I have been giving some thought to the fact that, although I am getting more sleep, I still feel tired. Obviously there could be other causes such as not enough exercise but I am wondering if I should have explored Steve's How to become an early riser instead. I am wondering if I actually need eight hours sleep. For years I have managed on 5 or 6 broken hours, maybe aiming at 7 or 8 unbroken is unnecessary. Six hours unbroken might be all that I need.He explores two approaches to becoming an early riser and combines them...
"The solution was to go to bed when I’m sleepy (and only when I’m sleepy) and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time (7 days per week). So I always get up at the same time (in my case 5am), but I go to bed at different times every night."
Last night, being Saturday night, I was in bed before midnight as planned but ended up having a massive row with Darling Daughter who does not agree with my new regime. It's not as if I am insisting she go to bed at the same time as me or creep about like a mouse, she just wants me to stay up and keep her company. I can understand that she misses our late girly nights watching films etc. and she just can't look beyond a few weekends to after the trial. I was so worked up after trying to justify my going to bed at midnight to a truculent teenager that I got up and did the ironing, shrieking "If I'm not allowed to sleep I suppose I'd better work, that's all I'm good for!" Maybe if I had been following Steve's advice to go when sleepy she would not have been so incensed as she would have been able to see that I needed to go to bed and would only have snored my way through Lost if I'd stayed up.
As I have broken the pattern the trial should be re-started, so unless Darling Daughter gets her head round the concept we will have this battle for more weekends in number than if she had just let me get on with it. At least we would have been one weekend down and only two to go.I will probably have to abandon or modify the trial or maybe explore the early riser concept. Obviously I could try just going to bed by midnight on week days but the point was to establish a habit by doing the same thing for 30 days in a row.
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