Another thing is if you're hungry when it's really late, DON'T EAT. Let yourself starve. I'm not kidding. You're teaching your body when is the time to eat and when is the time to sleep. If you eat, you're teaching your body to stay up at the wrong time.

When my overbearing family is asleep, I finally get control over the household and my life in it, for those few hours I extend into the wee hours of the morning. It’s the only respite some of us get.

I’m naturally a night owl and have been doing this for three years(due to having kids) and I’m STILL a night owl. If I slip up just once, I’m screwed and have to start all over.

The stillness of the night is so relaxing 🤣🤣🤣🤣 it's addictive to be still.

evolutionary speaking night owls and morning persons are absolutely crucial to maintaining the safety of the tribe. if everyone is a morning person, no one can stay up late and guard for the night.

Honestly I tried. It doesn't work. I mean you can stand up early and go to bed early, like you can make that happen but it never will be easy. It's always an effort to maintain the earlybird when you are a night owl. I tryed my whole 20ties to be an early bird but now I accepted that I am an night owl and that thats ok. I am not a failure for sleeping till 10 every day and go to bed at 1-2. It's ok. It's just my natural rythm. There is no reason to have a rythmn that is hard to maintain. Do what makes you happy😊

Yeah you can do this for a while and train yourself to change your ways but, in my experience I realized I’m at home and mentally clear at night, it doesn’t change! Meanwhile all my family is waking up really early because they feel mentally clear then; that’s actually their motivation to wake up.

Getting up at 6 am is torture. I’m not really me that early in the morning, it’s at night time when I’m creative and when I get my best ideas and projects. That’s just the way I am!

I like being awake from 3pm til 5am...works best for me. I feel great and get to enjoy the hell out of quiet hours!!!

Hmmm... hinestly, since "I was born", I have had to struggle with this. Even though I get every day up between 6 and 7, I can't fall asleep in the evening, so I am constantly sleepy all day long but have to get up early again. This means, I can't fall asleep before 12 or 1 at night. As soon as I don't have to get up early, I love to sleep more. And it is very hard to be all your life groggy and just waiting to fall into your bed, but when it's time, you feel the most wake, on full battery mode. So I would not fully agree with this one. Since I am like 13 as I remember, this is a daily fight for me. And no, 5 to 6 hours is not enough sleep for me. And naturally to go sleep late, get up late, means your natural biorhythm is like that and it is not that easy to switch that. It is very hard work. Every day.

This 100% works I went from going bed at 3am and getting up at 7 for work etc to going bed at 9pm and waking up at 5am with no alarm. Took a few months but now I literally don’t set alarms at all

It's not the getting up that's a problem, it's the going to sleep.

I tried this, after a month of sleep deprivation (i still couldn’t get to sleep earlier) I had a mental breakdown and other medical problems. But sure, “quick and painless” 😂

Night owls are night owls for a reason.

There is less nervous energy in the atmosphere at night. People are not hurrying about trying to get to wage slave jobs. 2am-dawn is the most peaceful time of day. Falling asleep as the sun rises is awesome

I was waiting for the "fairly painlessly" option

Hearing this as a night owl: If you don't like the time you have to wake up, then gradually build yourself up to shittier and shittier conditions until you're used to it.

It's only introverts and night owls who catch all the shit. Wonder why No one tells extroverts to calm down and be less social, or morning people to stay up later and sleep in longer.

Thanks for your encouragement and inspiration. ❤

The trick to becoming a morning person is to become a morning person. Who knew?

It’s time to stand up to the early bird oppressors fellow night owls.

Nah the night when everyone else is sleeping is when I feel the best.

Why tho? I’m the nighttime when everyone is finally quiet I thrive

Tried this. It literally makes me sick after a few months if I don't shift back to my natural clock

I’d love to be able to go to sleep at 2am. That would perfectly suit my 10am start. I can’t remember the last time I felt ready to sleep before 4am and I usually stay up till after 5. Monday mornings fuuucking suck.

He just said to eat when you're not hungry in the morning. He also says in another short not to eat the first 60 Minutes you're awake. So, eat, but wait an hour.

Legit just dealing with this right now. I've been working for myself forever but now switched to a sweet job. The shifting of my schedule has been rough. The eating bit has been particularly annoying. Eating in the morning dosent mix with me

LOL he said a night owl is awake until 2am wake up 10am HAHAAAA

This extroverted world never understands 😑 it’s not just about sleep cycle, it’s about brain activity. Naturally, our brain is more active during the night, and thus, more creative. The work that I can get done perfectly in one hour at night, I do it in five hours during day time and it’s not even close to being as good! I have been experimenting with this my whole life. I, too, would love to be able to do as good of a job during the day as so many other people, but it’s just not possible. My brain is just dead during day time. Dead, I tell you 😂😭

Nothing works. Just run a massive sleep deficit until your mind and body fails. Then resort to just not sleeping for a whole cycle so you are utterly exhausted and pass out when day walkers normally do. That works for about a week then you get right back to only sleeping 4 hours a night or less until you sleep thru another alarm and get in trouble at work again. 😆

Natural night owl. I've done that routine or similar ones throughout my life ( I'm 65 yrs)- Having kids, jobs, ect... no choice but to be with with the early bird crowd to be a functioning member of society, but it takes a lot of effort to sustain. My body would always eventually reset to night owl.

