Redundant

[contrasedative]

The media tells me that sleep deprivation is bad. I need to stop waking up at 7:30 a.m.; the entire point of scheduling late classes was to sleep in later

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[ibneko]

Mmm. But according to the second article, isn't that good that you're waking up earlier? 'cause then your brain has time to boot up into full.. err... state of awaken-ness.

[contrasedative]

Given that I have not been taking advantage of those early morning hours, and given that I don't think I need a full three hours to shake off sleep coma (my first class starts at 10:30 a.m., and only on three of the five weekdays), 7:30 a.m. is a little excessive.

[ibneko]

Heh. I guess it is, then. How _do_ you manage to wake up at 7:30, anyways? I get up at 8, .5-1 hours before my classes start, and that tends to be hard enough...

[contrasedative]

I go to bed between midnight and 2 a.m. and fall asleep shortly afterward.

[ratatosklemur]

I tend to get up too early because I'm not tired, then be exhausted when I get to class. Or worse, wake up in the middle of the night not tired despite the fact that I really need more sleep to be awake the next day (example would be now).

[contrasedative]

Why are so many people early risers? Left to my own devices, I tend to be more nocturnal, but when I have a reason to set an alarm fairly early (classes to attend every day), I do so; I like knowing when I'm going to wake up, even if I know I'm getting a little bit less sleep than I ought to.

[ratatosklemur]

It's not so much being an early riser in my case as just having become unable to sleep for more than about six hours at a stretch whether or not I'm exhausted when I get up. I wasn't like that before Caltech; it seems to be some sort of adaptation to sleep deprivation. Annoying when I actually have time for a full 8 hours to sleep, though.

[contrasedative]

1. That doesn't seem healthy.
2. I thought a lot of people got their sleep-deprivation training in (magnet) high school.