Changing sleep-wake time
I decide today to change my sleeping time.
After high school, I had time flexibility and indulged myself into it. The result was the unusual sleeping pattern. I went to sleep at 3-4 am then waked up at 10-11 am, if there's no schedule before that. This kind of sleeping pattern is disruptive in many ways. First of all it's bad for your health, inducing hormonal imbalance and so on. Secondly it encourage bad habit of procrastination and inefficiency. Try this: you wake up at 11 am, need to find lunch, finished lunch by 1 or 2 pm, start working but feel sleepy very soon, take a nap at 4 pm, then wake up again at 6 pm, feeling sobered, must find something to eat and done with dinner by 7 pm, then it's TV time. You resume working at 10 pm, read and doing some recreational, then sleep at 4am. Plus: when you need to wake up early, for example having morning meeting, then it would be a very difficult day because it's hard to get up and you feel sleepy all day.In light of this I vow today to myself that I must change sleeping time. I will sleep by 10pm and wake up at 4 am. Six hours of sleep should suffice for my age. Waking up at 4 am should be alright because if I sleep late I would often wake up around this time anyway, and must try to get back to sleep. Now I suddenly have extra 6-hour morning time (4 am to 10 am) to read and work with full morning freshness and concentration. I have to sleep early and that should not be a major problem also because I don't have anything "official" to do in the night anyway, just procrastination and sporadic work-play period. Another benefit is obviously on health. I understand and many hormones including growth hormone work best during 10 pm - 4 am, thus this is best sleeping period.Changing sleeping time would drastically affect daily activities pattern. The most obvious one is that I now need breakfast around 7-8 am. This should be something easy to prepare but still give substantial food-mass like cereal with milk or American breakfast if time allows. I also would work in the morning. It should be after breakfast (8 am - 11 am) because right after wake up time should be dedicated to reading. After lunch I can resume work or take a nap, and after dinner then it would be recreational time like TV, music, or web browsing and blogging. I will try and see if it works.
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