I have been a night owl for all my life (30 y/o) but now I moved in with my GF who always goes to bed at 10 p.m. (notice, I didnt say gets up at 5 am, because that is the result, not the goal, the goal is going to bed at 10 p.m.), and from one day to another, I was an early bird (for about one year now) and I feel the exact same, just with a different rythm. I now believe that the only thing that defines your 'type' is the time you set for yourself as bedtime. What may be hard for others is to actually motivate yourself to go to bed at a time that used to be for grinding, and it sure helps when your GF is waiting in bed, its something that actually makes you want to lie down, which is a motivation you most likely won't have by yourself from one day to another.

I work closing shift at a resturant. I don't get home till 130 in the morning. My wife works morning shift for her job. It works just fine. Wish we could see each other more but it is what it is

If your "naturally" a night owl, you're meant to stay up for night.....why is that a natural thing in some humans? Instinct. There wasn't many people from villages and tribes who stayed up all night, only a select few did it. It took me too long to realize that me being a night owl isn't a bad thing, at some point in time I would have been necessary to be the one to stay up and watch over my people while they rested. That made me happy to know that. If being a night owl isn't affecting your social life, don't change it. Enjoy it. It's definitely lonely sometimes when you want to share some moments with people but you can't because it's 3 am and they are in a dead sleep, but the cons usually don't outweigh the pros.

Using my Happy Light first thing in the morning has helped me reset my sleep schedule, and quickly.

Omg , this is perfect timing . Thank you . I literally was just worrying about my 8am classes . I opened my you tube and this pops up 😌❤️🫶🏽🫀 I’ve been off schedule for some time and I start school next week and now Instead of having the worrybug , you’ve helped me find a solution. ❤ THANK YOU INTERNET FAMILIA

An even more OP strategy, pull an all-nighter and then you can fall asleep at whatever time you wish the following evening. Used to do it all the time during the school years.

Easy to say when I simply cannot just fall asleep

I would always have thought I was a night owl, stayed up until 2 or 3 even when I had to wake up early for work. Now I sleep at 10:30pm and wake up at 5:30 am go to the gym, eat breakfast and go to work, I walk 10 min to the gym every morning no matter the weather, I’ve never felt better and it literally feels like my life is falling into place. I’m much more capable of managing simple daily stress too. I’ve almost cut out all alcohol, I may have 1-2 drinks occasionally every month or so. Life is so much better, happier and more productive 🙌🏼

As someone who is a night owl but has turned my sleep schedule around: Melatonin. Now it can have side effects so don't take it like it's a mere supplement. But it helps tell your brain that now is the time to go to sleep and makes you tired. After a couple of days you automatically get tired around that time and you can stop taking it again

another thing to keep in mind is how your lifestyle affects your sleep schedule and how your sleep schedule affects your lifestyle, i work 2pm-11pm and i have found it is ideal to stay awake until around 4-5 in the morning and get up an hour or so before work because my wakefulness throughout the day matches my activity throughout the day

As someone who has lain awake in bed for hours before falling asleep since I was six years old and living a lifestyle where school and work always start early for over 40 years, I call absolute bullshit on this.

If you are a night owl and like being a night owl, may I suggest that you change careers to accommodate your natural night owl-ness. If your wake/sleep rhythm is different from your partner I'm sure you have no desire to change your rhythm anymore than they do.

Been working the night shift for years now so my body is naturally accustomed to being awake all night. My nights off are an absolute joy because of how quiet and peaceful the night is. I have so much time to read or watch my favorite shows, then when sunrise peaks it's time for that early AM jog. And that is the only upside to this god awful lifestyle.

Just seen a clip of this guy saying dont eat in the first hour of waking

as a musician, my creative process usually starts at 11 so there’s no way i’m gonna cut that off

My spouse just needs to learn how to stay up and then sleep in...much easier to do that.

TBH, I’ve been the night owl all my life!! I was struggling to get up early at school, at the university, during office work. And I couldn’t figure why I was struggling! Now I’m a freelancer, I start my work at about 1-2 pm, I go to sleep at about 2-3 am and wake up at 10-11 and I’m the happiest person ever! Maybe we don’t need to torture ourselves and force to be different? Just find the way how to adapt your lifestyle

My friend is Chinese and she taught me about their medicine wheel. It has helped me a lot so far.

