Jules said:
TELL ME MORE ABOUT THE COOLING WEIGHTED BLANKET
also curious if this actually works
Not attacking your morning routine method, just curious what you’re supposed to do if there is no sun when you wake up? Are sunlight-imitating lights effective as a substitute if there is no sunlight?
Joss said:
Not attacking your morning routine method, just curious what you’re supposed to do if there is no sun when you wake up? Are sunlight-imitating lights effective as a substitute if there is no sunlight?
I’ve been using a sun lamp for 12 years and it erased my seasonal depression. I use it any day that I can’t get direct sunlight. I put it close to my face when I’m drinking tea and eating breakfast. My newer LED lamp gives me a wicked headache if the brightness is set too high. Just be careful.
@Mal
This sounds great. Never heard of a sun lamp. Which one do you use? Looking on Amazon there are a ton of weird products that don’t seem beneficial to what we’re talking about.
Jai said:
@Mal
This sounds great. Never heard of a sun lamp. Which one do you use? Looking on Amazon there are a ton of weird products that don’t seem beneficial to what we’re talking about.
Verilux HappyLight Luxe is the one I have. I think it’s a good value and still big enough to be practical. $70 retail but it may go on sale for $55 occasionally. The cheaper ones tend to be small and I can’t imagine they’d help much.
@Mal
Thanks! Ordering one tomorrow
Joss said:
Not attacking your morning routine method, just curious what you’re supposed to do if there is no sun when you wake up? Are sunlight-imitating lights effective as a substitute if there is no sunlight?
It doesn’t take much sun for the body to be activated by sunlight. After sleeping in complete darkness. At least for me, if I have a tiny crack of gloomy sunlight creep into my room through the curtain, then my sleep is ruined, and I’m ready to cry. (Working on being a morning person)
Unless you’re in Alaska.
Since you were self employed and had a bad sleep schedule at the time, was napping a constant thing? And if so, how do you stop napping ?
What’s your opinion on the new PayPal logo ?
Thanks in advance.
8 hours of pure sleep or like 7h + 1h awake? Can you share your sleep data?
Lior said:
8 hours of pure sleep or like 7h + 1h awake? Can you share your sleep data?
I don’t use an Oura ring or anything. And in terms of a fitness tracker I just use an Apple Watch and put it to charge at night so I haven’t collected sleep data but my wife has confirmed that I fall asleep very fast. I believe I’m sleeping the full 8.
I go to bed at 10:45pm typically (and fall asleep by 11), and wake up at 7am.
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Typing this at 3:16 am with my ruined sleep cycle, I feel like this is a problem I created myself, it was during vacations I stayed up late and went crazy didn’t sleep the whole night, so for 2-3 months my whole cycle was reversed I used to stay up in the night and sleep during daytime, it has happened again this year and I’m struggling to go back to the normal cycle, I’ve tried staying up for one whole day without sleeping to fix it, while it is possible I believe it’s not so healthy and easy, I thought about doing it today but I feel asleep and didn’t notice, there was a time last year where I used to do a complete media shut down one hour before I sleep that helped me sleep on time, but my main question is how do I reverse this cycle?
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how much difference do you think an hour makes? With my crazy college stuff and all the other things I want to do in a day achieving 8 hours of sleep every day seems unrealistic, if I’m disciplined I can do 7 hours every night, but 8 hours sounds doubtful.
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I completely feel you. I’ve gone through the crazy late cycles myself! To a point where I was going to bed at 10am the next morning! I found the fix is to force your wake time, rather than trying to go to bed when you’re not sleepy. It really sucks and is difficult, but you can force yourself awake at a specific time (don’t be TOO ambitious lol) and try it 2 days in a row and it might work for you. If not, while I haven’t had luck with melatonin, I know ppl use it for jetlag which is kind of what you seem to have
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I do think an hour makes a significant difference. Maybe not over the course of 1 day, but over a week it really makes a difference. Are there other things you can change in your schedule to accommodate 8 hours? If not, then maybe try to catch up on a couple extra hours on the weekend? Some ppl argue that sleep debt cannot be caught up but I think sleeping in on weekends can help a bit.
@Teal
I’m in this same boat rn, going to sleep between 8am-9am, and idk how to fix it. I’m considering trying to push my schedule forward (chronotherapy) until it’s fixed, but people say chronotherapy isn’t a good idea, as you can develop N24
I sleep 8 hours every night BUT I have very vivid dreams or nightmares every single night. I remember my dreams upon awakening every single morning (I could literally write a surreal book of short stories with no plot). In your journey, did you experience anything like this or do you have any advice outside of what you list in your original post (because I’ve tried all the usual things). Thanks!
@Davis
Dude, this is SUCH a struggle for me! I wake up exhausted even if I sleep 8-9 hours because it feels like I have a second life that I’m living in my sleep, where each night the dreams I have are like the avengers movies all shoved into one single one 
It’s so intense and I’ve only met two other people that have consistently struggled with this their entire life. Nothing makes a difference except when I, drumroll… don’t have a consistent/healthy sleeping schedule or am completely exhausted. I feel like it’s incentivized me to have shitty sleeping habits. I hope someone responds to your comment if they know if anything can be done to help this!
@Axel
This is exactly it. I tell my docs that it’s like I am watching action movies in my sleep! Sometimes sci fi. Sometimes horror. It’s freaking sucks because I’ve had sleep studies done and everything and there’s literally nothing they can tell me.
@Davis
Oh one thing I recently learned is that I have hyperphantasia. After reading a couple books and research articles, it seems like not only can it have an adverse effect on stuff like anxiety, PTSD, depression, but I think it may be linked to these intense dreams and nightmares that I’ve had my entire life. The mechanisms for it are not very well understood, but there is some info on the Wiki page that links to a few studies. Has to do with excitability of visual cortex and some other stuff. But I thought it was a super interesting link I found that I haven’t really heard anyone mention before, so may be worth a Google. I’m currently trying to figure out what, if anything, can help when approaching it from this particular angle. Hope this is at least a tiny bit helpful!