morphballganon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My most pleasant waking up experiences (in terms of my own body, not who was with me) were when I worked nights, and woke up around 4-4:30 pm.
On a day shift schedule I often feel too warm when I go to bed, and too cold when I wake up. When I worked nights, the cool mornings and the warm afternoons canceled both of those out and felt great.
As such, I only needed 6 hrs sleep when I worked nights. Now I feel groggy unless I get 8.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I set my thermostat schedule to help with that. It doesn’t work too well in the summer due to weak ac, but the heat works great in the other 3 seasons. I let it drop to about 65 around 11pm, raise to 72 around 8am, drop to 68 at 9am if I’m home or lower for work days.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
+1, I have our thermostat kick down an extra degree at night to tell our bodies that it’s sleeping o’clock. It makes. A huge difference in the quality of sleep I get.
A warm shower or bath followed by cooling tricks your body into going into its sleep cycle and producing melatonin.