I got cats. In the evening they meow and paw at me to tell me to go to bed because they want to use me as a heating pad to lay down on.
And in the morning they tap my face to tell me it’s time to get up and feed them.In other words, they trained you.
I just hope I’m a good boy!
They will feed you mice once they think you are good enough and ready.
Then I must be the goodest boy. They even bring them to me still alive, to teach me how to hunt.
Congratulations. You’re being catified. You may now lick your bunghole while keeping eye contact.
out of curiosity… how often do you wake up to cat butthole in your face?
I do this and then proceed to dismiss it every single night.
My phone even has a dedicated vibration noise which only rings for the „go to bed alarm“ I hate it every time
Daily trauma event
On weekend days I just chuckle at the alarm
Why not both?!
Why not Zoidberg?
An alarm? Like just one? I have at least a dozen for going to sleep and waking up.
I use a snooze time of 10 mins to keep reminding me.
And taking meds, going to work, meeting in 20, meeting in 5, meeting in 1 minute, go eat…
maybe try reverse order?..
eat, take meds, go to work, meetings, meetings about meetings, same 'ol same 'ol, day in day out.
what day is it again?
I go to bed now because I stay more normal that way and avoid spiraling into darkness when I stay on a healthy routine.
I have no problem going to bed, its falling asleep thats hard. If i get a case of the yawns or feel a touch tired, i have maybe a 30 minute window to take advantage of that.
Yup. Best part, it often happens at 6 pm.
And won’t get another shot until 3 am, even if I’m already days behind on sleep.
This might sound extreme but it took my partner and I deciding to have large meals for breakfast and lunch and then not eating after 1pm. There’s this health YouTuber Bryan Johnson who tries to perfect sleep, and this is one of his strategies.
Digestion speeds up heart rate, so ensuring your stomach is empty around 9 lowers it significantly and helps make you super sleepy.
We’d usually have a light breakfast, something simple like a couple eggs for lunch, then a massive meal in the evening. Freeing up the evening is super liberating because usually we’re burnt out after work but still need to cook. We basically reverse this schedule.
Meal prep is somewhat important to pull this off, but we’re finding easier meals as we go. Helps to cook in the morning as you are well rested. Bananas around 5pm are fine if you need a boost because they digest in under an hour.
We now fall asleep within 10 minutes of going to bed (meds or no meds) and wake up without an alarm between 5-6am. We then either cook, game, or work on personal projects with full energy.
The bedtime reminders on the Apple watch are a godsend. Not as obnoxious as an alarm, not as ignorable as a reminder. It’s just unique enough that I’m gonna notice it.
I use sleep as android for this. Besides sleep tracking, you can tell it how many hours per night you want to sleep, and it can give you bedtime notifications based on that.
and now I lay awake looking at an app to tell me how much “quality” sleep I had the last week.
instead of the actual quality of sleep I had and whom I had wild dreams about.
Yeah, I don’t really use it for that. I like the “captchas” it has (little excersises you have to do to shut off your alarm), and it automatically moves your alarm back by Max 30 minutes to better align with rem cycles. Also the bedtime reminders are really useful to me.
What is that? An app?
Yep: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep
Looks like you actually need the pro unlock for it to be usable now, wasn’t like that when I first started using it.
Edit: never mind, I would not recommend this app anymore. I once got a lifetime unlock for less than 6 euros, it’s 100 now.
I started making alarms for things a few years ago, and now I have alarms for everything. It’s great. I never have to worry about forgetting anything because at this point I make an alarm reflexively any time there’s a thing I need to remember in the future.
I do this too but with tasks on Google calendar. I don’t know how I used to get by without it, and honestly looking back, I didn’t.
i just make lists of lists
I set a 4:20 alarm, time to smoke a joint…
That hour of the day is strange … I joke about this meme and make fun of it … I don’t smoke weed but I make fun of the culture around it … I also don’t judge people for it, people can do what they like.
But at least every second or third day, I’ll glance at my watch, or the clock on the wall and for whatever reason … it’s 4:20 or 4:19 or 4:21 … and I’ll think to myself that I must be doing it to myself. And about four or five times in the past few months, I’d wake in the middle of the night and look over at my clock … and it’s freakin 4:20
I don’t consciously think about it but it seems to happen more often than it should.
That might be a case of frequency illusion. A common example is how when someone gets a new car, they might start noticing that car model more often on the streets, and it happens because of the cognitive biases related to selective attention and/or memory.
wild. I’ve always heard it as selective attention
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Selective_attention&redirect=no
I guess we’re not so different you and I.
Maybe … but just this afternoon, I was cooking and turned on a bunch of timers for different dishes I was making … I went to turn off the timer for my main dish on the stove … when the timer cleared and showed the time of day … it was 4:20pm
You wake up multiple times every night, everyone does. You just don’t remember it in the morning.
Unless you see something that is memorable.
I had this, but then I started to ignore it. Or I kept pressing snooze.
I do too but I do go to bed eventually.
Sure, me as well. But sometimes it’s 3 at night
I have 3 alarm to go to bed…
This is really critical I found, but also is making a resolution to follow it when I get home every night.
Honestly that never occured to me. But pre meds alarms in general just gave me anxiety so who knows. Maybe it woulda worked
