Cerulean Cordillera

Prior to the break, I had no trouble waking up early enough to actually have breakfast. I would routinely wake up at 8AM, sometimes 9AM. When I wake up, I would feel very refreshed too, ready to hit the gym within half an hour. But these days, waking up early is more difficult, and it takes forever to start feeling alert. If I try to be alert, more often than not I would get a headache. The reason is pretty clear – I don’t go to sleep early enough anymore. I used to sleep by midnight, but now I sleep routinely around 2AM.

It’s time to reclaim my mornings!

One awesome idea about how to do this comes from this post, and it was how I did it last time. In a nutshell: I sleep whenever I feel like it, but set the alarm at when I want to wake up (e.g. 8AM), and make sure I get up. So suppose I go to sleep at 2AM and wake up at 8AM. The next day I would want to go to sleep earlier since I had so little sleep the previous night. Earlier sleep means getting up at 8AM would be easier. If this continues for a few days, the sleep cycle would settle at the alarm time.

The hard part, of course, is to make sure I get up. Last time I did it using willpower alone. There are some other techniques, so maybe I’ll try something different this time.

Man… I wish sleep is as predictable and controllable as recharging a cell phone’s battery. Or, it would be awesome if sleep is so efficient that even 8 hours is way too long. Actually, there are people who functions perfectly on 5-6 hours of sleep a day, and people say it’s simply because their sleep is more efficient. I wonder how to achieve that… Maybe better fitness or something? Worrying about sleep is such a hassle, it would be nice to fix it once and for all and never have to worry about it anymore.

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