eli5: Why sleeping late and waking up late is worse than sleeping early and wake up early

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Lets say I sleep at 1am and wake up at 9am, why my body reacts negatively compared to sleep at 9 pm and wake up at 4 am. Both are 8 hours of sleeping time. How can my body knows it is past 12pm and decides to give me a bad day because of it.

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Hey, I recently learned that to set our natural circadian rhythm to try to get sunlight outside without glasses in your eyes shortly after the sunrises for 10 minutes or so and all of your hormones and circadian rhythm be properly aligned.

It takes time to adjust but it’s a start.

For me. Also when the Sun is setting I noticed if I am outside for that it relaxes me maybe it has something to do with the melatonin.

This really does make sense because I’ve had insomnia before and looking back (no pun) a lot of times I wasn’t getting sun until much later in the day in my eyes which makes sense.

I have a sleep tracker and since I’ve been paying more attention to this, the quality of my sleep has been incredible.

Just a suggestion, I know there’s been a lot of research on it and I can attest it is true.