Exercise is key
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2025
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You need go to bed at 8 PM and get up at 5 AM though
Honestly, they day just knocks it out of me. I'm literally in bed by 9:10ish and don't really fall asleep until sometimes around 10. Commuting an hour each way just really sucks any life out of me.
Get a kitten or a puppy. My mom's puppy started insisting on curling up with me and, out of deference to the little guy, I catch myself resisting moving, so as not to to smash him or wake him up. Slept clean through the night a few nights in a row. I never sleep easily. Not in almost 60 years. I suppose, to some degree, sleeping with a significant other had similar therapeutic qualities but, over time, people are just bigger and you wind up fighting for covers and the like.
I just made a conscious decision to switch about 2 weeks ago. I used to go to bed at midnight and wake up at 8:30. I now go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 7:30 so I have time to hit the gym before work.
As you get older you get tired more easily so you naturally start going to bed earlier. This has the consequences of raising earlier.
I get up very early, and routinely have to sleep before sunset. I set an alarm for 1 hour before bed. That's when I need to stop whatever I'm doing, get dishes finished, set up my kettle, etc. Everything should be ready for my dead ass at 04:15, so I don't have to think at all. Just move, no thinking.
I sleep at 11 or sometimes midnight and wake up at 3:30
Give yourself permission to go to bed at 10 PM.
Yes, the surgery is done with an ice pick.
Just an alarm clock is enough. Or doing it the fancy way with phones, they even say when your bedtime is starting.