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Well your genes are different to mine so it comes down to your body type.

Personally I'll go to bed at 1AM and naturally wake up at around 7:30AM. I usually fall asleep quite quickly and don't usually get woken up by any noise.

For you this might be a nightmare.

I know people that try and get into bed for 10:30PM. I tried that once. I was awake at 4:30AM. I basically need 6 hours sleep. More just doesn't work for me.

The problem is more that people with sleep issues don't ever feel like they have got a proper nights sleep. It can affect them deeply. You need to get to the root cause of the issue.

As an aside I went through most of my early life with sleep apnia caused by large tonsils. Luckily on a skiing holiday with some friends, we hit it off with a bunch of nurses, who heard very vocally from my friends about the nightmare that was sleeping in the same room as me and the choking noises I would make. 5 weeks later I had my tonsils removed as they were huge. It was life changing. I'd spent most of my early 20s half asleep.



You tried that once... but changing your sleep schedule is not something that happens literally overnight.

For awhile I was going to bed at 10:30pm and waking at 4:30-5am. It took several weeks before I could train my body to sleep until 6-6:30am. As a result I feel more alert in the evenings.




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