Is getting 6 hours of sleep one night and 10 hours the next equivalent to sleeping 8 hours and 8 hours?
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For me, aligning my waking up time with sunlight has worked wonders for me. It’s been over 4 years since I have been off alarm (obviously I set alarms when there is something important and I can’t miss it). And almost always I wake up around the same and start falling asleep around the same time. Listening to the body is also important. If it is asking you to sleep, just sleep. Don’t force it.
So in the summer, I wake up around 5 AM IST, but as the winters come my waking up time shifts to 7-8 AM IST. The thing with daylight is once it hits your eyes and you wake up, your body doesn’t feel the need to sleep more. You spring up from your bed full of energy. Since the nights are shorter during summer, someday I do take a nap in the afternoon but that again is decided by my body.
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