this is my results

You should try to fall asleep at one of the following times:

9:40 PM or 11:10 PM or 12:40 AM or 2:10 AM

That makes sense, I like these times, I usually go to bed at these times anyway

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Posted on 11-23-11 10:53:08 AM Link | Quote
Another thing that could be recommended is getting one of those fancy sleep-cycle alarms for your phone if you have a smartphone.

It works so that you lay the phone on your mattress before you go to bed, and the gyroscope will react to how you move when you sleep, and wake you up at the right time.

In theory that is, I have no personal experience with them, but I have heard good things.

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Posted on 11-23-11 05:36:15 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Girlydragon
Another thing that could be recommended is getting one of those fancy sleep-cycle alarms for your phone if you have a smartphone.

It works so that you lay the phone on your mattress before you go to bed, and the gyroscope will react to how you move when you sleep, and wake you up at the right time.

In theory that is, I have no personal experience with them, but I have heard good things.


The whole idea worries me, though. Knowing me, I'd not only sleep through it, but knock the thing off the bed or break it in the process.

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Posted on 11-23-11 06:39:44 PM Link | Quote
I went to bed at 10pm, then woke up at midnight and didn't get back to sleep.

Apparently, I function quite well on no sleep.

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Posted on 11-24-11 05:49:21 AM Link | Quote
Considering it takes me anywhere from several minutes to several hours to fall asleep, and I rarely stay asleep once morning comes, I don't think this will be terribly useful to me.

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