Comment by meter
1 year ago
A popular theme in today’s productivity culture is “waking up early.” It’s considered a sign of discipline to wake up at 5am.
5am is reasonable... if you fall asleep at 8:30 or 9 PM.
I wish we’d stop emphasizing early wake-up times, and start emphasizing reasonable bed times. It takes just as much discipline, especially with my phone so easily accessible and the TV so easy to binge.
It would also be great if we’d stop making the 8 hours the gold standard. The amount of sleep a person needs varies a lot and fluctuates over the year and lifetime of the person. It can be as much as 12 or as little as 5.
>It can be as much as 12
If you regularly need 12 hours of sleep every day as base, it sounds like a health issue.
I would be very interested to read any papers where this is mentioned
Fantastic insight. It’s far easier for me to get up at 5:00 AM than to go to bed by 9:00 PM. Or even 10:00 PM.
But it's all relative. What's reasonable is what allows you to get a full night's sleep. I get up at 7:20 am ish, so I wind down before bed accordingly (reserving an hour) expecting to hit the sack at 11:20-11:30 pm. The scheduling of wind-down is an effective deterrent against sleep procrastination, which I find manifests itself more when I'm already sleepy. If I watch tv or game earlier, I won't be in zombie mode, and I'll avoid blue light exposure immediately before bed.