Changing my sleep pattern

[jkkkk]

Currently I go to sleep at about 6amish and wake up around 3pm, this is perfect for poker since peak time starts around 7pm and finishes sometime in the morning, but there are many disadvantages and since I will probably be taking on a part-time jay oh bee soon (yea im crazy) it needs to change to something more 'normal'.

So I'm enlisting the help of OOT, help me cure my nocturnal ways, whats the easiest way to make the transition to ideally a 12am-10am (obv waking up earlier on days I work) pattern?

Anyone had much experience doing this?

[NT!]

wtf. go to bed earlier, wake up earlier. i hear clocks are useful.

[Jay Riall]

I have a similar sleep pattern at the moment. I've changed it a few times and its really not hard. Going to sleep earlier to change it really doesn't work since its impossible to go to sleep 6 hours before you normally do. Just go to bed slightly earlier the first time you have work. Go to work (you're going to be knackered obviously) but just tough it out. Go home go to sleep when you feel tired and go to work again the next day. Only takes me a couple of days doing this to change my sleep pattern to whatever I want.

[Jay Riall]

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wtf. go to bed earlier

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Doesn't work. If you're a 9-5er, have you ever tried going to sleep at 6pm? You end up lying in bed staring at the ceiling for hours.

[pookvis]

skip a nights sleep, then go to bed at desired hour. sleep longer than you want to normally but you'll still be tired the next night at midnight or whenever.

[XXXNoahXXX]

like 90% of changes, just ease your way into it.

[-zero-]

Skip sleep one night, go to bed at the appropriate time the next night.

[MediaPA]

Just do it. Make yourself lay in bed from 12-10. You probably won't sleep much the first night or two, but just shut your body down. Don't nap during the day and repeat the next day. Within a few days (maybe a week) your body will get used to the new schedule.

[mmbt0ne]

Spend a lot of time outside in the sun. It helps you normalize your sleep schedule. Best way I've found to recover b/n time zones.

[jkkkk]

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Skip sleep one night, go to bed at the appropriate time the next night.

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I've done this quite a few times and it doesn't work as a one off, as soon as I've had a proper nights sleep my body won't let me sleep until 4am the next day and then it just goes back to the way it was.

Maybe I just need to fight it for like a week, I'm really not sure how long it takes to adjust to a completely different pattern, hence this thread.