What's fucked is that if I'm naturally more inclined to sleep late, it is I who has to change. Why? Why do we have such arbitrary rules about when it's good to be awake or asleep??

I've heard another clip of him saying don't eat the first hour or 2 (I think) when waking up

It works. I needed to change because of a new job. I go to bed at 10pm and wake at 6.15am and I feel AMAZING. Took me 3 weeks.

let me just say something rude to you ‘early birds’. i’ve been told all the childhood and youth that i’m lazy and i need to wake up, eat early in the morning, see the sun… that’s bullsht. after years of betraying my own body and it only getting worse, i don’t believe you anymore. i just don’t. because i did something for myself that i was afraid to do such a long time. i embraced being late night person. i STUDIED my own behaviour. i really do work better after hours (around 7-11 pm). i do focus better. i hate early breakfasts. and tbh, i just love the ambiance of the night. it is much more calm. it is peaceful. i respect early sleepers - when they fall asleep, i don’t make much noise. i stay silent af. but they don’t respect me at all. i usually wake up around 11, which i consider really okay for someone like me. but damn, do they be noise pollutioning me. im tired of this. i don’t believe you or anyone at that state. i am really comfortable at that state and i’m studying for a not fixed schedule job. yes, i will find my inner peace eventually. stop telling us night owls otherwise. stop forcing all the people to be ‘right’. this pressure almost seems to me like forceful right-handed kids’ education in 20th century. that’s concerning. and to my night owls - never be ashamed of what you are. acknowledge your strength and your rights to be undisturbed of your biological need - healthy sleep, that suits your own body. (and also - i suggest that early bird partners need to respect their night owls. or the relationship is long gone. until one of you is fed up and pissed off and you won’t be able to fix this with a talk)

You can try this, but the fact is some people are night owls some people are morning people. That part of you doesn’t change, even if you wake up once and it’s pretty early and you feel refreshed, you’re still a night owl at heart. (In my experience.)

Some people actually do not need much sleep, can go to bed at 2 AM and wake up at 6 AM, and sometimes get a 15-30 minute nap during the day, consistently, and do and feel well. Sleep is better with physical activity during the day, eating some fat, not nonfat, in the evening, and regular sexual activity.

Entrainment... It takes discipline. You have 2 big ways to reset your circadian rhythm. Food and light. Follow this method... I know I'll try...

I quit doing this when I realized it just became an endless cycle of becoming so sleep deprived and exhausted until my body had no choice but to sleep, then actually sleeping decent for a few nights, and then having to start the whole thing over again when my circadian rhythm would inevitably reset itself back to being a night owl when I was no longer sleep deprived. No point in doing it.

I figured this out myself last year! I chatted my meal times and sleep and drink habits etc. When I ate earlier I fell asleep earlier. it's all about dinner for me! (I eat a big breakfast when I get up Dr. Peterson!)

You are the best Dr Huberman

I discovered that eating as soon as you wake up makes you less groggy quicky. I've been trying to use this to shift my schedule back a few hours; along with the techniques he describes. Although I would start waking up early before going to bed early. Not the other way around. That way you are tired at the earlier bed time. Its cool to see Huberman confirm it more or less.

I tried it. I went to bed one-half hour earlier. It didn't work. People are built differently. As a child, my bedtime was ten. I couldn't sleep. Everybody was sleeping. I lay awake, and got up at six. The earlier I went to bed, the longer I would stay awake. Works for a lot of people, I'm sure.

I did this because of the new job I had. I kid you not, because I was awake more during the day, I drank more water and metabolism was faster than ever.

I find the complete opposite works for me 1. Have something you NEED to do early. 2. Set all the alarms. Sound / light alarms whatever works. 3. Get up earlier than you think it's easier to get up 5/6 am than 7/10am 4. Getting up that early you will get tired earlier and the cycle continues.

I always found if you want to fix your sleeping schedule, stay up all night, all the next morning, until an early hour the next night. You'll sleep soundly, but if you're prone to physical / medical anxiety it can really make your anxiety worse.

I'm doing this right now, already shifted my schedule for 3 hours

Fabulous...If One is at Night Working Creating...Seperate Rooms😊 Blessings Professor

Sure that could work. But I think people should look into circadian rhythms and and try their best to have sleep habits that support it

This is to get into the morning cycle. After you're in the cycle, science(also he in another vid) doesn't recommend to eat or drink anything first thing in the morning(first hour). Maybe water is fine but nothing else. Stay healthy!

I can be a night owl or early bird pretty much whenever I want. I go to sleep about 1am and wake up 6 to 630 every morning. Or stay up all night and sleep for 4 hours and I'm good. Maybe it's because I have done both throughout my life but it's an easy transition if you want it to be.

thank you

I'm a pro at turning my schedule around, I'm a night owl and my work schedule starts early for about half the month, no big deal one day on 4~5 hours sleep and I'm completely reset for early rises..

