Can you change your sleep schedule?

Comments · 1.2K

• ED

  @edyrahman2208 · 3 years ago

  As an exhausted pigeon, I can confirm I am neither early bird nor night owl.

  10K

• AT

  @atlas4733 · 3 years ago (edited)

  “There’s no wrong time to fall asleep.”<br>Tell that to a society that has everyone reaching a building the same minute, and punishes dissenters for their variation.

  5.4K

• MO

  @monblane · 2 years ago

  Any one else watching this instead of going to sleep

  1.5K

• HA

  @handrayss · 1 year ago

  Me watching this at 3:30 am

  646

• TH

  @thepast8376 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;ve been a night owl all my life. Tried everything. When the sun comes up, I can&apos;t stay awake. When the sun goes down, I wake up! I&apos;ve been trying to change this for over 70 years. I am a Night Owl!

  97

• FE

  @Felix-nz7lq · 3 years ago

  Nice to know sunlight is essential when you live somewhere that gets 3 hours of it in the Winter and 24 of it in the Summer

  537

• LI

  @lila.banana · 3 years ago

  i seem to be most productive and happier at night but during the day i dont wanna do anything and im so sleepy 😭

  182

• ZA

  @zabuzafan100 · 3 years ago

  Also a funny and important note is that different people require much different amounts of sleep, not just when they sleep. For example, my husband only requires about 6 hours of sleep in any given night. He usually goes to bed around <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amkg1cdDCpM&amp;t=630">10:30</a>-11 and is awake and going by 5am. He&apos;s done this for as long as I&apos;ve known him. If he gets more sleep than that he is MORE tired and exhausted during the day. Myself, I require about 9-10 hours. I generally go to bed around 11-midnight and wake up somewhere between <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amkg1cdDCpM&amp;t=510">8:30</a>-10. We&apos;re both physically active and in good health, we just have different sleep requirements. If either of us tries to adapt to the others sleep schedule, one of us ends up dragging in the day. We&apos;ve tried and it doesn&apos;t work. thankfully we have jobs that allow us the freedom to be able to get our preferred sleep schedules, but not everyone can.

  1.8K

• SU

  @Sunflowersarepretty · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m a night owl, have always been one so far as I can remember. As always the animation is amazing. The explanations are done so well! Thanks ted ed for educating us.

  2.5K

• MR

  @mrjoshua1983 · 3 years ago

  As Michael Scott once said: &nbsp;“I’m an early bird and a night owl. &nbsp;So I’m wise and I have worms.”

  85

• GU

  @guyg3333 · 3 years ago

  As someone who live in hot country, I personally prefer the night especially at summer time, it’s more quiet, less hot and dazzling, so during the day I exhausted from the hot, and at the night I became more energetic and productive, this is my reason to be night owls

  438

• VG

  @vgtgoat · 2 years ago

  I was a night owl and recently turned into an early bird. I&apos;m 27 and I slept terribly late most of my life, around 2am unless I really forced myself. Part of that was revenge bedtime procrastination, part of it my burst of energy and willpower past midnight. For ten years I would promised myself I would quit this cycle with no success. Then, last month, I visited abroad in Asia. I left myself no days upon my return to the US to readjust my sleeping schedule for work. For over a week it was pure chaos as I tried to force myself to stay awake past my circadian rhythm and to sleep when I wasn&apos;t sleepy. It failed as I boomeranged between accidental 8 hour naps and missing my alarm and waking at 2pm and missing work. It was truly quite awful and traumatic.<br><br>One day, amidst all this, I woke up at 4:30am after crashing at 6pm the previous night. That&apos;s when I decided I could lock this in. The following days I still had to fight hard to stay awake past 6pm, lest I wake up again at midnight, but soon I was making it to 9pm and waking up 8 hours later naturally. <br><br>For the past two weeks, those morning hours have been bliss. I&apos;m no longer &quot;afraid&quot; to sleep, because I know once I close my eyes I&apos;ll wake up to a few empty hours of tiptoeing and coffee instead of meetings and work. The most striking thing about all this to me is that I actually get uncontrollably sleepy at bedtime and feel my body &quot;winding down&quot; like I&apos;ve always heard people do. I actually WANT and look forward to sleep which I realized I actually rarely ever truly felt before.<br><br>In conclusion, I think it is possible to turn from a night owl into an early bird. But I think it requires either an ungodly amount of willpower or a week of self-inflicted sleep trauma.

  877