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How to Get to Bed on Time and Stop Losing Sleep - College Info Geek

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwLIQ_oC7Lo

  • Set a pre-established bed time, build a habit of bed time
  • try to wake up in the end of the sleep cycle, use https://sleepyti.me to calculate
  • Sleep is regulated by :
  • sleep-wake homeostatic process: internal timer, it records when you slept and when you awaked last
  • circadian clock: it sinks the biological process with day-night cycle, means tells the minds to turn of when it's night (there is no light)
  • create a wind-down ritual: some routine to go to bed, it could be having a shower, meditation, reading, pray, reading holy Quran ...
  • Have an alarm for it
  • Track your progress
  • Stop using internet, use tools to stop you it's hard for you

  • Remind yourself how great it feels to wake up naturally, before the alarm goes off, without sickening jolt into wakefulness. Then when you're surfing the internet at 11:30 pm, ask yourself, 'Am I making a good trade-off?' - Gretchen Rubin author of the happiness project and better than before

  • Humans tend to discount the value of the future rewards and increase the value of the current reward, that's where procrastination comes from I think

  • Going to 20 minutes walk when feeling tired when you wake up

  • Expose yourself to sun