For over 10 years now I’ve managed getting enough sleep mostly by fixing my wakeup time and going to sleep whenever I get tired. The trick is you can’t really take breaks, even on the weekend, or you fall back into patterns that may result in not enough sleep (nb I do in fact not wakeup at a fixed time on Sundays, so I’m less benefiting from this advice now than I have in the past). This has worked for me even though I have narcolepsy and sometimes take “naps” during the day due to sleep attacks.
The way this seems to work is that after a few days of being tired or waking up too early (if you wake up early doing this, stay in bed and try to keep sleeping but definitely don’t get up) your body learns to get tired an appropriate time for you to get enough sleep. It creates a feedback loop that is self reinforcing, and it’s easy in that all you have to do is go to sleep when you’re tired.
There may be other caveats to making this work but worth trying since it’s simple and doesn’t even require you buy anything.
For over 10 years now I’ve managed getting enough sleep mostly by fixing my wakeup time and going to sleep whenever I get tired. The trick is you can’t really take breaks, even on the weekend, or you fall back into patterns that may result in not enough sleep (nb I do in fact not wakeup at a fixed time on Sundays, so I’m less benefiting from this advice now than I have in the past). This has worked for me even though I have narcolepsy and sometimes take “naps” during the day due to sleep attacks.
The way this seems to work is that after a few days of being tired or waking up too early (if you wake up early doing this, stay in bed and try to keep sleeping but definitely don’t get up) your body learns to get tired an appropriate time for you to get enough sleep. It creates a feedback loop that is self reinforcing, and it’s easy in that all you have to do is go to sleep when you’re tired.
There may be other caveats to making this work but worth trying since it’s simple and doesn’t even require you buy anything.