Yes I need to do this, I feel like I'm the most tired at daylight, I wish I could feel as awake at 7am as I do at 5pm

The problem is that there's is no "go to bed". I sleep when I pass out in a chair, I dont go to bed. I havent slept in a bed for over 20 years.

I’m a morning working a graveyard shift I really hope I could get out of it though 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

training in the evening also helps. tire yourself out

“Go to sleep early” well… that’s the problem. Even if I sleep less, and feel more tired, I don’t get sleepy until 3~4. Waking up at 10 is EARLY for me. Went to school all my life in the morning (7:30) and felt miserable and unproductive, now I work night shift and I’m much happier.

The older I've gotten, the more of an early bird I've become. Love it. I feel so much more productive when I get up extra early on my days off.

Ah yes it's that simple. Tell that to my husband who is more of a 'stay up until 9 AM' kind of night owl. I would kill for someone who went to bed by 2 :'(

The caveat here should be “only if you WANT to” or “NEED to”! Organisations are becoming more & more hybrid & a general wake & sleep schedules are also becoming flexible You do you boo - so as long as you are happy healthy & thriving

easier said than done. Source: me, who has struggled for 3 decades.

I am not saying I don't show negative effects from this life... I love staying up late, I have my whole life, but I also love getting up early. Currently it's 3:08 A.M, because it's the weekend I will stay in bed longer, probably until 8:30ish -9 when I get out of bed, my normal sleep is between 4-5 hours, I'm also up at least once in that time for the bathroom... When I made myself get into a routine of 1:00/1:30 bedtime, I still would get up at 5:-6... I tried going to bed earlier about 3 weeks ago, I was up at 3:30 thinking about how much 10:45 a.m. was going to hurt me and how I was going to combat my urge to sleep lol Sometimes you are who you are.

Maybe I don’t want to I like staying up until 3-4AM because the majority is sleeping so I get peace and quiet

Constantly find myself back and forth trying to conform to 'normal' morning routines, but I always slip up within about 3 days, and then I've stayed up too late, then I have to either wake up late to compensate or wake up early but remain horribly tired. And as for just "sleep half an hour earlier", that is impossible - the going to bed on time, and ACTUALLY FALLING ASLEEP, is sooooooo hard.

I have always been a person that can wake up early and be in a really good mood mostly I am not sure why but I have never really stayed up late unless I absolutely had too I tried the other night stayed up late felt different I will still be the person who enjoys going to sleep early late for me is 12

Love this guy. His advice is simple but it still makes me feel like a dumb dumb

As someone who stays up late, but has to work early, I have had less energy, vibrancy, happiness, and creativity in the last two years since not being able to stay up til midnight than in my entire life. I haven't written as a hobby since the week my schedule changed. Writing is my favorite thing to do. Fuck anybody who says it's painless. I'm dying inside for money.

It's halfway true. I'm a night owl and when it's wintertime I can manage to go to bed at 10pm. However this becomes impossible in summertime. I even had to start using pills because I just couldn't fall asleep and I was tired all day. Summer is in general the most unnatural time for any living being

Fun fact: genetics play a role in determining if you're a morning or night person. But sometimes you can be heterozygous for the trait and have the ability to choose to be a morning or night person with ease. I'm actually one of these people and it is pretty easy to become a morning or night person. 10/10 very nice.

Night owls are the secret saviours of society, without them certain jobs wouldn't be able to function

The problem is I don’t feel productive at all in the morning. I kick into gear at 1-2pm. I’ve been like this my whole life.

The background 'music' makes me shift unnaturally uneasy

Funny, now that I'm retired, I wondered how I worked a normal daytime schedule for 40+ years. It didn't take long to revert to my "normal" sleep schedule, staying up until 2 and sleeping 9 hours.

"Get out, get some sunlight..." Me, seeing the gray "soup" throughout German winter....

Did this. Went from night owl my whole life, to waking at 420 every morning.

basically to change your thoughts start by incrementaly cha.ging your behaviors, that tracks

I was born at 3pm, I has never been an early bird, going to school, when I was a kid was tough, I used to sway all the time diring the class fighting in order not to fall asleep, sometimes I did and was awaken by the teacher who hit the book hard on my table in order to wake me up, after that I was transferred to study in the afternoon time shift

u go sleep at 2am i wake up at 7Am . 50push ups no warm-up wash my hands, my face , dress up for work till 5 PM videogames until 6pm shower, videogames , 1 1/2 hours workout , videogames until 11PM , YT short till 2am cause i cant sleep earlier.

Being naturally a night owl AND DON'T WANNA EVER CHANGE THIS

Omg I needed to hear this! Mid day crash I would get up and go outside to get sunlight and I felt so much better

Thanks Mr. Andrew!