if you wake up at 4:00 then you have like 3ish hours of free time to wake up and do stuff before work or whatever. Tons better than waking up and forcing yourself awake with coffee to then take a 5 minute microwave heat shower to then rush yourself and your soaked slippy ass to the car where your hair looks weird and you look and feel like a wet skunk in a swamp summer.

Pass, i will take a cold shower in the dead of night, to then go out for a smoke while it's still dark, and come back inside to enjoy rice bowl in the atmospheric glow of my dim lighting (a must for waking up while it's still dark), the rest of the time is just spent waking up, catching the news, maybe a show or two. I love it.

please consider the method, it will exponentially increase your mental health, rushed mornings tend to make you feel "forced" and it causes stress over time, not helpful if you have to work a lot, and doing it will actually make you want to sleep instead of forcing yourself to do that aswell.

Don't force yourself, find balance in your life.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I love this idea...but for some reason even if I get the right amount of sleep, if I wake up early I always feel like microwaved roadkill. :(

The feeling rushed and forced in the morning thing really hits though. That probably lead to me being chronically late. (By literally 1 minute. As in 60 seconds...but apparently that was enough for them to "talk to" me about it. Ugh.)

[–] Kirsche_z@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

I definitely understand that, it takes time to get used to "wanting" to wake up.

I feel like if that happened to me though it would motivate me to find something different.. not throwing shade, but it's what i would do. Though sleeping in isn't that much of a bad thing when you have time to sleep in, no need to be punctual about it as long as you don't let it go. Balance.

Anyways, sucks for boss cause if i'm late then there's no reason to rush myself any further. I'm still going to work, still doing my job the same, they simply just don't understand that.

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Why can't I wake up at 9:00 and do nothing until noon, like I usually do?